>> senator richard blumenthal, connecticut, thank you for your time tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> that is all in for this week. i'm heading back out on the road again to talk about a new book, the siren's call how attention became the world's most endangered resource, just hit its fourth week on the new york times best seller list, which is awesome. monday night i'm going to be in philadelphia, where i will be interviewed by my favorite interviewer and interviewee, my brilliant constitutional law scholar wife, kate shaw. she's awesome. we're going to talk. i hope to see you there. you can get the book wherever books are sold or and this is important at your local library. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. >> is that fair to do the interview with the spouse? is that yes. is that a conflict? >> we ran it by standards and they said, two thumbs up. no conflict here. >> no. >> i mean, is it fair to your marriage? like, what if she's like, yeah, chapter three is a little weak. >> oh no, no, no, that's fair point. no. mostly i'm like because we're basically kind of

getting a date night out of it. so it's like, if that's what it takes, like we're going to go to dinner afterwards, like just you and me. it'd be great. >> this is the this is the public intellectual version of billable hours on the merits. exactly. >> that's exactly. >> right, i got it. well done. chris. smooth. very smooth. thank you, my friend, and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. senator cory booker is here with us tonight live. i'm really looking forward to speaking with him. former us ambassador to russia michael mcfaul is here with us live. we've got eyes on potentially some developing court proceedings live tonight. it's just a really busy friday night. there's a lot to get to. i am really glad you are here and i will be honest. i'm feeling a little fired up tonight. i'm. what's that phrase i'm feeling? i feel like i'm loaded for bear. right? so we're just. i'm just going to do this. i don't care, i don't care. let's just do it. let's just let's just start right in with something that

republicans really, really, really do not want to talk about. and part of the way you can tell they don't want to talk about it is because what they get asked about it, they turn pink, they stammer, they stomp their feet and put the microphone down. they do not want to talk about this at all. republican congressman scott fitzgerald of wisconsin, for example, does not want to talk about this at all. >> you personally. >> i. >> personally. >> taken that the three elected of ukraine. >> is a. >> dictator and. >> started the war against russia. >> no, no. >> i. >> don't know. >> i was i like i said, i voted for the first tranche. no ukraine didn't start the war. >> i wouldn't. >> say that. >> i you know. >> i. >> i'm not. >> have you expressed. >> your opinion to trump. >> did donald trump. >> no. no. >> why. >> no. >> he stood there in. >> front of everybody.

>> he said. >> you. >> as your voice. >> i don't think. >> that the. >> president's goals are not what everybody wants, which is to end the war, right? end the war. >> so if you. >> don't want to end the war. >> if you. >> don't want to. >> end the war, then you're in a different position. >> you've got. >> to. >> you've got to have some type of. >> negotiated end to this. he's he's certainly pushing. >> hard for that to happen. >> at the table. >> and if that. >> table would you do. >> that without. >> i can't. >> speak over everybody. >> and if. >> and if. >> zelensky zelensky needs to be in the room. >> he absolutely. >> needs to be i. >> i. >> don't disagree with that. >> i don't. >> i don't. >> disagree with the idea that he needs to be he's. >> probably part. >> of the solution. right. so i'm not sure. >> i'm not i'm not. >> i'm not sure exactly. >> what that's. >> going to look like. >> but i'm i guess it's a good. thing that the negotiations will continue, and hopefully. we'll end up in a position where. >> the. >> entire conflict. >> comes to, comes to a halt.

