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@anneapplebaum
, staff writer at
@TheAtlantic
, tells
@WalterIsaacson
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@juliaioffe
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Alexander Vindman filed a lawsuit yesterday against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and other key Trump allies. He describes what the past two years have been like for him and his family.
@AVindman
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Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt: “The Democratic Party as a whole has done a horrendous job confronting the growing extremism in this country.”
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Is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political strategy working? The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson says, “It turns out the Republican base wants the crazy stuff.”
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There will be no off-ramp in the Ukraine crisis, says Julia Ioffe of Puck News . “There might be a way to stop [Putin], but I don’t know that the West is willing to do this.”
@juliaioffe
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Tom Nichols, staff writer for The Atlantic, tells Michel Martin why he believes Trump has crossed the line into fascism.
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#AdriftBook
author
@profgalloway
argues that America has entered into a “rejectionist, exclusionary...culture.” “That's not America,” he says. “We need to fall back in love with the unremarkables.”
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@HillaryClinton
tonight on
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. Check local listings.
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Ronan Farrow digs into the type of extremism present at the Capitol insurrection through his profiles of some of the participants.
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Today’s Republican Party is built on “fraud, fear, and fascism,” says DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison. "They are harder on Mickey Mouse than they are on Vladimir Putin.”
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A recent USA Today poll revealed that roughly 46% of Republicans would go with former President Trump if he formed a party of his own. Former Lincoln Project senior adviser
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of “Jesus and John Wayne,” describes the vision behind Christian support for Donald Trump: “Christians ought to have control of this country, and anybody who threatens that control is seen as an enemy.”
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@profgalloway
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"[America] wasn't founded on the idea that Americans are special. It was founded on the idea that tyranny is easy and democracy and republics are hard," Timothy Snyder tells Ana Cabrera.
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Russian pro-democracy leader and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov weighs in on the crisis in Ukraine.
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@HC_Richardson
. “We are in fact, experiencing a tyranny of the minority.”
@MichelMcQMartin
(2/2)
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@AmbassadorRice
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@SarahLongwell25
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Meryl Streep hopes her new film“Don’t Look Up” will inspire those connected to large corporations to take climate action.
@amanpour
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Charlie Sykes, conservative commentator and editor-at-large of The Bulwark, breaks down how the GOP's extremists have taken control of the Party.
@NPRMichel
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Madeleine Albright passed away today at the age of 84. In 2020, Albright joined
@WalterIsaacson
to reflect on the parallels between the pandemic and her childhood experience surviving WWII. Listen to her thoughts on war and resilience, which carry a new significance in 2022.
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“We are really living in…a post-privacy age.” Ronan Farrow explains the mechanics of Pegasus, the world’s most notorious spyware.
@hari
@RonanFarrow
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ICYMI, Ronan Farrow digs into the type of extremism present at the Capitol insurrection through his profiles of some of the participants.
@RonanFarrow
@MichelMcQMartin
@newyorker
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“We see this time and time again: White men who fail upward while people of color and women are trying so desperately to just prove their worth and working twice as hard,” says author Ijeoma Oluo.
@IjeomaOluo
@hari
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"All of these individuals, to varying extents, are people of whom their family members said, "We've heard them say horrific racist things." Ronan Farrow discusses the role race plays in the worldviews of some of the Capitol insurrectionists.
@RonanFarrow
@MichelMcQMartin
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Congratulations to
@camanpour
on being named one of the 30 most impactful TV Newsers of the past 15 years
#AmanpourPBS
.
@camanpour
: "My toughest professional challenge over the past 15 years has been staying alive. But keeping the truth alive has been tough as well. Getting people to accept that truth does not mean neutrality, it does not mean moral or factual equivalence."
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If the West had introduced sanctions against Russia years earlier, “this war would never have happened,” says the wife of detained Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza.
@ekaramurza
@WalterIsaacson
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"The greatest existential threat to democracy lies from within. And it lies within the Republican Party," says former Lincoln Project senior adviser Kurt Bardella.
