Welcome to Potsade of America, I'm John Favreau.

I'm Dan Fyfer.

And I'm Ben Rhodes.

On today's show, Ben is here with us to talk about Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion

of Ukraine as well as the response from the U.S. and the world.

And later Democratic strategist and polster Selinda Lake joins to talk about the national

Republican senatorial committee's midterm manifesto, which includes raising taxes on more than

100 million Americans.

But first, check out the latest episode of Potsade of the World, where Ben covers the latest

in Ukraine with the Financial Times Moscow Bureau Chief Max Sedden and our good friend and

USAID Administrator Samantha Power.

Also check out hysteria where Aaron and Alyssa dive into a shocking pro-publica piece that

exposes states for sitting on $5.2 billion in welfare funds while Needy family struggled

to survive.

New episodes of Potsade of the world drop every Wednesday and hysteria drops every Thursday.

All right, let's get to the news.

Vladimir Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, saying that his goal is the demilitarization

and denatsification of Russia's peaceful Democratic neighbor.

The nuclear-armed dictator also said, quote, anyone who tries to interfere with us must

know that Russia's response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you

have never experienced in your history.

Massive numbers of Ukrainians have started to flee the capital and other places under

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