and toronto, the capital, where cnn was also able to locate different pop-up torture sites. after speaking to dozens of eyewitnesses who were tortured in these different unofficial detention centers, the barbaric treatment used on him was not innate. his experience tallies with other eyewitness testimony. make it with their hands tied. humiliation. no choice but to confess. in total, cnn located over three dozen clandestine jails across the country. it paints a picture of a regime medic out torture on an industrial scale, designed to crash an uprising that is pose the biggest accidental threat to the regime in decades. these are photos of just some of the protesters that state hospital physician doctor and his colleagues traded in the city of a major flash point in the crackdown of the uprising. it was an illegal act, according to the iranian regime. for, that he too was brought to a black site and tortured. translator: they are a power
faces. that was a view that was also put out there by one of his top advisers, who talked about how confused putin seemed and how irrelevant so much of what he talked about was in his obsession, as he said, with what he called not seize martians and conspiracy theories. so, clearly ukrainians feeling very strongly that essentially, russia and president putin putting forward just an alternate version of reality, which is in stark contrast to the response to biden s speech, which has been well received by those who saw it, very well received by president zelenskyy. he took to twitter, he said, thank you, potus, for rallying support around the world. kyiv stands tall and kyiv stands proud. is there any sense of what the ukrainians think or officials or think about vladimir putin s next up maybe. obviously, they ve been waiting for the sort of major offensive. there is been a lot of concern, understandably, because they understand that 150,000 russian troops have
and i m like, look up. there s that chinese balloon everyone s talking about. i m not the only one that saw it. there were a lot of others that saw it as well. it s really fascinating. matthew smith, i appreciate it. thank you so much. thank you so much. our next guest, democratic senator john tester. senator tester, appreciate you joining us. you have been raising warnings about china and spying and the threat china poses to the united states. do you think the u.s. should shoot this thing down? so look, anderson, first of all, it s great to be on your show. secondly, montanaens and i think all americans appreciate our freedoms and privacy, and to have a chinese surveillance balloon flying over a state like montana which has our icbms and is critical to deterrence to any sort of conflict is disturbing
together. they get former cia directorst o and former fbirmer c directors to come out and back it up and make it all very serious. i can t believo backe how right people like glenn greenwald were back in the day about all of this when they first saw it., well, and alex jones, for that matter, who said our intel agencies are interfering in domestic politics. people like me said that s impossible, that s illegal, it s immoral. totalitarian. i that can t possibly, be happening. you re crazy. but that is happening. n, butopenly . the amount of people i was s very doubtful of first whenrted this when these things first ou started to come out, when people are saying thatt,e said i groups that arlle being set upy to fight al qaeda will someday be turned on , american citizensurn on said that s. ridiculous. i weont went to ground zer shortly. r after i saw it. i felt that pain. it was awful to be around. people were really frightened,ve but all those people werernme completely right. the g
it. yes they do, and katie hobbs will be arizona s next governor. definitely saw it. willie, for about two months now, we ve heard reporters and democrats coming back from arizona saying how good kari lake was on the campaign trail. and they expected her to win. you heard also, you know, sort of kind of groans about the next governor of the state of arizona saying she didn t campaign aggressively. she wouldn t debate her. they had real concerns, and yet even in that environment, backed up with an economic and political environment that should have really helped democrats in a state like arizona, what happened? once again, an election denier loses. it s pretty jarring.