them, it s a historic day for georgia, it s a historic day for america, alex. it is indeed. ben crump, thank you so much for everything. thank you. that is all in on this tuesday night, the rachel maddow show starts now. a few hours ago, someone tweeted that would put trump said in was genius, what is my thing. you tweeted earlier, you said, if trump is reelected in 2024, canada should better watch out. as a canadian, i thought about that earlier thinking, yeah, it s kind of like going and grabbing a place because they speak the same language and they seem to like you. they don t want to actually as their boss. yeah. i mean, i think we should all have chills over the fact that trump s called the invasion of a sovereign country genius. alex, have a great evening. see tomorrow. have a good. joe thanks for joining us at this hour.
the russian president for seizing ukrainian territory and calling that genius, while also bashing president biden for not being tough enough on vladimir putin. that s incoherent biden bashing is now fodder for trump s groupies in the white house. i know president biden said that he was going to put an end to nord stream 2 if there was an invasion. so i want to hear him say this is an invasion and i am going to put an end to nord stream 2. why would we engage ourselves in a border dispute thousands of miles away, in eastern europe, when we cannot control our own southern border? it s just a total display of american weakness. we can t allow that to happen. we need to stay the heck out of it. i heard biden and even some senators threatened economics sanctions. i wouldn t even get into an economic war with russia either. because we import a lot of stuff from russia. we do? trump s special blend of
world war ii. then, the republican embrace of putin led by admire-in-chief, donald trump. so putin is now saying, it s independent, a large section of ukraine. i said, how smart is that? plus, the culture war cookbook. we ll unpack risk scotts manifesto for the republican party. and, a rare conviction on federal hate crimes for the men who chased down and murdered ahmaud arbery. you should fight like this family. justice for him. all in starts now. good evening from new york, i m alex wagner in for chris hayes. today, the president of the united states, joe biden, called russia s actions and ukraine and invasion, while the former president of the united states and the leader of the republican party called them, quote, genius. that pretty much sums up the situation here at home on the
shy about his admiration for vladimir putin that was on full display in a radio interview today where trump lavished praise on putin for his strategy in ukraine. i went in yesterday and it was a television screen, and i said, this is genius. putin declares a big portion of the ukraine of ukraine. putin declares it as independent. oh, that s wonderful. so putin is now saying, it s independent, a large section of ukraine. i said, how smart is that? and he s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. that s the strongest peace force we could use that on our southern border. by the way, this would have never happened with us. had i ve been in office, not even think-able. this would never have happened. and you know where the response was from biden? there was no response. they didn t have one for that. no, it s very sad. very sad. that is the former president of the united states praising
i have ptsd about people in the senate telling me that things are going to be handled in a bipartisan fashion, work in lockstep with the goals of the white house. this package has fallen apart before. you just said it was not the substance but really the trigger that was this thing that sort of paused the whole thing to fall apart. you already see the beginnings of polite to-ization around what is happening in ukraine. president trump s comments today calling putin s moves genius probably haven t helped anything. you are really convinced that next week, when you guys are back in session, republicans are going to play ball with democrats and effectively work to further the biden foreign policy agenda, the national security agenda? yes i think, there will be some who will follow donald trump. donald trump calling putin s move a genius move, a savvy move, you, know he couldn t get a nobel prize so maybe he s trying now for the order of