This week covet history, it's mid April twenty and nobody knows what to believe. First. There were two point: two million who are supposed to die in the United States, and then it was a million. Then it was five hundred thousand the models. Folks are just plain. No way. Five hundred thousand Americans will die of gold. It, especially not with president New plan sunlight. He suddenly, he gave a very powerful like a bright But how would we use this very powerful light? Supposing it was late in the day the through the schooner in some other way interesting, interesting genius, whatever

I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning would be interesting to check that she looks like she could use a glass of bleach right about now. The media spends word of the president's bad, but turns out the president was just pulling hole. I was asking the question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen locate. You. Going even is Polton friends were confused, it didn't seem like he was coming off and sarcastic either way it's important. We have this may soon, or else If we don't get this economy going again, that man could become president of the United States. Now that is far more terrifying than any coronavirus. That's a bunch of malarkey side. Is we in cove his dream. I don't it's a big so funny, and what all the ok good, more well. I've always. I am

you will get caught more closely. Now it's kind of education like, for instance, now really when you add Donald Trump talking about the lights in the bleach. Ivory second was thinking This is probably our Jonas Salk when he was trying to figure out Exactly just, I can't believe how to get the machine for polio. I think that's probably process went through a process like that, so that they can wow this is this is not only funny, but if careful, we might just learned something here: yeah I've, a little known fact about history- and I know you know this job, but Jonas Salk, that again and again, to eject light into people's bodies in different places, quite frankly different ITALY repeatedly and ultimately ended up with the polio vaccine, so laugh if you will, but there's no polio because of it yeah. Ok,

no Para, knows laughing. Loving banned in our laws, and now I can answer that question nobody's laughing now there I did to the news: ok, we'll get to the moon, put welcome the morning challenge to grow, say this Thursday able to know what are the right now to go. So it's earth Day, We have a lot. We do you remember our first earth day. How could I forget Sorry, I am kind of views but are met. Couple months in the slammer, but but still we celebrated it in our own special way. Along with Joe Willie and me we have bullet surprise when, in columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post and MSNBC ice analyst Eugene Robinson with US and White House editor for political SAM Stein joins us this,

and I guess I m everybody sam- can I assume and sound why? What's your prob school doing birthday today, oh yeah cut, not collages gonna go onto the green. When there are met now contractually obligated to answer this question are not at all is there anything you don't want to only twelve years of joke at this point? I try to put you in college. Go big green. You actually brigadier welcome. Ok, I guess what body. Arrogance have now received two hundred million covert nineteen to his nature. Think about this, since president took office reaching the administration's first one hundred day goal and more than doubling the initial goal of one hundred million shots Biden and

The milestone yesterday, ahead of his one hundred day, Mark next week, saying that by today, eighty percent of those over sixty five will have had had at least one shot. That's incredible news! It is incredible news and Robinson you, get how America's doing so much better on the world stage than anybody else. Would we We need to go back and we need to actually talk about that mandate. We were having a lab that is at his experience you really do you look at the combined efforts of what happened during the trumpet ministration on the development of the vaccines on the selecting of the proper vaccines, and they obviously did a very good job at that, and then you go and you look at. What Biden was able to do that? Donald Trump just was unable to because he never had an infrastructure around him by his choosing that knew how to effectively one government into.

These sort of operations? He never wanted to nationalized this effort, and so Dropidas team made. The right choice is on vaccines, and now we have as one who actually knows how to do basically hand of logistics to get it out to two hundred million people. Were the world, and maybe this is one time where we stop and both sides look at each other and go ok data. Pretty damn good job Yeah, I know that I mean the back. Scenes are really a miracle, if you, if you think about it, if you think about it just enough in the span of of meal went from zero. Two hundred million, and that says it was. It was smart of the Trump administration. To launch operation warp speed the most critical part of that, and you know it

