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I'm your host, Greg Sergeant. In a new book, journalist Bob Woodward reports that Donald Trump privately sent COVID tests to Vladimir

Putin at the height of the pandemic when many Americans

couldn't get them.

Woodward also reports that after leaving office, Trump had as many as seven private phone

calls with Putin.

All this drew a harsh response from Kamala Harris

who pointed out that Trump kowtows to authoritarians

like Putin mainly because he aspires to be a dictator himself.

All this highlights something that hasn't been front and center in this campaign, the direct

connection between Trump's authoritarian aspirations at home and the axis of autocrats

internationally that are rooting for him to prevail. So today we're talking to

Nicholas Grossman who writes about these very issues at the Bullwork

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