>> on a negotiated level. so. >> okay. all right. >> well. >> matthew. >> matthew, matthew, there's a matthew here somewhere. matthew, please tell me you want to talk about, like, potholes or prostitution, pot legalization, anything about this putin stuff? this stuff is making me very pink. i do not want to talk about this stuff. let's talk about something else. republican congressman rich mccormick in georgia. same problem. >> i would like to know your opinion and your stance on the current situation created by the president, wherein he is now saying that ukraine is responsible for the war, that russia has initiated. and i would like to know, i would like to know if you, as a congressman, will get with your fellow congresspeople and stand up to the lies that are being

told to the americans. and i would also like to know, if you believe that the 80 year old alliance that we have with our european allies is strong enough to withstand the attack from our white house. because this is a dangerous, dangerous precedent. you as a serviceman should help us. >> zelensky. >> i think. >> is an. >> honest broker of. >> what he's trying to accomplish. he wants to save. >> his nation. >> and i want ukraine. >> to win. >> and president trump. >> said he wants to. and i know you're going to you're going. >> to get this is what he said. but but it's in our best interest. >> it's in our best interest, in. >> my opinion. >> and by the way. >> this splits the republican. >> party down the middle half. >> the republicans support. >> half the. have repeatedly. >> spoken up. >> on. >> this repeatedly. >> i'm speaking. >> about it right now. >> and i voted for ukraine. and

i voted. >> for ukraine. support every. >> single time. >> you guys, i will turn this town hall right around. i'm putting my microphone down. this keeps happening to republican members of congress in their republican districts, and to republican senators in their red states. republican congressman mike kennedy in utah, republican congressman kevin hern in oklahoma, republican senator lisa murkowski in alaska. >> are fighting the war in ukraine. >> asking this question. >> do you. >> share his. >> sense of do you think something. should be happening? right? >> i don't. >> know. >> the. >> president said. >> that he was. >> going to say that. >> he was going to say that. >> look, look, >> this mother's day or something. >> oh my gosh. >> so star wars where i can tell. you more. >> yes, yes.

>> thank you. >> personally. do you support ukraine or russia? >> well, i. >> here's what i know. >> it's not easy, ma'am. it's not easy. it's not easy. >> zelensky a dictator. yes or no? >> that part. i have a problem with that statement. yes. did ukraine start. >> the war? >> well it's simple. >> do you support ukraine? start the war? yes or no? did ukraine start the war? >> i want to know where you stand. >> it's not part of it. >> ukraine or russia. we have been supporting zelensky for years now. three years. and then he started this. now we're isolated or he is isolating america. he's he's calling it where do. >> you start. >> let let me just say this. this is not the tactic that i would use to try to solve the problem. >> i would like to. >> express my dismay. >> over the president's stance on. >> ukraine. >> including. as everyone knows.

>> his outright falsehoods. >> and i'm. >> curious. i imagine i know what your views are, but more significantly, what can the. >> legislative branch. >> do and what do they have. >> the stomach for? >> to support. >> a. >> peaceful resolution that involves the leaders of ukraine and not just trump and putin? that's my question. >> yeah. >> well, i think i think we were. all more than a little bit. stunned. really? really concerned about just this, this, this radical switch. i mean, it was literally last week, you know, the president was was speaking about how he was going to work to end the war in ukraine. i think we would all like to see a peaceful or we

would like to see a peaceful and positive outcome to the bloodshed after these years. and so to now, to now hear president trump's comments, very derisive comments about president zelensky today, i felt were were uncalled for and unfortunate. it is it is just it is wrong to suggest that somehow or other ukraine started this war. i asked for this war, but i think, i think we're all kind of scratching our heads at how quickly, how quickly the conversation has gone from being one that is supportive of president zelensky to now being more supportive of putin.

>> this radical switch. senator lisa murkowski of alaska in a town hall with her constituents last week. she says we're all scratching our heads at how quickly the conversation. and the white house has now gone from being supportive of zelensky to now being supportive of putin, instead scratching our heads. republicans are having a hard time with this. they try to move on to the next question. they express annoyance with their own constituents for asking about it. they get brusque and short in their answers. or like senator lisa murkowski, they just purport to be really perplexed, really confused, really scratching my head. they have a hard time with this. all the republicans do, especially the guy at the top. >> you just mentioned putin, though, and this has been this controversy of the past week. can you say yes or no? whether you have talked. >> to vladimir. >> putin since you stopped being president? >> well, i don't comment on that. if i have a relationship i

