absolutely. as you can tell by the american accented english, that didn t take place in st. petersburg, russia. it took place about two hours down the street from st. petersburg, florida, as a far right white nationalist conference, and any time you wonder why are you amplifying them at the top of the show? as you can see there, members of the house of representatives. two sitting members of the gop caucus, in fact, paul gosar and marjorie taylor greene, spoke at that conference. greene, the firebrand from georgia, is now claiming she didn t know the conference was organized by a white nationalist, which is nonsense. we know the gazpacho gestapo lady is dumb, but she s not that dumb. it also doesn t help greene s case that the idaho lieutenant governor also spoke at the conference. doesn t help the republican party, to be honest. look, it s not just me calling the organizer a white nationalist. you know, the can we give a round of applause to russia guy. that s how the anti-defamatio
0 i thought it was pitch perfect too. so often you see images of war and it s easy to forget you re talking about a society, a culture of people. what a beautiful moment. beautiful moment for a very sad place right now, what we re talking about on the show tonight. thank you so much. see you soon. tonight, on the mehdi hasan show, in an unprecedented move, vladimir putin puts russian nuclear deterrent forces on high alert, but what is it about this man that brings thout worst in some people and the best in others? we ll ask yale university historian timothy snyder. plus, the former prime minister of finland, alexander stubbs, joins me to talk about putin s threat to his country, plus, pramila jayapal joins me for a preview of president biden s first ever state of the union speech. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. as the capital city kyiv begins another night of fending off an air assault and the advance of russian troops, ukraine and russia have agreed to hold negotiations on the b
ambassador, on her testimony which is scheduled for friday? it appears to me she would come under the same framework. she s still a foreign service officer, unless she quits the state department. there s open question whether she s going to testify. it s hard to see that the white house would block gordon sondland from testifying and not block friday s testimony, although that hasn t officially happened. but yesterday certainly seems like a pretty good guide for what we can expect moving forward, andrea. michael, you were the russia guy at the pentagon, you know masha yovanovitch. i ve known her for 12 years, she s a solid professional. she served as ambassador both in the george w. bush administration and in the obama administration. i knew her in her ambassadorial posts. she s a professional, she s