rosenstein petitions acceptance of latvia as a soviet. in addition to stalin, our khrushchev, molotov, mikoyan and hogan to be american versions sometimes means home to be welcomed by soviet troops as the old guard of honor. we are reminded of an item in molotov speech to the supreme soviet 1939. quote, the nonsensical talk about the soviet invasion of the balkan countries as some of the organs of the foreign press charged is only to the interest of our common enemies. the new constitution from moscow guarantees freedom from unreasonable arrest, unquote. however enough charges are found to send of latvian men, women and to slave labor camps in the soviet union and. on this list of the names of 78 people arrested by the nkvd soviet secret police, the notation at the end of the list explains the quite reasonable charges not politically reliable shoot them to death. the example of estonia also in 1939, with more promises the soviet union requests these bases. the little country actually. in june of 1940, the red army invades estonia on the p

in this case, it was initially planned to take the service men's family to ukraine via poland or latvia. but later, the ukrainian intelligence chose mold opened special services as a partner in the helicopter hijacking operation in moldova, ukrainian military intelligence feels at ease, not considering the opinion of local partners and the route the pilots family was supposed to take a broad transit through turkey to choose a now and from there to the territory of ukraine. so the plan was set sold for the family on the pilot would spend a week or so in 30 a, then it transferred to moldova and eventually to ukraine. this point to create an agents their game felt she was ready to execute his mission and decided to get into more details of operation information and coordinates discovered by russian offer it is during a vist exchange. were laser used for an explosive ending to this year along with spike game. i understand that there are 2 settlements there. there is a line between them and you have to fly there. but you need to understand the depth, how deep you can fly there without attrac

but i was born in latvia, espanola. questions about that. in 1936, we moved to budapest, which is with my father's in life, and we had a very nice life. you need to know that the jewish community of europe, between the wars had a very, very good life. it began to disintegrate that piece by piece, but not until the thirties, the hungarian jewish or anti-jewish laws. i should responding to the 1920s, but not put into effect until the thirties. so my parents young life and my young life was very good. in the winter of 1941. i was five and a half years old and my parents decided to go south to my home area, which is southern and northern yugoslavia, and decided to go there because grandparents live there. i would just love to visit them. in december, just as a family visit. we could do that in those. we arrived by train about 3 hours or so south of budapest before, and we stayed my aunt's house. my mother had two sisters in warsaw, the city where we were and first day or two, i have no recollection of what's going on, but i'm sure they were plea

signs demand admission of latvia into the soviet union.es the formal request, proceedings watched carefully by the soviet secret police. there are no opposing votes. he leaves with a delegation for the moscow extreme soviet. timoshenko. rosenstein stalin and company applaud the latvian communist delegates. in the background, timashenko. petitioning to be a soviet state. he speeds home, welcomed by soviet troops, his new guard of honor. we're reminded of an item in the speech to the supreme soviet in 1939. quote, nonsensical talk of soviet of the balkan countries is only to the interest of our common enemies. the new constitution guarantees freedom from unreasonable arrest. unquote. however enough reasonable charges are found to send thousands to labor camps in the soviet union. on this list of the names of 78 people arrested by the soviet secret police, the notation at the end explains the reasonable charges. not politically reliable, shoot them to death. the example of estonia, also in 1939, more promises. the soviet union requests spaces

17th the red army in direct violation of previous treaties moves into complete the occupation of latviaa to initiate the new order they come to appoint a new government. with the prime minister, banners and signs by subversives want to be admitted. the second secretary of the latvian communist party makes the formal request to the parliament, proceedings are watched carefully by the soviet secret police. there are no opposing votes. on august 3 a delegation for the soviet leaves. ♪♪ stalin and company applaud the latvian communist delegates. in the background is marshall dimonschenko. in addition to stalin, khrushchev, mikoyan. welcomed by soviet troops, a new guard of honor. we are reminded of the night in molotov's speech in 1939, quote, the nonsensical talk about the sovietization of the balkan countries as the foreign press charge is only to the interest of our common entries, guaranteeing freedom from unreasonable arrest, unquote. however, enough reasonable charges are found to send thousands of latvian men, women and children to slave labor camps in the soviet union. he lit explai