don't. talk about i don't talk about no, i don't talk about that. i don't talk about. >> i don't talk about i don't talk about that. i don't ever say, why don't you talk about it? i don't ever say about why not? what does that mean? i mean that that was right before the election, but it continued after the election. and people get so mad when i play this tape. people get very angry with me when i play this tape. but, you know, honestly, bring it on. it makes me appreciate it all the more because clearly, at least it strikes a nerve. watch. >> have you talked. >> to president putin? >> no, i have not. >> you haven't talked. >> to president putin. >> since you've. >> been elected? no. well, i don't want to say that, but i haven't spoken to him recently. >> so you've. >> spoken to president putin since you. >> i don't want to say that. i don't want to say anything about that. >> i want to. >> talk to vladimir putin. >> who have you. >> spoken to him? >> i don't want to say. >> so you've. >> already spoken to vladimir putin? >> i don't want to say. >> that. i don't. >> want to. i don't want to say

i don't want to say, i can't say, why can't you say, why can't you say? what precludes you from saying. listen, it's friday night. let's just do this. let's just cut to the chase here. let's do a little look, see at the landscape to see why exactly it is so hard for republicans to deal with this topic. what exactly is so hard for republicans to talk about? what exactly is it that we are doing up to, and including switching sides in a war? but it's not limited to that. it's and it's all things that that don't seem like good news for the united states. that makes them particularly hard to talk about. but nevertheless, with donald trump back in the white house, we keep doing these things relentlessly and urgently, and they all cut in the same direction. and it's really hard for republicans to explain because of what it obviously means. it's clear why they do not want to talk about this stuff. and it gets all the more clear when you just line

this stuff up. let me let me show you what i mean. here's one donald trump's hand-picked attorney general. she gets sworn in to lead the us justice department on her first day on the job. what is the first thing she does? headline us cuts task forces on foreign influence and russian sanctions. quote. in a memo sent to staff wednesday, u.s. attorney general pam bondi revealed she had disbanded the foreign influence task force, a unit dedicated to investigating violations of the foreign agents registration act. bondi did not elaborate, but figures on the republican party's conspiratorial far right have accused the government of abusing fara to unfairly target political operatives like paul manafort, trump's 2016 campaign chair, who was indicted in a probe into russian influence in that year's u.s. election. also on wednesday, the day of her swearing in, bondi disbanded a task force klepto capture, an initiative started in 2022 to

enforce sanctions against russia. who's all that good for shutting down the foreign influence task force, shutting down enforcement of the foreign agents registration act, and getting rid of the task force that enforces sanctions against russia? who are all those things good for? why do we do those things and so urgently? her first day on the job. here's another one which happened that same day. quote in a little notice directive on her first day in office, attorney general pam bondi ordered a halt to a years old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by china, russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in american politics. buried on the fourth page of one of 14 policy memos bondi issued wednesday, the order disbands the fbi's foreign influence task force. last year, justice department prosecutors and fbi agents exposed an alleged scheme in which russia backed media funneled $10

million to a conservative u.s. media company that hired prominent right wing influencers. here's how the new york times bannered that one. bluntly quote trump dismantles government fight against foreign influence operations. dozens of employees who had been working to fight foreign interference in u.s. elections have been reassigned or forced out. that includes not only the fbi, but also cisa, the cybersecurity division at homeland security, which we soon learned. the president's top campaign donor had installed a 19 year old operative who reportedly personally operates websites in russia and who has been associated with multiple criminal cyber hacking gangs. that's who the president's top campaign donor installed at cisa, giving him full access to systems and data at the us government's cyber security agency. a 19 year old kid with

