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Most flimsy pretext for a controversy and a kind of cut and paste thing that isn t even journalism. that was not a profile of putin. it was a set up to a conversation in which putin was would immediately be called autocrat and his desire to expand the former soviet empire, now the russian empire, his desire to make his nation more and more influential and consequential on the international stage, that was the whole thing. not an hour later. not after a commercial. contiguous to it. all right. so there was not there was nothing. why get involved with politics at all. you guys were over there to cover the games. why even boyer. in fact, on behalf of my colleagues at nbc and mark lazarus who runs nbc sports now. we did exactly what we said we were going to do. we would frame the back drop against which these issues, against which these olympics took place. each of the first two nights in the first minute, in a broad sense, i laid it out. then we brought on david rim nic, whether peo ....
He leans left or not. is he an expert on russian politics. we talked about these being putin s games. the 1984 olympics weren t ronald reagan s games. they were peter. the 1996 olympics billy clinton s. the 2002 olympics were mitt romney s not george bush s. these were putin s games. as i said in the last piece which you showed but only a portion of, if in fact they were successful, which briefly before what s going on in ukraine they appeared to be on their way to being successful. it would burnish the image of a man in a regime whose him image does not deserve to burnished. let me back that up with a clip. what you are say suggest were critical of putin. repeatedly. each while discussing his influence on the games. roll the tape we have. i don t know of any american, david, no matter where they may fall on the political spectrum, who views vladimir putin as some sort of peace maker or a benign figure. okay. once you got that out, were ....
He leans left or not. is he an expert on russian politics. we talked about these being putin s games. the 1984 olympics weren t ronald reagan s games. they were peter. the 1996 olympics billy clinton s. the 2002 olympics were mitt romney s not george bush s. these were putin s games. as i said in the last piece which you showed but only a portion of, if in fact they were successful, which briefly before what s going on in ukraine they appeared to be on their way to being successful. it would burnish the image of a man in a regime whose him image does not deserve to burnished. let me back that up with a clip. what you are say suggest were critical of putin. repeatedly. each while discussing his influence on the games. roll the tape we have. i don t know of any american, david, no matter where they may fall on the political spectrum, who views vladimir putin as some sort of peace maker or a benign figure. okay. once you got that out, were ....
Most flimsy pretext for a controversy and a kind of cut and paste thing that isn t even journalism. that was not a profile of putin. it was a set up to a conversation in which putin was would immediately be called autocrat and his desire to expand the former soviet empire, now the russian empire, his desire to make his nation more and more influential and consequential on the international stage, that was the whole thing. not an hour later. not after a commercial. contiguous to it. all right. so there was not there was nothing. why get involved with politics at all. you guys were over there to cover the games. why even boyer. in fact, on behalf of my colleagues at nbc and mark lazarus who runs nbc sports now. we did exactly what we said we were going to do. we would frame the back drop against which these issues, against which these olympics took place. each of the first two nights in the first minute, in a broad sense, i laid it out. then we brought on david rim nic, whether peo ....