@hari
@kurtbardella
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"They didn't care if those children found their parents ever again...Those children will never be okay," says Bridget Cambria, an immigration attorney and executive director of
@aldea_pjc
, on why the parents of 545 children at the border cannot be found.
@hari
@BridgetCambria8
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Speaker Pelosi says President Trump is "impeached forever, branded with that and not vindicated."
@camanpour
@SpeakerPelosi
@TeamPelosi
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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (Ret.) is suing four of Trump's closest allies.
@MichelMcQMartin
@AVindman
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“Ukraine is facing a genocide,” says Yale professor Jason Stanley, who flew to Ukraine to teach a course on colonialism and fascism, and to learn more about Ukrainians' understanding of their complicated national identity.
@hari
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"She was a badass," Greta Gerwig and
@MichelMcQMartin
agree regarding "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott.
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Julia Ioffe on biological weapons conspiracies: American far right media and the Kremlin form an “ecosystem of mutual amplification.”
@juliaioffe
@WalterIsaacson
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.
@chrisinsilico
joins
@hari
to discuss his new book and his time spent working at Cambridge Analytica
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg: “I think that we ought to have funding that is specifically committed to reversing some of the harms in the past."
@SecretaryPete
@WalterIsaacson
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“He has no shame, no constraints, and in some ways, that brazenness remains his superpower because he’s often not called to account for it.”
@sbg1
on interviewing Donald Trump for her new book, “The Divider.”
@peterbakernyt
@WalterIsaacson
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“When men see a powerful woman, they feel regressed to childhood because that was the last time they saw one,” says feminist icon Gloria Steinem.
@MichelMcQMartin
@GloriaSteinem
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"If you took up arms against the Constitution...you should not be venerated on public property." Historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Jon Meacham with some fascinating perspective on the removal of Confederate monuments with Walter Isaacson.
@jmeacham
@agordonreed
@walterisaacson
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"Fascism is lawlessness in the name of law and order," says Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley.
@jasonintrator
@hari
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Former Lincoln Project senior adviser Kurt Bardella says the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans “is 100% the fault of Donald Trump.”
@hari
@kurtbardella
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Russia’s attack on Ukraine is part of a larger trend toward autocracy taking root across the globe, with rules and norms no longer followed, says The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum.
@anneapplebaum
@MichelMcQMart
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Michelle Yeoh made history last night as the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for best actress in a leading role. Last month, she joined
@amanpour
to explain what "Everything Everywhere All at Once" means to her: "The core is authentic, genuine love for family."
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Who were the rioters at the Capitol on January 6th? Ronan Farrow's
@NewYorker
profiles shed light on three of the faces in the crowd. He spoke with
@MichelMcQMartin
about his findings.
@RonanFarrow
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"Everything Everywhere All at Once" is in the running for 11 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Michelle Yeoh. She explains what the film means to her.
@amanpour
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Sports journalist Jemele Hill calls former football player-turned-GA Senate candidate Herschel Walker “the most unqualified political candidate I've ever seen.”
@jemelehill
@MichelMcQMartin
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California Surgeon General
@DrBurkeHarris
joins
@MichelMcQMartin
to sound the alarm on what she calls "the public health crisis you didn't know existed."
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"And once you fully understand the climate crisis, you cannot un-understand it." -
@GretaThunberg
to
@camanpour
#WednesdayWisdom
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How does coronavirus compare to other pandemics throughout history? Nicholas Christakis joins
@hari
to discuss.
@NAChristakis
#COVID19
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“We have decided that corporations are people and they're the ones that we have to save,” says "Post Corona" author Scott Galloway.
@profgalloway
@hari
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Conservative lawyer George Conway joins Michel Martin with incisive analysis of Trump's legal woes and how they are shaping his campaign.
@gtconway3d
@TheAtlantic
@MichelMcQMartin
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Should Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz be held accountable for their role in last Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol? Sen. Jon Tester thinks an appropriate course of action ranges "anywhere from censure to expelling.”
@SenatorTester
@WalterIsaacson
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Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt: “There’s a battle for control of the MAGA empire.”
@SteveSchmidtSES
@MichelMcQMartin
@ProjectLincoln
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