alicia abbott is the author of fairyland, a memoir my father, which was a new york times book editor's choice, an l.a. stonewall award winner and was a finalist. the lambda literary awards as a journalist, essayist and critic. she's written for the boston globe, the guardian, new york times, wall street journal, washington post, vogue and marie claire among publications. she holds an mfa in creative nonfiction, new school, university and was a contributing producer at wnyc radio. and she has directed the boston district, as well as scrubs streets memoir incubator program in boston. tonight, we'll hear about the secret of the rape kit. the latest book from pagan kennedy. the book is a thrilling investigation that tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman, marty goddard, who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics when she dreamed up a new crime tool, the rape kit, and then into obscurity. as journalist pagan kennedy follows a trail of clues to solve the mystery of marty. she also delves into the problems at a history of forensics in america. the new york times book review the

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goes. >> thank you for taking the time congrats. >> joining us now is executive editor of the new york times >> thing you. thank you for taking the time. thank you for continuing to talk with me. like megan now i am free. [laughter] big media tyranny. just to start with the news of the day, elon musk this morning tweeted new york times is propaganda and a bunch of [bleep] holes filled with dollar signs. what do you make of that? >> you know, i wish that i could be a little bit more inside elon 's head. understand everything that he is up to. i think he is absolutely using x as a platform for his own i think you could call it propaganda. i do not incredible news media is propaganda and we are covering him and his white house with as much energy and perspective as we possibly can. i don't think that is propaganda so i disagree with them. >> there were 83 on february 6. >> i think the peak was 95. >> we have been talking questions about trust, an interesting aspect about is it really what we want. how do you engage with questions like that when you are absolutely drinking from that fire hose. >

and to further their case, they planted intelligence with new york times reporter judith miller, who,long with matthew cooper from time magazine, was among the white house press corps heavy hitters. scooter libby met with miller, and september 2002, judith miller and writes an article in the new york times. it alleges that the iraqi government has, quote, sought to buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes, which american officials believe were intended as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium. now, we later find out scooter libby, who is vice president cheney's chief of staff, told this to judith miller, right? >> yeah. so you're you're at a point where it's a total echo chamber, right? >> the echo chamber worked like this. the white house would leak opinions and information to select friendly journalists, those that had a strong relationship with those journalists would report that information, sometimes without independently confirming it to be true. and then officials from the white house would go on tv and cite those journalists as proof of their claims. >> there's

-[cheers and applause] -the change you seek, the reform you thirst for, the new york you dream of begins tonight. by the timepitzer's running for governor in 2006, everyone expected him to win. in 2006, new york had been stuck in a holding pattern for years, and eliot spitzer, that seemingly upright pillar of moral rectitude, was just the candidate for them. polls close at 9 p.m. the election was called for spitzer as 9:01 p.m. man: the next governor of new york state-- eliot spitzer! eliot spitzer was elected governor at what percentage of the vote? -6--almost 70%. it was 69 1/2. that's insane. almost 70% of the vote? by far the greatest plurality in the history of new york, more than franklin roosevelt, more than teddy roosevelt, more than mario cuomo, more than anybody. but unlike his illustrious predecessors, spitzer would only last one year in office before self-destructing in a way that absolutely no one had foreseen. so i have a theory of leadership. oftentimes, people rise to positions of power where they are able to remove anyone from their inner circle who will tell them when they're being an assho

according to the new york times. they report that in just the last week, doge has, on two separate occasions, erased some of its largest claims on what it calls its quote, unquote, wall of receipts website. the times reporting that doge savings from cutting contracts, their claimed savings has dropped from $16 billion to less than $9 billion, currently nearly in half. out front now. kara swisher, tech journalist, podcast host. she's extensively covered elon musk and this world. the entire tech world for years. so kara doge makes these big claims. this isn't the first time either. and, um, and then apparently in the dead of night, that is when some of them get deleted. >> yeah, because they love transparency. that's how they like it to do this. i mean, look, they just don't. a lot of this is performative. a lot of it is inaccurate. if you're being kind, it's inaccurate and sloppy. if you're being unkind, it's mendacious. >> and cosplaying. >> that they're doing. >> something that. >> they're not doing and causing peop

