he's seen was speaking his mind on facebook where he wrote a critical post about a fellow called michael mcfaul michael michael mcfaul was a former ambassador of the united states to russia he would be going down in any hul of fame under him relations between russia and the united states will collapse they had been decent before book but after they stayed near the there were no relations to speak of and basically the head of russian space agency said that this fellow should keep his nose out of russia's business because michael mcfaul has become something of a crusader against russia against all things russian and you know the russia russia gave russia collusions who are. these was a major proponent of. all of those fake news fake news stories and records it goes unsaid you know you had tried calling us turning this into a banana republic you had tried it was a gas station you tried meddling in our affairs and to see tom and to. again just stay out stay out you know you do you doing nothing constructive and for that he was banned for 24 hours and facebook is he is account was restored but his a

michael mcfaul was a former ambassador of the united states to russia he would be going down in any hul of fame under him relations between russia and the united states will collapse and basically goes unsaid you know you had tried calling us turning this into a banana republic you had tried it was a gas station you tried meddling in our affairs and to see tom and tom again just stay out stay out you know you do you doing nothing constructive and for that he was banned for 24 hours and facebook is he is a coward was restored but his ability to make new post is still restricted in the russian foreign ministry came out with condemnation saying you know this is just going too far and all the fake news about the protests in russia for example all the illegal calls targeting kids 1011 year olds to attend protests which which is illegal 1st of all 2nd of all dangerous because you know as we saw they can turn violent and they filed lodged an official complaint with the u.s. embassy in russia restrictive actions taken by the administrators of the biggest us social networks towards the c

and michael mcfaul was a former ambassador u.s. ambassador to russia and all new failed ambassador it was under him that relations between the united states and russia which which were after decent level. during the early 2000 they collapse they collapsed into the became a catastrophe and these furlough i'm willing to to you know except he's part in this failure he has since become something of an anti russia crusader ease at the forefront of the more buno trump russia collusion sanction russia punish russia and all the wrongs and ills of the world can be laid at russia russia's doorstep this is the fellow he's an ardent supporter of legs involved in what happened was that reacher goes in the head of russian space agency were to boost on facebook saying that you know mr mcfaul stay the hell out of russia just you know enough is enough you've been rollin everyone up you've been. almost revolution you called us a banana republic then you called us a gas station now you try to read it rename us in the in the name of your favorite cand

ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. it's great to see you, sir.nks very much to are your time tonight. it's a big week. >> sure. thanks for having me. >> all right. we'll be right back, actually, and i should tell you, on the other side of this break, a sort of, a story that's just broken in the "washington post" about what intelligence agencies are recognizing about the threat on wednesday at the inauguration. sort of -- i'll have it for you right after the break. it's just broken. stay with us. right after the br. it's just broken stay with us >>> new reporting within the last five minutes from the "washington post." i'm just going to read you the headline here. as you can see, i think we put it up on the screen. qanon adherents discussed posing as national guard to try to infiltrate inauguration, according to fbi intelligence briefing. here's the lead of what carol leonnig and matt zapotosky are reporting. the fbi privately warned law enforcement agencies monday that far-right extremists have discussed posing as national guard members in washin

ambassador to russia michael mcfaul, it's great to see you, sir.s a big week. >> sure. thanks for having me. >>> all right. we'll be right back, actually, and i should tell you on the other side of this break, sort of a story has just broken in the "washington post" about what intelligence agencies are recognizing about the threat on wednesday on the inauguration. sort of -- i'll have it for you right after the break. it's just broken. stay with us. i'm really busy in my life; i'm always doing something. i'm not a person that's going to sit too long. in the morning, i wake up and the first thing i do is go to my art studio. a couple came up and handed me a brochure on prevagen. i've been taking prevagen for about four years. i feel a little bit brighter and my mind just feels sharper. i would recommend it to anyone. it absolutely works. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >> man: what's my safelite story? my truck...is my livelihood. so when my windshield cracked... the experts at safelite autoglass came right to me... with service i could trus

liberalism and russian conservatism is less convincing for example mcfall former best that russia michael mcfaul cautions against which in smith areas conservative ideology committed to christian traditional theme with family values mike ford views it as a threat to liberal international or the hand of hope well indeed the roles have been flipped i mean and the funny side of it is that who can actually did not plan to be you know that why you know. a knight in shining armor defending christian values he had a lot more modest aspire nations when he came to power in the year 2000 i think you want to crush it to be a normal east european country you know. expanding its connections to the way where the developer needs to call on i mean in course that with the united states and with your opinion about the problem is that these people you know this ideology pushes him into the conservative camp if you want and make him defend christian values even more than he would probably like to you know you know it's interesting is that it's certainly ideas of georgia cannily of the american ambassador to the sov

