j.k. rowling.the west has tried to cancel rowling over comments she has made. i'm joined by author of "winter is coming." gary, when you listen to vladimir putin speak, has he always spoken in these kind of rambling, long messages? talk about cancel culture? >> no, not at all. i have to say that putin spoke much more in the last couple of months than probably for his entire career as russian dictator. and his message has been changing. and i guess the latest speech, you know, came from a very different course. i think some are watching fox news. and you know, added these elements of the culture wars in the west. i don't think they were appropriate. but, again, putin has been desperately trying to find the right message to split western unity. you talked about his unity that both red him so much, and that was one of his miscalculations. and definitely the war is not going the way he wanted. so, he's looking for a way out ideologically. and instead of mumbling about mother russia and restoring russia

j.k. rowling. he's indebted to her ever since she gave him the sock that set him free. ( laughter ) ( aplause ) that was a long walk, right? but worth it. >> jon: that's a long walk. woth the wait. worth the walk. ( applause ) >> stephen: back closer to home, there's more dumb stuff coming out of the mouth of north carolina republican and frat bro telling the pledges where to shove that wriggling goldfish, madison cawthorn. cawthorn recently appeared on something called, "the warrior poet society." sounds ridiculous, but i have a lot of respect for warrior poets. do you have any idea how long it takes to write a sonnet with an ar-15? gu gu gu gu gu -- gu gu gu gu g- compare thee -- gu gu gu gu gu -- ( applause ) on the society, cawthorn explained why you should never meet your heroes. >> the sexual perversion that goes on in washington, i mean being it kind of a young guy in washington with the average age probably 60 or 70 - and i look at all these people and a lot of them that i've looked up to t

j.k. rowling over her opinions on transgender issues. >> translator: children's book writer j.k. the author of books that spread far and wide in hundreds of millions of koipzs did not please the fans of the so-called gender freedoms. today they're trying to kans a country, our people. i'm talking about the increasing discrimination of everything related to russia, about this trend which is unfolding in a number of western states. >> well, for her part, rowling pushed back against being brought into this discussion. she tweeted, quote, critiques of western cancel culture are not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance or who jail and poison their critics. our anderson cooper spoke with former world chess champion and russian pro-democracy leader g garry kasparov about all of this. he says president putin is searching for an ideological way out of this war. >> putin has been desperate, trying to find the right message to split western unity. you talked about it's unity that bothered him so much and that was one of his miscalculations, and defi

j.k. rowling. iterature, and its economy was now being discriminated against. rowling was very quick to respond with a tweet. she did not mention the russian president by name. she did say, however, that such criticisms, quote, possibly were not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians. she also said that her charity, lieu moos, has deny donating to ukrainian children's causes since 2013. >>> also on friday, russia's ministry of defense made its first major update on the casualties incurred during this war. in that briefing, it announced that more than 1,300 russian military personnel have been killed. nearly 4,000 have been wounded. now, the ukrainian government insists those numbers should be much, much higher. both nato and u.s. defense officials estimate that the death toll of russian military personnel so far could be more than 7,000. i'm atika schubert for cnn. >>> and that does it for this hour. i'm kristie lu stout in hong kong. our breaking news coverage live from lviv continues

j.k. rowling, i mean, it's surreal. >> it's nuts.e last 20 years. it's just, it is -- i felt actually so much like, some people who didn't react to putin strong enough the last 20 years because, you know, this war he started. he didn't start it yesterday, he started in 2014 and all this entire terrible machine of propaganda, to say it's for peace, like in famous orwell novel, it's something we've been witnessing for the last some 30 years, and, you know, definitely as strong as to date, witnessing it since 2014 and it just hurts me to see that president putin, his regime, his power is agonizing, hurting so many people including my friend who was just murdered in kyiv. >> i want to ask you about her, because you mentioned her oxanna bolina was her name, killed in a shelling incident while working in kyiv, i want to show our viewers, tweet yesterday said 2017, alalexei nava all, ny still has freedom, those who laugh, love, those who fight and know to never be scared. that is the people -- i mean, all those qualities are things vladimir

j.k. rowling when she took on some gender issues. she wrote "harry potter." here's what he said. >> translator: children's book writer j.k. rowling was recently cancelled because she authored books that spread far and wide did not please the fans of the so-called gender freedom. they are trying today to cancel our people. >> there's a lot there to talk about but i wanted to focus in on this word, cancel. that's the buzz word, right, among many in the west. certainly in the u.s., cancel culture. it shows an incredible knowledge of what the west is doing at best, obsession with what the west is doing. what's he doing here? >> it's amazing that we're talking about a british author, the author of the harry potter series in the middle of the ukrainian war. what's happened is the russians have learned from their active measures campaign in 2016 when they were trying to overturn our election and they learned most importantly what are their dog whistles for the most populist parts of any society, whether it's the severe right wing in their country or the same in fran

