so complete that these folks are effectively rooting for russia against an american president who is taking a demonstrably tougher line on russia than donald trump ever did or could. >> to your point, john, it was remarkable to hear the russian president yesterday characterizing the january 6th insurrection, the treatment of those folks in a way that, you know is not far off where you've heard from some republicans in the u.s. that's a remarkable, and it's not just there where you have a confluence of what is essentially disinformation. >> that's exactly right. and actually did just that parallel for my "reality check" this morning. it was really striking when you heard vladimir putin get asked tough questions about the imprisonment of his political opposition alexei navalny and he immediately went to whataboutism and started talking about january 6th rioeters and political prisoners and saying ashli babbitt was just some woman executed by capitol