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🗓️ 23 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Okay, the president is calling himself a king, firing generals, empowering unelected oligarchs, and trying |
0:09.0 | to silence the free press. |
0:11.0 | And no, I'm not actually talking about Vladimir Putin. |
0:14.2 | The good news is the American people are starting to push back loudly against wannabe dictator |
0:19.0 | Donald Trump. |
0:20.2 | Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice is going to join me for an exclusive interview |
0:24.1 | to talk about all of it. |
0:26.0 | But there was chaos across Washington this weekend, as Elon Musk told every federal employee |
0:30.9 | to justify their jobs in an email or resign. |
0:34.6 | Former Labor Secretary Robert Rice joins to talk about this brazen effort to intimidate |
0:38.8 | and threaten the entire federal government. And later, I'll ask former Manhattan District Attorney |
0:44.2 | Sy Vance about the ongoing saga surrounding New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Spoiler alert, |
0:49.8 | it's not over yet. |
1:01.2 | Okay. |
1:06.9 | So tomorrow marks three years since Russia launched their full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
1:13.0 | And I remember very clearly where I was that night. I know Ali Vilshi was just talking about this too. And you may remember where you were. I was sitting in Jake Sullivan's office in the |
1:18.0 | West Wing, waiting for an update on whether the war had actually begun. Just weeks earlier, |
1:23.6 | remember, the national security team in the Biden administration had made this decision |
1:27.8 | to declassify information, including Russian plans to attack Ukraine in order for the world to |
1:33.9 | know what to expect and to kind of call them out. Point being, we knew it was Russia planning |
1:40.5 | to illegally invade Ukraine. The world did, even before it started. But that night in February, it was clear something was happening on the ground, and we were waiting for updates from the military on what they were seeing, not knowing at the time how long Ukraine could hold Kiev, how long Zelensky in his military could hold back the Russian forces. |
2:05.9 | But they did hold Kiev, and they have fought every single day since then. |
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