it could be any country in europe, maybe poland or latvia. we'll figure out everything. we'll do this according to the russian security. the services you create in intelligence is slowly becoming a castaway among their european colleagues. so the transit options for the part of family we're actually limits is citric. them was called lucian oakland, given the situation and ukraine. european intelligence services are less willing to conduct joint operations with ukranian intelligence, fearing image losses action. in this case, it was initially planned to take the service men's family to ukraine via poland, or lafayette for later ukrainian intelligence chose mal dove in special services as a partner in the helicopter hijacking operation. in moldova, ukrainian military intelligence feels at ease, not considering the opinion of local partners and the route the pilots family was supposed to take abroad for transit through tour guide to cheese and now and from there to the territory of ukraine. so the plan was set sold for the family on the pilot would spend a week or so in 30

he wants to go for estonia, latvia and lithuania. those countries are nato allies.s trump, then say we're going to defend those nato allies or say no and and either way, we're it's bad if we defend the nato allies, then we're at war with russia. if we don't then putin has basically taken over all of eastern europe. it's a it's a tragic, horrific situation which which not just ukraine faces, but the rest of the world absolutely no question about it. >> and we have to spend more time covering it. there's just no question about it. bill browder, thank you so much for your time this morning. we'll have you back soon to talk about this further. thanks so much thank you all right. still ahead this hour. democrats have had three weeks to lick their wounds assess what went wrong, and now the raw truth is starting to emerge about what happened. like maybe they needed their own version of joe rogan. perhaps that's one thing that's been floating around in democratic circles. we'll discuss that next emergency crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back and who doesn't love a

six in australia, two in belgium, 12 in canada, one in colombia, croatia, denmark, germany, italy, latviaaland, norway, poland, slovakia, spain, sweden, and 214 in the usa. those figures increased substantially. detectives discovered a massive number of pictures, known as first generation images, which were of new victims. i had never seen a folder structure such as this. it's vast. the first download shows me the largest number of first generation images to be captured on a device, certainly within the uk, potentially worldwide. the scale and horror of mccartney's crimes led a victim to question if catfishing was too light a word to describe them. to me, being catfished is like you're on a tinder profile and your pictures look different than what you look like in real life. like, that is not this. people have lost their lives over this. i reported him and he got caught. speak out, because you truly never know the magnitude of the situation you're dealing with. those who've taken part in the programme hope it will encourage more people to report abuse and be aware of this type of danger o

but if there is any room for misunderstanding, miscalculation, and i don't see that an attack on latvia from the whole alliance, then there is risk. yeah. and i sleep well. i am very good at sleeping, but if you ask me about what my main concern is the risk of further escalation. final question. donald trump is obviously going to dominate the global stage over the next few years. what's your advice, if that's the right word, of getting the best out of him? how did you approach working with him? to listen to what he says and to sit down and address the concerns he expressed. you can disagree or agree, and there is no secret that i disagree on some of the things he says about trade and climate change and other issues. um, and i think it's also dangerous to undermine the credibility of the deterrence of nato, because anything that undermines the credibility of deterrence will actually risk increasing the risk for crisis and, and conflict. but, whoever is the president of the united states —— for crisis and conflict. but, whoever is the president of the united states or any other nato allie