There was to some of the drug companies for development, but I think most critical part a commitment. Millions and millions and millions of doses of the vaccine. That's insane arising, get a bit the speed in volume with which the patching makers could turn up a member. Absolutely miracle. Is this new and more n a process that allow the development of the Pfizer reminder, vaccines, which are ridiculously objective? You don't get vaccines that, are you know a hundred percent protected against death. Would you talking about a deadly virus? You just don't get that and in this new process it is a minor miracle that good method

entirely change medicine, but certainly gives us a powerful new tool in the arsenal and then yes, the by demonstration that full of people who actually know how to make government pork and two to two which Labourest apportion with what the pool and how to get massive numbers of doses into arms in a ridiculously fast way. So warm yes, we are bringing in Israel thereabouts, but we are arab threats of the world in an impressive and or five ways, so yeah. We should bet ourselves on the back yeah we really should and will you go back? I certainly don't wanna belabour the point, because I don't want to make a lot of people that

watch this show and don't want to hear anything positive about Donald Trump spit their cereal into the television set that you go back to June of two thousand twenty and they selected J J they selected, Pfizer, they selected Merk. They selected a z, and they selected modernity, and I remember one- they selected modernity. I wait who- It was a smaller companies. And that was in June, of twenty twenty, and if you look at what the So, first of all the selections we selected much better. The trouble. Illustration, like it much better than Europe, obviously and then you look what those companies did from Jonah forward to the end of the year. Come on. This is ridiculous. It's a miracle got everything, place. The Trump administration was just again. They said We don't know how to do this states you handle it. Biden comes in

nationalized wherever we're up to two hundred million? It's just really providing was preparing before he started during the can right, so they were preparing the logistics side of it, which even I think most Donald Trump supporters would say. Trump is not good. With he was not good with nationalizing this. He didn't know how to nationalize it. He didn't have the team to nationalize it. But again you look at the selection process. Trump administration selected the right companies. Obviously a lot of countries across the world did not double down, as Jean said, bought a lot of the vaccines and then these companies just went is Unbelieva. Evil. The warp speed, yes, if they went at Then Biden came in and figured out how to get it across to we're doing so much better than Europe right now, we're doing so much better than almost every other country across the world. It's a real change in what we

we're seeing a year ago on just about every other metrics and all the metrics question about this. Is there historic and there will be books written about it there, another already documentaries being made about how quickly this vaccine was researched, developed and produced and distributed and you're right. It's not a political statement to say that warp speed set this. Motion, was an effective piece of the process, because that's what public health experts say that The ceo of these pharmaceutical companies say that the trap administration? got out of the way effectively and let them do their jobs and then, of course, the bid administration came in and put its foot on the gas and got these produced and distributed incredibly quickly. So now, we've got more than fifty percent of adults in this country are vaccinated it's a big number, but there's a bunch of the country that says it's not even going to get the vaccine so that something we still have to grapple with, but for the moment can pause and say this is an extraordinary.

Achievement by Americans. An extraordinary achievement by the world that took yes, a couple of presidential administrations and some genes in the world of sight, its and medicine. Let's turn in Minneapolis, now less than twenty four hours after a jury, convicted former police officer, Derek Chauvelin in the death of George Floyd, the Justice Department. Has opened its civil rights investigation to determine what the cities, law enforcement officers engaged in a pattern or practice of police, sing that violates the constitution or federal civil rights laws. Here The attorney general merit Garland yesterday announcing that investigation. Yesterday's verdict, the state criminal trials does not address the truly systemic policing issues in Minneapolis. Investigation I announcing today will assess The Minneapolis police Department engages in a pattern or practice of using excessive force, including during protests.

The investigation will also assess whether the mpg engages in discriminatory conduct and whether it's true of those with behavioral health disabilities is unlawful. Strongly believe that good officers do not want to work in systems that allow bad practices good officers, welcome accountability because account turkey is an essential part of building trust with the community and public safety requires public trust. These civil investigation will include a comprehensive review of the Minneapolis police policies too. Supervision and use of force, sagacious. It will use both community and police input to make findings and recommendations for change. The Justice Department also has a, separate criminal investigation into George Floyd's death maker