ties to russia and cybercrime. who's that good for? how do you explain to your constituents who that's good for, and why we are doing that as a country? and what else? what else is hard to explain to ye old constituents when it comes to that radical switch in the us government that lisa murkowski described? how about this headline cia plans largest mass firing in nearly 50 years? well, that's good for someone. who's that good for. that came right after this. oh, trump's new hand-picked cia director sent a list of cia employees to the white house in an unclassified email. quote, current officials confirmed that the cia had sent the names of employees to the office of personnel management, complying with an executive order signed by president trump. senator mark warner, a top democrat on the intelligence committee, wrote that the sharing of the officer's names was a, quote,

disastrous national security development. one former agency officer called the reporting of the names in an unclassified email a, quote, counterintelligence disaster. yes, a disaster for the united states and for u.s. intelligence in particular. but very good news for someone. hey, speaking of things that ought to be classified headline how trump's security clearances order could make the us vulnerable. the plan to give temporary security clearances without background checks opens the door to breaches and espionage, experts say. giving out security clearances without background checks that look for things like, you know, criminal entanglements, lots of debt, anything that they could blackmail you over or any contacts with foreign governments to make sure that you're not, you know, secretly working for we're not doing the background checks anymore. trump just has ordered that the

classified material be made available to whoever he says with no checks. that doesn't seem like good news for the united states. but again, it's good news for someone. how about when they decided that the first agency they would destroy would be usaid, who cheered the loudest for that? russia welcomes usaid cuts calls agency machine for interfering. yeah, it was it was fantastic news for someone. no one was seen to benefit more or to be more loudly cheering it on. than vladimir putin. and that was before the specific news confirmed today that among the projects, trump is explicitly and specifically turning off right now, this week is the program by which the us helps ukraine keep its electric grid up and running, even though russia has repeatedly targeted that electric grid throughout the war. because russia's idea

of how it wants to win the unprovoked war it declared on our ally is to make the civilian population, including kids and the elderly and hospital patients and everyone, their best idea for how to prosecute that war is to cause them to freeze to death by bombing the electric grid. in february. so more than any other evident targeting, they have targeted the electric grid that serves the civilian population in ukraine. it is the united states that has helped ukraine masterfully keep the power grid up, despite those repeated onslaughts by russia, until this week, when trump just cut it off. which is good news for someone, right? president dressed up the defense secretary. he hand picked off the cast of the fox and friends weekend show, put him in a bright blue suit and sent him to

europe, where he volunteered unasked that ukraine can't be expected to keep all of its own territory. he said that would be, quote, unrealistic. it would be, quote, unrealistic to not let russia take parts of ukraine. he then volunteered and asked that ukraine will not be allowed to join nato. now we've got pro-trump republican senators saying, yeah, not just ukraine won't be allowed in nato. we ought to get out of nato too, which of course would collapse nato. who would that most benefit? who for whom would that be? really, really good news. donald trump says, let's let russia back into the g7. donald trump is reportedly preparing right now for his own big in-person summit with vladimir putin. donald trump already started high level meetings between the russian and us governments, including in an

inexplicable 3.5 hour meeting specifically between the president's real estate friend and vladimir putin himself. steve witkoff came back from that meeting. and how'd that go? went pretty well for someone headline parroting putin and trump. witkoff says russia was provoked into invading ukraine. headline trump envoy can't name a single concession russia will make in peace deal. what does it seem like is going on here? imagine if a foreign adversary. imagine if the putin government somehow could just do a thought experiment. imagine they could somehow exert control or influence over the government of the united states. what do you think the putin government would have the us government do if he could control it? what kind of

headlines would you expect to see about the operations of our government under that kind of a scenario? and what would you expect the news out of the oval office and the white house to look like on a day like today? at the start of this made for tv debacle at the white house today, where the president and vice president j.d. vance screamed at our ally vladimir zelensky and berated him with russian government talking points. when this happened today in washington, there were a couple of things that stuck out to me. first of all, at the very start of this photo op, they had all the press in the room. trump was asked right at the outset when he last spoke with vladimir putin. he said, quote, a couple of days ago, which was news because the us government had said nothing about donald trump speaking with vladimir putin a couple of days ago. so that's

