take hostages. in other words, he has over the years, on more than one occasion, his government has arrested americans or westerns on trumped up charges and used it as leverage against his rivals or against the west. to the extent you re an american in russia right now i think you re taking a risk, you don t know what might happen to you. i lived there four years with my wife and even back then it was a much different, much-less repressive moment in russian society you felt at any time, you know, you could be subjected to the whims of authorities who were using you for political purposes. so right now it s a very, i i have, perilous times for americans staying in russia because of the potential for retaliation. general, i want to zoom out. the russian army seems to have upped its brutality over the past several days after a slow start to this campaign. what phase of the invasion are we in now? given what we talked about
to finish us off. perilous times. here at the hermitage major general andrew jackson was seething. he offered his michelle to go into battle to fight the british in the war of 1812 never got the returned call. his country was losing this war badly. we get the call? yes. would he offer revenge on the british? absolutely. america needed a leader. think looked to jackson. jackson enters the war and things turn. a series of small victories all led to the final clash in new orleans. the historic french quarter, charters in st. louis. wife would i bring to you this intersection? because it was right here in this building, 200 plus years ago where andrew jackson met with his generals and they scechesd out a battle plan to take on the british was nothing shorts of brilliant and yielded unparalleled success. the plan? build a wall. dig a canal, fill it with water and wait. wait for the british to charge. the british walked right into the trap and were
survive. yes, the presence is not uniquely oppressive and the country has gone through such horrific things, and john meacham has a bookt out about perilous times. and i have three kids can in school, and everybody knows that nobody cares that george this like george orwell that two plus two is five. because two plus two is four. and i have december 1941 s pearl harbor and facts matter. if you think that they don t t matter, you won t get far in the 21st century. we are in a rut, and we have broketen washington politics. it is not about barack obama being just a beacon of light, but people like john mccain and mitt romney were to have a good match with obama. trump has just been a nightmare and the problem is that the republican s a republicans are not showing courage standing up to somebody