presumably this happened. there is not a single biden-confirmed u.s. attorney in any of the 94 u.s. attorneys offices in the country. that makes it a little bit tough to get information because land mine cases like this one don t necessarily come with a red sticker attached. you have to rely on your people to let you know where all of these land mines are buried. so i m willing to give this doj a little bit of grace to figure out where all of the problems exist. it is interesting that yesterday both of president trump s former attorneys general, both barr and sessions, distanced themselves from this situation and said they were unaware that subpoenas had been issued to members of congress. that tells us a couple of things. one, it tells you that there was never a very serious case against any of these congress people because the attorney general would have known if that was the situation. but it also suggests that these cases may have been buried,
us forward on clean which was a highly misguided way to look at it, would you not agree? totally, totally. in fact, of course, when you are doing research, development, commercialization, there will be times when it works, there will be times when it doesn t work. so the point is to keep going. it is public/private in the united states as opposed to china where they ve put about $150 billion into clean energy technologies and manufacturing. it is not an accident that they own most of the technology right now on electric vehicles. we re bringing that back. our companies are investing in battery facilities. we are going to bring back the semiconductor technology, and we re going to get that back, but we re going to get it back because president biden understands that, because the democrats in the house and senate understand that. we got something big through a week ago and it was bipartisan, which was great. yep. but we need to understand, we need to own this as americans.
america. that remains to be determined. last quick word to you. studying how the soviet kgb system used cultural of different countries to turn itself into a weapon against them, looking particularly at the islamic world. the russian regime s genius has been to take american culture and turn it as a weapon against america. they weaponized ourselves, yes. that is absolutely what has happened and what president biden now needs to try to deal with. you didn t do the second part of that, did you? how to undo that? sadly, not. we will discuss those. thanks to both of you again. max boot, with the council on foreign relations. jillian tett, editor at large of the financial times. don t miss the nbc news exclusive worldwide interview with russian president vladimir putin in moscow. watch it in full on monday on today, nbc nightly news with
diplomacy very well, substantially better than donald trump did, but that s not much of a bar. that said, despite what the russians may or may not have been doing in terms of misinformation in america, vladimir putin came out and said it last week, that the rioters on january 6th, they were not criminals but someone expressing their concerns, something you apparently can t do in russia given making the opposition party illegal right now. he has something on biden to say that your house is in a mess. as jillian said, putin is a master of this game playing and he is not bounded by the truth. he can just say stuff, so he cleverly is messaging in parallel with the republicans in the united states, kind of amplifying some of trump s messages and, you know, the love in between trump and putin continues. but, you know, what putin is going to discover very quickly, which he already knows and what
states asks you to do something that could conceivably be illegal by snooping on journalists and members of congress and you don t really remember that happened? there s no likelihood you would ever forget that happened. nbc news was told by a former senior justice department official when sessions was attorney general he never approved subpoenas for members of the house intelligence committee in a leak investigation. joining me is democratic representative roger krishnamoorthi of illinois, a might be of the intelligence and oversight committees and as far as we know you have not been a target of this, but, you know, we keep learning new information every day. how do you feel about this? i m shocked. i m outraged. you know, these secret subpoenas are something you might see in vladimir putin s russia or xi jinping s china, not in the united states. we absolutely have to get to the bottom of what happened. you know, i was talking to your colleague, representative jim hines last nigh