former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvelin, is now in a twenty three hour a day: solitary confinement after being led out of court. In handcuffs on Tuesday fall, his conviction for the murder of George Floyd, the forty five world faces forty years in prison for kneeling on Floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes, a spokesperson for Oak Park its prison. The maximum security facility says Jovan is being in an isolated wing for his. On safety You know what its ban several days tv pundits, and politicians have gotten the best way to get crag with far left is say: oh this meant nothing. This was not a bit. In fact this was a defeat. This is horrible. This I mean it is

it denies the fact that, actually how quickly the jerry was out and how quickly they came back and denies that fact law enforcement officers testified against another law enforcement offer. So in a way that I believe is, is historic and these type of hope. I profile cases. But I thought that you or I thought that that Europe add was very moved by? It was very much by your op ed coming into this, because I was very nervous that there might not be a guilty verdict and you basically, you wrote, though the experience was so much more personal and inspiring to you. I still I you're kind of writing. My concerns, which is telling the media stop saying this is a done deal. This may not be a done deal and then what you wrote a couple. Go with. That was beautiful, which, as you know, why this shit and feel like a victory this

be obvious to everybody that this was going to happen, but it was an obvious, and so yes, it does kind. You feel like a victory talk about your emotions as you're going through this and what you wrote about in the post so movingly yesterday. Well, look at the case itself. The murder Selves name is twenty nine second caught on video from multiple angles, including them most striking, being filmed by turn our Frazier passer by who, where the presence of mind to two to just hit record again- and you know you think about would have happened. Had she not done that you think about what the initial Police Department statement about George?

boys death was which set at zero assessment with their evening and pursuing was in medical despite the distress and die. And no one fired. A weapon was being said that that was how they describe it and a man. You know I thought of all the times before, when police officers who used excessive in deadly force against African Americans, especially but others as well, I m all those officers were were given more than the benefit of the doubt they were given. They were, they were given that Blue amounted to a free, pass and antiquated, and you couldn't I couldn't get

all of that. Out of my mind, and so even in this most obvious of cases to me, it would justice prevail. Would the see what the rest of us saw some clear away and some gas. It feels it feels like an enormous relief, but also it does feel like Three am am really the question and operators in question about bad. I think the question going forward. It is that of what do? What does this mean future than it needs? This galvanizing sort of watershed moment is is this the equivalent of damage tills, killing and his mother's? This

in order to show that the bed than to have the open casket, so the world could see what was done. The her son, on which much had an enormous impact, on the struggle it is this tat kind of moment or or will it If we look back and say that it didn't initiate that sort of wonderment change that waiting and a meagre. We have to talk about how to This is why unfortunate Jane, and I and well all of had been talking through what happened with travel. Martin and then what happened to the person who killed him and and we could go through what happened in in North Charleston, just is sickening a video as you'll ever say, and then what what happened on Staten Island

I'm not going to say we, because I can't remember exactly what you all said, but I said from the beginning: you look at that video tape and Eric Garner was murdered. He was murdered we said it in real time. Anybody that looked at it could say he was murdered and yet Eric and his family didn't get justice, they did not get justice, so so I feel comfortable hearing people say that justice was in fact serve the other day. And because it was in this case in case one case at a time, one court room at a time. That's how change happens and it certainly is also happening with merit. Garland in say where they announcement that he made yesterday that so positive announced with his wealth but All those who said I knew this was going to happen. They're lying they're, lying to you. If they said oh, I knew I was you to be convicted.

Lying to you and you can't trust and because you can't trust anything, they're gonna say if they're going to lie to you about that behind. However, one person coming on their share, saying it's gonna be three guilty, so nobody hundred percent nobody dares down, but they lied afterwards because they wanted to minimize it go back and look at what happened to the era. Garner. Look at the fact that he was murdered for simply selling cigarettes on the street and see that actually, it's okay, It's ok. You can say it differently, For this week, we took a step forward at least in this one courtroom with with these twelve juror justice, was served and a man who murdered. Their man out of the world's eyes, with the entire world watching was held account

people for their actions. I dont know what you want to call that I will tell you what we call here in Amerika. We call that justice that now, needs to be replicated in duplicated. That means, but to become the example that- needs to be the rule and not the exception, and I think fared, also say: there's a lot of other work that needs to be done and fair, but it doesn't take away from what happened in this case. And Senator TIM Scott. The republican point person for police reform is expressing expressing optimism that a deal is within reach the bill now didn't George Floyd's honour pass house in March, but has stalled in the Senate due to a lack of republican support. One of the outstanding issues. Qualified immunity which protects officers from being sued, demographics, Rats want to eliminate it but republic and say the move would hurt recruitment

