lot of meetings with him, and i think that this has reached the point of anger and aggrievement on putin s part that i i don t think he s thinking rationally anymore and that s what i find very disturb begun trying to predict or anticipate what s he going to do next, and i find it very disconcerting. because the price he s about to pay, the economic sanctions, the economic price, the political price and maybe the price in lives, casualties, if the russians move full scale into ukraine would be horrendous. i don t know what he s trying to do either, but we will see what he does. general clapper, thanks as usual for joining us. thanks, wolf. coming up, buckingham palace says queen elizabeth is experiencing mild symptoms after testing positive for covid. my eyes feel like a combo of stressed, dry and sandpaper. strypaper? luckilily, there s biotrue hydration boost eye drops.
for president obama. good to see you. you have already said that greene is endorsing violence, or the threat of violence for political gain in our you know, in cnn s conversations with you. when she talks about nazis and the holocaust, can you explain? reporter: yeah, it s just consistent with where the parts of the party are, and certainly where trump is whenever they lose, they threaten, or real violence as we saw on january 6th. and so while greene you know, look, greene is not right, and so a part of me is sort of reluctant to give her more attention but nonetheless, she is calling those of us who want masks or vaccination nazis, instead of just being offended by the analogy, and so what the right wing, and people like her have done now, they re trying to justify violence or the threat of violence. if i m a nazi, you re totally justified in threatening violence or trying to stop me. it s a sense of aggrievement,
powers his politics on aggrievement and however real is seized upon by his base and his supporters including those at fox news. fox news amplifies things they see on social media, fox news pushes it out there and other people see it and it spreads outward from there and it goes to the president and this is how it works. this is the cycle. this is why he s president of the united states, not because of home alone 2 which again is not a chas classic because this cycle exists and he s powered by it. and what is remarkable is donald trump jr. seemed to be having fun with it but he called it absolutely pathetic and part of a lengthy post on instagram reads in part, imagine being so triggered that you can t leave a christmas movie alone without editing. this is what we re up against in 2020. this is the filter by which people receive their news. this is why it is not a fair fight. but this is also why we will win. jane, the hypocrisy is glaring. he s relying on a lie.
it s in her new book just out. in her column she writes about the parallels between that confirmation fight and the current impeachment inquiry, and i quote, from the conservative vantage point, perhaps the greatest similarity is the deep sense of aggrievement about the motives of kavanaugh s critics then and trump s now, those seeking to impeach the president over his conduct with respect to ukraine have long been searching desperately for something, anything with which to take down the designated victim. we re happy to have ruth marcus with us here tonight. by day she is deputy editorial page editor and columnist for the washington post. she also happens to be the author of supreme ambition: brett kavanaugh and the conservative takeover. it is great to have you, and i have to tell you, ruth, i have a democratic friend who says here s the only viewer s guide you need to what s about to happen.
supreme court. it s in her new book just out. in her column she writes about the parallels between that confirmation fight and the current impeachment inquiry, and i quote, from the conservative vantage point, perhaps the greatest similarity is the deep sense of aggrievement about the motives of kavanaugh s critics then and trump s now, those seeking to impeach the president over his conduct with respect to ukraine have long been searching desperately for something, anything with which to take down the designated victim. we re happy to have ruth marcus with us here tonight. by day she is deputy editorial page editor and columnist for the washington post. she also happens to be the author of supreme ambition: brett kavanaugh and the conservative takeover. it is great to have you, and i have to tell you, ruth, i have a democratic friend who says here s the only viewer s guide you need to what s about to happen. and he points to a picture of jeff flake s concerned face.