joining us now live is david remnick. mr. remnick, it's really good to see. with us today. >> great to see you, rachel. that was quite the wind up, the questions are all the right one. >> good. first of all, i do not expect that you will associate yourself with my term, doofus dictator, and i'm sort of sorry that i said that about mr. lukashenko. so, let that not be put on you, on your application -- >> he is just a doofus. >> i mean, yes. as brutal as he is weak and ridiculous. look, i mean, what do you think happened this week and? i get the sense that a lot of us were wondering if it was a coup and then it started to look like it was a mutiny, which is something that happens within military forces. now, i'm not sure quite how to think of this. >> i think in foreign policy terms, they call this a grave miscalculation. what you had was a protegee of putin, somebody that grew up in putin's st. petersburg. they are contemporaries, these guys, they spent nine years in jail for breaking into apartments. that is yevgeny prigozhin. and when he got out of jail, he

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david remnick will be joining us live on that story in a moment. we are also keeping eyes tonight on our own supreme court where in the midst of their own serious and expanding ethics scandals among conservative justices on the court, that court is nevertheless expected to issue yet another round of hard right, very controversial, possibly very unpopular rulings. we've got more on that ahead tonight ahead of what is expected to be a big day at the court tomorrow. we are also watching one particular federal could urt in south florida. tonight the trump appointed judge who will apparently be overseeing the federal criminal trial of former president trump issued an order about witnesses in trump's criminal case over the mishandling of classified documents after he left the presidency. you may remember late last week prosecutors gave trump's defense team a list of 84 witnesses who may end up testifying in this case. prosecutors told the court in court documents that they had handed over that list of 84 witnesses to trump's defense. now, the reason they

joining me now is the pulitzer prize winning artist and author david remnick who has a brand new bookr music. david, i think viewers will understand we always love to get you on the table, and i couldn't get more thrilled or excited about this topic with you, so thank you for being here. >> thank you. it's a delight to be here with the most music knowledgeable guy on the air that i can imagine, since walter cronkite. >> wow. you don't have to say that. but you're here because -- and this is the big question. you know so many things. we talked about your foreign reporting. you were last here on the january 6th topic and the new yorkers covers so many things. why is that your view to do this right now? >> the music that you grow up on, to pick random ages from 18 to 25, even 30, embeds in you in a way nothing else does. >> let's take a record off the shelf. respect, natural woman, what >> sure. ♪ before the day i met you life was so unkind ♪ ♪ you're the key to my peace of mind ♪ ♪ you make me feel you make me feel ♪ ♪ you make me feel like a natural woman ♪ >> we saw carole king jammin

joining me now is david remnick.ent for the washington post, and has certainly been following moscow and russia and putin for many, many years. so, you gave us some inside looks at the depth of knowledge between putin and prigozhin. tell me more about the moment you write about, when he says prigozhin was no longer putin's puppet. >> i think we have a tendency to view these figures as if they are great geniuses of strategy. it wasn't so long ago that putin was on the cover of magazines as the master strategist of a three level chess game of world strategy. you know, he's such a master strategist that now, with a stroke, he's at war with ukraine, he's at war with the west, and he's at war, it now seems, with a great deal of his own power structures. and he's put himself in jeopardy, his country, in jeopardy, and there are times when i think that we should be listening knowing to great historians of a soviet past like steve hot truck in, but we should also be rewatching dr. strange love and the death of stalin, because

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. >> david remnick, i really appreciate your time.e. >>> ukraine's president zelenskyy visited frontline troops today, giving combat citations and getting a briefing. he is framing the wagner -- as positive for ukraine. how has this impacted things on the ground in ukraine? >> well, at this point, anderson, it's not altogether clear. what we're -- i'm sorry. i'm having ifb problems. what we understand is that it hasn't really had a huge impact on the war effort that many ukrainians were hoping that this chaos and the kremlin would last a little longer. but it really, it didn't. today they announced they were able to take one village, a very small village in the south. and we heard, i think, the frankest expression of frustration with this situation from the deputy defense minister who said, our troops are having a really hard time. it is very difficult. >> and is the issue the air superiority that the russians have, the artillery superiority that they have? >> well, what we've heard from troops at the front is that often times when th

