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Great to have you here, sir. wall street journal editorial board, calling it disinformation for dummies. it will promote more mistrust than it prevents. do you share that concern? >> well, i think it's telling that the biden administration went out and recruited one of the most outspoken critics of free speech and when the secretary says well, she's just going to offer best practices on how to fight disinformation. many of us in the free speech community respond with yeah, we can pretty much guess what those are. she has for years had two solutions, corporate censorship or public censorship. t...

That is like king george back in the day you know thomas payne that pamphlet-eer he has new ways of communicating we need to shut that down. they loved twitter in 2008 and 2012. now that it would be more open with elon musk it's something that they feel they have to squash. at any turn if they lose their monopoly on that conversation, then they deem it disinformation. thank goodness the debate over the bill of rights was won by those who believed we had to enumerate them. the assumption of our founders is we don't need to write down the bill of rights those are all protected by the constitutio...

In oppression in russia since the start of the war and this picks up on the trend that we really saw going back to 2018. so for sure, it's not going to be any liberalization or loosening of the screws. it's just going to be tightening the screws from here on in, as long as the war continues. >> yeah, and i will note that editorials in russia turning pro kremlin, has been turning in a darker picture of what is going on in ukraine, all of it disinformation. daniel, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> if you would like to safely and securely help people in ukraine wh...

Is the white house publicizing the troop build-up of the russians in hopes of deterring moscow and does the white house think the strategy is working and are you prepared to release more details what you say russia has been doing? >> yes on the last one. as we have it, and i think you have all experienced that in here, also at the state department, and defense department briefings, and certainly from briefings delivered which national security officials, senior national security officials as well. i will say josh that we are much more cognizant of the russian disinformation machine than we wer...

Eight years of russian aggression. it's brought fighting, cyber attacks, misinformation and constant uncertainty. next week the us will continue to discuss russian demands that nato will both scale back its military presence and rule out ever letting ukrainejoin. for the country at the heart of it, that uncertainty goes on. james waterhouse, bbc news. well, moscow has rejected britain's claim that the kremlin is planning to install a pro—russian leader in ukraine — calling it disinformation. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent mark lobel, who told me more about the allegations made by th...