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This is Sunday morning. The whole world is watching. It's been a week of chilling news from Ukraine that tells a story that Europe has lived through too many times before this morning on the rock has a history lesson about the country that seem more than its fair share of what you if history is any guide, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is more than a landgrab.

The attempt to eliminate Ukrainian nests and the sense of a separate identity in the sense of nationhood has really been a Russian policy since the 19th century it was a czarist policy later was Stalin's policy and now it's Putin's policy, the long dark history of two countries coming up on Sunday morning. Then it's on to Martha Teicher this morning.

Will be taking us to a restaurant in an unconventional location steeped in history, offering a menu that is world-class. Once this was Savannah's segregated Greyhound bus station, turning it into the gray and award-winning destination restaurant took serious soul-searching about race by the unlikely business partners who made it happen.

It was hard as our later this Sunday morning. Their recipe for overcoming a past. Some would sooner forget actor Ryan Reynolds has his hands in a wad of things they can do romantic comedy. You can play a superhero time travel buddy took some time out to talk with our Tracy Smith so Margaret Ryan Reynolds knows all about being the sensitive guy, very and now is the father of three daughters helps at home. What have you learned from being in a house full of young women. It's really good for me specifically because it forces you to talk about. Thanks for talk with us about his new movie and are ahead on Sunday morning. David Martin talks with two former CIA agents about a time not so long ago when a difficult decision might've changed the course of history. Chris Van Cleave is a New Orleans sampling Mardi Gras royalty.

The king cake plus story from Steve Hartman and more on this Sunday morning February 27, 2022 will be right back.

What were seeing is not new. Ukraine is long and bloodied history nation call between East and West Asia and Europe. We have a history lesson from a rock and then I'll have more on Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Since its independence in 1991. Ukraine has made many hard earned gains and try to lose at least one little thing when I was growing up we called Ukraine what is that change Ukraine use of that I think was a reflection of the fact that people were quite sure what Ukraine was and Ukrainians, especially in the last 30 years, made a great push to get English speakers to stop doing because to them, they find that patronizing Pulitzer prize-winning historian and Apple Brown has written extensively about Russia and Ukraine. If Ukraine is a country it has its own state now it's not the Ukraine.

Anymore than you would save the Russia or the Germany or the France, not according to Russia's Pres. Vladimir Putin those stable state who hasn't been building Ukraine all but denies that Ukraine is its own country. It is an inherent part of our own history, culture, spiritual space, Russia and the country. It often calls its little brother can claim common parentage, way, way back in the late Middle Ages. There is a civilization: key routes based in Kyiv, both Russia and Ukraine trace their origins back to that state that civilization is said to have been founded in the ninth century by Vikings but it's of course many centuries ago, and much as happened since then that sent you the Vikings also had a role in the creation of England and the coast of France and it's a very long time ago the Vikings today claimed ownership of France.

It would be kind of dubious claim, right, and enough air. It's as dubious for the Russians to claim control of Ukraine as it would be for the Vikings to claim control over Ukraine are indeed over France or England. Fast forward to 1793, when the bulk of what is now Ukraine became part of the Russian Empire under Catherine the great. Ukraine was little bit like Ireland used to be within the United Kingdom. It was a subordinate part of a greater whole of the greater empire during the revolution that ushered in the Soviet Union. Ukraine fought for independence.

It lost and in 1922 was subsumed into the communist state that it was a separate entity from the beginning. It always had its own language. It always had its own status inside the USSR within a decade, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Fearful of an independent minded, Ukraine brought down the hammer.

He had decided to take the land away from the peasants and give it to the state and very quickly. There was very strong opposition to that Ukraine, Stalin would brook no opposition. The atrocities that began in 1932 would come to be known as the whole of the more Ukrainian for extermination from hunger to the holy war was an artificial famine. That means that it was a famine caused not by crop failure or not by insects or drought. It was a famine that was created by the Soviet state, local activists went from house to house in rural Ukraine and confiscated food. The idea was to take every last scrap of food and they knew of course that that meant people would die and they they anticipated that would happen between 1932 in 1933, some formulae and Ukrainians starved to death in a 1984 documentary one survivor recalled the horror they saw a child taking a stalk of wheat trying to eat those unripe grains. That was a very serious crime. This was a government order to punish anyone, even to death by execution people survived by eating prologues, toads, mice, the bark of trees. Is it true that some people resorted to cannibalism. Yes, it was actually recorded by the authorities at the time. And of course that means that in Moscow people knew that there was cannibalism. Ukraine yes a second wave of Stalinist terror involved the arrest and murder of Ukrainian intellectuals, artists, even writers of dictionaries. Is it right that they eliminated a letter from the Ukrainian alphabet.

