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Campaigns into russia to communicate with russians, and really campaigns here to really get people to understand that this isn't some parochial conflict between ukraine and russia, this is vladimir putin's attack on sort of our democratic values and his attempt to create a world which is safe for dictatorship. and we all need to react to that. >> as ann describes, this is a case study, a galvanizing moment. peter, i often cite your book, i mentioned it this week. your work "nothing is true and everything is possible" looking at russia and how that propaganda machine works. is it actually worki...

Kwan do. in another rambling diatribe today, putin leveled outrageous lies about the ukrainian people, and insisted that his war in ukraine is going according to plan. each as the so-called great russian army in ukraine is plagued by poor morale, with some soldiers surrendering. while the kremlin has tried to hide this from the russian people, the defense ministry confirmed casualties for the first time. and there's the crushing weight of sanctions. moscow stocks closed again for the fourth straight day. the foreign minister said russia was ready to conduct talks with ukraine, but added russia...

Let's talk about the blackout and how to get around it with ann applebaum, she just testified to the u.s. senate. plus peter pommer ranz authors of "nothing is true and everything is possible" the senior fellow at the johns hopkins university. ann, your message was about fighting autocracy, do you think the past month the war in ukraine has woken up americans and many others in the world about what president biden talks about democracy versus autocracy in a hypothetical sense feels very real now and maybe folks are paying attention. >> yes, i do think this is a really galvanizing moment, we ca...

Emboldened to take a major change in policy. >> ann, do you agree? >> yes, i mean, i'm not quite sure what the mechanism is, but clearly there's a reason why putin doesn't want russians to have good information about the war, why he's not talking about the war, you know, if you think about it it's very unusual to fight a war and then avoid the fact that you're fighting it. he's actually banned people from using the expression war or invasion. he wants to town grade it all the time. so he's doing that for a reason. he foors that if it became unpopular that that unpopularity would then reflect o...

Single day, and as we know, americans drive a lot more than europeans do, you really feel it if you are a working class american. you're really feeling this. that's hard when it's a war that's so far away. >> and ann, it is -- it's a distance, and it's also, you know, we've struggled in this country to sustain a conversation about our own democracy and about our own very real threats to protecting and honoring our most sacred democratic traditions, namely the peaceful transfer of power, which one of the two parties annihilated, obliterated, and save for liz cheney and adam kinzinger, isn't int...