Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate.

Joining me is Glenn Greenwald. He writes at greenwold.com and is the author of the new book

Securing Democracy, My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro, Brazil.

Glenn, how are you? I'm good, Aaron. Thank you for inviting me. It's good to talk to you. Thanks for coming on. I wanted to

start with the Afghan bounty story, the Russian bounty story in Afghanistan. Can't do a segment

every time a Russia gate story collapses because it would just take too much time.

But this one I thought was particularly instructive and important.

We heard all summer that Russia was putting bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

It was a constant obsession.

And now, you know from this reporting in the New York Times, which has since been confirmed

by the Wall Street Journal, which has since been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, that not only does the president know that Russia was paying for American soldiers' deaths.

Get this. The Washington Post is now reporting that the alleged Russian bounties to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan are believed to have resulted

in the deaths of U.S. troops.

Like this New York Times story about a stunning U.S. Intel assessment, finding that Russia

secretly offered Afghan militants' bounties to kill U.S. troops.

Vladimir Putin is paying to put bounties on the heads of American troops.

The White House was warned about Russia offering bounties,

actual bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

He's not even there yet.

He's still suggesting that the reporting about the fact that there were these

bounties offered is fake. Meanwhile, your organization, the New York Times and others are getting

some fairly detailed reporting about how it actually works. Despite those denials over and over,

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