new. he used to say, i'm not allowed to talk about that. now he's admitting that he talks to putin all the time, even when the us government doesn't release any information about those calls like they do with all other foreign leaders. second was the truly bizarre revelation that russian state controlled media, for some reason, was in the oval office today when this scene happened with volodymyr zelensky. now, to be clear, the trump white house will not allow the associated press or reuters into the oval office to cover white house events anymore, but somehow, tass media kremlin controlled russian state media somehow made their way into the oval office for this berating of the ukrainian president today. and russian state media was in the oval office somehow live streaming from the event afterwards. look at this bizarre statement from the white house

attributed to an unnamed white house official. quote tass was not on the approved list of media for today's pool. as soon as it came to the attention of press office staff that he was in the oval, he was escorted out by the press secretary. he is not on the approved list for the press conference. it's not on the approved list. i have no idea how he got in there to live stream for kremlin controlled state media. the president and vice president of the united states screaming at ukraine's president and berating him with russian talking points. we don't know how the kremlin got got in here. it was weird. he just wandered in. i mean, people do. it's a free country. people do just wander into the oval office. a very radical thing is happening in our country. it is not only radical in the sense that it is a large directional change, right? switching sides

in a war now standing against our allies of the last 80 years, now siding with russia instead, i mean, no longer siding with the free world, now siding with the authoritarian governments of the world. like it's not just radical and that it is a 180 degree directional change. it is also radical in the sense that it is really radically unpopular with the american people. i mean, you can see that in the polling quinnipiac poll this month. should the us trust vladimir putin? yes. 9%. no, 81%. here's another one. the economist yougov poll out this month. do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of vladimir putin? the american public say favorable 11%. unfavorable 78%. the american people are not clamoring for us to ally ourselves with vladimir putin. right? you can you can see it

very clearly in the polling. and it begs the question, well, okay, who wants this? who voted for this? why are we doing this? if the american people don't want this, why are we doing it? who says we should do this? who's making us do this? and why? and for whose benefit? you can see the same dynamic in the bewildered and outraged questions that americans are asking their republican members of congress at these town halls, which republicans are now realizing they better not do anymore of. they're asking the republican senators and their republican members of congress, what the heck is going on? what is going on here? but let's be clear. i mean, what's going on here is pretty obvious at this point, because this is all really good news for somebody. it's not the american people for whom it's good. it's not our allies for whom it's good. and

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click granger.com or stop by granger for the ones who get it done. tuesday, president trump. >> addresses both chambers of congress. >> rachel maddow. >> and. >> team will break down the speech. >> and its impact at home and abroad. >> the joint. address to congress. special coverage tuesday at. >> eight on msnbc. >> msnbc presents. >> a new podcast hosted. >> by jen psaki. >> each week, she talks. >> to some. >> of the. >> biggest names. >> in democratic. >> politics. >> with the. >> biggest ideas for how democrats can win again. >> the blueprint. >> with jen psaki. >> listen now. >> well, what has happened. >> at the. >> oval office has been not what we expected it to be. we knew that communication.

>> with trump and his team is. >> going to be difficult. we did not expect that. we did not expect what we have seen. >> it's. >> unimaginable that the leader of the free. >> world. >> the leader of the biggest democracy in the world, would attack the president of the country that has been attacked, while at the same time conducting negotiations in a very friendly tone with the country that is the aggressor. that is the russian side. we definitely did not see that coming, even though we expected the communication between trump and zelensky to be tough. that is not what we expected. so. so it is, of course. >> a new. >> era in the relationships between the two states. >> that's a member of ukraine's parliament in season. reacting tonight to the bizarre oval office spectacle today in which donald trump and vice president j.d. vance screamed russian

