I would like to welcome Timothy David Snyder.

He is a historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet

Union and Studies, tyranny closely.

He is the author of On Tyranny, on Freedom, and more.

Timothy, welcome.

Before we get started, I want to put up some

reporting that came out today from The Daily Beast. Kylie, where you pop this up? Trump ally shocked

at president's psychological state and private meeting. A key European ally of Donald Trump said he

was traumatized by a meeting where the U.S. President's psychological state came across as dangerous,

according to diplomats with knowledge of the conversations. And this is the Prime Minister of

Slovakia, Robert Fico. Have you seen this or with your relationships with people in Europe, what do you have to say about this?

I hadn't seen it, but it's an interesting thing for FICO to be saying because FICO is a

right-wing populist and is very much aligned with Mr. Trump on pretty much every issue.

So it's not somebody who would be out to get Mr. Trump

on the contrary.

So I haven't seen it and I have no personal knowledge,

but that's a very striking bit of reporting for that reason.

Really interesting.

I said he thought the president was out of his mind.

Okay, I follow you on Twitter and I'm on Instagram and I really liked you had a post about,

I'm assuming you're referencing.

There was an article in the Atlantic recently where the journalist was like,

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