this is not something playing out in the international diplomatic circuit as people vie for influence on a on a given nation overseas. this is coming into the context of an ongoing war in the middle of europe that again threatens to expand at any begin moment. the worst thing that you could have in a conflict is uncertainty by the major players. and if they are some level of ambiguity, as you are trying to scope the conflict and keep it small, to keep it from escalating, and from drawing in other nations, become biguity and you have trump saying these things that are at odd with the truth, and indicating to the kremlin and europe that there is certainly within him but potentially all of those other people who are listening to him, this alliance, this attraction,
educated with real information. and the former president is sort of sowing and sort of cheering for them to be hood-winked and brain washed. yeah, and listen, don t take all of our word for it exclusively, pete. chris wallace, who just left one of the highest perches at fox news in an interview over the weekend said that is dynamic is why he left fox the absence of truth was what forced him or led him to make a move to another network, not strongly held opinions or advocacy of different policies, no matter how extreme. but the absence of truth. i want to ask you to speak to that here in this country as it sinks up into russia but i also want to read you something that our friend aaron blake wrote. this call and answer to vladimir putin, obviously has an echo that you re familiar with back to 2016.
as the leader of the republican party, de facto leader, but also this misinformation role on television either providing it to fox news or becoming the talent for fox news, or other very, very hard core right-wing news outlets like real america s voices network. and that misinformation is going to be repeated in lots of places but most importantly in red state living rooms and family rooms and kitchens and is going to unfortunately take a toll in once again our democracy and its ability to shore itself up. because facts are what a democracy is built upon and without facts, without people sharing information that is common truth, we re in danger of a a political body that doesn t act on truth. doesn t act on fact. the constituents have to be
minister prior to him and, you know, his whole job was to manage it better, he had been for 20 years, basically the head of the equivalent of fema, bigger than fema but any way, he was known to be a good manager and they poured billions of dollars into this modernization. so he probably had a motivation to tell his boss that everything was okay. to my understanding, if i could add one thing about the lies, i mean, the fact that he didn t know, according to our intelligence, vladimir putin didn t know that con scripts were involved in the war is actually startling. because my understanding is it is against russian law to send conscripts into war like this. ben rhodes, what is your sense of not just what we understand putin s sort of state of mind and state of access to the truth or interest in learn the truth about his own country s failures frankly in ukraine. but again, how that plays in how