the new york times calls it moving and valuable, while also critiquing its writing style. mazel tov. welcome to both of you. >> thanks for having us. >> thanks for. >> having us. >> ari, the reviews are coming in, and congratulations. but we'll start with you. you're. the more, the more of the home base. what's it called? hometown. what's the word i'm looking for? >> hometown. >> hero. hometown. i didn't say hero. you're a hero to so many. yeah. hometown hero. repeat guest, msnbc fixture. so we're going to go to you first. okay. what's your fallback? >> so my fallback. >> is with the supreme court. >> the supreme court has been. >> kind of. >> quiet lately. >> not quite quitting. >> still on their hustle. >> but. >> not getting. >> as much attention because article. >> two have been the. >> real chaos monkeys of. >> the federal government for the last. >> couple. >> of weeks. but today, justice thomas. >> said. >> hold my beer. >> and he entered the chat. >> with a denial. >> from a grant or a. denial from a petition for certiorari. so, as you know, the court's docket is d

>> this is the new york times reporting the flow of u.s. weapons to ukraine has nearly stopped and may end completely. all of this while here at home, the pressure on federal workers grows, a source tells nbc news. some federal employees received a second dose email, telling them to send five bullet points of what they accomplished this week and do it by monday night. some agencies telling employees they will respond on their behalf. and there is more. and so we have a number of reporters and analysts in place ready to go over all these new and developing story lines for us. we're going to go to nbc's yamiche alcindor right out of the gate here at the white house with that breaking news. so we've heard, yamiche, this new information just moments ago, about now, direct negotiations between the us and ukraine. tell us what you've learned. >> that's right. a white house official tells nbc news that direct negotiations between the united states and ukrainian officials is on hold. it's not clear what it's going to take to reengage. we know that p

astead herndon, cnn political analyst and national politics reporter at the new york times. and lulu garcia, cnn contributor and new york times journalist, also host of the podcast the interview. i want to thank you all for being here. so, jonah, i want to start with you. over the weekend, you heard republicans talking a lot about whether zelenskyy should apologize. like what is necessary to bring putin to the table? and a pretty exasperated marco rubio kind of saying, like, look, we got to get putin there. what do you make of like how they are trying to get putin there? >> um, i think it's a little bewildering. i watched marco rubio this weekend saying how, um, i think he literally said, we have to have peace before we can get them to the negotiating table. and it seemed like they got the causality a little backwards. yeah. um. look. for decades, american foreign policy eggheads debated who lost china. and i think for the first time in our lives since, i think i'm the oldest person here. um, we are seeing the beginning of what could be the debate of who lost europe. and, uh,

tonight, new york times reporting this quote, russian state media are. savoring what they describe as a public dressing down for president volodymyr zelensky, a tv host. >> said on his evening show that. >> the oval office meeting, quote. looks more like. >> a public flagellation for. zelensky and. >> something that. >> quote, no one expected. >> from the united states president. >> that's where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. former cia director, now an msnbc senior national security analyst, john brennan, is here. also joining us, new york times diplomatic correspondent michael crowley is here with me at the table. former national security council director for european affairs, retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman is here. he's also the author of the new book, the folly of realism how the west deceived itself about russia and betrayed ukraine. let me start with you, michael crowley, and the latest on how this day has been completely, completely thrown into chaos in terms of what was planned between two

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he's also a columnist at the new york times. you may have of ross is in this moment really a model of what a newspaper columnist can do for his readers week after week he us to grasp the meaning this uneasy moment he looks at what everyone is looking at and again and again sees things no one else sees and articulate them clearly and powerfully. he is, among other things, as a kind of emissary on behalf of religious believers, the mostly secular readership of the times. and yet he has survived and we're all amazed at how and want to hear more this new book, i think his seventh book, again, if that's not right, i apologize. it is also in its way a case for religion, not so much as socially useful or practically constructive as simply the best path, discerning the truth about the universe and to living in accordance with it. ross thinks that age of smug secularism is over, that this is good news, and that you should respond by believing in god. um it's a summary of the book. there's to it than that. but that's plenty put together.

