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Last check, at least 55 civilians reported death. its the latest russian atrocity to shock the world less than a week after ukrainian forces found evidence of civilians tortured in bucha. president putin denying responsibility for the alleged war crimes, as one autocracy expert says, the gop is looking to him for cues. joining me now, ruth ben-ghiat. she is professor of history at new york university, and author of strongmen: mussolini to the president. ruth, why is putin resorting to this incre...

An autocrat, of a dictator-wannabe? >> men like trump who has an autocratic personality, they dont leave office quietly. its like kind of a death for them. they need the adulation, they need the immunity from prosecution. so they do desperate things. and, as we know, trump tried everything. he tried to get the military to play his coup game, tried to fix elections. nothing worked so he got a kind of, you know, custom army of thugs to assault the capitol. and then, of course, he was behind the in...

Willing to go and assault the capitol on his behalf. thats the ideal situation for the strongmen. others put themselves at risk, and you stay in your nice white house and you watch everything on television. >> right. and when he was asked just the other day by one of his propaganda outlets, you know, for his reflections on january 6th, he was talking about his crowd size, which is just -- i cant think of anything that could be more repugnant than that. professor and larry, both excellent experts...

A political settlement between the strongmen. a peace process would mean healing, transitionaljustice and listening to the victims, and nothing like that is happening. farahnaz forotan was at the talks, reporting for itv, a news channel in kabul. she is well known as an activist in helmand and has a social media campaign called myredline. she travelled the country asking people what they could and could not accept in a peace deal — their red lines.

Between the strongmen. a peace process would mean healing, transitionaljustice and listening to the victims — and nothing like that is happening. farahnaz forotan was at the talks, reporting for itv, a news channel in kabul. she is well known as an activist in helmand and has a social media campaign called myredline. she travelled the country asking people what they could and could not accept in a peace deal — their red lines. at the talks in doha, farahnaz interviewed

Tensions remain high in anticipation of an invasion by russia. the united states and its nato allies are doing what they can to maintain diplomacy in russia and diffuse the situation. president biden didnt mince words this week about what would happen if russia breaches its eastern neighbor. >> if any, any assembled russian units move across the ukrainian border, that is an invasion. but will be met with severe and coordinated economic response that i have discussed in detail with our allies, as...

Many immigrants who have come here, but theres a whole other side to american engagement with democracy, such as all the coups during the cold war, the juntas hat united states propped up and helped to happen. its taken away democracy from countries. and whats to poignant about that is right now were living through a very serious assault on democracy, and some of the people involved in that, trump and roger stone, and bannon, and paul manafort, these are people with decades of experience in wrec...

Crystal clear that the reason democrats struggle to get anything done in washington is not just because of traditional politics and ideological divides. it is because of the system itself. to be clear, im not saying democracy cant work. im saying this democracy isnt working the way it is intended to. lots to discuss right now. joining me is rick wilson, a republican strategist and author of running with the devil. a plot to save republicans from themselves. and a professor of history at new york...

Strongmen, and she says this week, quote, we are living through a right-wing counterrevolution, and january 6th was a milestone on americas path away from democracy. professor, its good to see you again, welcome, thank you for being with us tonight. >> sure. >> i want to ask you about this issue that you write about in your book, and other historians talk about, and that is that there is something about american exceptionalism, about the strength of belief that americans have in themselves, whic...

Protection but destroy ukraine unless its going to be fully occupied. he occupied crimea in 2014. with strongmen, its about making the nation great again, and in putins version this is reviving a version of the soviet empire. >> i want to talk about tactics right now. you said "time" magazine back in november of 2020, but it seems relevant now about putin. one thing that has changed in the 21st century is the play book that comes from putin, about censuring people, trying to confuse everybody fl...