of days ago with putin, none of those seemed to yield any results. and the leader there s had left those calls saying that putin seemed determined to continue as he is going until he get these unequivocal demands by russia met that are obviously non-starters for the ukrainians, such as essentially handing their country over, demilitarizing. so we will be looking very closely to see in these talks tomorrow whether there is any new openness from president putin and the russian government to some type of a resolution short of those absolutists demands given the fact that this military incursion by the russians so far by many indications has not yielded the military success that president putin wanted and expected he would have in short order. josh lederman for us in poland. josh, as always, thank you so much. well, putin may want and always try to divide the west, his war is only strengthening democracies across the globe. the reinforcing the world s
leaving the network, hears coming to cnn plus. i think it s part of a string of departures of reporters or journalists who were tied to a network where many of the voices are pr voices for the president or any number of conspiracies. what s your sense of what s happening with fox news and the direction that it s headed? they re purging anyone who actually acts like a journalist and tries to have fact-based arguments. it s a parallel of what s been going on in the republican party in terms of the hunting for heretics, the kicking out of the center and the elevation only of ideological absolutists for donald trump. but it s playing out in what is ostensibly a news organization but what is just a right-wing talk tv where the opinion side is unhinged from facts and anyone who has got a scintilla
university who resigned claiming the school sacrificed ideas for ideology peter, author of how to have impossible conversations. joins us right now from portland. peter, good morning to you. good morning. steve: so, regarding this research, what do you think is the headline from it? i think the take away is that when people go to the universities, it s not the same university it was even five or ten years ago. these are indoctrination camps and indoctrination camps into a very specific set of beliefs. the longer you are there. the more certain you become in your moral attitudes. steve: what do you mean by that more certain, absolutists, right? that s the term the study uses the more absolutist one becomes, the danger is that people think the colleges are providing and education but they are really indoctrination centers. they are indoctrination mills. it s something we need to be
you have the way a european would remember it as chapter of europe and there s a way that the muslim remembers it as a form of premodern colonial attack and occupation. jerusalem is a site that believers have been fighting over for years whether they are muslim or christian. they believe holding that land is important to their faith. if you are a believer, you believe absolutely that your faith is the truth. so, that s why, in the case of jerusalem as holy city, people are absolutists, it s the only city on earth that exists on skm heaven and earth and so it exists twice, and that gives its danger, it moons that people feel they must possess it absencely and that s jerusalem s tragedy.
and civil rights groups, progressive groups and now the administration is calling them to task. one of the complications of this, for example, it was not long ago that i think facebook was taking down posts about the lab leak theory that it actually came from a lab in china, the virus. those were considered disinformation, misinformation. and it turns out that s now considered a credible theory. it s not definitively proven but it s a credible theory. so i think one of the problems the first amendment absolutists rightly bring up is yesterday it s misinformation, today it s consensus. right, the same thing about masks and when you wear them and how you wear them. and i think, like ashley said, this is a way bigger issue than just about vaccinations. and we have seen congress grappling with it. how do you regulate these social media companies that have become our public square, that have become the way we communicate with each other? and how do you determine what s in bounds, how do