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And call it the ussr, the soviet union, and how much do you think john mccain's kind of vestigel cold war attitude forms how he's thinking about russia and vladimir putin now and how far is that leading us astray? >> you can tell, the only thing they knew about russia was the wendy's swimwear commercial. people don't -- they have not broken out of the old idea of what russia is all about. they still think of it as communist or pseudo communist, where in fact it's evolved into sort of a third world mafia state, that is nothing like -- well, it's like it, but very different in significant ways a...

In the spotlight tonight. vladamir putin, counter to the op-ed piece, senator john mccain tried to submit his own op-ed to the russian newspaper in effect controlled by the government. the paper did not publish it, but mccain's piece did appear in the english language russian website pravda.ru. in the piece mccain says this to the russian people. president putin and his associates don't respect for dignity or accept your authority over them. they punish dissent and imprison opponents. they write laws to codify bigotry against people whose sexual orientation they condemn. vladamir putin said he...

Op-ed piece, senator john mccain tried to submit his own op-ed to the russian newspaper in effect controlled by the government. the paper did not publish it, but mccain's piece did appear in the english language russian website pravda.ru. in the piece mccain says this to the russian people. president putin and his associates don't respect for dignity or accept your authority over them. they punish dissent and imprison opponents. they write laws to codify bigotry against people whose sexual orientation they condemn. vladamir putin said he was not affair of senator mccain's op-ed piece but insis...

Punish dissent and imprison opponents. they rig your elections. >> all true. >> that's true? >> they perpetuate your power, terrorize and assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption. >> i saw that all firsthand and there are many who would agree with that passage. and the only ones who wouldn't would be in the putin government. >> here's another quote. this is from steven cohn, we've had on the show. very renowned scholar of russia for his career. and he says that we are essentially characterizing putin in way that's harmful to our u.s. interests and harmful of our understanding...

Punish dissent and imprison opponents. they rig your elections. >> all true. >> that's true? >> they perpetuate your power, terrorize and assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption. >> i saw that all firsthand and there are many who would agree with that passage. and the only ones who wouldn't would be in the putin government. >> here's another quote. this is from steven cohn, we've had on the show. very renowned scholar of russia for his career. and he says that we are essentially characterizing putin in way that's harmful to our u.s. interests and harmful of our understanding...