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Things we just heard there. i heard some what aboutism that we hear often. when you hear from liz cheney who is a staunch republican conservative. those credentials cannot be taken away from her in party. are there any upsides for her to come out swinging against donald trump and trumpism? >> she's putting the constitution over her party. ooip not someone who will say i will embrace liz cheney an her policies that are probably 180 degrees different than myself. on the is up of how fragile our democracy is and wanting to get to the truth about january 6th, she's right. i think that is -- we hav...

Unfortunately, for all the conspiracy theories drummed up by bizarre websites and, as i say, chinese cult websites, religious cult websites, unfortunately for people that buy into that, donald trump's own administration official, who was responsible for checking election integrity, said this was the cleanest election in american history. so that's on the republican side. i have to say, on the democratic side, too, the fact that not one democrat is upset that stacey abrams never conceded the race tells you just how idealogically driven this is. it is hard for democrats to be shocked that trump ...

They're dead serious about trying to convict these criminals. there are rules of war and the russians from the ukrainian position have violated them. >> i mean, speaking of violating, this tragic story of this steel plant in mariupol where now russia has essentially kidnapped the fighters inside of that plant defending their country and are now essentially trying to call them terrorists. what do you think happens to these men? >> i don't know, joy. it's a scary moment. nobody wants to be captured by the russians and then accused of being terrorists. they're trying to play this quid pro quo gam...

Republicans have moved further to the right than democrats have to the left. the dynamic was playing out even before the big lie litmus test. the deeper problem, as pew research points out, is that house democrats have grown more liberal and republicans much more conservative. the middle, moderate to liberal republicans could sometimes find modern ground on contentious issues has vanished. it's no worder why so many moderates make up 37% of americans in gallup's 2021 poll can feel underrepresented. again, the problem is not that the far left has taken over our political institutions. in fact, ...

Grain of salt given the oppression and totalitarian regime that russia turned into, many people fearful of responding in any way this would be critical of the government. that having been said, i know you and i discussed this anecdotally, people we have known firsthand, in russia, who may be in the past have been critical of vladimir putin, are also sort of using this what aboutism or suggesting while war is bad, there is a reason why this is all happening. i would like to get you to respond, though, to a kremlin critic and political scientist and what he wrote. he wrote a piece in which he sa...