regions allowed european states to move into the western cyr it allowed some former soviet republics to also move into the western cyr and the soviet union itself collapsed into 15 states as i said before and what did the what did moscow get for it from the west in his world view and in the view of millions of russians. the rush russia got nothing for it then became a much weaker state that washington and its allies no longer took seriously as they did when it was one of the 2 superpowers and so what. at that point understood or thought and thinks that in order for western powers and other world powers to. take into account russia's interests and the russia's positions on various international topics russia has to be strong russia has to be assertive and at times russia. has to be proactive in. stating its goals and promoting them on the international stage and that's one of the reasons that the russians moscow's foreign policy. since the beginning of 2000 has become more assertive and more vigorous ok as far as your links with. with its western counterparts it is about peru i mean f

central istanbul today to protest violence against women and to cry and alarming number all femicide cyr in turkey each year but just a little earlier police try to disperse the crowd using tear gas actually we see many women trying to cover their mouth and noise with their shirts so there's. there was quite heavy police presence today but people showed up they had the banners saying the names of victims they shouted slogans like we won't be silent now the turkish government does not keep official statistics on femicide but activists do sorry i also have a little trouble breathing here because of the tear gas or pepper spray i'm not sure what it was but activists do and they say that last year 440 women have been murdered by men this year the figure stands at more than $370.00 that's according to women's rights group so an alarming figure now violence against women is actually one of the few issues here in turkey that finds common ground across political lines and this demonstration today actually is a rare show of protest and anger in a country where freedom of expression and assembly h

even in the spring, the boston red sox who won the cyr last year were invited, most of the minority playershose not to attend. the white players did attend, and it was very stark. it wasn't addressed at the event, but we saw president trump congratulate the nationals and he of course went to the game a week ago, but he heard a lot of boos at the park. abinteresting moment tomorrow. >> brennan: do you think any other players will follow, david? >> i the we could see a couple. i think the nationals have done a remarkable job of not getting caught up in the politics of the building behind us and everything that we're involved in day to day. they play baseball. their comments have been focused on baseball. i think the owners have handled it just right, no lecturing. and it's enabled everybody in town to embrace them and really enjoy this win. and it was a great win. >> brennan: feels good. nancy, in an interview with bloomberg this week, speaker pelosi weighed in on what she thought the party should focus on, and things like medicare for all, proposed by, you know, bernie sanders and elizabeth

that it ismportant to point out is the saudi authorities acquiring an apapparent u use of advanced cyrurveillance software against saudi activists and dissidents. it seems clear that a well-known saudi activist in canada named had his phone analyzed by an independent group andnd they discovered on his phone a software calalled p pegasus, whh is created by y a group called e nso g group based out of israel. this software essentially turns the phone into a spying device. it allows whoever can accccess e phone to tururn on the camererao turn on the microphone, to see every thing on the phone the individual is d doing. what is realally scary about the fact thehey invented the softwte into omar's phone is omar was in touch with -- it is no secret omar was in touch with jamal khashoggi inin the days and wees before he died. it is very possible the authorities saw all of their exchanges that were going on. and their plans for, you u know, scaling up their activism in defense o of basic rights in sai arabia. knoww twon to omar,ee or three other i individuals hae alalso claimed that they w were

riend adam colonel vindman, and it should have been lieutenant colonel individual man, we have seen cyr louis attacks and have questioned your loyalty. so that's the case and we owe gratitude. i do love history and i point out down the hall when we are in the hall and have germ gates accepting surrender from the british and he wasn't the real attle of saratoga. and it was a big one. i read another book on the revolution just months ago and this book was saying gates never got out of his tent. he would never get out of his tent. but a great courageous major they could get him going and gates wouldn't get the order. and they went down and attacked the british and dweeted him. the real hero wasn't gates but the major. and he was wounded and he carried a lamp with him probably the rest of his life, he was wounded and hurt severely. but we owe gralttude for his defense of his country. he got upset that he was slighted and didn't get a promotion and that caused hill to fall prey to the british to helping them and they would appreciate him a whole lot more than washington and others and he end