stalin, they didn t annex crimea, and they didn t have dictators like assad killing hundreds of thousands of people. he s a dangerous person, and i think we need to push back on him to stop him, both in terms of what he does to the united states, but also what he does to our allies and small d democrats around the world trying to fight for their own autonomy in places like ukraine. what has been, michael, the most surprising to you about this russia story, especially as it relates to the 2016 election and this administration? so vladimir putin has, and his government, have tremendous capabilities to listen to your phone, to read our e-mails. i know that firsthand. what has never happened before is they leak that information purposely designed to influence the outcome of our election. he wanted trump to win, he didn t want hillary clinton to win. to do that and go outside our
i call the book from cold war to hot peace to make sure people don t confuse our time today with the cold war, but in many aspects, the hot peace is more dangerous and more volat e volatile. in the soviet days, they didn t meddle with our elections. in the late soviet days after stalin, they didn t annex crimea, and they didn t have dictators like assad killing hundreds of thousands of people. he s a dangerous person, and i think we need to push back on him to stop him, both in terms of what he does to the united states, but also what he does to our allies and small d democrats around the world trying to fight for their own autonomy in places like ukraine. what has been, michael, the most surprising to you about this russia story, especially as it relates to the 2016 election and this administration? so vladimir putin has, and his government, have tremendous capabilities to listen to your