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You believe the -- which side do you believe? because two sides are completely different. what china is saying is completely different to what the u.s. is saying, or the western media is saying. so who do you believe? that's why we asked the ambassador to give us his opinion and it's not, you know, what is appearing in the western media. but my point is that right now what should not happen is that we should not be heading towards another cold war and because then there's a lot of propaganda involved and you don't know what the truth is. >> imran khan, pleasure to have you on. there's more o...

Far. joining me now here in washington cnn national security analyst peter bergen. you studied both of these conflicts extensively and wrote an op-ed on cnn.com. there it is now. number that puts vladimir putin at risk. talk about start of the war, start of the russian invasion in afghanistan. similarities. what are you seeing? >> the big -- for vladimir putin the big similarity is 15,000 russian troops may have died according to estimates from nato officials to cnn. the official numbers during the 1980 war against the soviets is 15,000 russian soldiers dead. so in nine years of war during '80...

Process all the way through there are significant areas of overlap between what senator manchin indicated he would support and the priorities put forth by the white house and, by the way, progressives in congress. is that going to be everything that i would want in that bill or progressives would want in that bill? no, it is not. i think we also recognized that the need for urgency -- or the urgency to try to deliver on major aspects of the biden agenda is so great that they got to get something done and they do. i think they will. it ain't obviously pretty, but i think they're going to get th...

That was a question i really wanted an answer to. hopefully we can get him back to talk about what he has heard from his listeners. let's bring in charlie dent, a cnn political commentator, and former congressman from pennsylvania. you have a new op-ed on cnn.com, and you say that someone should pin a medal on senator manchin's chest. why? >> well, joe manchin, contrary to what i have been hearing over the last 24 hours is forthright, transparent, and open about where he stands. he has been saying for months his objections, his reservations, his concerns with that bill on the size and scope, j...

>> two ways. first of all, the justice department inspector general announce the it's opening an investigation. that's important. but remember the iq, inspector jeshl can't force people who don't work there to testify. bill bavr, jeff sessions, they can't force them to talk. the bigger impetus falls on congress. we've heard rhetoric and chuck schumer and other members. demanding accountability. let's see if congress is willing to follow through. will they subpoena bill barr, jeff sessions? and if they resist will congress go to courts? i think they need to and do it more quickly and decisive t...