Editor Nic Robertson in moscow. And, nic, what is your assessment of what were seeing. It almost looks like russia is in its final stages of combat readiness. Yeah, of course, for weeks now weve been hearing from u. S. Officials and other officials, british officials saying, look, if russia is really serious about wanting a negotiation, a diplomatic track to open up here, then it should reduce the tension. If it really wants to have a discussion and get its issues addressed, then why the need for troops and russia keeps insisting it has no intention of invading ukraine. But as the British Foreign secretary said today, russia is creating completely the opposite impression because it continues to build up its forces, presenting a very clear image of an ability to invade should it so choose. So i think you have to take it as read that this is clearly what the kremlin intends. This is clearly how they intend to negotiate, not from a position where theyre walking away from a buildup of forc
Editor Nic Robertson in moscow. And, nic, what is your assessment of what were seeing. It almost looks like russia is in its final stages of combat readiness. Yeah, of course, for weeks now weve been hearing from u. S. Officials and other officials, british officials saying, look, if russia is really serious about wanting a negotiation, a diplomatic track to open up here, then it should reduce the tension. If it really wants to have a discussion and get its issues addressed, then why the need for troops and russia keeps insisting it has no intention of invading ukraine. But as the British Foreign secretary said today, russia is creating completely the opposite impression because it continues to build up its forces, presenting a very clear image of an ability to invade should it so choose. So i think you have to take it as read that this is clearly what the kremlin intends. This is clearly how they intend to negotiate, not from a position where theyre walking away from a buildup of forc
Editor Nic Robertson in moscow. And, nic, what is your assessment of what were seeing. It almost looks like russia is in its final stages of combat readiness. Yeah, of course, for weeks now weve been hearing from u. S. Officials and other officials, british officials saying, look, if russia is really serious about wanting a negotiation, a diplomatic track to open up here, then it should reduce the tension. If it really wants to have a discussion and get its issues addressed, then why the need for troops and russia keeps insisting it has no intention of invading ukraine. But as the British Foreign secretary said today, russia is creating completely the opposite impression because it continues to build up its forces, presenting a very clear image of an ability to invade should it so choose. So i think you have to take it as read that this is clearly what the kremlin intends. This is clearly how they intend to negotiate, not from a position where theyre walking away from a buildup of forc
Hes been apologizing a lot lately. Some days ago, he said he was sorry for all the trouble hes caused spotify. Whats he saying now . Yeah, jim, joe ris quite a regretful man. He was apologizing for the Covid Misnation and this morning, he is posted on instagram, a lengthy apology addressing racial slurs he used years ago. Lets take a listen. Im making this video to talk about the most regretful and shameful thing that ive ever had to talk about publicly. Theres a video thats out thats a compilation of me saying the nword. Its a video thats made of clips taken out of context of me of 12 years of conversations on my podcast and its all smushed together and it looks [ bleep ] horrible. Even to me. Now, i know that to most people, theres no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word. Never mind publicly on a podcast and i agree with that now. I havent said it in years. But for a long time, when i would bring that word up, like if it would come up in conversation, instead
Committee, as the former president himself spells out clearly in his own words just how far he was willing to go to stay in power. And ahead, the socalled Teacher Loyalty Law proposed in New Hampshire, aiming to bar educators from reaching the u. S. Was founded on racism. And more than a dozen historically black colleges and universities reporting bomb threats. Former head coach of the dolphins and brian flores filing a lawsuit against the dolphins and two other teams alleging Racial Discrimination allegations, bob costas is going to join me straight ahead. And abc has suspended Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks in the week of her comments on the view claiming the holocaust was not about race. And the president of abc says i have asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. More about that in the next hour. I want to bring in stewart stevens, Senior Adviser to the lincoln project, and elliott williams. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us on a ver