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Back against the russian positions. the moment when russians begin to retreat is the moment when it will be both the most dangerous moment of the war but will also be the most important, it will be when ukrainians start to win. >> anne, peter, thank you both. after the break an exclusive first look at a shocking new report about tiktok, about how it spreads disinformation about the russian war to new users. an executive from news guard right after the break. ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) >> tech: need to get your windshield fixed? safelite makes it easy. >> tech vo: you can schedule in just a few clicks. ...

Campaigns into russia to communicate with russians, and really campaigns here to really get people to understand that this isn't some parochial conflict between ukraine and russia, this is vladimir putin's attack on sort of our democratic values and his attempt to create a world which is safe for dictatorship. and we all need to react to that. >> as ann describes, this is a case study, a galvanizing moment. peter, i often cite your book, i mentioned it this week. your work "nothing is true and everything is possible" looking at russia and how that propaganda machine works. is it actually worki...

System impossible to be used by foreign autocrats and clept toe democrats, we need to end the secrecy in investments, we need to end the possibility of investing in property secretly. we need to remove all that anonymity so that our financial markets and political system don't get used to build autocracies around the world. >> peter, i know this is personal for you, you were born in kyiv, so i want to ask about a couple of things you've written recently. just tell us first what you've been experiencing in the past couple weeks, what you're hearing from friends still in the country. >> well, i'...

Let's talk about the blackout and how to get around it with ann applebaum, she just testified to the u.s. senate. plus peter pommer ranz authors of "nothing is true and everything is possible" the senior fellow at the johns hopkins university. ann, your message was about fighting autocracy, do you think the past month the war in ukraine has woken up americans and many others in the world about what president biden talks about democracy versus autocracy in a hypothetical sense feels very real now and maybe folks are paying attention. >> yes, i do think this is a really galvanizing moment, we ca...

Emboldened to take a major change in policy. >> ann, do you agree? >> yes, i mean, i'm not quite sure what the mechanism is, but clearly there's a reason why putin doesn't want russians to have good information about the war, why he's not talking about the war, you know, if you think about it it's very unusual to fight a war and then avoid the fact that you're fighting it. he's actually banned people from using the expression war or invasion. he wants to town grade it all the time. so he's doing that for a reason. he foors that if it became unpopular that that unpopularity would then reflect o...