has stood with vladimir putin in his autocracy. that's clear. that's clear. any republican who doesn't state that clearly like liz cheney who does, supports what putin is doing in this moment. you can't be more clear than that. you can't try to erase history. it's not ancient history. it's not old history. it's recent history. and so in my view the republican party has to excise donl trump and the others if they want to have any moral high ground at all in the middle of this global conflict that pits autocracy against democracy. >> the question of course is how many elected members they still have in their party if they do that type of excising. you put it in the "washington post," in the middle of assault on democracy, and the concept of a rules base international order, a major political party has thorough le debased itself and boosted the enemy of both to reaffirm objective reality and