JOINING US NOW IS STEVE SCHMIDT,
FORMER REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST,
AND COFOUNDER OF THE LINCOLN
PROJECT.
STEVE, DONALD TRUMP OR READ THE
WORDS THEY PUT IN THE
TELEPROMPTER FOR HIM, SAYING
THAT THE INVASION OF UKRAINE
WAS BAD.
BUT HE DID NOT RETRACT HIS
COMMENTS ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN
BEING A GENIUS.
E >> THE LEADING AGENTS FOR
VLADIMIR PUTIN, HIS GREATEST
CHEERLEADERS, COME FROM THE
AMERICAN RIGHT IN THIS MOMENT
OF GREAT WAR BEING COMMITTED
AGAINST THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE BY
VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN
MILITARY.
>> LET'S LISTEN TO WHAT'S
SENATOR TOM COTTON SAID
YESTERDAY, TRYING TO GET HIM TO
RESPOND TO DONALD TRUMP CALLING
VLADIMIR PUTIN A GENIUS.
CALLING THE INVASION GENIUS,
WHICH IS TO SAY THE KILLING OF
INNOCENCE IS GENIUS.
LET'S LISTEN TO THAT WENT.
>> WHY CAN'T YOU CONDEMN CALLED
DONALD TRUMP FOR THOSE COMMENTS?
>> GEORGE, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW
DONALD TRUMP THINKS ABOUT
VLADIMIR PUTIN, OR ANY OTHER
TOPIC, ODD ENCOURAGE YOU TO
INVITE HIM ON HIS SHOW.
I'LL SPEAK ON THE BEHALF OF
OTHER POLITICIANS THAT CAN
SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
>> I FEEL QUITE CONFIDENT THAT
IF I BORROW BEAUMONT OR JOE
BIDEN SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
YOU'D BE THE FIRST IN LINE TO
CRITICIZE THEM.
>> AGAIN, GEORGE, IF YOU WANT
TO TALK TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT
ABOUT HIS VIEWS, YOU CAN HAVE
HIM ON YOUR SHOW.
>> STEVE, I THINK I COULD
ACTUALLY FEEL THE FEAR IN THE
AIR BETWEEN GEORGE
STEPHANOPOULOS'S QUESTION MARK,
AND THE FIRST AWARDS TOM COTTON
COULD BRING HIMSELF TO SAY.
>> THIS ISN'T JUST A GREAT
NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS, A
GREAT GLOBAL SECURITY EVENTS,
THIS IS THE DEFINING MORAL
ISSUE OF OUR TIME.
WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, LAWRENCE,
WITHIN A LIVING LIFETIME OF THE
END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
IT WERE WHICH KILLED 100
MILLION HUMAN SOULS AROUND THE
GLOBE.
40 MILLION OF THEM, UPWARDS OF
40 MILLION OF THEM, RUSSIANS.
THE AGE THAT WAS ENDED BY THE
ENDING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR,
FOR THE LAST 80 YEARS, THE
WORLD, FOR ALL ITS FAULTS, HAVE
TRIED TO AVOID THE SCENARIO.
THE GREAT POWER ACTING
AGGRESSIVELY TOWARDS A SMALLER
NEIGHBOR, TRYING TO WIPE IT
FROM EXISTENCE.
AND THE UKRAINIAN NATION HAS
SIGNALED QUITE CLEARLY THAT IT
WILL NOT BE WIPED FROM
EXISTENCE.
THAT IT WILL FIGHT.
AND SO, WE SEE BABIES BEING
BORN IN SUBWAYS AND BOMB
SHELTERS.
WE SEE OLD WOMEN PREPARING
MOLOTOV COCKTAILS.
WE ARE REMINDED, SUDDENLY, THAT
THE COST OF FREEDOM IS VERY
HIGH.
AND IN THIS COUNTRY, WE'VE ALL
WITNESSED, AND IT DOESN'T NEED
DEBATING, A FIFTH COLUMN THAT'S
GIVEN AID AND COMFORT, THAT'S
FETISHES TO VLADIMIR PUTIN,
THAT DISSOLVE THE AMERICAN
DEMOLISHED DEMOCRACY WITH LIES.
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ALL AROUND
THE WORLD IN THE STEVE BANNON
PROJECT KNOW EACH OTHER.
AND WOULD THEY ALL SHARE IN
COMMON IS THAT THE TOP OF THE
PYRAMID, THE MAN THAT THEY
WORSHIP, THE MAN THEY IDOLIZE
IS VLADIMIR PUTIN, WHO IS NO
GENIUS, HE IS A WAR CRIMINAL.
AND HE HAS LET LOOSE THE FURY'S.
WE'RE IN THE FIFTH DAY OF A NEW
ERA.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL DIE.