"the new york times" says former new york governor andrew cuomo hit the campaign trail after announcingor. cuomo stepped down as governor in 2021 amid accusations of sexual harassment. he denied any wrongdoing. over the weekend, he admitted to making mistakes. cuomo's joining a crowded field for the democratic nomination which includes incumbent mayor eric adams who's facing accusations of corruption and bribery. >>> the "associated press" says protests were held near a vermont ski resort where vice president j.d. vance vacationed with his family. hundreds of people holding signs in support of ukraine and against trump administration policies lined roads saturday. while the protests were planned in advance, it came the day after that oval office argument between vance, president trump, and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. a smaller welcome rally in support of vance and trump was also held in the area. >>> "the arizona republic" says a freeway reopened yesterday more than 16 hours after a multi-vehicle fiery crash that killed four people. several tractor-trailers collided with ot

i think the public might be surprised to know that sometimes it's the new york times.an agreement. >> it's the daily caller, correct. >> if you are part of that pool, you have a responsibility to all your fellow journalists and the american public to report accurately. tell me about this from your perspective, because you were on the other side of this on the white house side. >> absolutely. you know, there is a there's an african proverb that says, until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. acclaimed african author wrote those words. and the journalists, especially the journalists that reported on the white house, they are the historians for the lions, right? for the american people. they are going in there telling the full picture of the story, not just the story that supports one party or another. and so when i was at the white house, were there days that i wish i could pick who was in the pool covering the vice president that day when we were going on a trip? yes, but that is not how it works. the job of the p

and we see what happens there in the new york times columnist tom friedman writing, it's hard to express what a break this is in american foreign policy. but i can't think of a single time when an american president declared that the democratically elected leader of a country preserving liberty was, quote, a dictator who started the war with his neighbor when it was vicious, neighboring dictator who actually started the war. this is a total perversion of u.s. foreign policy practice by every president since world war one. and that was tom friedman. the washington post editorial page, and the wall street journal editorial page. >> and yesterday we did hear from some republicans on this. we heard from republican senator, a member of the. intelligence committee, james lankford. >> as well. >> as house speaker mike johnson. >> who were. >> both clear. about the. threats posed by russian president vladimir putin. >> no, we're not. >> turning our back on. >> ukraine, nor. >> should we. putin is a murderous kgb thug that murders his political enemies and is a. dictator there. and so we've seen

you mentioned columns in the guardian, the new york times, so really established legacy media brands.ng a regularface on broadcast news, essential in the us. well, if not essential then very helpful to building profile. but a third dimension would be your digital footprint, which through the 2010s got bigger and bigger. and you are very well—known for tweeting strong opinions. sometimes you'll get in the middle of a pile—on they approve of it. how has that changed how you approach your work, yeah. it's a great question, ros, and it's really an existential question right now, given the us media landscape, where you have social media companies repressing and suppressing certain content, you have big for donald trump. and so when you wake up in the morning, though, do you feel a pressure, an expectation that you are going to open up social media? it would have been twitter almost all the time. we've obviously all diversified in recent years. yes. trying to. but do you feel a pressure to come up with that take, to come up with something that's going to get people's fires burning, because

now the the reviewer of my book in the new york times called emerson a plagiarism. and that is is not really what i am hoping to convey in my book which to say i don't think we fully have adequate critical to describe the kinds of collaborative influences people have on each and on writers. so the story is, as mary moody, emerson never, never married, wanted to preserve pursue her own life of the mind writing, but her brother the the reverend william emerson died when ralph was 11 years old and his other brothers were of a similar age and she agreed to help her sister in law sort of raise them. it's not clear to me that she wanted to have much to do with them. these little on a day to day basis. but what she agreed to do was to try to raise them to also become ministers. and they broke her heart. they every of them decided not to become a minister for one reason or the other, except ralph waldo emerson and to to emerson throughout his college, which began, i believe when he was 14 here at harvard, and continued into the divinity school he eventually went to. she wro

