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And be reporting on the fact that ukraine doesnt have them. >> yeah, and carly makes a key point. why are we broadcasting our strategy? president biden is like a bad poker player. everyone of his expressions we know exactly the handy is holding. no we wont send u.s. troops i agree, but why tell russia that? why tell russia? why tell russia, why are you doing this, president biden? >> right. you know who is watching him the closest? vladimir putin. saying theyre not going to do anything to manage...

Fine and my role has been focus not on making the game beautiful, but creating an environment that helps women speak up and vocalize what their ideas are. its really important to me more women see themselves in the games they want to make and to play. having female developers develop their own characters, develop the stories for women, by women. ive been focused on working with game heads over the past few years. we work with youth or teenagers up to 25 years old to help them make their first ga...

Country. everybody is touched to the core with heartbreak of what putin is doing. i think we have to be careful. i heard a number of commentators say this is just the way that russia operates. this is their kind of war. when we normalize it saying this is how they do it, it becomes more acceptable, i guess, on the international stage. this is not the way you do it in the 21st century. so the rest of the world has to stand up and do what we can. you know, im angry most of the time but this is a c...

>> one place you were, i saw you there. >> minneapolis two years ago. >> sure enough, in 2020, after the police murder of george floyd. ♪ there he was with his piano healing hearts in george floyd square. >> music is the perfect medium to restore peace, i think. >> nearly two years later and 5,000 miles away, he plays for the newly heartbroken in poland. his next stop, lviv, ukraine. ♪ >> before i die or something happens, i at least want to do something. ♪ maybe i can soften putins heart

Tie light of a sentence for child porn offenders. although cnn has looked at the case and we believe she was more in the medium, more than he said so. but then there was an interesting exchange with senator cruz or his opening statement and it is interesting because it really focuses more on on the nominee and close to sort of the biden administration as a whole. take a listen to this. >> we are seeing murder rates, carjacking ratd rates cry scockting across the country because of democratic eff...

The ownership of political communication has shifted. and that poses threats. but to understand how we got here, we need to look back. >> it was too easy for the press. you know, we marvelled at these ridiculous things mrs. thatcher was doing. we had never seen a prime minister sit in the mud with a calf before. it was all blissfully exciting. >> listen, im not standing -- >> she saw newspapers as very important, very strong back in those days. no 24-hour news, no internet. newspapers were still...

Because the channels are state owned and it is the easiest way to push propaganda to the masses. and when you have social media, you have people who have access to diverging opinions. and you cannot have that when you are a dictatorship where you are trying to establish a powerful dictatorship, because you need everybody to follow a single party line. and how do you push that? you push that through every single medium, which is television, in this case. >> so, you -- the question of russian publ...

But they want to tell what they tell, and get someone like alfonso cuaron to say, "i want to tell my story in roma "about how i grew up, in spanish, in black and white," and be a place that actually could champion that and treat it like a superhero movie. and thats been the fun part, and the exciting part is we found a lot of incredibly talented people who want to come here and tell those stories. back then, i mean, netflix was still best known more for the sort of original tv series — house o...

>> these people do have power over our lives. we do try and hold politicians to account. i always think the first function is to make sure that someone in power communicates what theyre doing to the viewing public. and im the medium for that. the second thing is to challenge it.

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