talking points at ukraine's president on camera. joining us now is michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia. ambassador mcfaul, it's really nice of you to make time to be here with us tonight. thank you. >> glad to be here, rachel. >> so today, i think felt to many people like putting a final piece of punctuation on it. this is a full realignment of american foreign policy overall. under donald trump, the united states will abandon an allied democracy. we will support the autocrat. we will support vladimir putin instead. do you see it that way? and can you help us understand the broader implications of what we saw today? >> tragically, i see it that way. and you just presented a lot of evidence to support that hypothesis before the commercial break. and i just this is such a sad day for me personally, as somebody who cares about democracy and finds autocracies and i know american history, we haven't been perfect. we haven't

always been on the side of the democrats, but we have a long standing tradition of standing up to autocrats. think about it. all of our enemies, throughout all of our history have been dictatorships. our most enduring allies. our strongest allies have always been democracies. and today our president wants to switch sides in the struggle between autocrats and democrats. he doesn't want to be the leader of the free world. he wants to join the autocratic club. and i just think it's sad on a kind of ethical and moral level. but i also think this does not serve american national security interests. if he goes down this path, we will be isolated from our allies in europe, from our allies in asia. the rest of the world will hedge their bets and we will be alone. >> i know that you have been following the actual negotiations to end the war in ukraine closely. i also understand you spoke with members of president zelensky's

delegation since the oval office meeting today. what are they telling you? what is your sense about the best path forward and what options they have now? >> well, this was supposed to be a good day. you know, they negotiated very hard. both sides on this minerals deal. i'm not a big fan of it, but both sides thought it was in their interest. it's they thought that getting a direct meeting with the president was what zelensky needed, because that's what everybody says. you got to do business with president trump directly. and so it was their idea to fly to washington to have this meeting. and they're just in shock. the whole country is in shock by the whole. by the way, the whole country is rallying to president zelensky's support, just like the rest of europe is as well. but they did not expect this. and i got to tell you honestly, this is my opinion, not theirs. but we keep talking about trump wants to do a deal to end the war. i'm not so sure that's true. i think he

wants to do a deal with putin. that's the that's the real play is you were just describing. and the ukraine thing is kind of a sideshow. and if it works out, it works out. if it doesn't, trump doesn't really care because there's no other way to explain all of the concessions that he has already given to vladimir putin even before any negotiation. so that suggests to me that, in fact, he actually is not trying to negotiate a deal. he's trying to nurture a relationship with vladimir putin. and as you said, i hope the american people understand this is wrong. it's not in our national interest. and i think trump is way out ahead of the people. as you're polling that you just showed, just described. >> yeah, i think whatever americans voted for, i don't think people voted to make the united states a subsidiary diplomatic entity to vladimir putin, which is the way that. trump is, is operating here. you

mentioned the rest of europe rallying to zelensky. one of the things that we saw today were leaders of democracies from all over europe publicly thanking zelensky today, standing with him in solidarity after this meeting with trump. you know, you talk about whether or not the united states is any longer associated with the free world, whether we are the leader of the free world, if we're not, is it becoming clear who is? >> well, i want to keep hope alive. the trump, president, trump and his team don't seem to be want to be part of the free world. but i'm an american, too. i want to be part of the free world. i hope there are other americans who believe the same as me, and i don't want them to turn this this way because i don't believe it serves america's interests. and by the way, there's a lot of americans like me who think we're more than just mineral deals. we stand for more of that. so it is the fight is still on. but to your point, yes, the center of gravity has moved to europe. i

was at the munich security conference, actually, we talked at four in the morning there, i now remember. and the mood then was, well, we've got to pick this up. we've got to unite, we've got to stand behind the democratically elected leader of ukraine against this imperialist dictator that has invaded his country. and tragically for now, that's where the center of gravity for the free world is. >> michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia. i do appreciate you being here. i know that there's a lot of demand for your time on a night like this. after a shock like this. it's an honor to have you here tonight, sir. thank you. >> can't imagine being anywhere else. thanks for having me, rachel. >> all right. >> we've got much more ahead here tonight, including, i'm really happy to say, a live visit with senator cory booker visit with senator cory booker coming up. i'm thinking of updating my kitchen... —yeah? —yes! ...this year, we are finally updating our kitchen... ...doing subway tile in an ivory, or eggshell... —cream?... —maybe bone?... don't get me started on quartz.

