ukraine sets. they don t like the they don t want anyone in russia getting excited about ukrainian democracy. china looks at taiwan. again, they don t like the example taiwan sets. both of them want to have freedom to use force to create spheres of influence in their parts of the world, so there s some real parallelism there. what they agree on is they don t much like anything the united states is about, and they re increasingly banding together. russia also provides china a lot of the energy it needs, so they have found common cause. so it is no surprise that vladimir putin shows up at the opening of the olympics, which for xi jinping is a major, major opportunity to say china is back, we have gotten on top of covid, even though they have not. we can talk about that if you want, but it is a real sign these two countries have essentially forged i wouldn t call it an alliance but common cause against the united states. they have found lots that they agree on and lots they jointly
court out of this sort of spiral into the basis of right-wing politics. do you see it differently? no. i see it exactly the same way. i think, actually there is very particular parallelism between what justice sotomayor wrote in her dissent actually from the bench in her arguments from the mississippi state. she said the stench quote was about the politicize algs of the court and the notion that if the court becomes seen as a political actor that s the stench. the only reason this case was before the court, the mississippi law was passed because new justices were added, trump justices, it was presumed that composition of the court would change and allow the overturning of roe v wade. she says that s the stench that attaches to the court when it becomes a political body undermines legitimacy. she says the same thing in this prior quote but says the notion, the argument that the court is
coming in and just to try to make it simple for people and in the mueller report there were two pieces, right? there was the collusion side and the obstruction side. we have a similar parallelism going on right now. you have the collusion side which is president trump directing to do something against a political enemy someone going to run against him and the obstruction side which is the whistle-blower side. those are different stories and both of them, are i would say, disconcerting. the difference with where we are today is it s in real time and it s about an election that has not taken place and it involves the power of the precedence toe direct other countries to harm his political opponents. in many way, for years, you wanted collusion? i ve got your collusion. at this stage, that s where we are. so, that irrharry, there is rudy giuliani role in this. to understand it will be very significant. so last night rudy giuliani talked to chris cuomo, and he said he had no knowledge ab
socialism is completely and radicalism completely taken over. socialism is toxic. toxic. okay. we get it. let s widen out the lens. because in the united states, there is a socialist magazine. it s called jack of them. it s been out for years. jacobin. he book is title the socialist manifesto. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. so what is the parallelism between the rise of socialism in america and the rise of your magazine? we have been committed to articulating the kind of politics we think can reach a majority of americans, politics that say there are certain things of life that shouldn t be accidents of birth. there are things we deserve by virtue of being born. obviously, we have grown a lot a thousand subscribers before
on purpose? that s a great question, john, and i discuss in the book and thanks for the plug, spent a whole chapter on exactly that. the striking parallelism sumatically between what the russians were doing and saying and what the trump campaign were doing and saying. i don t suggest collusion, but there are striking parallels and those parallels continue yet today and that s because the russians go to school on how to do that. general james clapper, great to have you with us. thanks very much. thank you, john. so with the news that the president s inaugural committee is under investigation for possible misuse of funds and giving political favors to donors, there s virtually no aspects of his life, business or presidency that is not under the microscope. we re going to talk about what that means for the future of this country next. working out for everyone? i dunno. i m still a little stressed about buying our new house.