The idea that Russia invaded Ukraine two weeks ago “is an absolute myth,” says The Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr. “We have to acknowledge: Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.”
@carolecadwalla
@hari
“I'm yelling and screaming about the fact that we are on the cusp of a hot war.” Watch Lt. Col. (Ret.) Alexander Vindman’s passionate plea for the U.S. to take more action in Ukraine.
@MichelMcQMartin
@AVindman
“The algorithms built into Facebook are designed so that if you click extremist misinformation, it's going to send more of that your way,” says Ronan Farrow of the social media platform’s role in the Capitol insurrection.
@RonanFarrow
@MichelMcQMartin
@newyorker
Bill Browder, known as “Russia’s most wanted man,” weighs in on why Vladimir Putin chose to invade Ukraine more than 20 years into his leadership.
@WalterIsaacson
@Billbrowder
Japanese Breakfast frontwoman and "Crying in H Mart" author Michelle Zauner reflects on grief and the loss of her mother to cancer in 2014.
@biannagolodryga
@Jbrekkie
Alexander Vindman filed a lawsuit yesterday against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and other key Trump allies. He explains why he felt compelled to take legal action.
@AVindman
@MichelMcQMartin
One of India’s leading journalists, Rana Ayyub, continues to speak out against the Indian government despite consistently coming under fire for her reporting. Why does she want the world to stop calling her “brave”?
@hari
@RanaAyyub
Trump is currently facing 91 felony counts. Conservative lawyer George Conway tells Michel Martin one of those cases is a “slam dunk” against Trump.
@gtconway3d
@TheAtlantic
@MichelMcQMartin
“[Trump] is either going to become president, or he is going to spend the rest of his life in prison,” says George Conway, contributing writer at The Atlantic. He explains to Michel Martin.
@gtconway3d
@TheAtlantic
@MichelMcQMartin
“The only way to honor people we've lost...is to not lose many more people,” says Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to President Biden’s COVID response team.
@hari
@ASlavitt
“The fastest way to end this war, frankly, is to give the Ukrainians the weapons they need to win this war,” says
@PuckNews
’
@juliaioffe
. “Sometimes you just have to go all in faster.”
@WalterIsaacson
“It's an affront to me as an Indian, and as a daughter who's grieved, that a government or a government's supporters care more about how the New York Times or the Post or CNN or PBS is talking about them than about saving the lives of the people on the streets.”
@BDUTT
@Hari
“We are literally a country in which our children, our elderly, our churchgoers are gunned down, and our system says, This is the way, this is the price of freedom,” says
@HC_Richardson
. “We are in fact, experiencing a tyranny of the minority.”
@MichelMcQMartin
(1/2)
.
@anneapplebaum
, staff writer at
@TheAtlantic
, tells
@WalterIsaacson
how U.S. aid to Ukraine will change the military and psychological dynamics of the war. “The Russians are… suddenly facing a much steeper uphill path,” she says.
Alexander Vindman filed a lawsuit yesterday against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and other key Trump allies. He describes what the past two years have been like for him and his family.
@AVindman
@MichelMcQMartin
There will be no off-ramp in the Ukraine crisis, says Julia Ioffe of Puck News . “There might be a way to stop [Putin], but I don’t know that the West is willing to do this.”
@juliaioffe
@WalterIsaacson
#AdriftBook
author
@profgalloway
argues that America has entered into a “rejectionist, exclusionary...culture.” “That's not America,” he says. “We need to fall back in love with the unremarkables.”
@hari
@profgalloway
“I’m set for generations…This was a chance to have an impact.” Mark Cuban explains why he’s pouring his money and energy into a new company that aims to slash drug prices.
@costplusdrugs
@hari
@mcuban
Four to five weeks of sacrifice could bring the COVID-19 crisis under control in the U.S., according to former Obama Administration health official Andy Slavitt.
@hari
@ASlavitt
"What was done last night in the White House was a political rally. It further undermined the image and integrity of the court and that troubles me greatly." Watch the full exclusive interview with
@HillaryClinton
tonight on
#AmanpourPBS
. Check local listings.
"A failed attempt at a coup is always practice for a successful attempt at a coup," says Yale historian
@TimothyDSnyder
. "It's in that meantime ... that the other side, the people who care about institutions, have to learn lessons."
@amanpour
"To hear the callousness, live on TV, unfiltered, as President Trump tried to use addiction against the Biden family...is infuriating to me," says Kristofer Goldsmith, an army veteran who's struggled with addiction himself.
@hari
@KrisGoldsmith85
From 2014 to 2016 Putin weaponized misinformation against Ukraine and the West. “He got away with it in complete darkness,” Says The Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr.
@carolecadwalla
@hari
Four years ago, comedian
@robdelaney
lost his young son Henry to brain cancer—a life-changing experience detailed in his new book "A Heart That Works." He tells
@amanpour
how his family processed Henry's death the day they lost him: "We wanted to spend time with his body."
Today’s Republican Party is built on “fraud, fear, and fascism,” says DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison. "They are harder on Mickey Mouse than they are on Vladimir Putin.”
@harrisonjaime
@MichelMcQMartin
A recent USA Today poll revealed that roughly 46% of Republicans would go with former President Trump if he formed a party of his own. Former Lincoln Project senior adviser
@kurtbardella
explains why he's not surprised and why he thinks the party is broken.
@Hari
“Our concerns about the future of democracy are not hyperbolic.”
@jmeacham
on the importance of upholding the Constitution, maintaining America’s democratic ethos and learning from the past to chart a better future.
