partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn t happen and that s because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn t agree it doesn t happen. and inre the case of sweden it s an original nato it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay
togg officially distance themselves from this neo-nazi event, those three counties, the republican party organizations in those three counties ultimately came outns and said they re not part of this event. okay. bullet dodged. threell arizona republican coun organizations are notou despite earlier reports spauntserring the neo-nazi speaker at their conference. that said, this college republicans groups from arizon stillzo is. they re the ones who invited him and they re absolutely still hosting him so there s that. the group is called arizona college republicans united, hosting a neo-nazi headlining speaker for their next conference in arizona. if this i is ring more than jus alarmmo bells for you, if this also ringing a bell for you, it may be you heard this material t circulated at the most recent donald trumpth rally in south carolina. this is a flyer promoting what is supposedly a new political
movie time. that s a lot of hateful. that s a lot of hating in almost three hours. all right, mr. patton, all right. we appreciate it thank you. now let s bring in david zurich, tv critic for the baltimore sun. when colbert late guy, i said this. colbert made a living ef he exclusively sat rising the right and he has plenty of material t that won t be enough to beat fallon and kim el who are sharp and well-produced. remember he alienated 40% of the country who define themselves as conservative. so what do you think, david? he is not doing that well in the ratings. it is consistent, he is around 2 2,250,000 viewers. we did 4.5 million here. you think colbert s left wing bent hurts him? you know, bill, the thing
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