>>> RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE
HAS MANY CONSEQUENCES.
ON THE HUMANITARIAN SIDE, THE
MOUNTING DEATH TOLL WE HAVE BEEN
COVERING TONIGHT.
MILLIONS OF DISPLACED REFUGEES.
ON THE GEOPOLITICAL SIDE, A MORE
UNITED EUROPE AND NATO IS
EMERGING, PLUS THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION AND THE CONGRESS
AGREEING ON SOME KEY FOREIGN
POLICY GOALS LIKE CONFRONTING
PUTIN WITH THE MOST SEVERE
SANCTIONS HE'S EVER FACED AND
BACKING UKRAINE WITH MONEY AND
WEAPONS WHILE STILL DRAWING THAT
LINE AGAINST ANY U.S. BOOTS ON
THE GROUND.
NOW, THAT RECENT SET OF
BREAKTHROUGHS WAS NOT GUARANTEED
IN AMERICAN POLITICS.
FOR ONE REASON, THE RIGHT FLANK
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS
ACTUALLY SPENT YEARS WARMING TO
VLADIMIR PUTIN AND EVEN
MISLEADING AMERICANS ABOUT THE
FACTS OF PUTIN'S RECORD AS A
REPRESSIVE DICTATOR WHO MURDERS
OPPONENTS AT HOME, ATTACKS
NEIGHBORS ABROAD, AND DIRECTED A
SUSTAINED ATTACK ON AMERICAN
DEMOCRACY THAT YOU MAY RECALL
DREW 25 CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS OF
RUSSIAN OPERATIVES IN THE
MUELLER PROBE.
INDEED, BOB MUELLER PROVES
PRINGS
PRESCIENT IN WARNING ABOUT THESE
THREATS FROM RUSSIA.
RELATIVELY QUICKLY, THIS WAR HAS
ISOLATED PUTIN ACROSS MUCH OF
THE WEST.
IT ALSO HAS SOME AMERICAN
CONSERVATIVES AND REPUBLICANS
BACKING AWAY FROM THEIR TRUMP
ERA PRAISE OF THIS MAN AS
CONGRESS MOSTLY BACKS BIDEN
POLICIES.
ANYONE CAN CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
BUT THE WORDS AND POLICIES OF
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND SOME OF
THESE INFLUENTIAL VOICES REALLY
MATTER.
AND THEY REALLY SHAPED SOME U.S.
POLICY AND PUBLIC OPINION OVER
THE PAST FEW YEARS.
AND GIVEN THAT SO MANY OF THESE
RIGHT WING ASSERTIONS WERE ABOUT
PUTIN'S SUPPOSED PROWESS OR HIS
STRENGTH AND COMPETENCE, OR
QUESTIONING WHETHER HE REALLY
POSED A DANGER TO THE WEST,
WELL, BECAUSE THE FACTS MATTER
RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A FACT CHECK
REPORT WE PREPARED FOR YOU.
WHICH LINES UP SOME OF THOSE
CLAIMS WITH WHAT RUSSIA HAS
ACTUALLY BEEN DOING OVER THESE
PAST THREE WEEKS.
AND A NOTE, AS WITH MUCH OF OUR
COVERAGE OF THE FACTS OF THIS
WAR, SOME OF WHAT YOU WILL SEE
IS DISTURBING.
>> AN HONOR TO BE WITH YOU.
THANK YOU.
>> BEING SO CHUMMY WITH THE MAN
WHO HACKED THE U.S. ELECTIONS.
>> VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS MADE HIS
DECISION TO INVADE UKRAINE.
>> IT'S NEVER BEEN PROVEN THAT
HE'S KILLED ANYBODY.
>> VLADIMIR PUTIN AUTHORIZED A
SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION IN
UKRAINE.
>> THE RUSSIAN ASSAULT ON
UKRAINE BEGAN WITH MISSILE
ATTACKS ON KEY TARGETS.
>> PUTIN DECIDES WHAT HE WANTS
TO DO, AND HE DOES IT IN HALF A
DAY.
>> VERY CAPABLE.
ENORMOUS RESPECT FOR HIM.
>> THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A
LEADER.
>> A HORRIFIC ATTACK ON A
CHILDREN'S AND MATERNITY
HOSPITAL.
>> MAYBE PUTIN DID GET HIS
OPPONENTS KILLED.
HE'S ARFORMER HEAD OF THE KGB.
BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, WHO'S OUR
REAL ENEMY?
>> FOUR CIVILIANS INCLUDING TWO
CHILDREN WERE KILLED OVER THE
WEEKEND.
>> RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES.
>> JOURNALISTS TRIED TO HELP THE
CASUALTIES.
>> DO YOU RESPECT PUTIN?
>> I DO RESPECT HIM.
>> RUSSIAN TROOPS TARGETED
CIVILIAN AREAS WITH NO MILITARY
FACILITIES NEARBY.
>> PEOPLE DASHED FOR THEIR
LIVES.
AS RUSSIAN SHELLS RAINED DOWN.
>> PUTIN'S A KILLER.
>> A LOT OF KILLERS.
WE HAVE A LOT OF KILLERS.
YOU THINK OUR COUNTRY IS SO
INNOCENT?
>> NOTHING WRONG WITH TAKING
INFORMATION FROM RUSSIANS.
>> IS HE TRYING TO SNUFF OUT
CHRISTIANITY.
DOES HE EAT DOGS?
THESE ARE FAIR QUESTIONS AND THE
ANSWER TO ALL OF THEM IS NO.
VLADIMIR PUTIN DIDN'T DO ANY OF
THAT.
SO WHY DOES PERMANENT WASHINGTON
HATE HIM SO MUCH?
>> RUSSIA CONTINUES TO KILL
PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO ESCAPE
FROM UKRAINE.
>> THESE ARE THE ONES WHO DIDN'T
ESCAPE THE RUSSIAN ONSLAUGHT,
AND THEY'RE ALL CIVILIANS.
>> PUTIN AIN'T WOKE.
HE IS ANTI-WOKE.
>> THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE STILL KNOW
WHICH BATHROOM TO USE.
>> A BARRAGE OF MISSILES HIT
KHARKIV, UKRAINE SAYS KILLING
DEFENSELESS CIVILIANS.
>> VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS BEEN A
STRONGER LEADER IN HIS COUNTRY
THAN BARACK OBAMA.
>> REFUGEES HAVE FLED THEIR
HOMES WITH SCENES REMINISCENT OF
WORLD WAR II EVACUATIONS.
>> WE GET LIKE NETANYAHU, PUTIN
IN.
I WANT SOMEBODY TO GET IN HERE
AND GET IT DONE RIGHT.
>> APARTMENT BUILDINGS IN KYIV
WERE TARGETED AGAIN OVERNIGHT.
>> AN INFERNO, RUSSIAN SHELLING
HIT THIS MARKET.
>> THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WE COULD
NOT SAVE.
THIS BRAVE DOCTOR SAID.