@WalterIsaacson
"Persepolis" author Marjane Satrapi explains how young Iranians feel about the current unrest in their country: "They want democracy...The biggest enemy of democracy is the patriarchal culture."
@amanpour
“We are literally a country in which our children, our elderly, our churchgoers are gunned down, and our system says, This is the way, this is the price of freedom,” says
@HC_Richardson
. “We are in fact, experiencing a tyranny of the minority.”
@MichelMcQMartin
(2/2)
While Ambassador Susan Rice disagrees politically with her conservative son, "Like a family, as a country, we are all in this boat together and we sink or swim together."
@AmbassadorRice
@WalterIsaacson
“I think becoming part of the Texas GOP is an abnormal lifestyle choice,” says Executive Director of the Republican Accountability Project Sarah Longwell on the new Texas State GOP platform and what it says about the Republican Party today.
@SarahLongwell25
@AccountableGOP
Charlie Sykes, conservative commentator and editor-at-large of The Bulwark, breaks down how the GOP's extremists have taken control of the Party.
@NPRMichel
@SykesCharlie
(2/2)
Madeleine Albright passed away today at the age of 84. In 2020, Albright joined
@WalterIsaacson
to reflect on the parallels between the pandemic and her childhood experience surviving WWII. Listen to her thoughts on war and resilience, which carry a new significance in 2022.
ICYMI, Ronan Farrow digs into the type of extremism present at the Capitol insurrection through his profiles of some of the participants.
@RonanFarrow
@MichelMcQMartin
@newyorker
“We see this time and time again: White men who fail upward while people of color and women are trying so desperately to just prove their worth and working twice as hard,” says author Ijeoma Oluo.
@IjeomaOluo
@hari
"All of these individuals, to varying extents, are people of whom their family members said, "We've heard them say horrific racist things." Ronan Farrow discusses the role race plays in the worldviews of some of the Capitol insurrectionists.
@RonanFarrow
@MichelMcQMartin
.
@camanpour
: "My toughest professional challenge over the past 15 years has been staying alive. But keeping the truth alive has been tough as well. Getting people to accept that truth does not mean neutrality, it does not mean moral or factual equivalence."
"The greatest existential threat to democracy lies from within. And it lies within the Republican Party," says former Lincoln Project senior adviser Kurt Bardella.
@hari
@kurtbardella
If the West had introduced sanctions against Russia years earlier, “this war would never have happened,” says the wife of detained Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza.
@ekaramurza
@WalterIsaacson
"They didn't care if those children found their parents ever again...Those children will never be okay," says Bridget Cambria, an immigration attorney and executive director of
@aldea_pjc
, on why the parents of 545 children at the border cannot be found.
@hari
@BridgetCambria8
Julia Ioffe on biological weapons conspiracies: American far right media and the Kremlin form an “ecosystem of mutual amplification.”
@juliaioffe
@WalterIsaacson
“Ukraine is facing a genocide,” says Yale professor Jason Stanley, who flew to Ukraine to teach a course on colonialism and fascism, and to learn more about Ukrainians' understanding of their complicated national identity.
@hari
"I do not share the optimism of the world that Omicron is mild,” says Dr. Ayoade Alakija. “I think that people are sick and tired of COVID and they want it to be over. But COVID is clearly not sick and tired of us.”
@yodifiji
@amanpour
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg: “I think that we ought to have funding that is specifically committed to reversing some of the harms in the past."
@SecretaryPete
@WalterIsaacson
"If you took up arms against the Constitution...you should not be venerated on public property." Historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Jon Meacham with some fascinating perspective on the removal of Confederate monuments with Walter Isaacson.
@jmeacham
@agordonreed
@walterisaacson
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk on how she reconciles working towards peace while advocating for more weaponry in the fight against Russia.
@avalaina
@hari
Former Lincoln Project senior adviser Kurt Bardella says the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans “is 100% the fault of Donald Trump.”
@hari
@kurtbardella
“When men see a powerful woman, they feel regressed to childhood because that was the last time they saw one,” says feminist icon Gloria Steinem.
@MichelMcQMartin
@GloriaSteinem
“He has no shame, no constraints, and in some ways, that brazenness remains his superpower because he’s often not called to account for it.”
@sbg1
on interviewing Donald Trump for her new book, “The Divider.”
@peterbakernyt
@WalterIsaacson
Russia’s attack on Ukraine is part of a larger trend toward autocracy taking root across the globe, with rules and norms no longer followed, says The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum.
@anneapplebaum
@MichelMcQMart
Michelle Yeoh made history last night as the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for best actress in a leading role. Last month, she joined
@amanpour
to explain what "Everything Everywhere All at Once" means to her: "The core is authentic, genuine love for family."
Who were the rioters at the Capitol on January 6th? Ronan Farrow's
@NewYorker
profiles shed light on three of the faces in the crowd. He spoke with
@MichelMcQMartin
about his findings.
@RonanFarrow
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" is in the running for 11 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Michelle Yeoh. She explains what the film means to her.
@amanpour
Sports journalist Jemele Hill calls former football player-turned-GA Senate candidate Herschel Walker “the most unqualified political candidate I've ever seen.”
@jemelehill
@MichelMcQMartin
California Surgeon General
@DrBurkeHarris
joins
@MichelMcQMartin
to sound the alarm on what she calls "the public health crisis you didn't know existed."
“We have decided that corporations are people and they're the ones that we have to save,” says "Post Corona" author Scott Galloway.
@profgalloway
@hari
Should Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz be held accountable for their role in last Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol? Sen. Jon Tester thinks an appropriate course of action ranges "anywhere from censure to expelling.”
@SenatorTester
@WalterIsaacson