potentially targeting civilians is a war crime. after all the destruction over the past few weeks, i find it difficult to conclude the russians are doing otherwise. secretary of state blinken s comments come a day after joe bryden went on the record for the first time to explicitly call president putin a war criminal. yesterday, president biden said in his opinion war crimes have been committed in ukraine. personally, i agree. reporter: the kremlin denounced biden s comments as unacceptable and unforgivable rhetoric according to russian state media. unphaseed, blinken went further. we believe moscow may be setting the stage to use a chemical weapon and then falsely blame ukraine to justify escalating its attacks on the ukrainian people. reporter: putin meanwhile unbowed by setbacks on the ground in ukraine suggested today his true same to purify his country. and convince i m convinced it s a natural and necessary
it s very interesting to go back to the npr comment from their public editor saying we don t cover stories that are false or not real stories. lots of never trump types, jonah goldberg situation, oh u believe the fact that hunter left his laptop in a repair shop? yes, he did, because he s got drug issues. so it s perfectly plausible. and the new york times i m sorry, the new york post repeated and said what our sourcing at the time was. mike: let s play this clip from president-elect biden after the election in december 2020. i m not concerned about any accusations made against him. it s used to get to me. i think it s kind of foul play. mike: joe, what do you make of this story now? well, this is exhibit a, mike, of journalist journalism morphing into activism, right? if you look at this objectively, as a journalist and news organization, here you have the son of a presidential candidate
director who was on msnbc, he signed off on the letter. any apologies coming? of course not. any corrections coming? no shot. when we look at this 20 years from now 10 years from now, a year from now from a journalist perspective, the bias omission, the squashing of the story by social media will go down as one of the sorriest and saddest moments this industry has 19 a long, long time, mike. mike: we re nearly out of time but the coverage from the new york times put pressure on the hunter information? one would hope so. one would wonder how this would relate to the conflict in ukraine right now. this shows you the three elements of national power. silicon valley, the deep state and the blue czech media all conspiring to suppress a genuine story. mike: joe, final word from
pinning it on russian disinformation. take a listen. it s just what it is. it s a smear campaign. i know you would ask it. i have no response. it s another smear campaign. right up your alley. those are the questions you always ask. was that your laptop? for real, i don t know. you mean the laptop is now another russia, russia, russia hoax? that s exactly what it s called! mike: let s discuss this now with contributing editor from the american conservative and joe, fox news contributor and columnist for the hill. gentlemen, welcome. hey, mike. mike: here is former attorney general bill barr on the laptop tonight. the dni, john radcliffe at the time, and the fbi, which worked for me, both came out and said this was not the result of disinformation. russian disinformation. the media ignored that completely. . mike: the new york post and fox news didn t ignore it
reassuring us americans that are to own department of justice will not be infringing on our commitments to free speech. beyond parents who are upset with critical race theory had black leaders are starting to lose patients with joe, saddled vice president kamala harris with solving all of the administration about his worst problems. back with fox news contributor s leo terrel and lisa boothe. we had technical difficulty with dr. ben carson tonight. again, i want to start with you. to get to the department of justice involved and engaged with school board meetings, how do they justify this? you can and as a lawyer, you cannot. this is serious l intimidation. critical race theory is racing.