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Death he said in a phone interview that he started paying attention to the war raging 50 miles from his house. there would be protests, he says -- he works in the freight business, referring to the awareness of the russian public at large, but for others the grim news of casualties is only hardening a determination to defeat ukraine and support putin's conflict with the west. if americans didn't supply weapons to the ukrainian nazis, there would be no deaths. someone lost a 22-year-old in the military, my personal opinion is we should whack america with a nuclear bomb and that's it so they sto...

Similar pages here, because what surprised me is what matt was just talking about, is that russia is now laying out such a maximalist position. the u.s. wants to talk about limiting things. it wants to talk about limiting military exercises, it wants to talk about limiting this. they say, we're not interested in that. we want to strengthen military hardware in the baltics, mostly eastern europe, and completely redefining the structure of nato as it is today. going back to what matt was just saying, this is a profound core belief that has been brewing in russia for a long time. russia sees and ...

Everybody's guessing, and nobody really knows what putin is thinking and he's the only decisionmaker that matters. so, i don't know about that. i think there are little hints, tea leaves if you read them closely. for instance, foreign minister lavrov did an hour and a half interview, a call-in show for radio programs, and in that conversation, i listened to it pretty closely, you can hear hints of maybe we want to negotiate. he praised the american proposal, for instance, while saying the nato proposal, the response to their draft treaties slash ultimatums was much more positive. the american ...

He hasn't gone to court to challenge it. john bolton and his deputy charlie kupperman, national security advisor, former, and deputy national security advisor or in court saying they have executive testimony immunity. this is not executive privilege. it's i don't have to show up. the house removed the subpoena from charlie kupperman and never issued a subpoena to john bolton. that's one question. will the court consider the whole thing moot if they don't have a subpoena? the other question is why didn't the house is you that one? they're afraid of losing. but this really -- maybe they were afr...

Always has executive privilege. >> right. so, look, there's a notion of executive privilege in the law. it's been recognized since 1974 at the very least. but that's for limited surgical things. what trump has done is what he always does. a kind of mcmansion huge assertion of executive privilege, which literally nobody believes. and it's astounding that a guy whose job is literally to uphold the constitution, take an oath to do it, says something like this because it's ridiculous. >> the justice department on his behalf is pushing this maximalist position. i guess i want to ask you and, look, ...