Media Doubles Down on Double Standards, and the Russia and Ukraine Stalemate With No Path to Peace

Next Up with Mark Halperin

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News, Daily News, Politics

4.8 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mark Halperin begins the show by exposing the way the dominant legacy media is doubling down on their double standards, the false way they covered the Elon Musk salute compared to Cory Booker, and more. Then legendary journalist David Ignatius joins to talk about the stalemate and war of attrition shaping up between Ukraine and Russia, why there's no path to peace right now, why Putin is able to withstand the need for a ceasefire because public sentiment is in his favor, how Europe and Trump are reacting to the current situation, and more. And Sen. Jim Banks joins to talk about the threat of China, why he and Elizabeth Warren are completely aligned right now on the push against NVIDIA, whether America should accept Chinese college students, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome in everybody. Thanks for coming back to find out what's next up. I'm Mark
0:06.0	Cowperin, editor-in-chief of Tu-way, and your host to everything next up. Very grateful to you
0:10.7	for being part of this today. I'm going to talk a little bit about the media. I don't like doing it,
0:15.0	but I'm going to do it again. I'll find out why. David Ignatius of the Washington Post is here, one of the most impressive columnists in
0:21.7	American history. I don't say that hyperbolicly. Incredibly skilled journalist travels the world,
0:26.7	talks to top officials in the U.S. and elsewhere. He and I are going to try to unpack Ukraine
0:31.1	and explain what's going on and what might happen next. And then Jim Bank, Senator from Indiana,
0:36.5	we're going to talk a little bit of NBA
0:37.7	finals, a little bit of culture of Hoosier basketball, and then the threat that China poses.
0:43.2	It's one of the most important stories the United States is facing now and will likely face
0:47.3	well into the future. So that's what we have on tap for you today. I want to start by thanking
0:52.6	you for being part of this and ask you to help build
0:56.1	the audience for this program. We're still a new show and we're still looking to grow. So tell
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1:15.2	I was thinking the other day about the importance of building community around this show,
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1:27.7	Next Up Nation.
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