WTF Alert!!! Why MAGA is Rootin’ for Putin + A Conversation with David Corn
THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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With 100,000 Russian troops amassed at the Ukrainian border the world holds its breath at the prospect of war. But inside Fox News and the House Freedom Caucus, the GOP’s far right is rooting for Russia. It’s a weird turn of events that we’ll explain today on Mea Culpa. Later, Mother Jones’ David Corn joins the conversation to help Michael decipher then political tea leaves.
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| 0:00.0 | This is my Mayo Cop |
| 0:05.8 | This is my Mayo Copo |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, baby, don't lie for me. |
| 0:11.6 | If I tell you my story, don't cry for me. |
| 0:15.1 | I did my time that's fun by me. |
| 0:17.4 | This is my meo go, |
| 0:20.3 | this is Michael Cohen, and you're listening This is my Mayor Kope. |
| 0:26.5 | This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Kulpa podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | With over 100,000 Russian troops amassed at the Ukrainian border, |
| 0:34.2 | the world holds its breath at the prospect of war. |
| 0:40.7 | Unfortunately, what's happening at the moment is the result of years of appeasement on the part of Donald Trump towards Vladimir Putin, which is now strangely playing center stage with voices |
| 0:47.0 | from the far right siding with Russia over our Ukrainian ally. Ukraine is an incredibly |
| 0:53.2 | important country. |
| 0:54.7 | It's suffered probably as much or more as any country before and since World War II. |
| 0:59.3 | It's a hinge point to the west between Russia and Europe. |
| 1:03.7 | It is in Europe. |
| 1:04.7 | It's a country the size of France. |
| 1:06.1 | And as Ned said over and over, this rules-based order that we've had since World War II has kept the peace since World War II. |
| 1:15.0 | We are witnessing a strange thing here, folks. |
| 1:17.4 | The macho men of the right who could usually be counted on to angrily denounce communism, socialism, liberalism, and fucking ISM have now become appeasers of the worst order. Their admiration for |
| 1:32.0 | Putin and his authoritarian impulses are stronger than their desire to protect our democratic |
| 1:38.1 | ally. I think there's a political sickness in this country. There was this poll recently came out |
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