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hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putins war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theor...

Managed by for our part. This is news live from perth in germany to Russian Diplomats of an alleged murder plot. This was the victim a former kitchens Rebel Commander gunned down in broad daylight in a building and prosecutors suspect russian State Involvement moscow says he will retaliate also coming up. Fresh ammunition for u. S. Democrats in a drive to impeach President Trump legal scholars tell us the trump committed Impeachable Offenses by pressuring ukraines president for his own political...

Kind of rule out the conscience reason for why they got rid of tucker that leaves open the questions for what it really was >> claire, the reason i dont buy the conscience is there is a brazen war criminal in vladimir putin carrying out atrocities for which there is abundant evidence, and this is how tucker carlson has been defending him >> so at this point nato exists primarily to torment vladimir putin who, whatever his many faults, has no intention of invading western europe. vladimir putin d...

The problem, from my perspective about the biden administration, is this alarm comes a little too late. its not like these 100,000 troops just went to the border, and theyve been there for a long time and you have republicans raising arms, about what putin was up to, pointing out the kinds of military assets that were in position months ago. and the biden administration seems to be just catching up. >> claire? >> first of all, i think you have to assume putin is rational. he may be irrational. i...

Belgium, he just wants to keep his western border secure. >> im sure you love being asked about a cable tv news host, but it has led quite a bit of rank and file americans to ask this question. are you worried that there is a movement in the republican party that has become pro-putin? >> i wouldnt call it a movement, but i think we have to be sure were understanding whats going on here. the ukranians are not asking for american troops to come to ukraine. ive gotten a number of phone calls from t...

Colleagues. >> they just like that there is a person who says are we going to fight russia because of this corrupted eastern european country that we even cannot find on the map? as soon as he says something that is not in this, you know, direction that they need, hes not going to be a friend anymore. >> reporter: in russias propaganda war truth doesnt matter. what counts is stopping a war they are convinced america is fomenting. >> at this point nato exists primarily to torment vladimir putin. ...

I dont think its obvious. ive never been to russia. dont speak russian. im not an agent of russia. heres what he is telling the viewers for weeks on end. >> so at this point nato exists to torment vladimir putin. who whatever his many faults has no intention of invading western europe. vladimir putin does not want belgium but to keep the western border secure why thats why he doesnt want ukraine to join nato and makes sense. we dont get anything out of pushing yeah crane into nato. why are we do...

>> senator dick durbin, democrat of illinois, member of the senate and judiciary committee, well be seeing a lot of you as these hearings get started. thank you for your opinion. >> thanks, chuck. with me senator portman from ohio. senator portman, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thanks, chuck. >> i know you and mr. durbin had head the ukrainian senate caucus and you were recently in country, met with president zelensky. i kind of want to pick up on the conversation i just stopped with se...

Be devastating to try to avoid that from happening. president zelensky is trying to maintain his economic growth in his country, which by the way, is pretty strong right now, and keep the country from panicking while having them be prepared. but were together. thats whats important. as to russia and what russia is doing, the ukranians and the americans are absolutely together. but so are so many other allies. really the entire free world. its been very impressive as i look at what estonia, lithu...

His relationship with nato? >> i dont want to assume anything. its his decision entirely. but as i listen to the diplomacy back and forth, it seems to me that the russians want to try to delay any ukraine involvement in nato and ukraine, of course, wants the russians out. im not talking just about the troops at the border but those who invaded their country seven or eight years ago, and currently the little green men, or however they characterize it, continue the warfare in killing. >> thats a p...