Scott Propose is allowing lawsuits against police departments instead of individual officers. Another sticking point chokeholds democrats want them banned out right. Scott wants to study the issue. Democrats also want to prohibit police departments from getting unused military gear, but Republicans opposed arguing, not all items are lethal, and are necessary for disaster response response and Scott says a deal could be reached within the next two or to one and Joe women. This is another. Full sign. I know that you know when you get into the weeds of it. It can be very frustrating between Democrats and Republicans, but the hope is that there are I'll be legislation that comes out of this moment history and what a wonderful? What a wonderful example set said if the deal that was done, the bipartisanship

damn with this issue. Sound sign, obviously there some sticking points there, the military gear I saw I some feel like that, can be compromised on liability in the immunity maybe they can split that halfway right now it seems me and it just my god I'd love to hear what what you think right now seems to me that show colds would be a sticking point for Democrats are Democrats if they want to deal Democrats are going to have to compromise and they're going to have to give. I just have a feeling then be more willing to give on those. Are two issues more so than my son's That is actually the qualified immunity portion of it. That's gonna the biggest sticking point right. The whole idea here is: how do you provide more transparency to police and one of the ways you do it is you either have a more activist

I'm real justice has received here with mere garland going and looking at what happened in Minneapolis similar toward it s called her did with Baltimore Ferguson, but the other thing is just using and opening up the legal avenues for holding police accountable. The tips a solution of going after whole police department is posted The drafters I don't know if that's gonna be enough to satisfy them, cracked, it's something! in the direction of where they were it's more in the direction of where they were then just getting rid of the issue entirely, but you're here is this all right. It's! How do you make sure that police misbehave? If firstly, was Karnak, you have the mecca. Is available to all those officers accountable and I'll. Just say this. This does correspond with what we saw which- and I think the most important are the show and was seeing an officer the fight against another officer in Maybe a naive. I thought that was the biggest most important moment.

The trial and that it could provide potentially a template, or at least a permission structure for officers in the future, to call out the data was in their forces. There was two ways, is bitter gone or could have an immense back ass for the wrong sir testifying to convert war. They could sit yeah, you did the right thing. You made the right call. You spoke out and that's what happened here and hopefully in invite other officers do the same when they see misconduct among their peers when they see something all right, and so this is under the rubric of accountability. That's why I find it really is gonna, be that sticking point it's worth pointing out Joe because it so rare nowadays that actually have Democrats and Republicans working in good faith, and this issue TIM Scotsmen, leading that republic inside of it in the Senate. Since two thousand fifteen, I think SAM says it is qualified immunity, republican, say police office just archivist. I'm up for the job if they know that they can personally be sued for what happens on the job. Ten Scott says: let people sue the police depend

rather than the individual officer. So if can get around that there actually is hope that there could be some kind of bipartisan legislation on reform here, but progressives and Democrats in the Congress, they don't want this bill to be too watered down by Republicans as across the finish line realm if they want the daily? the compromise me they can pass all the bills they want to pass in the house and make all the progressive as happy as they want to that's their right there in the majority but when they go to the Senate, big enough to figure out it's a fifty fifty and I'm just hoping that that men and women of good faith Both sides can figure out a way come together because this is such an important issue and I will say that if, if instead suing the individual officers. You use the approach that senator

doing, I can tell you if you're suing entire police departments in their being sued for millions and millions of dollars. There are a lot of these municipalities. It simply are going to have trouble, affording that being able to pay those judgments. So that will put pressure The police department have more reasonable, more restrained, more war, rational approaches to law enforcement, and that will, I think that TIM Scott Approach actually could create a culture that that provides for better policing and and really pushes back at parts of of A department where you may have some more aggressive SAM said bad apples than that. At a certain way. All right. Still, I had on morning Joam more than one thousand people arrested in Russia after unauthorized

chest and support of jailed opposition leader Alexa Laval, Nay Programme have a very It is on the growing on rest, their plus Republicans John Kennedy asked Stacy, Abrams what she dislikes about Georgia's new voting law and she doesn't hold back here