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liberalism and russian conservatism is less convincing for example not all for best that russia michael mcfaul cautions against which and sniff areas conservative ideology committed to christian traditional female family values make for views a threat to liberal international order the end of quote well indeed the roles have been flipped i mean and the other funny side of it is that fortune actually did not plan to be you know that why. you know. and i can shine an aura defanged increased in badness he had a walk more distance by relations but he came to power yes i think you want to question to be a normal east european country you know. expand union connections to the west develop a new sequin i mean in course with the united states and with your opinion about the problem is that these people you know this ideology pushes him into the conservative camp if you want at and makes him defend christian values even more than he would probably like to you know you know it's interesting is that. the ideas of george of can in the in the american ambassador to the soviet union at the very end of the a

the combination is producing an important inflection point. >> former ambassadors michael mcfaul andstory still happening. we'll have to have you back ta ugg about this. ed loose, thank you so well. and dave ignatius, in your recent column for the "washington post", you argue some of trump's foreign policies are worth sustaining. biden should keep that in mind. which ones, david? >> well, you don't hear too many positive things about trump for from the me or anybody else. i do think that in a couple of areas it's worth thinking about continuity. one thing the trump administration did probably against trump's will was to keep u.s. troops in iraq which iraq was definitely trying to force them out. the iraqis want our help. and by sending messaging flying b 52s. we deterred them from attacking our positions in baghdad. that was good. i think it's good that generals kept them from pulling the last 2,500 troops out of afghanistan. a terrible situation there. continuity following the pentagon's efforts to make this a conditions based withdraw. that makes sense. finally, i think trump was r

court of appeals and michael mcfaul, "from cold war to hot peace: an american ambassador in putin's russia." thank you all. phil, 45 republicans voted to make it go away today. what are we looking at? are there offramps? will censure work. a straight ahead vote preventing the president from holding office in the future work? a chance at a plea deal? an ugly common ground both parties would accept? >> yeah, brian, i think any and all of those options may be on the table and perhaps more republicans would be willing to support the censure vote. what was clear today, this remains donald trump's republican party. he may be canceled on social media, silenced on twitter, effectively in exile at mar-a-lago, but he still controls the elected republicans in the congress, most of them, as if he were there puppeteer. i think that's why you saw 45 senators who just less than four weeks ago endured an insurrection on their place of work, under attack at the capitol, do not fault the president for it. trying to give him a pass and opposing this impeachment trial even as it is proceeding with the trial c

his view of putin, well, he calls him a kgb thug michael mcfaul now former u.s. ambassador to russia thanks for being here. let's start with the nuclear treaty criti critics argue that five years is too long, that gives up some of our leverage what do you think. >> well agree agree with that. i know the critics are from the trump administration and they had that leverage for four years and they didn't do anything with it my own view. >> i helped negotiate this treaty back when i worked on the obama administration and it is expiration makes the united states worse off for the simple fact that we would lose our verification ability to look inside and look at russia's nuclear arsenal. ronald reagan used to say trust but verify, i say don't trust, only verify and the new start treaty allows us to do this. i think it is a right decision by the new biden team to extend it >> michael, president biden promised a tough response against russia for hacking america's top agencies we haven't seen much of any response yet what might a biden response look like, just more sancti

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joining me now is michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia and an msnbc international affairs analystet your thoughts on this right out the gate. can the biden administration reengage in this treaty while also holding russia accountable? on one hand, you had russia who was blamed or implicated in the solar wind hack. that big cyber espionage campaign that we reported on last month, the former chief u.s. negotiator under president trump criticize the biden team for seeking that long-term extension of the start treaty, saying that it squanders significant leverage that the u.s. had over russia. >> well, thanks for having me. my general answer is "yes." we can walk and chew gum at the same time. it's hard with big powerful autocratic companies like russia and iran. but i think you can pursue both at the same time. we did during the cold war and they should do this again. extending the new start treaty for five years is not a gift to putin. it is in america's national security interests. and we should do what's in our interests and first and foremost, it extends the verification parts of