The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Tuesday, February 14, 2017 from Slate, it's the Gestai Mic Paska.

You know, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump might seem similar.

Strong, autocratic, both favorite advancing Russian interests throughout the world.

But I speak to you today less than 24 hours after National Security Advisor Mike Flynn was fired

for cooling into the ear of the Russian ambassador about sanctions.

Now remember when Trump staffers described not notifying key federal departments and members of Congress

about the executive order blocking immigration from seven nations.

And they dismissed that as perhaps we've disregarded niceties.

You went talking to the Russians, niceties abounded.

And remember the day after that conversation occurred, which Flynn's firing now confirms,

Putin chose not to retaliate for the US sanctions.

Let me remind you of the president's reaction that day.

We have just got a tweet from Donald Trump, his first public response since the sanctions that were issued by the United States against Russia.

And it's really a breathtaking tweet.

Here you have Donald Trump saying, great move on delay by Vladimir Putin, that is to say Putin deciding not to retaliate.

I always knew he was very smart.

It's easy to seem smart when someone sneaks you the answers to the test.

IE, go easy Vlad, we're going to go easy on you.

But will he keep going easy?

A Russian warship is 12 miles off the coast of Delaware today.

It's international waters yet the ship known as an AGI auxiliary general intelligence has advanced spying technology.

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