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Canceled several shows in russia after the war started, and announce today that he will hold a series of anti-war fundraising concerts outside of russia, with 100% of the proceeds going to help the millions of ukrainian refugees. >> (speaking foreign language) >> joining us now is ruth ben-ghiat, history professor at new york university, and author of strongmen, mussolini to the present, which delves into putin. and molly mckew, former adviser to the president of georgia. she's also an expert on information warfare. molly, i have to ask you, do you think there are tens of thousands of russians...

Telling her what is happening, that we are going to shelters, that there are bombs. and she is not believing the. so, i stopped talking to her. if he does not believe her own daughter, she is totally brainwashed from tv and all, because the tv is going on about all this propaganda. >> and yet russians are still speaking out against russians putin's war. more than 140 cities have seen arrests of protesters. today, alexei navalny, jailed opposition leader, posted a message calling on russians to protest on sunday, saying quote, mad maniac putin will most quickly be stopped by the people of russi...

What we are seeing here now in lviv is a hardening of positions. so, where you had checkpoints on the outer edge of the city, those checkpoints are now dug in. you have defenses closer into the center of the city, all an indication, i, think that people are expecting a widening of the conflict. beyond that, i was at a gun store today, and you have civilian now arming themselves in preparation. look, this is a gun store that sold two thirds of its guns in the last two weeks. and really only has hunting rifles left. so, you have civilians now arming themselves with hunting rifles, not necessaril...

Visibility we have of the public. but there have been significant protests. it takes high activation energy given the risk of arrest. and the risk of jail time for doing that. but i think that that is significant and there are a number of efforts to breakthrough the information barriers that the russian public a sort of kept inside, to give them more information about the war, about what is going on. i think that that pressure will increase. >> masha gastonthin gessen told ezra klein about putin's propaganda. >> people have gotten accustomed to a series of financial crashes, and periods of hyp...

That the battles of -- were even more ferocious than the battles of vietnam. remember, world war ii started in europe in 1939. the united states did not get into world war ii, despite the mythology, until 1941, two years later. and we did not declare war on germany -- so, germany declared war on us. germany -- there was not a reading of the news of pearl harbor and then say, okay, we are declaring war on germany. it took several days. there's an old saying misattributed to churchill, that you can always count on americans to do the right thing once they've exhausted every other possibility. i ...