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thirty one. Ass the hour alive. Look at the White House says the sun comes up over Washington a lot to deal with this morning. More than fourteen hundred protesters were around in Russia yesterday, according to Reuters for speaking out against the treatment of imprisoned, opposition leader, Alexei Laval, nay, in cities across Russia. Protesters demanded, Laval, nay, get access to his own doctors. This comes as co, allies say his health is rapid declining in detention. Among those arrested were a spokeswoman who was reportedly taken into custody at her home hours before protests began? One Sesar described yesterday's demonstration as a last gasp for a free ride,

We await an earlier the day. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a warning to the west in his annual state of the nation addressed in which he touted Russia's nuclear Arsenal and warned of a powerful response if any countries cross Russia's rent line. These reports- First public comments, since President Bind announced new sanctions on Russia last week in response to recent cyber attacks against the United meanwhile, politico is reporting the you is considering sending missiles and other weapons to Ukraine to help to counter Russia's growing military presence at its border. This is according to sources. Briefed on the matter that, of course, the border with Ukraine, Joe yet let's bring in right now, president of the Council of Foreign Relations, Richard a whose own world is reeling? Is heads reeling right now because you didn't believe the beginning of this this year, that it would be the next doing well and the Yankees in last place Richard. Are you going to be able to work through this this segment with the Yankees

using again last night and only with mass amounts of sympathy from you, Joe, which I now to expect You will will get that me me. I'm glad the next are finally winning my God. Let's talk about, Russia yesterday, Russia's president, obviously Vladimir Putin threatened the West, it some may. He should be more concerned about what's happening in his own front yard. Yesterday, thracians work or widespread, and the type that we aren't used to sing in Russia. What's going on there now you ve got genuine political protests. People are tired of the regime. A big part of this is covert Joe, the official numbers in Russia about a hundred thousand dead. But if you look at excess debts, it's more than three or four hundred thousand people who died at a Russia might be right along with India, less successful. Trailer worldly wrestling with over the economy has

not done well, it's totally dependent on oil and gas, so yeah these are real protests, and then it brings you to the question of what they're doing with with Ukraine and whether that's a blow whether that's a distraction. The honest answer is: none of us knows what Putin's intentions are, but he's clearly building up his capabilities, so you got these crises, one internal, perhaps, and one who is now proposing to his neighbor. The Washington, Post Jean Robinson's with us and has a question for you Richard Jean yeah Richard, is there the maintenance combination of of cs alarm. One perhaps invented for four Putin is You have any sense that that we may be coming to be of the Putin years, Russia were busy likely to survive then don't

continue, whereas the strongman leader of the nuclear armed with hollow state might Since he's got some running room, he still has security for since that are willing to do what they do is arresting also of people is willing to force at home and abroad with considerable impunity. So again, yet these regimes are brittle there. There, the day there not, but my guess is therefore for quite a while. I need the question: would Putin might be Jean? What comes afterwards? He stood up Do we not think to legitimize is rule. There is really no institutions. This is a club autocracy for actually think Russia faces something of an existential political crisis the day after Putin. I just don't know one that Richard. The scenes of navali supporters in the streets of Moscow are extraordinary, but we've seen them before. We've seen pro, over the years under Vladimir Putin. They have always been suppressed by

the regime. Is there any reason to think that something different is happening here in Russia? Not yet really is impressive these? These turn out that these people are stunningly courageous. What they're doing but the regime is clearly worried about what would happen if the bone becomes. The mortar, they don't want him to die in prison. My guess is they prefer to die in a hospital or simply to be out of the way. I'm not sure they thought all this through Russians were supposedly great chess players, I'm not sure they counted on the hunger strike and the fact that he could die. But at the moment No, I don't see a tipping point being recent again. What you really need to is some evidence that the security forces are unwilling to kill or arrest people and or at least I haven't seen a sign of that you Know- died during the Obama administration. President President Obama, those around him kept referring to. Russia, as a regional power, kept dinner