as for all those savings that musk is touting, as we've reported previously, as the new york times hass aren't always what they appear. times reports this quote while george w bush was president, the u.s. coast guard signed a contract to get administrative help from a company in northern virginia. it paid $144,000, and the contract was completed by june 30th, 2005. 20 years past, presidents came and went. last week, elon musk restructuring team called the department of government efficiency said it had just canceled the long dead coast guard contract and in doing so saved the u.s. taxpayer $53.7 million. quote, these are not savings, said lisa mundt, whose firm the pulse of govcon tracks federal spending. quote, the money has been spent. period. point blank. that's where we start the hour. some of our favorite reporters and friends, new york times investigative reporter david fahrenthold is here. he's byline on the reporting we just read from. also joining us, msnbc columnist, author of the newsletter. to the contrary. charlie sykes is here. and distinguished political scholar, profess

so with russian president vladimir putin and bring the war to an end on russia's terms, new york times columnist tom friedman said the ambush was, quote, something that had never happened in the nearly 250 year history of this country in a major war in europe. our president clearly sided with the aggressor, the dictator and the invader against the democrat, the freedom fighter and the invaded. this is a total perversion of u.s. foreign policy practiced by every president since world war one. my fellow americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president who well, i cannot believe he is a russian agent, but he sure plays one on tv. just try to imagine anything like that oval office exchange with vladimir putin sitting there. it would never happen. not with trump. and it's not because zelensky isn't thankful enough. he's thanked the president, house and senate lawmakers and the american people many, many, many times, including in his speeches to congress, from which he received standing ovations from democrats and republicans alike. for goodness sake, he thanked donald tr

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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 murko

new york times reports. >> quote. >> russian state. media are. >> are savoring what they. describe as a public. >> dressing down for president volodymyr zelensky. >> a tv host said on. >> his evening. >> show that the oval office meeting looks more like a. public flagellation for zelensky, and something that no. >> one expected. >> from the. >> us president. >> european leaders, on the other hand, have rallied around ukraine. >> and president. >> zelensky after news. >> of the heated. >> meeting pledging their continued support against russia. and what of the american republican defenders of ukraine? >> secretary of. >> state marco rubio. defended trump today. >> after sitting. >> silently in the oval office. one of the republican senators who. met with zelensky. this morning, senator roger wicker. chair of the house armed services committee. >> deleted a post of him shaking hands. i'm sorry. >> senate armed services committee. >> deleted a post of him shaking president zelensky's. >> hand at. >> that meeting. >> and republican senator. lindsey graham. >> completed his wal

peter baker, new york times chief white house correspondent and nbc news political analyst, and evelyn farkas, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia and the executive director of the mccain institute. so. hey, peter. so if you would catch us up to speed on all that's been happening, it seems like things change every second. but the position of zelensky and what the united states is or is not doing to support zelensky, and then what europe is doing. >> yeah, exactly. >> you're seeing. >> such. >> a remarkable split right now. between the united states and europe in terms of its view of this war. right. and in effect, the united states is taking almost taking russia's side, certainly echoing a lot of the points that russia makes. you heard russian officials over the weekend talk about how much u.s. foreign policy has been recalibrated to their liking. they're delighted. you saw after that meeting on friday, dmitry medvedev, the one time caretaker president who is an advisor to president putin, say that finally, the insulin pig that would be zelensky

now, the new york times could not verify those accounts.went to the new york state department of corrections. want to read you a portion of a statement that they've actually released here. that department saying an incarcerated individual was taken to mid-state correctional facility, to an outside hospital and declared dead a short time later. the new york state police, confirming they have launched an investigation into this death. the new york state attorney general also saying, john, that they are conducting a preliminary assessment into this latest weekend incident. but now the latest on the case of robert brooks, as we reported. and some video that is extremely difficult to watch. this was video from body worn cameras that was actually taken from that december incident. and it shows that handcuffed man, repeatedly beaten, beaten. we now know that six prison employees suspected of being involved in this separate case were indicted on murder charges. after that was announced, a special prosecutor handling this case. bill fitzpatrick sayi

