which would give the separate regions in eastern ukraine autonomy, some kind of level of autonomy, and a veto, essentially, on ukraine s ability to enter international organizations like nato. and if he gets that, i think he would back down. but the problem here is, as i see, it was that if ukraine and the western countries will, they re gonna be setting a bad precedent, which would be bad behavior. yeah, the minsk has been one of the demands, although it would mean essentially, you know, allowing part of the country to leave the country, and to your point, sort of capitulate those demands. it s not clear that wood and things, but that has been stated demand at the negotiating table by lavrov and other julia ioffe and simon ostrovsky, thank you both. and this week alone, donald trump was to sit for a deposition. tonight, he lost his bid to block three january six related lawsuits. plus, the latest on those
intelligence community here in the united states say. so i think that they re tunis actually changing to a state, start seeing these false flag operations, these attacks that seemingly are meant to provoke some kind of a ukrainian reaction, to give russia an excuse, potentially, to attack. and that s why the situation is really heating up, and getting much more dangerous than it was, even over the past couple of weeks. but at the end of the day, i still think that putin it is interested in finding a way that he can continue having influence in ukraine, and whether he s had since the revolution back in 2014. and i see this buildup as potentially, and this increased tension over the last few days, as potentially being yet another way for russia to try to convince ukraine to sign on to the news, minsk agreement,
way, just a pearl the curtain back, sometimes we ll see a thing that looks really spicy, and we have a conversation about it, and say oh no, that s actually not what it looks like. that s something you can do, reporters can do that. or you can choose to lie to your audience. the other thing that is really important about this is that, it s obviously a very complex story, and his filing has a lot of details and characters involved. i think it makes for an easy thing for fox to lie to its viewers about, because a trust that they re not gonna read the court filing for themselves, and sort of run with their framing. i think this was kind of a perfect storm of all of the bad news surrounding trump that they wanted to deflect from. scandals being good for ratings, and also been subject matter that was very easy to exaggerate and essentially light viewers about. it all kind of came together for this very, very bizarre week on fox news. it s also kind of, the sort of rise and fall is sort
news as breathless coverage last week, they mentioned clinton s name over 100 times. and a news of the deposition, twice. hillary clinton retweeted that same, kind of gives their game away. in an address, the new york state democratic convention, listen to the point you made at the end. fox, we charged with accusations against me counting on their audience to fall for it again. and as an aside, they are getting awfully close to actual malice in their attacks. that was intentional, that legal turn, actual malice, is and not too subtle pinch to say that they are crossing into libel or defamation lawsuit territory. if fox wanted to pretend they did not know too well that they were committing them of ally. john durham distanced himself from the fake reports. implicitly indicated, that the infiltration they are fixated
white house chief of staff begging him to have trump call the rioters off. rarely does history allow you to see what people were thinking in real time. but these texts do. and one is especially revealing. this is hurting all of us. that s what laura ingram said. and the all of us there doesn t seem to mean all americans. it means the right wing water carriers for trump. these text messages ripped the curtain back, it shows they thought of themselves as partisan political enablers first, not journalists, and they knew it wasn t a mostly peaceful protest. that shock of recognition only lasted a few minutes because hours later they were back in hyperpartisan distortion land, spreading desperate deflections and fox news viewers were once again being played for fools. take a listen. i have never seen trump rally attendees wearing helmets, black