From New York, this is Democracy Now.

As the war in Ukraine approaches its 17th month, we speak to two reporters who have closely

looked at the role played by neo-Nazis in the war from the Az-Off battalion in Ukraine

to the anti-Putin Russian militia that attacked Russian targets in May.

It's the Az-Off exception where we go either way to celebrate these people.

While at the same time, we are screaming that the greatest existential threat to America

is white supremacy, where every anti-Semitic remark, everything that could be said is

gets immediately amplified, gets immediately, oh this is horrible, we need to take care of

this, while at the same time, we're inviting neo-Nazis to Congress.

But first we speak to longtime national security reporter William Arkin about the CIA's

secret role inside Ukraine and how the agency is shutling weapons to Kiev using a quote

gray fleet of commercial aircraft.

His new piece in Newsweek is headlined the CIA's blind spot about the Ukraine war.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the war in peace report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Donald Trump said Tuesday federal prosecutors have informed him he's the target of a justice

department criminal investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Trump made a similar announcement shortly before Jack Smith filed criminal charges over

Trump's mishandling of classified documents.

In Florida, the Trump-appointed federal judge overseeing the classified documents case,

Tuesday appeared skeptical of Trump's request to delay the trial until after the 2024 election.

But Judge Aileen Cannon also appeared unlikely to approve a request by federal prosecutors

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