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Back against the russian positions. the moment when russians begin to retreat is the moment when it will be both the most dangerous moment of the war but will also be the most important, it will be when ukrainians start to win. >> anne, peter, thank you both. after the break an exclusive first look at a shocking new report about tiktok, about how it spreads disinformation about the russian war to new users. an executive from news guard right after the break. ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) >> tech: need to ge...

Campaigns into russia to communicate with russians, and really campaigns here to really get people to understand that this isnt some parochial conflict between ukraine and russia, this is vladimir putins attack on sort of our democratic values and his attempt to create a world which is safe for dictatorship. and we all need to react to that. >> as ann describes, this is a case study, a galvanizing moment. peter, i often cite your book, i mentioned it this week. your work "nothing is true and eve...

System impossible to be used by foreign autocrats and clept toe democrats, we need to end the secrecy in investments, we need to end the possibility of investing in property secretly. we need to remove all that anonymity so that our financial markets and political system dont get used to build autocracies around the world. >> peter, i know this is personal for you, you were born in kyiv, so i want to ask about a couple of things youve written recently. just tell us first what youve been experien...

Lets talk about the blackout and how to get around it with ann applebaum, she just testified to the u.s. senate. plus peter pommer ranz authors of "nothing is true and everything is possible" the senior fellow at the johns hopkins university. ann, your message was about fighting autocracy, do you think the past month the war in ukraine has woken up americans and many others in the world about what president biden talks about democracy versus autocracy in a hypothetical sense feels very real now ...

Emboldened to take a major change in policy. >> ann, do you agree? >> yes, i mean, im not quite sure what the mechanism is, but clearly theres a reason why putin doesnt want russians to have good information about the war, why hes not talking about the war, you know, if you think about it its very unusual to fight a war and then avoid the fact that youre fighting it. hes actually banned people from using the expression war or invasion. he wants to town grade it all the time. so hes doing that fo...