georgia. russia pose threat for georgian independence, for our so sovereignty, for our territorial integrity. do you think there s a chance russia could invade georgia again? yes, this threat is always, every country across europe not only georgia is under threat. back this their apartment, he and his family wholeheartedly agree. they told us they don t want their children and grandchildren to grow up in what they call north korea 2.0, and for that grandma galena says people must understand a crucial point. she says the whole world must understand that ukraine is now really not fighting just for itself. it s fighting for everyone and the whole world must unite and stop putin because he won t stop with ukraine. the family told us that before they left moscow in the beginning days of the war, they were talking to some of their friends in moscow, and they said they were shocked to hear from people they considered themselves close to that they were repeating the lines of russian
fighting just for itself. it is fighting for everyone and the whole world must stop putin because he won t stop with ukraine. the family told us before they left moscow, in the beginning days of the war, they were talking to some of the their friends in moscow and they said they were shocked to hear from people they considered themselves close to that they were repeating the lines of russian propaganda. that the ukraine government was fash. is, that they were drug addicts as we so often hear from russian state media, and that played a role in their decision to leave. jake? matt rivers, thank you so much. coming up, the spike in covid cases in the u.s. and the key factor that might explain why so many have e resisted bringing bk mask mandates. ststay with us. and the vegetables that you re e growing. find more ways to grow at miracacle-gro.com
to friends in russia that the sanctions are yet hitting ordinary russians? are they yet feeling the effects of this? no, no, no, they are panicking. there is a panic en masse. in saint petersburg. i mean, average people, because prices forfood for very simple food baskets, meats, sugar, grains, are going up every day. people try to buy something in advance and it is already shortage on shelves at supermarkets. people are panicking. and there is a problem with the banking system as well. so i think it hurts the average people from the beginning. from the second day, i would say. i don t know about you, vera, but my friends in moscow, many of whom are journalists
indirectly, but he is very well aware of what s been happening. the only problem that he has is now, that he is running smack into the guardrails of democracy on one hand and justice on the other hand. that kind of accountability was never relied upon for him. he thought he would be the master of the universe and when this was all over and done with, he could get away with anything, make deals with his friends in moscow, get oligarch money and transform america from a democracy to an autocracy. he s failing and we re still talking about it three years later. what possible explanation, innocent explanation, could there be for donald trump, for instance, to hide the transcripts of his conversations with vladimir putin? what would the innocent explanation for russia to so thoroughly attempt to infiltrate everything from the nra to the trump campaign to the republican party, why what innocent explanations could there be for
us was something unquestioned. i remember going with a key member of the bush national security team to see president clinton and he putting his arm around her, telling her not only was the intel right, but she was doing the right thing morally. it was not only a mistake, it was based on manufactured evidence. here, nobody is asking this basic question, except for our friends in moscow, what if assad didn t order this? what if this wasn t a syrian troop chemical attack? what if this was perpetrated by al qaeda affiliated oppositi oppositionis oppositionists? the consequences for going into syria are even more grave than iraq. if we go in and degrade and weaken assad to be the extent other al qaeda affiliates have, if that s what happens, and we think they re going to stop there, that s the definition of insanity. now, i ve heard people advance that scenario, i guess, that this was not actually assad who ordered this attack. maybe it was other elements of