political and national security analyst and white house and national security correspondent for the new york times. you have covered a lot of presidents. you have covered a lot of moments in the oval office. have you ever seen this play out in front of the cameras before in this way, or even heard about it happening in this way, behind cameras, in closed doors? >> laura i've covered five presidencies over 30 years in washington. never seen anything like this in public. has it happened in private? sure. you know, fdr and de gaulle, truman and de gaulle. uh, president kennedy with his south vietnamese. uh, cohorts. we've seen tensions during the iraq war, but they always were kept away from the cameras. word of it sometimes pitched out. what happened here was not only different symbolically, it was different substantively. because as we went into this, the question was, is president trump basically continuing to side with ukraine but trying to negotiate a deal that would protect ukraine's interests? or has he flipped entirely over to russia's side here? and from listening to this while he said he wa

the new york times reporting the shift after president trump spoke with putin on the phone. this reportedly occurred about three weeks ago, with trump picking up the phone on february 12th for this 90 minute chat with putin. and since then, the times reports he's called zelensky a dictator, falsely accused ukraine of a role in the war that they don't have. i'm not actually going to repeat the exact word, but you can follow this. i'll just say russia started this war by invading ukraine. and then the times notes, they pressed ukrainian leader to accede to the administration's demands. we also have indications that on february 12th, trump was saying ukraine would just not recover all its territory. now, again, he is the sitting president. he can make predictions and he can say things, but we are talking about a long term u.s. ally that has exceeded almost all expectations, including our own intelligence agencies, and outlasting. what were those first few tough days and weeks of the war? so for a sitting president to just say they're going to lose turf or they're going to lose

kept secret in. >> new york. >> he had been. >> teasing this for quite some time. internal polling. all of those numbers, and most, if not all of those numbers, showed that he would do very well against the incumbent mayor, eric adams, and. >> also eat. >> into a lot of the mayor's. >> vote. >> particularly in the. african-american community, which is the mayor's base. you know, the mayor himself has struggled to raise money. andrew cuomo has been a pretty prolific fundraiser in the past and has relationships with the business community, the wall street community. so the sexual harassment allegations, while significant. there are still a lot of. >> new. >> yorkers that always talk about and remember his leadership during covid. so he's certainly going to point to that. as he launches his campaign. >> well, that's really the big question here, right, basil? because it's how long are people's memories and how selective might those memories be? do they just want to remember him as the person who shepherded not just new york, but really was a national figure during cov

and as the new york times has noted, mr.ormation of doge from a casual notion into a powerful weapon is something possible only in the trump era. it involves wild experimentation and an embrace of severe cost cutting that mr. musk. musk previously used to upend twitter. we see how that turned out, as well as an appetite for political risk and impulsive decision making that he shares with president trump and makes others in the administration deeply uncomfortable. that's the play. so this idea that somehow there's compassion in any of this, especially as expected from these republican members of congress, is ludicrous because the core action is exactly what we're seeing unfold. and to the broader point, which you raised up, you know, you mentioned about folks, you know, being fired. well guess what? don't be afraid. don't i wouldn't fill out a form, period. you know why? because you're going to be fired anyway. how do you get to a million employees, federal employees being let go, right? >> i mean, and. >> the appeals to. >>

