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Call this the scarlet phantom. you have to invent the communist menace. i remind people that turning point usa, which was the host for this horrible speech, already runs professor watchlists, it's a sight, i am on it as somebody who is supposedly indoctrinating students to leftist marxism. this is typical, this rhetoric has the same rhetoric as mussolini, the chilean dictator, who purged universities 24,000 staff and teachers and students were purged and sent to prisons under the dictatorship. and it's a highly highly dangerous for him to be speaking. he is painting something across the board....

>> unfortunately, you know, if you know how autocrats behave, at all stages of their political journey. you can actually predict what they're doing. and what they will do. and right now, if we stand back a bit, what's happening is that donald trump is not only telling us how he will, you know, what he started, as you said, in an accelerated fashion, purging people of imprisoning people, but he's also carrying out reeducation of the american people away from democracy. in the last, week he also made a comment that, again, nothing surprises me, but he said, he called the leaders of north korea, ...

Happening there. >> i want to ask you about that control. we know that two generals now have sort of disappeared from public view, including, of co course, a third person, the head of the wagner mercenaries, yevgeny prigozhin. what do you think putin is up to now in russia when it comes to his military brass? is he purging? what is he doing now to try to strengthen his ability to fight this war in ukraine and to keep power? >> i think he's -- he seems to be hesitant to purge his minister of defense and the chief of armed forces and that's because these two men have been loyal to him all along ...

About a lot of people are expecting, i just don't see a. i'm not ruling it out but i just don't see the telltale signs of. that putin does have a dilemma. let me. say to fight a war at the same time he purging is very hard. it question is you have to fight the war especially with some of the people you are purging. i think that is the moment to moment day-to-day dilemma. how to deal with internal security at the same time he has created that external security challenge for himself. >> still ahead new york devin or kathy hochul on her state's new legislation making it easier for out of states r...

Positions. i think the question for the next couple weeks is whether now the purges at the upper ranks of the military, katty, i don't know how disruptive that is and whether it just distracts, undermines morale. i think we'll probably learn that over the next couple of weeks. you know, these things could have a momentum, and it is possible those who think this is the beginning of the end and it comes quickly right be right. if this almost pulls a thread on the sweater of russian troop morale and solidarity. i haven't seen any evidence of that yet. things like crimea, pretty broad support in r...