Yes, they change the way the language was written so that it would be more similar to Russian you mentioned so many horrific details that detail I find so humiliating to take the language in expunge a letter. The attempt to eliminate Ukrainian nests and the sense of it of a separate identity and the sense of nationhood has really been a Russian policy since the 19th century was a czarist policy later was Stalin's policy and now it's Putin's policy. Putin believes that an independent sovereign democratic Ukraine is a threat to him personally into his personal power. One thing that Putin genuinely fears is grassroots democratic movements and the most important way that he can push back against them is to eliminate that Ukrainian state are a lot of Ukrainians today thinking, not again. There's a famous poem by Shevchenko, the Ukrainian national poet called calamity.

Just as we were beginning to get along. Calamity strikes again.

It's democracy was solidifying its sense of nationhood was growing stronger and now this disaster has the phone and this feeling that they may be dragged back into some horrific Stalin era or czarist era nightmare must be tormenting a lot of what is different from his predecessor, Pres. Boris Yeltsin as any two political actors could be Yelton believed in democracy for Russia Vladimir Putin just pretended he did during his more than two decades, in Pound's anger and disdain for the West as consumer and yet on the world stage largely kept the little most people believe that he was pragmatic and he certainly believes and grievances against the West, but he was very careful in the way into a stent is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and is one of many who been sensing that something in Putin has changed two years of isolation during the pandemic maybe affected him in reality is somewhat less than it was before court.

He's more of a risk he's grown more resentful, more isolated, more erratic, more furious and almost everybody and everything before becoming the editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick covered Russia for the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for his book women's to the last days of the Soviet empire.

If you had just one word to describe Vladimir. What would it be my think at this point isolated politically isolated from contrary advice isolated as much as he can manage it from his own population and isolated from reality was a young KGB officer stationed in East Germany in 1989 when the Berlin wall came crashing that sought to follow the Soviet Union a short time later as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. It was as if he himself had been humility takes all this personally will yes we all two things personally but we don't invade countries. As a result was virtually unknown in 1999 when he rose to power quickly set about killing is a dynamic charismatic leader Vera hardly mocks strength and power everything. Every interlocutor comes from another country to meet with him is made to wait two, three, four, six, seven, eight hours it's all about this kind of novel that he's writing in his head he's going toe to toe now with five US president while growing more uneasy seeing it as a screw sweeping closer to Russian sphere of influence. Any form of public uprising matter how small the West behind pulling the strings and that he was the ultimate target for flights is a noticeable strike first in first 1999. He called on the Russian military to attack separatists from the Russian republic of Chechnya, branding them as terrorists deserve no mercy, and he gave when gay-rights protests erupted in the lead up to the 2014 Winter games Sochi sought is an attempt by the West to embarrass him during his big moment. The crackdown was relentless it was that same year, Putin invaded and subsequently annexed using the unmarked Russian troops came to be known as the little green men, but even then some worry that that occupation was just a morsel, it wouldn't satisfy his appetite power is full-scale attack on Ukraine this past week. Will Vladimir Putin's hung shows no sign of abating. This is a disaster and it's a disaster this unfolding every day and it's a chapter that will be written in blood. You might not expect an old bus station in Savannah to be one of America's hottest restaurants.

But Martha Teicher will make a pit stop to visit the gray test is what brings tourists to Savannah Georgia historic district and develop South caught in a picturesque storybook time for a few blocks away is the gray Greyhound destination restaurant in this destination city with a very different story to tell about Savannah's past. The story of a reckoning with race. I was just thinking about what this place used to be a segregated bus terminal behind us was the colored entrance in the cold waiting room. This is what it looked like when it opened in 1938, not the back.

John L. Marciano transplant from New York City bought in 2012 and decided to turn into his idealistic dream of what a restaurant could be in my sort of simple thought process, but I was a white guy in a black woman would be my perfect counterpart to running this place before the meeting. I thought am I going to be assembled here at my going to be a living, breathing political statement because I didn't want to trained in France machine, Bailey was a sous chef in New York City working for a prominent woman chef John oh, a media entrepreneur with zero restaurant experience approached her about becoming his partner in the gray we talked about poor checks right and we both realize that our grandmothers both cooked poor checks and that was a that was a common moment for us. It's nice to come back and see what it what what it is now versus what I remembered as a child and this is the house and this is the house and although she was born in New York, Michelle, had actually lived in Savannah for six years as a child in the building.

The building you guys have to work with a building mission, once would've had to enter by the back door about being comfortable about moving with purpose and thinking ahead. The gray opened in 2014.

The loaded history of the place part of its identity but John oh and Michelle, avoided any discussion of race that question really came home. When we had our tragic event here where you know that was where we really had to confront it because it was unspoken it was, it was unspoken.