grading their strength mock, course Mitt, Romney, first suggesting that Russia was a geopolitical arrived one of the most significant and I've seen That is an attitude that his lingered in the media over the past six seven years. Could you just xx? to our viewers, how is more than a regional power. How they have Vladimir Putin has invested in his military, how they have invested inside, operations in a way that make them war. Then a regional power, but wouldn't so the United States, whom they see as an enemy, a global menace while they are there still, we are one of the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. They got a large conventional military which their willing to use, as we seen all too often insured. Or Ukraine cyber tools.

Does anybody know what, though one of the world's great energy powers, but again This is an incomplete economy, almost totally reliant on oil and gas. Russia has less than a hundred fifty million people, that's like fifty or sixty less than Pakistan is less than half the population. United states new possible the population of China. Obviously, the political system lacks legitimacy or institutions, but the dangerous their dangerous Putin is the embodiment of reserve these Eu Russia being badly treated by the world after the end of the cold war humiliation and he gets up every day, and you see the binding human, the binding human rights up assess the rule of law emphasis. He said this as aimed at him. That's why the get yesterday is so significant. It bit. Putin is beginning to feel a bit cage. A bit Breton talking about red lines and asymmetric responses. We have to be careful because he is somewhat cornered now with this domestic crisis and that's why-

I'm not a shine going some other people that he might not do something to distract simply because of his of his predicament. I would watch Ukraine, he has tape, abilities there and we can. We can you about his intentions all day long, but he clearly has capabilities that are far greater than anything. Ukraine can put up against them sir. Richard russian troops go into Ukraine as they already have. As I went in the Crimea as they went into Georgia, two thousand eight Americans have. Spotted american presidents have not responded, George W Bush to respond Two thousand and eight Barack Obama didn't on two thousand fourteen. What does binding due in two thousand twenty one. If he said even more troops and the Ukraine outside of the Crimea area, but what we can and we should go- go to Court Ukraine, defense directly. That would be a war. We don't have that kind of don't have the capability of the geography that we can perhaps send

great some more anti tank and anti aircraft weapons do brain. One thing we should think about this on the sanctions front ironic, given editors day, there's energy. If the United States were suddenly lift somebody, directions. We just shut on ourselves for oil and gas production that would bring the price down in the world that we, who Putin where, where it hurts and most, which is on the one part of his economy, that still functioning that's something new Administration needs to think about Richard thank you very much. I'm sure we'll be talking to you once again very soon about this. Let's bring in national correspondent at politico, Betsy Woodruff, who has reporting this morning on an invite. Negation into new suspected russian attacks on: U S troops, but what you have that's right. What we confirmed, is that Pentagon officials have briefed the very top members Congress, the gang of eight, which includes Your Pelosi and minority leader Mitch Mcconnell what they've told

as well as members of the Senate Armed Services Committee is that day. Have reason to believe you s true, station overseas, have been the victim. Of direct energy attacks and they suspect Russian. Maybe responsible for these attacks d, Did energy attacks are probably most commonly discussed in the contact the? U S and diplomats in Cuba in Havana who, over the last several years have reported very strange concerning and debilitating brain issues, whilst hey and, in some cases were pure to be a brain injuries, the way directed energy attacks work can very really dramatically and the tools used to injure people through this technology, Can we really small and portable? In addition, the symptoms people have when they are attacked. This way necessarily look the way someone might look if they were injured on the battlefield it sometimes

to tell what exactly is wrong with the victim so intelligence standpoint that makes this difficult so the Pentagon, in The- U S- intelligence community, to say with total certainty that they know for sure that the Russians attack true, in this way, what we do now is that Russians injured US troops in Syria last year when Humvee crashed into each other in a scene reminiscent as mad max and we the Russians have used dry, energy weapons in Syria, according to one US general who talked about how use this type of weaponry for the purposes of damaging: U S, electronic equipment and gps capabilities. What we also know now is that, because of what happening, to these US troops troops. There was enough concern at senior senior levels of the Pentagon that they reached the top members of Congress about the concerns have Another have investigated at them. SAM Stein, Jumpin Betsy, classic report,

