[inaudible conversations] morning everybody. Let me start, if i can with a very personal note, and that is i have known her for a little more than a quartercentury which means we got together in what was another millennium and it sure feels like another millennium. She was an extraordinary friend and colleague and i, along with my colleagues here at brookings and form policy are so glad that once again she will be colleagu colleague. I think the timing of this part of the program fits very well with the panel that we have just heard from. Perhaps victoria, you were there for close to half of it and you heard a number of observations about whats going on in europe and in the eu. My sense is that there was a feeling that may be the troubles of the eu are bottoming out and the eu is getting its act together again with of course the leadership of two countries in particular and that is germany and france. How did you react to the conversation we just heard. I am so delighted to be at brook
Word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. You used the word obsessed before this last break, that basically kind of apologizing to your staff for being obsessed with this subject. Speaking for the audience, let me thank you for your being obsessed with whats been happening, both in the meat packing plants and at the cdc. And your reporting tonight is the essential kind of reporting we rely on the Rachel Maddow show for and im hoping the various organizations that consider awards for the work done in this field are watching, because this is this is as important as anything that this network has done this year. Lawrence, you are very kind. Im just going to go now. Thank you very much. Thank you, rachel. Well, the breaking news of the night is that the widow of former republican president ial nominee senator john mccain is breaking with her husbands party and endorsing joe biden for president of the United States. Cindy mccain tweeted, my husband john lived by a code, country fir
Reporting on this and so you can lay eyes on it for yourself. We should have that before i go to bed tonight. That does it for us now. Now time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. You used the word obsessed before this last break, that basically kind of apologizing to your staff for being obsessed with this subject. Speaking for the audience, let me thank you for your being obsessed with whats been happening, both in the meat packing plants and at the cdc. And your reporting tonight is the essential kind of reporting we rely on the Rachel Maddow show for and im hoping the various organizations that consider awards for the work done in this field are watching, because this is this is as important as anything that this network has done this year. Lawrence, you are very kind. Im just going to go now. Thank you very much. Thank you, rachel. Well, the breaking news of the night is that the widow of former republican president ial nominee senator john mccain is br
And thats a, thats a cut and no difference between van. And now he also point out in that article that the soviet union was perceived by washington as an equal or worse. And the current western leads. See russia as a 2nd to perhaps even 3rd tier country, whose Province National promised rafts, only on Nuclear Weapons and Energy Sources. Now putting the show of hierarchy aside, Nuclear Weapons and Energy Sources. Are they really so little in this day and age . What more do you need . Well, i actually borrowed that from one of the pronouncements by president , by. And he basically said, i, you know, i have a, i pity the president of russia because he can only rely on Energy Sources and nukes, with regard to Energy Sources of energy exposed, the United States has been doing a great deal to suppress russia. Energy exports primarily to europe and to other countries that are in the u. S. Orbit. And with regard to nuclear, i think that the better in washington is that russia will not use them
Mm. Mm. Welcome to was a part of the great polish, right. I said he slept here. Somebody else who leaked to see both the 1st and the 2nd world war, remarked to with the end of his life that we should not expect too much from the end of the world, even that death them in the war and conquest. The 4 biblical horsemen of the apocalypse, already riding a top of our daily news bulletins, hasnt the world at least as we knew, it already ended. Well to discuss it, im now joined by a mystery Training Research professor at the Higher School of economics in moscow. Its a training, its always a great july for me to talk to. Thank you very much for coming to the studio jokes on for inviting me. Thank you. Now this mark this month marks the 60th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis and the you just the other day published an article suggesting that for all the seeming similarities, the current confrontation between russia and the west is a far cry from the us soviet tensions why is that, well, th