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They needed to get putin by himself in front of a free press, that was good. i mean, to see, rachel's got dropped the mic. what a great question. and there were others. and putin is not used to that. he didn't lose his cool or anything. it's not like he melted down. but it clearly was one of those days were putin looked alone on that stage and he was facing the kind of press he never has to face. that alone, i think, made a big winner for the united states of america. >> and julia, indeed, let me bounce right back to you on this point. because i've heard michael mcfarland make this point as we...

Classified information purely as a pretext to try to suppress a book he did not want to come out before the november 2020 election. my book did go three a pre publication review process. it was cleared. this decision by the justice department is a vindication of the rule of law against what was another abuse of power by donald trump. >> and with that, let's bring in our lead off guests on this wednesday night, starting with jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press. he was among the journalists traveling with the president during this foreign trip. just got off air force o...

Guard to get in. and sadly, none of the u.s. press pool was able to enter that room. of course, that was not ideal. but that moment there, the tension around it, encapsulated the stakes for this meeting. >> i'll go ahead and say, not your first thrown shoulder and it won't be here last. julia, over to you. what did you make of how today went? and did you share our assessment there were some didn't vintage putin moments there today? >> oh, absolutely. down to the tolstoy quote that got everyone's attention here. right? where he said that happiness doesn't exist. that is just a mirage on the hor...

It and i was encouraged that when biden had the opportunity instead of saying gosh i sure wish putin, and what about, he's probably right -- biden just said it is ridiculous. it is ridiculous. believe me, putin heard that loud and clear and he also said over and over again we have cyber warfare also and it was a very clear threat that if russia keeps it up there will be a response from the high capabilities we have in this country to disrupt their country with cyber warfare. >> julia, i have a few seconds left, just a question all the things you could've named in your newsletter, why tomorrow ...

Was july 2016, we've come a long way. >> who's getting the last laugh now? great thanks to our guest tonight, jonathan lemire for joining us from the tarmac at andrews, claire mccaskill, we julia ioffe, will make an optimist out of her. thank you so much for joining us. coming up, the presidents warning to putin about cyber attacks was a bit like nice pipeline you've got their russia, it would be ashamed if something ever happened to it. we will ask a leading diplomat whether that sort of diplomacy can work on a thug. later, the vice presidents promise to protect voting rights in our country. ...