the our european partners. rachel: brian, why can t they shut the oil off now? why does it go all the way to june? steve: the market. brian: unbelievable, yeah. steve: here s the thing, you think if the grocery stores are empty there, would be uprising with the people. remember, the putin disinformation campaign within russia is so effective the average person in russia, unless they are young and they have got a smart phone and they know how to work the internet and stuff like that. they think that russia is liberating the ukrainians of the nazis who are running kyiv. that s the message that the average person on the streets of moscow has. so so, you know, it s like you know how we are paying about a buck more for gas. the people of moscow are going, you know what, if we don t have bread today, it s worth it to get rid of the nazis in kyiv. it s that kind of choice. brian: the problem is so intermarried and relations there even if you stop their facebook and stop their na
Just days ago, Vladimir Putin seemed on the verge of the unthinkable in Ukraine, having massed 130,000 troops on the border. Embassies withdrew staff from Kyiv, and Washington warned of an immediate threat.
remember in helsinki he stood right next to putin and said there was no interference, i don t believe my intelligence community. by the way in helsinki there was also a story about me and several american colleagues. putin told him that we allegedly in the some crazy theory had broken russian law regarding the wrongful death of sergei magnitsky and he wanted to interrogate us. the president believed him. the president believed him about montenegro. remember that story? when he said oh, world war 3 might start in montenegro. that sounded a lot like putin disinformation. and there was even this incredibly obscure story about revisionist history about what the soviets did in afghanistan that even for me as a stanford professor that follows this stuff pretty closely i d never heard until donald trump said it. and i don t know for sure but that sounds like another crazy conspiracy theory, and the author is most likely vladimir putin. again we re hypothesizing here but we re hypothesizing
but there is a pattern here. he stood next to putin and said i don t believe my intelligence community. by the way in helsinki there was also a story about me and several american colleagues. putin told him that we allegedly in the some crazy theory had broken russian law regarding the wrongful death of sergei magnitsky and he wanted to interrogate us. the president believed him. the president believed him about montenegro. that sounded a lot like putin disinformation, and there was even this incredibly obscure story about revisionist history, about what the soveiate that sounds like another crazy conspiracy theory and the author is most likely vladimir putin.
this is not about ukraine, this is about raush sussia who benefited by withholding that military assistance. it is about russia. sometimes people say well, i don t know about ukraine or that much about ukraine, well, our adversary in this is russia. all roads lead to putin, understand that. as our next guest warrens, it is one thing to support trump, it is another to embrace putin disinformation. joining me now is julie. it is great to see you. i hope you had a chance to hear jack kingston and who i am going to give credit because not a lot of republicans willing to come on the show. he does believe the intelligence that russia attacked our elections, which was good. he also said he thinks there are questions that could be raised on ukraine.