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Invasion of ukraine a war. peter pomerantsev has been covering this utopian reality of russia for years. writing several books on the russian disinformation home in abroad. he is now a senior fellow studying propaganda at john hopkins university. and he joins me now. peter, can you talk about what you see as a significance to a place that already didn't really have much of a free press being cracked down on so heavily? in just the last few weeks? >> well, they didn't have much of a free press but it wasn't like a cold war system. he had internet access. anything you want it if you are ready to...

Media. now that's gone. above everything else aside from the kremlin, we've gone from being an authoritarian regime to full-on stall in two point oh. it's a signal. not just about controlling information. it's about telling the population we really mean it. we are really angry and we know no boundaries anymore. >> what do you think the information environment in russia is now? obviously, it's been criminalized even calling it a war. they've cut off access to information. yet, if you're a russian pensioners realize you can't use apple pay or whatever it is. i wonder what's sort of mass opinion ...

To all the sudden get that next level, where they will say, okay, we need patriotic two point oh. if you think waco is, bad weeds you see with they want to do next. >> again, just to give you an idea of what is out, there and again, national democrats who are not dialed into, this or who are ignoring this kind of, top do so at their peril, and hours. as we all prepared to live another day, under tyranny and fascism, or as they're known by their other names, vaccines and masks, during a pandemic. that's going to do it for our wednesday night effort, with our thanks for being here with, us on ou...

The military and others. why wasn't it carried out better? that will be the stuff of history books and investigations for some time to come. unfortunately though, aloft a lot of afghans are going to pay the price. and unfortunately america's reputation is going to take a hit. >> what do you think the odds are that this new taliban is somehow different from everything we've learned about the taliban, the time friedman theory, that governing may be differently for them when they realize that there are things like irrigation, and traffic control, and commerce, when they realize they are going to ...

That the playbook that donald trump is going to. use that if the witch hunt was successful in getting out of the first impeachment. i think the question here isn't so much what is trump in power we, but what is the staying power of folks coming after him. is ron desantis going to be able to make any headway? trump has been slowly but surely moving losing a bit of ground, he doesn't have twitter, he doesn't have the bullet pulpit, he has lost is we -- but what is the larger influence of trumpism in two point oh and the folks that come after him? and that's really what i'm looking at now instead...