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. >> meantime, the new york times reporting the flow of u.s. weapons to ukraine has nearly stopped and may end completely. all of this as the pressure on federal workers grows as source, telling nbc news some federal employees received a second dose email telling them to send five bullet points of what they accomplished this week by monday night. also a short time ago, a march in support of transgender rights taking place in washington, crowds protesting the president's anti-transgender executive orders. and before heading to florida friday, white house staffers right there spotted loading about 15 boxes of documents onto air force one. trump spokesman says the fbi gave back materials taken during the mar-a-lago raid in 2022. and this breaking news from the last hour. former new york governor andrew cuomo just announcing he is entering the race for new york city mayor. we're going to have more details later this hour on this story for you. of course, there's no shortage of reaction today. we've got reporters and analysts at the ready to go throu

because i read in the new york times, i believe it will be there. there's going to be a meeting about what to do and how to respond. >> well, i think the president is going to exactly consider what to do and how to respond. he's going to figure out what are the tools that he can use on russia, and what are the tools he can use on ukraine to get them to the table. like any great mediator, he's going to beat both sides down to get them to the table. and so yeah, he said it at the meeting. he said, what do you want me to do, say call putin a terrorist and then call him up and say, hey, i'd like you at the at the peace table. come on. he's got to be both sides. >> actually think he's a terrorist, but he's outwardly not saying that because he knows that that won't help with negotiations. >> we've given $300 billion to ukraine. is it difficult to see what side we're on? give me a break. i mean, this concept of people getting confused is absurd. the president is on ukraine's side, and he said it. he said, i'll give them more military aid. he said it, but h

abc news reporter rebecca jarvis has a closer look at a story we first saw in the new york times. >>ine shoppers like cassandra orakpo are joining a growing movement and social trend called no buy in 2025, turning off the temptation to shop inside social media apps. >> i mean, they make it so easy, like you see something you can buy directly in the app. and especially, you know, with the wallet feature, you don't even have to type any numbers, any, any digits, any anything. so it's just it's that simple. >> so simple that cassandra decided she needed to kick her shopping habit. >> just like i don't have any more space. like, yes, you may want more things, but, like, it's kind of borderline hoarding. like, you don't need this. >> a 2023 survey found that over 12 months, americans spent $71 billion on social media. impulse buys and brands are taking note. in 2025, businesses are expecting to spend nearly $103 billion on advertising on social media, a 62% increase since 2021. >> we don't realize is when we are online, we are being tracked via cookies. retailers and brands are able to ha

the gatekeepers are the people used to saying what kind of news -- new york times, all the news that'sint. who is deciding what's fit to print? there are some people in a tower in manhattan. that's not news that's fit to print but this is news that's fit to print. they would decide what's worthy for your eyes, what was news that you could consume. it's been reversed now. in fact we are the ones, as elon musk says, we are the media. we are driving what's important and that's what this new revolution is about. kurt: it all goes back to andrew breitbart. one of the underappreciated aspects is how much fun we are having, right? larry: that's right. alex: exactly. kurt: i mean, we've got a dance. they are eating the dogs. they are eating the cats. we are having fun. we are laughing. kamala harris says, my message is joy. alex: as she is screaming, as biden is screaming. kurt: you will be happy! larry: you mentioned andrew breitbart again. this is the very end of my book but it's a quote from andrew breitbart. you all remember andrew, right? god bless him. kurt: alx was five. larry: elon mus

a normal trolling and owning the lips of the hatred of sort of a liberal, educated university new york times reading. cognitively, america is a huge part of this, not just domestically, but in terms of foreign policy towards europe and, and in terms of attitudes towards the kinds of things. liberals like multilateral institutions, rules treating your interlocutors with respect to, etc, of all of these things. a things that trump explicitly has contempt for unmasked as 2 masks criticism of germany is support for the f. b as criticisms of cas dhamma, his championing of a sex criminal. andrew take the title brothers who now come to the united states. they were being prosecuted in romania for sex trafficking, and sex abuse and ad pimping, and prostitution. and i'm running prostitute rackets. and they have welcome to tape brothers to be rights and states. that is a middle finger to any sense of sort of rules, decency, decorum and it's quite intentional. and the reaction of those to support roles, decorum, decency, etc, is the point. this is the politics and it's also the foreign policy. so this u