my God, what a website you work for just incredible! Raising I have a question. Well, it's early. I had a question about when I read through the reporting last night in this mornin which is do we have any suspicion or knowledge about the motivation to remove by Russia does. Women in activities on time they they met with us, but why why go through Neuro weapon re like this. What is the actual impetus? we have here in doing this. Is it just pure provide provocation or something more to it?. What we know about Russia's behaviour over the last several years is that for particularly in Northeast Syria. It's been very regulatory involving US troops, sources in Syria, have been saying going back for quite some time at the right.

I've been increasingly aggressive have come as close as they can to the line of potentially engaging in some sort of kinetic attack on. U S, troops I would recommend people find some of the videos from last summer showing russian how these chasing american soldiers serve across. Some of these roads in northeastern Syria. It's really Galway It's very aggressive and provocative. So the fact of life. Engaging in this very aggressive and provocative ways is not necessarily new and it comes as the United States government is struggling with how to deal with russian activity and, of course, as one of the big energy questions just pointing back to what Richard has brought is, whether or not the Biden administration is going to take this moment to do one of the one of the limited non kinetic things the US government can do to actually dramatically curtail. Russia's energy relationships with Europe, which would be putting sanctions on the Nord stream to pipeline Russia's com.

Reconstructing to Germany, the Biden Administration has to rule out those sanctions, something Ukraine, have wanted for many years. The fact that it has happened yet signifies it's a tough too in point within the administration I bet emerging far. Thank you. Very much for your new reporting this morning will be following this and coming up the brother of George flaw

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FIG Lutes plus you'll, get a fresh take every morning from me start your day with MSNBC daily at MSNBC Com, a former Georgia senatorial candidate and voting rights activists. Stacy Abrams appear before lawmakers this week for a hearing on voting right. How did that it went pretty? Well, an inch, Canada or stuff at one point report center, John Kennedy pressed her on. How did that go? Well, she really. You know she knows her stuff. I think it went pretty well Kennedy pressed her on her stance against Georgia. New voting law. You know the one we ve been talking about four weeks asking her

to list specific provisions that she disagrees. Part of that go pretty good. Take a look to me. You you, your games! The Georgia bill, I gap right I'm against certain provisions that, yes, thank you ve, called it a racist bill. Am I right. I think they're provisions of racist. Yes, tell me specifically just give me a list of the provisions that you objective: I checked the provisions that remove access to the right about that shorten the federal run up from nine four weeks before we time the voter can request an absentee application slowly on army, are audio, is not real good. Here, so, could you start reforming? Certainly, thank you shortens the federal off period from nine weeks to four weeks. It restricts the time of voting

best in return and absentee ballot application. They were quite voter, Chad, a photo identification or some other form of identification that they're willing to surrender in order to participate in Asante ballot process. It struck me: that's that's where they're going back to two, not comparing signatures but devote already and as soon pointed out, we would come only. The fourth the nation to require voters What else? What else it eliminates? three hundred hours of dropbox availability. Ok, when it bans nearly all out precinct boats bans one I'm sure out of a van, nearly all out of precinct vote, okay, meaning that get to a precinct, and you are

line for four hours and you get to the end of the line, and you were not there between five and seven p m, because we are all over again every needs, no, not hypnosis It restricts the hours of operation because now, under the guise of setting, standardized timeline makes it optional for counties that may be may, not want to see expanded access to the right, though they can now limit their hours instead of those hours being from seventy seven there now from ninety, which may have an effect on voters who cannot vote during business hours during early voting limits. The idea. I get the idea, Willie. Why do people came around remaining her Matlock wouldn't be very disappointed. With Senator Kennedy. He of Oxford fan,