j.k. rowling, i don't know. >> but here we are. anderson, have a good weekend. i'll see you soon. take care. >>> this is don lemon tonight and i am here in western ukraine in lviv, and our breaking news tonight, a top russian general claims what he calls the first stage of russia's military plan is completed, and russia will now focus on, quote, the liberation of donbas in eastern ukraine. russian forces digging in to defensive positions on the outskirts of kyiv and no longer trying to move on the ground towards the capital. that is according to a senior u.s. defense official. they're still attacking the city from the air like this assault today on the biggest oil depot near kyiv. take a look at your screen now. vladimir putin wanted to take kyiv quickly. he did not. ukraine stopped him. now is he moving the goal posts? that's the question. that as president joe biden will meet with refugees in poland and give a major address tomorrow. he talked to u.s. troops today and he had a message for the world. >> the question is we're going to prevail. democracy is going to prevail and the

j.k. rowling was canceled because she, the author of books spread far and wide and hundreds of millions ofns of the so-called gender freedoms. today they're trying to canceled a thousand-year-old country, our people. i'm talking about the increasing discrimination of everything related to russia, about this trend that is unfolding in a number of western states. >> obviously on its face, the idea of the russian president saying he's a victim of cancel culture is ridiculous. we should note that j.k. rowling responded saying critiques of western cancel culture are not best made by those currently slaughtering resilience or joil and poison their critics. #istandwithukraine. >> aside from the ridiculousness of this, what does that kind of comment tell you about where he is? >> you're hearing a deranged mind under pressure. it should not be understated how damaging u.s. global sanctions have been on the russian economy. the ruble has cratered in large measure because of the central bank sanctions put together by the united states. the russian economy has taken a bigger hit in this one month than

j.k. rowling, in july of 2020, defending the right to free speech and condemning cancel culture. has the left gone too far trying to cancel certain types of speech? >> okay. let's not say just the left. >> oh, i won't. i just start with them and then i go to the right. >> so, what's happening right now? let's just take snowflakery. this is going to upset some people. okay. that is now being hit back across the tennis net with a big wave of book banning. that's coming from the right. so maybe they're not calling that cancel culture, but it's the same thing. so any democracy is going to have this problem. in a totalitarianism, it isn't a problem because you just shut down any conflicting speech. but if you have a democracy, which, in theory, anyway, permits open debate, where do you draw the line? and this is going to be an ongoing conversation. but rush to judgment is not the answer. i'm all in favor of due diligence, evidence-based policy -- okay? -- and making a distinction between beliefs -- no evidence need be required -- and fact, which is verifiable. that is, you can test it

j.k. rowling responds after vladimir putin mentioned her in a speech., they canceled j.k. rowling just because she didn't satisfy the demands of gender rights. rollings firing back tweeting critiques of western culture, canfell culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for a crime of resistance or who jailed and poisoned their critics with the hashtag i stand with ukraine. yes, vladimir putin did say that the western world is trying to cancel russia yesterday jigga leave me out. yes, one bloody missile in new york city, pro athletes and reformers are apparently more important than first responders and doctors who helped pull the city through the pandemic. a lot of people outraged, understandably over eric adams mandate exemptions, but the mayor is doubling down. plus, the white house is on alert ahead of president biden's major speech today in poland. all eyes now on our nato allies of vladimir putin grows more desperate. medal of honor recipient dakota meyer coming up next . was so embarrassingly overpaid for this use

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j.k. rowling for falling out fans of gender choice.urrently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance. the latest in the kremlin's cross hairs, a russian journalist accused of spreading false information about russia's attack on a ukrainian maternity hospital. he said he did a heroic deed on reporting what many have deemed a war crime. he's currently out of the country and thinks he would wind up in jail if he went back. when asked if anyone might be able to sway putin to end the war, he said no but that he wishes the russian leader would hole up in his supposed palace for good to take his mind off of "murder." >> there is no explanation for putin's actions other than delusion and grandeur that he knows people of this type are not affected by logic or argument. they don't care about other people's blood and tears. >> -- the state tv employee who stormed onto set holding an antiwar poster is facing new charges of discrediting the army. she could face fines of up to $500 and this just after she paid a $300 fine on a seemingly le

j.k. rowling was recently cancelled because her books copied did not please the fans of the so-called genderancel the country, our people, and talking about the increasing discrimination of everything related to russia, about this trend which is unfolding in a number of western states. >> well, for her part, rowling pushed back against being brought into the discussion. tweeting, quote, critiques of western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance or who are jail and poison their critics. >>> a top russian general claims that the first stage of the invasion is complete. and its efforts will now focus on eastern ukraine. journalist atika shubert is following this. and following this from ukraine. good to have you with us, atika. what are we putting down with this change in narrative that we're seeing from the advance from russia? >> well, it is definitely and significant public messaging shift. and it's delivered by colonel general sergei rudskoy. it's a significant voice. by saying that the main goals, the liberation of d

j.k. rowling for falling out with , quote, fans of gender choice. the author was quick to respond ,tweeting, quote, critiques of western council culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance. the latest in the kremlin's crosshairs a russian journalist accused of spreading false information about russia's attack on a ukrainian maternity hospital. alexander neverov said he did a quote, heroic deed by reporting on what many have deemed a war crime. he's currently out of the country and thinks he'd wind up in jail if he went back . when asked if anyone might be able to sway putin to end the war and have said no but that he wishes the russian leader would hole up in his supposed palace for good to take his mind off quote murder in which there is no explanation for putin's actions other than delusion and grandeur. how do you know the people of this time are not affected by logic or arguments? they don't care about other people's blood and tears. >> thank you , amy. that was our amy kellogg reporti

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