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>> on on a really awful day for our nation, frankly. it's an awful day for ukraine and our nation. the one nation. that really is celebrating right now is vladimir putin and russia. >> what concerns you the most about that? what for? for americans who don't necessarily think about foreign policy that much, who don't think about america's role in the world, or if they do, don't think it affects their regular lives very much. what concerns you the most about us apparently abandoning our global stance of the entire modern history of our country and instead lining up with russia and turning against our democratic allies? >> i had a european leader in my office who came and asked to meet with me privately to. express his distress over ukraine, who told me about what. >> does it say about. >> our world that for. >> the first. >> time, to his knowledge, we've ever seen in a un resolution around the security council

america side with china and russia, and condemning what putin did and not their european democratic allies. we are seeing a world shift right now that belies what republicans and democrats have been saying in lockstep. we've taken trips together over into europe to. stand with ukraine. we've had zelensky multiple times meeting with us, meeting with. >> us as. >> senators in private and receiving standing ovations. >> we had a joint. >> session of congress where he addressed us and we stood up. >> and people. >> have said time and time again. >> that this. >> is a stand not just. >> in. >> defense of ukraine, but defense of democracy. >> and if we lose. >> in ukraine. >> then authoritarian leaders around the world will be more emboldened and america will be dragged into more and more conflicts. defending democracy against autocracy and authoritarianism. >> so this. >> is a significant moment and a significant shift in american history, where we have our. >> president. >> who is taunting a world leader, lying about his approval

ratings, lying about who started the war, lying about who is the dictator, accusing. zelenskyy of being a dictator and not the obvious one in vladimir putin taunting him. before he came in? this is the guy who was impeached once. one of. >> his two. >> impeachments was over him trying to extort zelensky, withholding weapons unless he got. >> commitments to do. >> his political bidding and. >> his. >> attacks against joe biden. this is a sad day for our nation. >> this is. >> a shift in global. >> geopolitics. >> and this is something that i am praying and hoping that. >> we. >> can overcome. but unfortunately, we are seeing a republican party right now that would rather bow to political pressure than stand tall for policies and principles. >> well, on that point, we have seen, for example, senator roger wicker speak pointedly about vladimir putin and speak

pointedly in defense of ukraine. we saw him meet this morning with with volodymyr zelensky and post a tweet of him shaking his hand and talking about how much he supports him, saying how much he was there to support him. he just quietly took that down after what happened today in the oval office. we saw lindsey graham go from meeting with zelensky this morning and praising him and talking about his support for him to demanding his resignation as soon as vance and trump put on that display today. we saw marco rubio, who is until recently, was until recently a considered to be sort of a realpolitik republican on foreign policy issues in the united states senate. he sat there inert in the oval office today saying nothing. looking green, and then put out a boilerplate north korea style tweet of praise for donald trump as soon as it was done. what what do you make about hope for republicans showing any sort of resistance here? is there any?

>> you know. >> again. >> this is a shift in our politics that the senate used. >> to be a. >> place where, right or wrong, people would criticize a president when they stepped out of line, even one of their own party. and here is a situation that is so grave. and my colleagues know. >> this because we meet with these leaders. >> i was in communication. >> today with. >> an estonian leader. this is struck and struck fear in their country because estonia, latvia, lithuania, moldova, these countries know the threat of russia and worry because. >> putin is. >> using the same rhetoric. >> with them. he used about. >> the ukrainian people. this has grand implications beyond just ukraine. and we know our history, but yet our failing to learn from it. if there's ever a time for political courage, even if it means undermining one's ability to get reelected, this is a time for courage. and we know from our history when good

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