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Robin Wright, contributing writer and columnist for The New Yorker and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, joins to discuss the latest developments in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including whether there's a real threat behind Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear saber-rattling...
Russian attacks on Ukraine reached a new high point this week, with an ever-increasing number of shellings on civilians and children in major Ukrainian cities. The New Yorker’s Robin Wright joins Chuck to get a first draft of how this moment will go down in Russian history...
Russia’s attacks in Ukraine are escalating and on Wednesday, it was announced that the first city in the country had fallen to Russian forces. Although the U.S., European Union and several countries around the world have imposed harsh sanctions against Russia, President Vladimir Putin, his top advisors and several wealthy Russian families, the death toll is rising as forces continue airstrikes and ground assaults on the Ukrainian people...
New Yorker columnist Robin Wright joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss whether Vladimir Putin’s nuclear war threat is an “epic bluff” as the war in Ukraine drags on and the humanitarian crisis there worsens...
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor analyzes the Russia-Ukraine war on 'The Claman Countdown.'
As Russian forces continue to target Ukrainian nuclear power plants — with Europe’s largest plant, Zaporizhzhia and Chernobyl already under their control — the alarm has been raised. In a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, U.S. intelligence officials said the world is facing an increased nuclear threat...
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns of “humanitarian catastrophe” if NATO does not close the air space over Ukraine, Russian airstrikes hit a maternity ward causing pregnant women to be rushed to safety, disturbing videos appear to show school staffers kneeling on students’ necks in two separate incidents and the woman accused of being a Russian spy is charged in the U.S. as the FBI says she met with American politicians...
1:18 Robin Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News, Foreign Affairs and many others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa and several years as a roving foreign correspondent worldwide. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. Until 2008, she covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post...
William Taylor, former ambassador to Ukraine, Tuesday night joined Andrew Natsios, director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School, and more than 400 attendees to discuss the Ukraine-Russia crisis...
As the war in Ukraine continues, the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M hosted a virtual discussion with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor to provide his insight on the conflict. Taylor serves as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine under three different presidents, first from 2006 to 2009, then again as acting ambassador from 2019 to 2020. Over 400 people joined a virtual event to hear his views and expertise on the conflict in the country where he once served as a top diplomat...