so victor orban is a classic pop list, just like boris johnson is, just like donald trump is.ump presidency, the populist did rally around him, including president putin. nationalists, populist, so they have always been, even throughout his presidency, much more sympathetic to him than perhaps other leaders who recoil against these sort of populism, the martyrdom that these people do in vogue, the fact that they say that it's me against the establishment and without me, you're all, you know, going to hell in a hand basket, which is pretty much what they all say, including victor orban, including donald trump, including boris johnson. it's not surprising that that cadre of populist leaders have come out and at least verbally said that kind of thing or at least, you know, on social media. but the vast majority of world leaders realize that these are very serious possibilities that can happen. whatever they do in office or out of office can come back to haunt them if there are credible charges, done usually by bipartisan investigative committees and in the united states, you have

victor orban's government is accused of denying them contact. let's go live to lopdndon and js letterman. what do we know so far about these p.o.w.s? >> reporter: this has been a bizarre incident with more questions than answers we know that the three released p.o.w.s were part of a group of about 11 ukrainian p.o.w.s moved into hungary two weeks or more, according to hungary's government there have been indications from the russian orthodox church that they may be of hungarian origin or come from a region in the west where there is a large hungarian minority hungary has maintained that they were essentially released by russia into hungary on their own free will, that that ey are notr lock and key and have been able to move as they please ukraine says that is not true, that this communications are monitored and kept from communicating with family members. ukraine is now desperately trying to get the remaining eight ukrainian p.o.w. os released >> do we know why russia is sending ukrainian p.o.w.s to hungary? >> reporter: we really don't but the

you have been critical of the fact that fox news seems to very much like victor orban. top of the line people at the top of their game. president xi is a brilliant man. if you went all over hollywood to look for somebody to play the role of president xi, you couldn't find it. there's nobody like that. the look, the brain, the whole thing. we had a great relationship. how smart is kim jong-un? top of the line. people say this and that. really smart. putin, very smart. >> perhaps a different definition of top of the line. >> he doesn't admire want to be dictators. he admires dictators. this strongman -- that's the thing he is doing. i empathize with these people. unfortunately, there's so much mirroring going on and projection. so much of what the right does and the maga does is mirroring the charges that liberals made against donald trump, calling him a dictator, calling him a strongman. they regurgitate that back at the left now. >> trench warfare the congressman was talking about. michael steele, it's not just idolization of dictators. trump, right wing news outlets lo