THE HUMAN MISERY THAT HAS BEEN
SET LOOSE BY THIS MAN'S HIGH
TIDE DECAY LATE.
THE SITUATION WILL BECOME
GRAVER AND WE WILL WATCH IN THE
DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS AHEAD AS
THE WORLD SITUATION
DETERIORATES, KNOWING THAT
AROUND THE WORLD, ALMOST IRONIC
TURNED THEIR BACK ON PUTIN,
EXCEPT FOR THE AMERICAN RIGHT.
BACK ON PUTIN EXCEPT
>> THEY GET INTRODUCED BY
SOMEONE WHO SAYS --
A NEO-NAZI WHO IS COMPARING
PUTIN TO HITLER.
AS IF THIS IS A BAD THING, HE
LAUGHS AND GETS IT FROM HIS
AUDIENCE ABOUT IT.
THEY HAVE COURSING THAT BEING
COMPARED TO WHERE IS THE
GREATEST, THE MOST POSITIVE
COMPARISON ANYONE COULD
POSSIBLY HAVE.
THEY ADMIRE VLADIMIR PUTIN FOR
ANY COMPARISON TO HITLER.
AND REMEMBER THE UNITED STATES
CONGRESS WALKS RIGHT IN AFTER
THAT, STANDS UP AND --
THEY JOIN IN WITH THAT GROUP.
>> A NEO-NAZI TODAY, HE WAS
LAUGHING BACK PEOPLE GET
SEGREGATED TO DRINK OUT OF
SEPARATE WATER FOUNTAINS.
MARJORIE --
SEVERAL DISGRACES BEYOND
REDEMPTION AND A HOUSE
REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE.
I'M SYMPATHETIC TO ANTIPATHIES
WORKLOAD.
I WISH IT MAKE THEIR MOVE TO
EXPEL MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE, WHO HAS VIOLATED EVERY
WHO HAS VIOLATED EVERY
CONCEIVABLE LE DRIAN AND THE
INSTITUTION IS COMPLETELY --
OBJECTIVE STANDARD PACKING.
THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA CAN HOLD
ANOTHER SPECIAL WASHINGTON D.C.
TO REPRESENT THEM.
>> AND SO STRIKING BY THE WAY
TO SEE THAT FEAR AND TOM
COTTON'S EYES WHEN ASKED TO
DISAPPEAR DONALD TRUMP ON
TELEVISION.
ON THE VERY SAME WEEKEND THAT
WE ARE ARE SEEING A KIND OF
HEROISM IN A POLITICIAN BUT I'M
NOT SURE WE HAVE CNN LIVE
TELEVISION COVERAGE.
WE'VE NEVER SEEN AND LIVE
COVERAGE OF A WAR.
PRESIDENT SALONS GAME STAYING
IN UKRAINE EVEN OFFERED AN
OPPORTUNITY TO SAFELY ESCAPE
SAYING, I DON'T NEED A RIDE,
AND IT AMMUNITION.
THAT'S A LINE THAT WILL HAVE
FOREVER IN THE HISTORY OF
COURAGEOUS LINES OF LEADERS AND
MORE.
THAT CONTRAST WITH THESE WEAK
QUIZ LINKS IN THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY IS JUST A STUNNING THING
TO SEE.
>> IT SURE IS, AND ONE
ZELENSKYY HAS SAID IN THIS
REMARKABLE, MAGNIFICENT MOMENT
OF LEADERSHIP IN FRONT OF THE
WORLD.
THIS MAN IS BEING HUNTED.
VLADIMIR PUTIN SEEKS TO KILL
HIM.
HE IS NOT LEFT HIS CAPITAL.
THERE'S A DECENT CHANCE THAT HE
WILL DIE THERE.
BUT THIS MAN, AT A MOMENT OF
MAXIMUM DANGER THE MESSAGE HAS
BEEN TO HIS PEOPLE INTO THE
ENTIRE WORLD, WE NOT AFRAID.
ON THIS AGE OF COWARDICE AND IN
THIS AGE OF WEAK MEN AND
SELFISH MEN AND WOMEN, PEOPLE
WHO PUT THE SELF INTEREST ABOVE
PRINCIPLES, ABOVE THE DEFENSE
OF THE BIRTHRIGHT THAT THEY
WERE GIVEN.
AND DEFENSE OF THE MAGNIFICENT
GIFT OF FREEDOM THAT IS PAID
FOR WITH SUCH SACRIFICE.
THIS MAN HAS REMINDED ALL OF
THE WORLD ABOUT THE COST OF
FREEDOM, THE DANGERS IN THE
WORLD AND HIS HONOR, DIGNITY,
COURAGE AND SHAME.
SO MANY AMERICAN POLITICIANS
AND I SUSPECT SO MANY OTHER
POLITICIANS AND DEMOCRATIC
NATIONS WHO HAVE BECOME PART OF