this week was worse than all of those. he says the end of the ussr was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. well, tomorrow president biden will hold a long teleconference with vladimir putin. putin is currently a massing russian troops on the border of ukraine again.ru russia has been waging a sort of low-level war in euro crane for more than seven years now on top of putin s actual invasion of ukraine in 2014 where he just took part of that country for himself, annexed part of ukraine into russia. that was the only time since world war ii one country in europe has had another country invade and take over and change its borders. president biden tomorrow will b trying to head off another russian invasion of ukraine. presumably at that meeting he can also find some way to neener-neener mr. putin about the end of the 30-year anniversary this week. a big one. if this were a wedding
the answer to that is, of course, yes, correct. you have correctly summized that president biden is trying to rally the small d democracies of the world to stick with democracy, protect democracy, and not slide toward the authoritarian models china and russia represent instead. yes, you are right. the whole idea of it is implied criticism of you. but, again, look at those three points of the summit. as i said, promoting respect of human rights, fighting corruption, and defending against authoritarianism. ahead of this summit because president biden has invented this summit, he has invited all the other countries, the u.s. is leading it, ahead of the summit the u.s. wants to show off that we re taking all three of those things very seriously ourselvesi the u.s. is trying to sort of lead by example on all three points. on the first one, for example, on human rights, the white house
anniversary, he could get him pearl earrings. 30 years is pearl. i don t think they count that the same way they count them for weddings, but i d pay good money to see him open the box. ah, pearls. immediately after his putin meeting, president biden this week on thursday and friday of this week will be hosting what the white house is calling the summit for democracy. this is 110 democratic countries meeting at president biden s invitation. the meeting has a three-part agenda. promoting respect for human rights, addressing and fighting corruption, and defending against authoritarianism. f again, this summit of democracies right at the end of this week, right after the putin meeting, 110 countries. the chinese government has already put out a huffy statement saying they re very upset about this summit of democracies because they think it implies criticism of the kind of government they re running instead.
he means, he couldn t have survived as president. he couldn t have made it four years as president. because of the fbi investigations in place under comey that stood to remove him from office. t so he fired the fbi director in order to divert those investigations. in order to keep himself in power. he just admitted that s why he did it and that it work. that s how he managed to stay in office for four years. this is like the thing you hope to like, you know, entrap somebody into saying. this is the thing you hope to, like, tape somebody accidentally admitting to somebody who doesn t know that they re going to get in trouble for saying it this is in confessing. i will just say, not a lawyer, but theoretically, if someone were going to bring an obstruction of justice prosecution against him for that, firing the fbi director in order to get rid of the investigation that stood to remove him from office, if somebody were going to bring an obstruction of justice prosecution for that, we are
argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the choice of the voters. by way of foundation for all the rest, trump and his party have convinced a dauntingly large number of americans that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt. that made up claims of fraud are true. that only cheating can thwart their victory at the polls. that tyranny has usurped their government. that violence is a legitimate response. any republican might benefit from these mac nations but let s not pretend there is any suspense unless biology intercedes trump will seek and win the republican nomination for president in 2024. the party is in his thrall. no opponent can break it and fen will try. neither will a setback outside politics like indictment or say a disastrous turn in business. neither will those things prevent trump from running. if anything those could redouble his will to power. quote, in nearly every battle space of the war to control the count of the next election, n state h