uniforms. and they came to be known as the littlee green men. some of them stormed crimea s regionalto parliament, they barricaded themselves inside and they raised the russian flag overde the building. the next day, more of these green uniformed men seized airports in crimea. within a couple of week, the whole of crimea was under the control of these little green men. they were clearly pro-russian. spokeey russian. and they were heavily armed with russian weapons. but russian president vladimir putin insisted they were not russian troops. he said they were local self-defense forces, acting on their own. and he couldn t help it if the people of crimea liked russia more than they liked the new pro-western government in ukraine. the confusion led to headlines from the bbc, russia in quotation marms occupy crimeaqu airports so it was cle
0 story. great story. great reporting. thank you. that is all in on this monday night the rachel maddow show with guest host ale good evening, alex. thank you, chris. happy valentine s day, my friend. to you as well. my heart is warm. fr mine, too. and thanks to all of you at us this hour.ng it was february 2014, the autocratic pro-russian ruler of ukraine had just fled the country after being forcedle ou of officeco by pro-democracy street protests. in that confusing aftermath, soldiers began appearing in the southernld ukrainian province o crimea. theai soldiers had no identifyi insignia, and war plain green uniforms. and they came to be known as the littlee green men. some of them stormed crimea s regionalto parliament, they barricaded themselves inside and they raised the russian flag overde the building. the next day, more of these green uniformed men seized airports in crimea. within a couple of week, the whole of crimea was under the control of these little green
mike: monday on special report, the a little e. latest on how the omicron surge is affecting the holiday season. thanks for watching special report. i m mike emanuel in washington. i m back sunday for fox news sunday, merry christmas and good night from washington. tis the season when neighbors battle too see who can be brightest. families gather around the video screen for warmth and people regift the cake that dare not speak its name. here are the 10 most merry, festive, magical, jolly, peace areful, snowy unwrapped angelic tales of the holiday. who can forget christmas? are you ready to deck some halls? an entire evening of
speaking of president xi, let me go back in time for everyone for aas second. let s talk about what president trump did. the very first meeting we had with president xi do you remember? it was in april of 2017. but at that very same meeting during dinner, president trump excused himself because there was a skiff, a littlee situation room and if you look it up you will see that was the same night that we ordered the air strike in syria during the meeting with president xi and mar-a-lago. if you want to compare the two, you are ordering an air strike on syria. you are going back up for dessert and coffee and you are holding press conference on what you just did to syria after they dropped chemical weapons. sean: by the way, i think i have and add to that story. i was told by a source i was told by a source after the event had happened that the president
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