exxon's russians who no longer feel safe in their homeland. elaina is a russian journalist who fled to latvia. we had done international internships in the past, the 4 of the breakout of the war. and we did some publications, so that was supported by international journalistic tunes that amount that we actually could be called the 4 nations. and we also course didn't support the war on the weekend. malayna and other exiles, russian journalists meet up for relaxation exercises on the beach. unlike alena, many of them don't want to be sound. they fear what moscow might do to them even here. well, uh mike hungry evaded to ukraine. i felt that for me it was on the ethical to stay in home because i couldn't support the polluted of the government. and i couldn't find ways to put test successfully. all those i left with my family, elena rights for russian language, lottery and newspaper. it's too dangerous to return to her old life. i want to visit my mom. i want to see my relatives are really who will that will finish soon. although no one can note for sure, the another russian who's found refuge i

terminology point of view they were non-russian republics ukrainian soviet socialist countriesus latvia all of the stand classic stan tajik stan. tajikstan.. the dissidents at various points were confronted to take a position on the rights of non-russian minorities including the national dissidents movements. for that matter the russian nationalist movements which were also having troubling relationships with the soviet state. in general soviet dissidents were starved for allies in their own country. had plenty of fans in the west brought these reasons having in the cold war not so much in the soviet union. many times they felt utterly isolated in their own countries. they were eager to build alliances with people who are campaigning for autonomy or independence in ukraine. .. figures, ukrainians, the lithuanians and others, they never lost the suspicion that scratch a soviet dissident. and what you really find is a russian who consciously or not reproduces all of the hierarchical assumptions about the russian being first among equals, the russian people being first among equals about t

it protects not only poland but our baltic allies, lithuania, latvia and estonia. this would be an attack on the united states, on nato. i have a bad sense we are drifting back into the cold war here. brian: i want to talk about that very bad sense. you get saber rattling, rhetoric and things that translate into action. how are you reading the rhetoric from russia right now? >> this has been an escalatory pattern for the last week to 10 days since president biden decided to give the long-range attack missiles to ukraine, to attack in russia proper and the kremlin didn't like that. they lowered the threshold for having a nuclear weapon, fired an icbm, intercontinental ballistic missile which was bizarre, those only exist to carry nuclear weapons but this one was modified to not carry a nuclear weapon. now we have this. things are heating up in ukraine. the problem is the united states is in transition from one president to another and it is not clear who is calling the shots. brian: do our adversaries view the two months before donald trump takes office as a window

if you are in estonia, latvia, lithuania, that is the next up.he ball ticks -- the baltics next. >> for the first time in 24 years, we will end up with an election in which the candidate that gets the popular vote does not assume the presidency. it is who wins the vote in the electoral college. senator king, do you think it is time to scrap the electoral college? >> yes. it is a gun pointed at the head of democracy. i went back and read the federalist where hamilton justifies the electoral college. it was supposed to be a council of elders that would pick the best person as president. the fact that we potentially could have a third time in century where the person who did not get the most votes ends of president -- -- that does not correspond with what any of us learned in kindergarten, that most votes wins. it's ridiculous. we are watching this election. nobody is paying attention to california, maine, new york. the electoral college should be abolished. short of that, cleanup some of the problems that gave us january 6. >> should the electoral

countries, but they were non-russian republics like the ukrainian soviet socialist republic, lithuania latvia belarus, all of the stans, you know, uzbekistan, kazakhstan, tajikistan. yes. so the soviet union was a multinational state. some people would call it an empire. and the dissidents at, various points were confronted. the need to take a position on the rights of non-russian minorities, including national dissident movements in those non-russian republics or that matter the russian nationalist, which was also had a troubling relationship with the soviet state. so in general, soviet dissidents were starved for allies in their own country. they had plenty of fans in the west for obvious reasons to do with the cold war. not so much inside the soviet union. many times they felt utterly isolated and ghettoized in their own country, so they were eager to build alliances with. people who were campaigning autonomy or in some cases even independent so in a place like lithuania or or. but those proved to be very dicey because if you if you look at their writings in the memoirs of the non-russian

