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So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they werent just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government hav...

To protect russians, to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to Western Journalists must be very hard . Well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a foreign one. I gave them their choices. I used first names only. And, you know, gave them the choice. I also made. I made very sure to speak to them out of the earshot of ukrain...

Catherine philp is world affairs editor at the times. Shes reported from war zones for decades, and recently accompanied ukrainian forces across the border into kursk. So, i was coming into ukraine for. . . Ive been coming on and off since before the invasion, and this was a longscheduled visit. Itjust so happened that it came at a time when ukrainian forces had crossed the border into russia. So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainian...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. After his ukraine work dried up. And that is important because thats when he went to one of trumps closest friends and said i really need to get to trump. And then offered to work for trump for free. How and yes became the Campaign Chair is still a weird so far unexplained thing. Today in Court Prosecutors began laying out the evidence for the Dire Straits Manafort was in when he joined one Trumps Campaign for free. Thats somethi...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today...

Have memory hold that impeachment but i imagine congressional republicans havent. what do you think the long tale is of all of that? does it make it easier for republicans to break with president trump now? >> yeah, this is a divine opportunity to do that, and they are doing so because a pro putin position, theres no room for -- in either party for putin apologists right now. hes so popular, and i think his state of the union -- the state of his union address to congress is going -- he has enorm...

Ultimate imduring the summit? >> president biden sort of said publicly he challenged putin on the navalny, and he said that if navalny dies in prison, this is going to be very bad for russia. >> devastating. >> they are saying they intend to impose more sanctions on russia regarding the navalny case. the biden position is well-known. of course, we know what the putin position is about internal domestic disputes that he can do what he wants. i mean, i think theres an interesting element here wher...

I love spy models. you said theres a 96% chance the reason donald trump has taken a pro putin position is because of money, because of longstanding financial ties with the trump organization and people around the russian government. i want to ask but that and something else you said. you talked about one-on-one meetings. you talked about donald trump clearing the room which is what we understand trump did with putin. he cleared the room when he asked jim comey to see the investigation on mike fl...

It, talks about how one of the gru officers create a spear phishing e-mail attack. its clear all the other 11 defendants didnt know or participate in that, yet they were all under the indictment terps conspirators and potentially guilty of the alleged offenses. and so i think you have to understand the way bob mueller and the special counsels office is approaching the crime of conspiracy in order to analyze whether you think there will be a charge at the end of the day. >> i love when both of yo...

Was hacked. >> the strategic release of the material. >> e-mails and especially the clinton e-mails. i dont know how much effect it had or not. but trump has taking a surprising number of republicans with him into an accommodating of putin position. well see how long it lasts and well see how long it lasts for trump incidentally. i have been a little shocked, with a few exceptions, how many trump supporters, advocates, people who wish trump well, decided to go down the road with them and not pic...