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Ukraine is defeating russia much larger military would send a powerful deterrent message as chinese leader xi jinping calculates the costs of invading taiwan. less importantly, mcfaul argues, the success of democratic ukraine and repelling autocratic russia would reassure small d democracies around the world that our ideas are gathering steam. small d democrats in belarus, burma, iran, and even russia would feel more emboldened. joining us now is michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia under president obama, ambassador mcfaul, good to see you. thank you for being here today. as someon...

They want a complete small d democracy, and by the way, i think it would actually work there. >> right. it's sort of hard to put the tooth paste back in the tube. the younger generation has seen how the rest of the world looks. i know they try and contain what you have seen. but once you've seen freedom and a sense of how your life could be, for these young people, i don't think they want to go back living literally covered up, but where does it go in terms of how dangerous this gets for the society as a whole, and then the global implications? >> yes, the danger is, and i hesitate to even say...

Hurting the small d democratic process right now? >> look, i'm focused on the next six days here in colorado, i got to cover the entire state in one more time, to get out to all of voters, we are tied with independents right now, we're going to win the hispanic vote here in colorado, they're fed up with this economy and fed up with the price of gas, i'm not looking backwards, i'm looking forwards. >> i get that. i hear you. i know it is six days to the election, but if you win, you will be in the senate for six years, right? and this issue of election denialism is going to be in front of you. ...

>> reporter: exactly. this is part of the good news coming out of the debate for fetterman's team. check out this tweet from the candidate saying his team raised more than $2 million from small d donors. his campaign said it's using that money to air ads highlighting dr. oz's debate answer that got a lot of attention, saying abortion should be left up to women, doctors and local political leaders. they believe that will have an impact. a lot of pro choice voters in the state of pennsylvania. they're using the money in order to do this. >> we'll see how that plays in pennsylvania. thank you so ...

Rings: rings of power," there's so much resilience and tenacity. and i drew such inspiration from my 14 years of advocating for these brave women who are at the forefront of the fight for freedom and democracy. little did i know in that moment that just two months later i would be outside the federal building in los angeles giving a speech to 20,000 protesters who are standing in solidarity with the iranian people. and this global galvanization uprising in support of this movement is a watershed moment that we need to pay attention to. because there's nothing more important than freedom. we ha...