if you're in estonia, latvia lithuania, or that's the next stop.f it's not, if ukraine today, the balkans, the baltics next election day is tuesday. >> we may may for the third time in 24 years, end up with an election in which the candidate who gets the most votes in the popular vote does not assume the presidency loses the popular vote, wins the vote in the electoral college. that may happen again for the third time in our last eight presidential elections, senator king, do you think it's time to scrap the electoral college? >> yes, it's a gun pointed at the head of democracy. i went back and read the federalists where hamilton justifies the electoral college. it's never worked the way it was designed. it was supposed to be a kind of council of elders that would then pick the best person as president. it immediately turned into a much more of a political kind of process and the fact that as you say, we, we potentially could have a third time in this century where the person who didn't get the most votes ends up president. that doesn't correspond

so ilya, you up in what was then the soviet union and latvia, which is now a free country at the time was it was the part of the soviet. and when did you come to the united? and what was your perception of presidents generally and ronald reagan specifically? it's a good question because i came here in 1976, by the end of the fall administration and then the next president, jimmy carter, after a couple of years living under jimmy carter, i started wonder, did i do the right thing. but then came ronald reagan and it was just knew that that was the right thing. well well, i want to i want to pose to all of you. as as each of you prepared for these your respective roles what what, if anything, surprised you or what did you learn, dennis? i mean, you were very with ronald reagan. you grew up with him. but but as you went really deep, what surprised you what did you learn that cut you off guard so much? i mean, that i mean, just in that clip right there just brought a lot of the other whole thing. freedom is just a generation away from extinct. i always kind of. yeah, yeah. to that until. a

that russia wins in ukraine, that they that they take kyiv and they look to poland or lithuania or latvia, and that xi jinping takes the wrong lesson from this and decides that in 2027 is the right year to try to put an energy blockade around taiwan and instigate a global conflict, or that iran uses this as a pretext to again strike israel. there is an axis of authoritarianism between russia, china and iran, and weakness on any one front with them instigates further conflict elsewhere you're changing topics here. >> your house colleague, republican nancy mace, is pushing to ban transgender women from women's restrooms in the capitol and she said this is in response to sarah mcbride, who has become the first out transgender person elected to congress. mace also says she's working on legislation to apply that to every federal building and federally funded school. how do democrats navigate the issue of trans rights as you also have, you know, one of your colleagues, seth moulton recently saying essentially that democrats are out of touch with the majority of transgender athletes in sports i

i want to take us back 83 years to december 15 of 1941 in latvia. for three terrifying days german nazis and latvian collaborators rounded up thousands of jewish women and children, forced them to march in the freezing cold, to a beach on the baltic sea, ordered them to strip off their clothing, and shot them dead in groups of 10 while others looked on terrified. this horrific massacre has been memorialized by a brilliant jewish artist in my community, victoria, in a sculpture she has claimed, she wouldn't take off her boots. the sculpture which stands in our park in downtown greensboro. shows a grandmother, daughter, three granddaughters, arms locked together awaiting their gruesome fate. all are bare foot except the grandmother who in an act of defiance refused to take off her boots. the sculpture was based on a haunting photograph taken by the nazis to document their cruelty. the artist has placed a bronze camera in front of the statue so each person can look through the camera lens and see exactly what the photographer saw before the family was

rapoport was a financier from latvia with ties to russia and ukraine. in 2022, about a mile from the white house. his russian business partner had died years earlier in a fall from his moscow apartment that was caught on camera. rapoport's manner of death is still considered undetermined by d.c. police, and the case is still open. retired fbi agent alan kohler told us d.c. authorities never briefed him on the case when he was the head of counterintelligence. >> my takeaway from russia right now is the u.s. took its eye off of russia after 9/11 when we all pivoted and really the world pivoted toward counterterrorism. to dismiss them as an intelligence threat would be unwise for all of us to do. >> they're still at it in a very dangerous way. >> they're still at it in a very dangerous way. the same people are still in charge. they have the same capabilities and the intent to do all the things they've done in the past. >> it looks like putin has been allowed to get away with this. has he? >> in many ways, yes. so, he's been able to poison and kill his way