you don t see any polling showing that they want a war. it is more the feeling that war is being forced on russia. but in any case, there is some protests and that it is continuing. a couple things there, jill, i mean, one is if that is the attitude among many russians, that this conflict is being forced upon them, that is a sign that russian propaganda is working with a significant portion of the population. but at the same time, we re looking at these images in st. petersburg where russian police are getting physical with these protestors. and it says to me putin cannot keep a lid on this in his own country, jill. reporter: that is true. i mean, you know, these people are very brave because over the period of actually a number of years, people have gone into the streets but the police have taken different techniques and initially they would arrest everybody. back in the 2012, pretty much,
nobody should be persecuted because of their faith and we ve seen in the first month federal judges say that the president has begun to target people because they are muslims. so this president has to really back up in a profound way and act like he is president and no longer campaigning, frankly, and get out of the groove his campaign cut, which was a groove of hate. you know, when you look at those images how do you understand what s going on with specific threats? i saw those images in st. louis and i had never seen anything like this but for footages of pola poland under the nazis, this is as horrific a desecration as you can get. what do you understand is happening right now specifically with the acts we ve seen? well, trump was right when he said yes, anti-semitism is probably always there but it s
the problem, of course, is that that tradition in this country of standing up against attacks on the jewish community really is rooted in the very idea that nobody should be persecuted because of their faith and we ve seen in the first month federal judges say that the president has begun to target people because they are muslims. so this president has to really back up in a profound way and act like he is president and no longer campaigning, frankly, and get out of the groove his campaign cut, which was a groove of hate. you know, when you look at those images how do you understand what s going on with specific threats? i saw those images in st. louis and i had never seen anything like this but for footages of poland under the nazis, this is as horrific a desecration as you