and more started in 2014 began when the nato countries supported a to a new claim that has to new york times reported as well on the 1st day after the cool and to see i. and then my 6 began to move in the already establishing secret basis along the russian border. so an european diplomats have confirmed this is one of the reasons why the russians indeed as well as and when it comes to is stumble to 3 years ago. this is very clearly not the russians have walked away. i never actually heard this argument before. it's what we know is from both the mediators most the surround list and the turks west at the ukrainians. and the russians are very close to deal. this is my okay, glad them. i want to very quickly bring scott in because i do want a very quickly respond to that. give you 22nd scott because i do want to keep looking forward rather than back. oh absolutely. yeah. but to point, i mean that's really bad, this information that you got, 1st of all, but my dad revolution was not organized by the c i n m i 6 c. i knew my 6 did not establish secret basis to support them. ident revolution. as op

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. >> brian: "the new york times" at the same thing coach everything is anti-trump. need more subscribers. they had people quit, fired, whatever the same thing jeff bezos owns the paper and i'm losing money on the paper but i'm asking you to broaden out the mentor editorial page. >> they are trying to create a market larger than cat litter boxes in the newspaper. >> brian: it is not working!hori >> don't get a sponsorship from pepco but they have to broaden their horizons. >> i went the extra mile.i my cabdriver and i go the extrao mile in the next b story is a st up and i want to be honest with thane american people. it contains a bad word and brian is making me say it. this is a comic that does is fo leaving. tv star and it looks like he installed the tv. are you ready for this quite k mark new york city mayor eric adams got into it an anyway, adams under fire for referring to himself and using the wordd negroes and i just dd it o in tv and how my going to t around this? i blame you, adams go to watch this. >> you spoke about black history month and you said all th

i think there was one movie, never even heard of them didn't see them except written but the new york timestween where the audience is and what the oscars want to salute and hold up. i think an oscar border so this, this is an informed opinion, oscar voters told me they are not even voting because they think oscars over, that's it quote from an academy award winner and another told me they just believe if at disconnect between the audience and hollywood that they are counter programming the audience serving up things in violation of sensibilities. >> why do you think disconnect is there? >> countercultural, they like to be on the cutting edge pushing the envelope so part of this is oscars of turned into their own resistance and have become their own protest movement. to project the word, my guess is in between speeches about thank you for the academy and mike director and costars, you will hear beverly hills solidarity where everybody is wearing blue and yellow colors or sounding that tone because they want to and virtue signal as one seen from the oscars and i think it could be a beautiful

everyone who was a fan of his or who had seen any of his movies to read his obituary in "the new york timest. let's do some text messages. gary from new jersey, trump had to televise the zelenskyy meeting because last time they talked on the phone, the democrats tried to impeach him. tony from michigan. zelenskyy came in for a paycheck and left with a reality check. crisp from oregon. would things have gone differently if zelenskyy read the art of the deal? yet would have. or maybe more manners. kamren from dayton, ohio,, i've never seen lindsey graham so fired up in favor of not sending another country money. that is how bad zelenskyy performed. mary from hopewell junction new york. the only one missing from the white house meeting was hulk hogan. lu from atlantic city. i am so happy that zelenskyy wasn't my divorce attorney. i thought you were going to say so happy craig got caught. and from arizona, biden would have given zelenskyy to billion-dollar check, trump wouldn't even give him a free lunch. i'm waters and this is my world. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

i like what maureen dowd is writing this morning in the new york times, imagine me quoting the new yorkes. she said even though we should be used to it by now, it was still shocking to see trump parent the view of vladimir putin, a murderous tyrant who wants to swallow ukraine in a fit of nostalgia for the soviet union. trump insisted they were fellow victims. this is a kind of immoral equivalency that is not defensible. putin has said openly he wants to recover what he regards as the golden days of the soviet union. he wants to recapture estonia, latvia, these former soviet republics. why should we not believe him? if he is allowed to claim victory in ukraine, who or what will stop him from achieving his goals? these are the big questions yet to be answered. host: you mentioned president trump's cabinet. this past week, he had his first cabinet meeting with them. what are your thoughts on his, the people he has in those positions? every one has made it through the confirmation process so far. your thoughts on who is leading the major departments? guest: i think are some very good ones.