One thing that we're seeing from the media is that a lot of people are presenting evidence that turns out some cases to be old or faulty or fraudulent,

making bold claims about Putin's going to fail and Zolinsky is going to succeed or this and that.

And what we want to do is instead of making those bold claims, try to evaluate different arguments and kind of handicap them for the audience. The same reason why we're being very cautious now because we're not foreign policy experts,

nor are they in any particular way.

And it's really hard to stay up so early on what's really true and factual right now.

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics.

I'm Robbie Gupta.

I'm Corey Brayford.

And I'm Ricky Schlapp.

Well, we sure picked a week to take off.

Corey, where are we going to start?

Yes, a lot going on in the news.

Coming up, new updates from the CDC signaling major shifts in the state of the pandemic.

We'll talk through all those changes and new

studies that are once again blurring our best guess of where the virus actually came from.

President Biden nominates Katanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. We'll discuss that

pick and how it's been received in the media and in Washington. And Ravi will give us a quick

update on the setbacks to the Manhattan DA's investigation

into the Trump Organization. But, of course, we will begin with what's going on in Ukraine,

six days into Russia's full invasion. Putin's military, as of this recording, has been unable to

capture any of the major cities they expected to quickly overrun. Spirited resistance from Ukrainian

troops and civilians and some heroic leadership from the Ukrainian president all offer hope of the major cities they expected to quickly overrun. Spirited resistance from Ukrainian troops

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