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i guess he had a contract problem? just would rotate people out there. were two lionesses on the jeffersons, one day there was a different lioness or lionel i should say. >> ainsley: all of this happened before peter doocy. on that note go to washington live look on capitol hill where later today the senate is expected to formally expected to debate. peter doocy is live at the white house as the issue puts the democrat divide on full display. peter? >> peter: that did happen before me. what are you guys talking about? [laughter] >> brian: got to look it all up. >> peter: i have some goal gling to do after the show. there is a lot going on here in washington, d.c. in january of 2022. the vice president was at a service project yesterday when she very suddenly very ominously spoke about the two senators in her own party who are not on board with changing senate rules to pass voting rights.
theory type content. lionel, to bring you back in at the last few seconds, how successful do you think russian backed media has actually been at influencing public opinion in the west?— i think a few people have got very rich, but i will not mention them on this programme. good boy. they appear on these kinds of shows and are essentially apologists, or near that. just having an english reporter, an english voice on rt, which has a tiny audience, i don't think is that influential. i do think there was important influence in other areas particularly on brexit. and in america...
and he did indeed end up becoming a peer. that is right. two days after that report was discussed, evgeny lebedev met with borisjohnson in downing street. and borisjohnson pushed his name through. evgeny lebedev took his seat later that year. lionel, you would have watched the entrance of the lebedevs into high society — what did you make of it at the time and what do you think about it now? i had lunch with evgeny lebedev when he asked me about what he should be doing as a proprietor as well as with the evening standard. i also met the father in moscow in 2008 on a trip where he was very much the man in jeans with the very expensive leather shoes. nothing wrong with that, but you could feel ex kgb. we need to be clear about a few
of the security services. and the gossip sites are all over the gilded lifestyles of the oligarch kids and their swanky homes around the world. but why is it only now that the mainstream press has put the oligarchs in the spotlight? what has stopped them before? just some of the big questions for my guest today. they are, paul caruana galizia, who is a journalist behind a new podcast for tortoise media called lebedev: lord of siberia. adam bienkov is political editor at the byline times. laura kayali is tech correspondant at politico. natalia antelava is a journalist and co—founder of the news site coda story. and lionel barber was editor of the financial times from 2005 to 2020. he is now an investor in the new european. and lionel, just if we start with you, the last time you were on the media show, you had just been to interview vladimir putin. what chance today, do you think, that a journalist could get an audience with that president? extremely limited. under 1%. maybe in seven weeks if this is over, he they might do something, a staged event.
in the interview when he turned to lukashenko and said, what do you think about group sex? there was an awkward pause and lukashenko looked at me and i had to kind of move in. he secured the interview, and you were along for the ride to film it. i think we will move on from there. and move away from evgeny lebedev and back to the question that i asked at the start of the show — why is it only now that we are reading investigations into russian influence into the uk and i'm thinking particularly about roman abramovich. lionel, you will know about the legal perils of writing about oligarchs.
laura kayali is tech corresponded at politico. natalia antelava is a journalist and co—founder of the news site coda story. and lionel barber was editor of the financial times from 2005 to 2020. he is now an investor in the new european. and lionel, just if we start with you, the last time you were on the media show, you had just been to interview vladimir putin. what chance today, do you think, that a journalist could get an audience with that president? extremely limited payment under 1%. —— extremely limited. under 1%. may be in seven weeks if this is over, he they might do something, staged event. but a one on one like the financial times did in 2019, very unlikely. and by the way, it did take five years to get there, to the kremlin for the post midnight meeting. and when you did get there, what did you talk about? we talked about everything
anti—vax covid groups, you can still find rt on that on that website, lionel, just to bring you in right at the end, just for the last few seconds, you know, how successful do you think russian backed media has actually been influencing public opinion in the west? very little. i think a few people have got very rich. i've been not mentioning them on this programme by, by appearing on these shows and being essentially apologists or near that. but you know, just having an english reporter and english voice on rt which has a tiny audience i don't think is that influential. i do think that there was an important influence in other areas, particularly on brexit.
and lionel barber was editor of the financial times from 2005 to 2020. he is now an investor in the new european. and lionel, just if we start with you, the last time you were on the media show, you had just been to interview vladimir putin. what chance today, do you think, that a journalist could get an audience with that president? extremely limited. under 1%. may be in seven weeks if this is over, he they might do something, a staged event. but a one on one like the financial times did in 2019, very unlikely. and by the way, it did take five years to get there, to the kremlin for the post midnight meeting. and when you did get there, what did you talk about? we talked about everything from the failed assassination of sergei skripal, which he dismissed, mr putin. to the relations with china, the intervention in syria and notably two stories
but why is it only now that the mainstream press has put the oligarchs in the spotlight? what stopped them before? just some of the big questions for my guests today — they are paul caruana galizia, who's a journalist behind a new podcast for tortoise media called lebedev: lord of siberia. adam bienkov is political editor at the byline times. laura kially is tech correspondent at politico. natalia antelava is a journalist and co—founder of the news site coda story. and lionel barber was editor of the financial times from 2005—2020 — he's now an investor in the new european. and lionel, if we start with you, the last time you were on the media show, you had just been to interview vladimir putin. what chance today, do you think, that a journalist could get an audience with that president? extremely limited, under 1%. maybe in seven weeks, if this is over, they might do something a staged event. but a one—on—one, like the
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