begging nato to, you know, remain united. he is not having a question of certain nato countries peeling off at the moment. willie. jay, you write in your piece about the encouraging response from the american political class. you have a line, for many years a lot of americans and others have played kissy face with authoritarians and semi authoritarians and aspiring authoritarians. maybe maligned liberal democracy is not so bad after all. save former president trump and former secretary of state mike pompeo who called putin a genius, which is a wrong analysis if you look at what he is doing here, what do you see as a response from republicans who, as you point out, played kissy face with putin and stepping up and saying, no, we re on the side of zelenskyy.
it even after he called putin a genius and savvy and continues to play footsy with putin while putin is killing innocent children. democrats need to use this to their advantage and turn it around on republicans and make people see either you are on the side of democracy or you re not. there is no middle ground here. joel, tara brought up madison hawthorn. i have a clip of him i want to play. watch this. remember that volodymyr zelenskyy is a thug. the ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt. like 90% of the country is with the ukrainians and opposed to putin. when you see a member of congress say things like this, the one thing i want you to know they re outliars in the largest sense possible on our side. so break it down for us. i mean, wartime is usually when you would think that the country rallies together, certainly when we are heavily invested in what
trump calling for him to resign or recuse himself. republicans, meanwhile, are defending the court s longest serving justice, arguably the most conservative justice on the court. take a listen to what minority leader kevin mccarthy had to say about this on friday. i think justice thomas could make his decisions like he s made them every other time. it s his decision, based upon law. if you spend any time studying the supreme court justice, he s one who studies correctly. the committee could ask ginni thomas to come in and testify, they could subpoena her for her records. they re going to just have to wait and see. committee members do return here to capitol hill tomorrow, so we will definitely be asking them about all of this. yeah, many questions to be had, ali raf. a thank you. it should be noted, at trump s rally last night, he once again called putin a genius. i ve got a guest in studio, for the first time since the pandemic began. joining me now is dan kildee of
and tucker carlson who is being used as propaganda, a propaganda puppet for russia. that should tell you something. but you don t see republicans boycotting fox. you don t see them saying this is irresponsible what you are doing here, taking putin s side. you don t see that. the record is very clear. what we saw for years and years of donald trump being putin s puppet. so it s i don t know what else to say other than that democrats need to take advantage of this and flip the script on them politically because republicans have dominated the national security space for so long. but they have advocated that moral high ground by supporting donald trump for all those years and still continuing to embrace it even after he called putin a genius and savvy and continues to play footsy with putin while putin is killing innocent children. democrats need to use this to their advantage and turn it around on republicans and make people see either you are on the