and also, of course, John Kerry supporter you just you, don't you don't ask the question. If you don't know the answer, especially if you're trying to set somebody up like a him that I'll tell you something, Elsa. Maybe it was just zere sucker suits it made him so darn polite with his witnesses. But Kennedy. He of Oxford, fame and giant. Former John carries a border. He kept trying to throw her off. He kept interrupt her. He we should expect you ve got an audio, probably explain it. She had cut it just seriously. This guy, I guess it out Matlock at Oxford, because

ensure made a mess of things for himself deadly willing. That was the definition of getting more than you bargain for at stake. The abs, calmly and coolly took through a lot more than he thought she knew, perhaps Jean Robinson, and that we went on like that. For a long time, Europe Stacy Abrams was confronted by Senator Kennedy, but also TED crews and other Republican. At her own race in two thousand eighteen asking about other laws in other states, you got the sense. Perhaps tourism, frustration that, because of Stacy Abrams Large that they no longer hold the majority in that body. Do Republicans yeah I exactly, and so they wanted to go after her, but you would think that they would have blurred by now that, if you're going to mess with Stacy Aber you better come correct, you better come with more than our Fo Matlock had

he hasn't. Yesterday, balance that was heard there was a riot. I was thinking the same thing that there is obviously stumbling male teach The Oxford debating Union about about dealing with powerful intelligent. You're, just going to arrange Demonian down. Basically, It was highly entertaining to watch. Well, actually, I was only a really great example for anybody who is sort of figuring out how to women develop their voices in this sea of how men do what they do. She was elegant, shows measure should kept coming back and she mode them down without lifting of You're kidding? A big question for SAM Stein is for anybody on this panel is why in the world, does anybody keep under estimating this woman? If you

think about it in terms of the way she turned out. The vote and George and the way she turned out the vote saved our country, You had any concern about Trump, I mean this it's not to be messed with in any way shape or form, and he was acting as if was dealing with some some like neophyte, He was kindly this arrogant. He was a moron, I mean Z? Actually Oxford, Grath, video, Michael she's only actually think of this woman who, whose job essentially to understand voting laws in her state women certain ways it. He actually think she would not understand the particulars of the scientists. It was a little confusing what he was getting. Obviously, he thought he had some sort of intellectual superiority, but this is literally her work

They do not expect that you know the actual element to lock to the broader point about under estimating Stacy rooms. Obviously, at twenty twenty was proposed. Innovation. Do it, I think, something else to discuss here, and this is not in any way to say These voting laws are not a malignant or anything like that, but oftentimes. When states do pass these restrictions on voting, they have a paradoxical back. They inspire or encourage or motivate people to go to the polls, because precisely they feel targeted by the state apparatus They look at and say, oh they don't want me to, but I'm going to just wait even more in line, in line to do so that could vary we'll be what happens in Georgia is not to say this lies a good thing, but it could be a motivating factor could prove state. Right yet again that she can organize

mobilize and get people to the polls precisely because she wants to counteract restrictive voting edges yeah, you know Clearly it really was. It was kind of sending and condescending again it said just such a misplaced talk, to a woman who knew more about Georgia. Voting laws. Probably Anybody else that would would be like a senator coming at me about Ribs Rhine are based. Cards are actually ass. Americans are legally countdown, Zion lawyer the important things here you just deal, you know, you're, really, don't ask me. I don't have an in built ass things in your brain for that stuff about about these voting laws. It was a it was. It was a week performance on his ball. She was prepared ass. She always as he wasn't simply and Joe the be like bill. I ask you for number four: in April of nineteen, seventy four and Casey Caissons top forty

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on television and american top forty count pounds yeah when he has all this room in this brain for this stuff. I have some questions number one song in nine hundred and seventy four, by the way why you don't have any room in your brain for perhaps the top of the hour and the break we just missed the way we work on conversation. We have now seven o'clock eastern time. Our world is facing some big challenges. Chuck Todd breaks them down every Thursday, a deep dive into a new topic. Instead of covering all the big stories. We're gonna cover what single subjects impacting american politics exploring and explaining the critical shoes that affect our future meet the press. Reports, Thursdays at Apt Eastern streaming on NBC News now and available next day on demand on Peacock