All right, it's officially been a month now. And to his credit, President Trump waited almost an entire month before doing a 180 on U.S.-Russia relations.

Trump had a nice long phone call with Vladimir Putin about a week ago. Ukraine was not invited.

My call was perfect.

And then on Tuesday, Trump blamed Ukraine for being invaded by Russia.

And then, to top it off, on truth social yesterday, he called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky

a dictator without elections. Shortly thereafter, on that same website, Trump called himself a king.

Totally cool, normal stuff. But you might be old enough to remember the United

States being on Ukraine's side of this war. On today, explained, we're getting used to this

new normal, being BFFs with Russia. And we're going to start with the person Trump has put in

charge of U.S. intelligence, a Russia sympathizer with no intelligence experience to speak of named Tulsi Gabbard.

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