partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn t happen and that s because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn t agree it doesn t happen. and inre the case of sweden it s an original nato it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay
putin felt like he had to invade ukraine because he felt very shy about nato. the nato alliance just had too many countries in it, too many countries that were too close to russia, and that all just gave putin this terrible feeling about nato being too close, and so therefore, he had to invade ukraine. i don t actually think that s it. i don t think we know all of the reasons he does what he does, who knows what s going on in his little short dictator heart of hearts. but if, in fact, the apologists are at least partially correct, if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invading ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less about nato, and somehow starting this war would make that happen, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine, there were 30 countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country, and now as of tonight, we
fifth amendment, as you know, if you refuse to answer the question with a truthful answer would tend to incriminate you. do you understand that right? yes. tonight, our republican underpricing the risk of a convicted canada. a president of the united states needs to have immunity, the supreme court is gonna be rulli of that. what happened to the desantis campaign? thank you everyone, governor desantis, i want to present to you this precip new signs that the florida governor s run is over. we re proud of you for trying. sorry, buddy. and some more genuinely good news. the u.s. stock market continues to hit record high after record high. why just about every indicator of the biden economy is pointed up except one, until today. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, for four days from the new hampshire pioneer, looked shaping up to be a make-or-break moment for both republican parties in the nation. i think over a year
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establishment. and it s getting pretty nasty, too. it s becoming apparent that we ve been barely skimmed the surface of the left weaponizing that particular word extremist against republicans. congressman hakeem jeffries, a key leader among democrats in the house, is using that word, nonstop these days, support gun rights? you re an extremist. pro-life, you re an extremist. don t want the schools and government brainwashing your kids? you re an extremist too. it s so-called republican moderates who talk a good game, but at the end of the day always, always, always vote with the extremists. the extreme maga republicans were determined to take the country down because of the extreme maga republicans, because of an effort by right wing extremists to push back against the extremists, the so-called moderates, voted with the extremists, forced those extreme right wing cuts down the throats of the american people. right wing extremists that would have hurt millions of everyday a