Agencies. Take this tweet from just the past week. Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our election. I guess thats what happens when the president gets played by an adversary. And an increasingly emboldened president resists the advisors and experts we once hoped would serve as guardrails against his impulses. Editorial board at the Washington Post warns we are on dangerous ground. Either mr. Trump has lost touch with the central u. S. Interest or there is some other explanation for his kowtowing that is yet unknown. If there is another explanation, odds are good that Robert Mueller who has already indicted 13 russians in their role of meddling in the 2016 election will get to the bottom of it. Joining us forrer u. S. Ambassador to the russian federation, now an msnbc analyst. With us at the table Washington Post opinion writer jennifer ruben. Charlie sykes, contributing editor for the Weekly Standard and host of the daily standard podcast. Former clinton ka
American. So we begin our show with the raging debate right now about what it means to be american at a time when the line between your politics and your patriotism has begun to blur. Particularly under this american president. Practices the biggest ways those lines are blurring are how the president has seemingly attempted to coop patriotism in his own way to mean a certain level of loyalty and love to him. According to mr. Trump, if you dont standing and applaud for him like during his state of the union, you are not being patriotic. They were like death. And unamerican. Somebody said treasonous. Yeah, i guess, why not . Can we call that treason . Why not . I mean, they certainly didnt seem to love our country very much. Nothing like yucking it up over treason. According to white house, if you dont support his pick for secretary of state, you might not be a patriot. Look at some point, democrats have to decide whether they love this country more than they hate this president and they