welcome to ayman. tonight, the former trump official who just quit the gop to help save it from ruin. is it too little too late? plus, republicans want to regulate you. i mean, everything about you. what you read, when you watch. what you do with your own body. so much for small government values. then, new details on ginni thomas s or efforts to overturn the 2020 election as her husband ruled on cases about that very election. , i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. the country is in danger of imploding. democracy is in danger of disintegrating. those are not my words. that is the ominous warning from house majority james clyburn who told the washington post quote, i don t know why people feel that this country is insulated from the historical trends. maybe autocracy is the future of the country. before you at home say congressman clyburn s language is hyperbolic, just take a look at what is happening in pennsylvania and michigan. just this week, a self proclaimed 202
Displacement crime, showing that the entire operation is producing these displacement, and that is something that could be approved. that could be a way he seemed to think that it would be hard to draw a line from vladimir putin to what you saw, for example, in bucha, because it would be hard to prove that he gave a direct order for the one-off behavior of a group of rogue soldiers. for example, rape. two months later, do you think what he said is still possible or are you skeptical that you can actually hold vladimir putin personally accountable for what we are seeing in ukraine? what we have seen from experiences that it is challenging, but not impossible to hold the highest officials responsible for crimes that their soldiers are committing on the ground. when it requires is linkage
That going to be enough for vladimir putin, or will it simply embolden him to intensify his aggression? big questions. jenny hill in moscow. we began tonight with a harrowing report on violence against women in the conflict here. rape as a weapon of war is, of course, tragically nothing new. in ukraine, whether perpetrated by rogue soldiers or the result of systemic brutalisation sanctioned from higher up, we just don t know. that will one day, we all hope, be for a court to analyse, with the accused sitting in a dock. as with the bombing of residential areas and civilians, violence specifically against women in war is designed to terrorise and spread fear. it is a war crime and must be prosecuted as such, when this horrible conflict is finally over. that s it from me and the team in kyiv. now back to you, mishal, in the studio, with the rest
Equate to evidence of war crimes. and that s why potentially, these german intercepts are so important because that linkage between russian forces and actual killings of people who can be identified appears to have been, from the reports we are seeing, have been made. and that may be important in the future when it comes to any possible prosecutions for war crimes that may or may not may take place. question whether it will take place, and whether russia would, you know, comply with anything like that is is is another discussion altogether. and earlier, i spoke with john spencer, the chair of urban warfare studies at the madison policy forum. i asked him if the radio intercepts by german intelligence proves the russian military had a premeditated plan for the mass murder of ukrainian civilians, as opposed to just a few poorly disciplined rogue soldiers. in my opinion, as an old soldier and leader of men in combat, i absolutely think this
Possible for bucha to be evacuated, a number of those women were able to leave and be evacuated. but this case that we know about, she also reported that there were other young girls in their teens, very brutally raped. she reported some of them, she passed along some of them have lost their teeth. it seems what transpired in that period was particularly brutal, and i think we rejust going to particularly brutal, and i think we re just going to have to collect evidence and testimony in a sensitive way as possible, and see what evidence can be gathered together. it what evidence can be gathered touether. , ., , together. it is, of course, immensely together. it is, of course, immensely sensitive, - together. it is, of course, immensely sensitive, but | together. it is, of course, | immensely sensitive, but i together. it is, of course, - immensely sensitive, but i wonder together. it is, of course, immensely sensitive, but i wonder if you have any understanding of what the thinking