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different sides from the leaders which makes sense, given the context of the fact that ukraine is in an awfully awkward and difficult position here, john. so jill doherty in moscow, what do you think we re going to hear from the kremlin and how is all of this playing in russian media? you know, the comments came out kind of late here in moscow. so initially, there wasn t really that much, but there was a comment that we noted from the spokesperson to the foreign ministry, maria zahad aadava an she said the most monsterous thing about this is not one word about the civilian population of donbas, so what she s saying is really in line with what we ve seen today which is part of this really heavy information war taking place right now and that was constant repetition of video coming in from the donbas
relative certitude that the russians are are going to attack kyiv the ukrainian capital a city of about 3 million people. that s like the population of chicago. so, how will the russians go about doing that? don t know, john. but what i will say is it could happen in a series of ways. it could be just a massive artillery barrage on the city and that could kill a lot of civilians, which would be horrific. and it would be a war crime. it could be a limited assault and i will give you another keyword tonight to start thinking about the russian special operations guys that come in just like our delta force. um, it could be a maneuver a small maneuver toward kyiv to continue to focus the attention on a faint in the north, while putin does more action in the donbas region. i just don t know. when when you are talking about an operation with this many troops around, you how yourself, as a commander, or president putin as the commander in chief, to have a variety of options and h
. never let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, the old saying goes. well, that s not exactly how the old saying goes, but it sure was on display this week. a story about the former president and russian phones and all sorts of characters exploded into wild accusations about hillary clinton and even the death penalty. but now, poof, the story has mysteriously all but disappeared from those right-wing outlets, so what happened? cnn chief media correspondent brian stelter joins me now. this is a complicated story based off of an actual legal filing. but to get from there to here, what happened? there s always a little germ of truth here and it starts this time last week with special counsel john durham, who has been investigating origins of the fbi s russia probe. he submitted a vague technical filing. here s the cnn headline about it, saying special counsel durham alleges clinton campaign lawyer used data to raise suspicions about trump. so a little bit of a story,
david gergen. jeffrey lord, and white house and state department official shammia choudary. you were in the nixon white house. do you buy the idea that donald trump is implementing his own version of what is known as the madman theory? absolutely. and john, please understand. it didn t start with nixon. it goes back a long way. macc machiavelli 500 years ago and i do think donald trump embraced the theory. he talks regularly of henry kissinger and kissinger often talks about this of a way of controlling events. i would say couple of words of caution about when it s used. in the nixon case it was in the context of a well-thought