actors playing mourners, that is dep ny national security adviser john finer speaking today with andrea mitchell here on msnbc, a truly surprising turn in the news today, when the biden administration put out this news that u.s. intelligence say they have learned of a plot by the russian government to fake something terrible in ukraine. now, as you know, russia has over 100,000 troops massed on the ukrainian border, menacing ukraine and threatening to invade for weeks now and u.s. intelligence has apparently uncovered evidence of an elaborate false flag operation that russia was apparently working on to fake some supposed atrocity to blame on the ukrainian government and justify russia invading. and as insane as that sounds, it is exactly the kind of thing russia has done in the past in ukraine. in july, 2014, a few mons after the last time putin invaded ukraine, russian state
victory in michigan at the time, he was publicly trying to pressure local election officials in michigan counties that went for biden that they shouldn t certify the election results in those counties. it was widely speculated at the time that he invited those republican lawmakers from michigan to rope them in on the scheme he was pushing to overthrow the government, to pressure them to go back home to michigan and somehow use their authority as state lawmakers to undo the biden victory in the state of michigan. it was obvious that must have been what was going on, perhaps that is why the michigan republican senate leader did not want to talk about the fact that he had just flown to dc and had just met with the president. but he had just done that. here he is, this is the photo of him walking into the white house, with the gray hair there with the american flag mask decorating his left ear. those lawmakers spent nearly two hours with trump inside the white house that day, the detroit n