moments ago, we heard from president biden as he s meeting with ukrainian president vladimir zelensky. zelensky visiting washington, d.c. pushing for more aid to ukraine, which biden supports. he wants to send another $61 billion to kyiv. the problem is that biden can t do it without congress. and congress doesn t seem like they want to budge here. republicans on the hill are demanding concessions on border security before they agree to anymore money for ukraine. biden said this about the holdup. take a listen. congress needs to pass a supplemental funding to ukraine before they break holiday recess. before they give putin the greatest christmas gift they could possibly give him. because we ve seen what happens when dictators don t pay the price for the damage and the debt and destruction they cause and they keep going when no price is paid. threats to america, europe and the world will only keep rising if we don t act. all right. let s go to cnn nick payton walsh. he s
but still, make the claim. find a threat, invent a threat or find one somewhere. and hype it beyond comprehension. neutralized the bizarreness of that supposed overhype, supposed and overhyped threat. neutralize the bizarreness of it through propagandistic mass repetition. and then go. lock her up. press is the enemy of the people. ukrainians to be de militarized and did not see fide. take, invent a threat out of whole cloth or take the smallest thing in the world and blow it up into something incomprehensibly massive. and bingo, you have the pretext for anything that you want to do. the time that we are in is the overlap in the venn diagram between stupid and scary. you are here. this kind of tactic that we are
and then go. lock her up. press is the enemy of the people. ukrainians to be de militarized and did not see fide. take, invent a threat out of whole cloth or take the smallest thing in the world and blow it up into something incomprehensibly massive. and bingo, you have the pretext for anything that you want to do. the time that we are in is the overlap in the venn diagram between stupid and scary. you are here. this kind of tactic that we are seeing against the press, against voting, against political opponents. it is a tactic that is not new. it s a tactic that we did not invent in this country. but if we can see it more clearly, if we can get more fluent about it. and talking about amongst ourselves. one of the things we will quickly learn is that we can turn to our advantage the