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Ukraine militarily, that's what we talk about. but we also need to recognize that he is up against a huge foe that the russians will go back and regroup and everybody i speak to fully expects that it's going to be another assault that is even more bloody, and if we give into this idea, slightly, of wishful thinking, of thinking, well, the ukrainians are winning, they are -- this david has given goliath a bloody nose. the risk is we perhaps don't give them what they really need, which is hard realism that carries on supplying them with weapons, and our politics, and i think it's really about pu...

Criticized his own party members and his own bosses in capitol hill. that was the only reason that kevin mccarthy turned on him. it was fine for matt gaetz to be investigated for sex trafficking. that's okay. for all the things that marjorie taylor greene has done and said. it was that he went after his own and in the end, that was too much for him. i think it's just -- the whole story is a sign of the fragility of democracy in this country. >> it certainly is. and no three better people to help tell that story and help us understand it. i'm really grateful to all of you. anne applebaum, charl...

Happening. and the concern is not that their values are different from minor something like that. the concern is that the atmosphere of intellectual life in a lot of institutions is frozen. people are afraid to say things. they're afraid to publish things. they don't talk to one another. there's topics that can't be brought up. one yale professor told me about an incident from history that he used to discuss with his students that he doesn't discuss anymore because he's afraid it will offend them. that means that we have universities, we have schools, we have other institutions where things th...

Many know she's completely innocent, many other people in the town have committed sins. but they identify her as the one who deserves punishment. this is what i think it feels like to people who wienld up on the wrong side of one of these arguments. they are ostracized, they lose their jobs, sometimes they lose their livelihoods, sometimes they lose all their friends. and often, as in the passages that you read out, after procedures that are unclear or anonymous or conducted behind closed doors, sometimes they understand very little about it. and that feels to me, you know, deeply unfair. it's...

People accused obviously did things that we should find abhorrent, at the same time obviously you have to sort through these accusations, and actually apply some due process and fairness to it. >> well, that's what i wanted to ask ann, if you can describe the people that you spoke to for this piece that is incredibly thoughtful, and i do think everybody should read it. what is the description of who these people are and would any of them have wanted to share their names? >> so i did talk to a range of people. some people did share their names. many of them did not, either because they fear, on...