on the brink of having their bodily autonomy snatched away from them. before the religious right, it s an excuse for celebration. it is the holy grail finally within reach, the culmination of its decades long battle to end abortion rights in america. in fact, the religious right is so entrenched in anti-abortion politics it s arguably their most defining issue. there s even an origin story about this movement being a reaction to the roe v. wade decision in 1973. but that s what they want you to think. it s a myth, a hoax, a lie. back in 2014 dartmouth historian randal bomber did a deep dive into the real origins of the religious right. he also revisited the topic in a piece that dropped today. as he notes, before and for several years after roe, evangelicals were overwhelmingly indifferent to the subject of abortion which they considered to be a catholic issue. according to experts featured in the pbs special god in america, even famed teleadvantage rift pat robertson and
he ain t succeeding in those goals right now. what did you make of that subdued, even though looked like north korea with the big military parades, but putin hasn t been able to claim anything. no victory, not even in the donbas. but you think that means, and does that make him more or less dangerous? i actually think it was a good sign that he is somewhat restrained in a celebratory parade because he s got people around them that i put a lot of pressure on him. this is embarrassing, it s been humiliating. empire of russia s being dissolved. meanwhile, is trying to make a face saving theatrical parade in moscow welcome scripts are getting hammered on the ground in ukraine. any conscript this watching that video is gonna feel a lot worse today than they felt before seeing. so i think they did the best they can to try to put putin with a good spin on it, but this is been embarrassing from the outset. what i make of that is number one, joy, our intelligence organization and military lea
after speaker pelosi and other members of congress met with president biden in the situation room to update them on their recent trip to ukraine. joining me is former ambassador to russia ambassador mcfaul and james beardsley. ambassador, can you think of any reason why the u.s. congress would or should adjourn rather than pass this latest aid package? no, i can t. it s it s unexplainable. i do not understand why it should be delayed. jason beardsley, it seems to me there is currency in at least the perception. i get where we are, we have an
the analysis that we re seeing now oftentimes on the ground, watching russia fail to multiple access fronts inside ukraine. taking kyiv, they couldn t do that. they just got pushback from kharkiv. they re trying to reposition from the east and take the donbas. none of that seems to be working for them. they ve had bad logistics, bad leadership, no and silk or, the generals are getting killed in a rate that we haven t seen before. so all of this should have been assigned. the way to intervene in these was to get on the front side of this, and does less opportunity for the white house that don t let china be the next ukraine. get in front of these things. you can see the successes we ve had. training ukrainians since 2014. we have flipped the tied to the stable and this occasion. we re gonna have you guys back to have more conversation about this. we appreciate you this evening. thank you both. and then when you wear, because if you re hankering for the good old days of authoritarian a
said cruz didn t do anything. he s an embarrassment to the state of texas. let me just say that. i don t care what or who runs again him. i will work for that campaign to defeat that son of a you get that idea. cruz s office told the dallas morning news his silence was out of concern of antagonizing strong man vladimir putin. well, how polite. that the does seem to be a trend among some in the new republican party, concerned not to anger the ex-kgb authoritarian communicator. take the president cruz enabled, president trump. you may remember this oval office photo five years ago. the smiling man next to trump is russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and we only have picture because russia s state news agency sent it out at the time. the russian photographer was the only one allowed in the meeting, in the oval office while u.s. journalists were kept out, strange, right. that was also the meeting where trump revealed highly classified information that was given to us