joining us now, the editor of "the new yorker," david remnick.with the cia, marc polymeropoulos. and staff writer at the "atlantic," anne applebaum. anne, your piece, "putin is caught in his own trap." you write, democratic politicians spend a lot of time thinking about how to engage people and persuade them to vote, but a certain kind of autocrat of whom putin is the outstanding example seeks to convince people of the opposite. not to participate. not to care. not to follow politics at all. the propaganda used in putin's russia has been designed in part for this purpose, the constant provision of absurd, conflicting explanations and ridiculous lies, the famous firehose of falsehoods, encouraging many people to believe there is no truth at all. the result is widespread cynicism. if you don't know what's true, after all, then there isn't anything you can do about it. protest is pointless. engagement is useless. but the side effect of apathy was on display yesterday, as well. for if no one cares about anything, that means they don't care about thei

but i will tell you in solidarity david remnick was here yesterday. and so we've known for, i think, seven weeks that he was going to be here yesterday. and i was like about weeks out scrambling to make sure i had turned in everything owed the new yorker before he showed up. but it was going to be very awkward. so, david, i want to interview a promise you. i'm going to send you that article, but i want to follow up, jesselyn, about. q and and i'm curious, you know, at this point in your work if you have a perspective on kind of where this came from and what has allowed it to take root so strongly not only in the lives of these families, but just generally as the movement itself. do you have a sense of that? yeah, i think one thing i've learned in doing this reporting, i think, is that conspiracy theories are a means to an end for. all parties involved for the people who produce them and disseminate them. often there's a monetary motivation or a political one, and for the people who consume. maybe it gives them a sense of community or a sense of purpos

. -- david remnick. but that is what i expected from this fellow. instead, after a period at cambridge university, he became a professional philosopher and a psychoanalyst. he knows things from plato to freud that few other people know. and he also has a broad interest in peoples and cultures and a close relationship with people of the chrome reservation in eastern montana. -- crow reservation in eastern montana. he is bit they -- written a book about that. as recently when he was coming back from visiting his friends on the reservation. had a wonderful reunion them. not too long after that, i started reading this book you mentioned. host: you've dropped a couple of hints and i am been doing some math. that puts you in the 73 -77-year-old range. am i right? guest: 75. host: next call for 75-year-old david quammen. caller: good afternoon. thank you for taking my call. we are having a discussion in the country today. i would like to ask your guests this question. how many genders are there? listeners need to be educated. how many genders are there tod

. -- david remnick. but that is what i expected from this fellow. instead, after a period at cambridge university, he became a professional philosopher and a psychoanalyst. he knows things from plato to freud that few other people know. and he also has a broad interest in peoples and cultures and a close relationship with people of the chrome reservation in eastern montana. -- crow reservation in eastern montana. he is bit they -- written a book about that. as recently when he was coming back from visiting his friends on the reservation. had a wonderful reunion them. not too long after that, i started reading this book you mentioned. host: you've dropped a couple of hints and i am been doing some math. that puts you in the 73 -77-year-old range. am i right? guest: 75. host: next call for 75-year-old david quammen. caller: good afternoon. thank you for taking my call. we are having a discussion in the country today. i would like to ask your guests this question. how many genders are there? listeners need to be educated. how many genders are there tod

can expect an extraordinary screening, some cast reunions, and bob and chaz will sit down with david remnicked how many of bob's films? >> produced. produced >> 16, 17? >> something -- something like that tell us about this relationship. i feel like you guys talk separately, but you have a long-standing friendship that's stood the test of time >> i used to call it the professional marriage or but i don't know look -- it works >> it works, we don't talk about it >> i think when you do things with people, you have to give them a lot of latitude if they're working together and somehow you've chosen them in this case, i asked jane to come with many maybe 40 years ago or so. and whatever -- i never knew what direction things would go and this is where we are today and she's doing it so i -- i'm there when needed, to make a decision >> i have been been a very fortunate woman in the industry that at the age of 30, someone like robert de niro asked me to come and build something with him. and neither one of us knew where that was going to go we always said, you can move back to l.a. if it doesn't wo