I was often the only white person. The tragic event informed Schama the Gray's Gen. manager Scott Waldrop run down by three young men fleeing a shooting in 2017 know how much I trust the data valid so I called in the night sky was a huge part of the gray I answered the phone and she just was apoplectic.

Kind of like, you know, wailing and hard to make out and everything. Maybe we started to really see each other as partners. At that point you know it's like in tragedy and in trying times.

Figure out who were in short I used to walk to school. This way I walk to school every morning with started then you still is a conversation I group my plan work.

Yes, your plan was awesome. FYI Schama swears she didn't rescue a Greyhound because of the restaurant had some à la carte by the time John oh asked her to collaborate with him on a book about the gray they trusted each other enough to face head on everything.

Both of them had until then left unsaid, and I want to talk about race want to talk about our my feelings about race and I didn't want to talk about his feelings about race and what happened. We talked about race there was Schama and John oh, accompanied by John and his wife Carol rented an apartment in Paris and the book took shape was like a six week long therapy session about ownership, pride, pain, fear, confusion. It was really about opening those in dealing with them was I that guy who was talking a good game about progress, diversity, women's empowerment, because there was nothing at stake. Why would you hate us. If we have nothing that you want that dialogue would become the book black, white, and the gray was this part of my racism. My legacy that remained hidden away in my unconscious. There is always a question of intent when black folks and white folks do business together. The emotion was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be an Schama can talk about how many times I cried home anytime she cried was less than the restaurant is there safe space now and then I found that this part of the world have to offer.

I'm doing some cream colored I never lease every glance, the other the sweetness of the in 2019. Schama Bailey won a prestigious James Beard award and is up for another this year for cooking that continues to pile up accolades and bloated pieces preconceived notions about what Southern food is the gray is surviving opened a painting hangs above the most visible table there's a Greyhound bus and it black people are sitting in the front lights in the back and we had more than a handful of people walked out of the restaurant before ordering because they were offended by the picture is quietly provocative, just like the conversation, Schama Bailey and John oh Morris Serrano have dared to have. I don't think the shaman are fixing anybody's problems. I don't think were fixing Savannah's problem to solve problems. America's problem were not even fixing our own problems. What were really doing is just creating a dialogue and almost like a safe space for dialogue between each other and that's the best we can do.

You know, I think this is intelligence matters with former acting Dir. of the CIA. Michael Morel bridge Colby is cofounder and principal of the Marathon initiative project focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition states put her mind to something, we can usually figure it out what people are saying and what we can know analytically and empirically as our strategic situation or motor situations not being matched up with follow. Intelligence matters were ever you get your podcasts there called shadow warriors small band of CIA agents who carry out the dangerous work of covert missions. Martin sat down with to the best to talk about life undercover Rick Prado would work is returned from the CIA wanting as well as he calls himself a mediator is not talking about this look like a meteor. Well, it's once you retire you can put all the stuff of a wolf. Sometimes you have to play horrible tools of the trade here yeah like knives because they scare me so freely scare everybody else to.

So what would have probably spent 24 years with the CIA and has written a book called black ops life of a CIA shadow warrior begins in Cuba when Fidel Castro came to power and sees the Prado's coffee roasting business customer crackdown really really hard family gathered for a final dinner together before putting their 10-year-old on a plane to the US by himself. Imagine putting your only child on an airplane to a country that you've never been to, with no guarantees you a girl be able to follow for freedom in this orphanage until his parents made it out. Eight months later and settled in Hialeah, Florida in 1971 he joined the Air Force and became a pair rescue. I loved the feel of the somewhat hard to get out Vietnam was going. My dream was sort of, you know, so the war amount here exactly no no real mission. He found his mission in the CIA working undercover with anti-Communist rebels or jungle camps in Honduras. What was your job. I was the only CIA officer operating the kids all the training that they got I was the one conducting that for them the best overhead: contracts and like him. They had fled a communist revolution, this one in Nicaragua and were trying to take back their country so the Congress for your kind people.

I love I saw what that communist octopus monster did to my family. What he did to my country to be here helping these individuals who have faced the same monster doesn't get me more basic than that you took a group of lobster divers and turn them into frog men who grew up appear under Nicaraguan port. Here I am little Cuban guy and now I just cut off symbols tentacles of the dam octopus Sandinista dictatorship of Nicaragua with full Cuban Soviet bloc support the kid from Cuba was the point man in what became known as the Reagan doctrine support for freedom fighters is self-defense. Some coffers were accused of a trust.

These guys were definitely bad.

There were the exception. The majority of the cultures that I work with were simple God, loving the very religious going in harms way just to together country back, it all came out when the CIA plane was shot down over Nicaragua and one of its crew, a former Marine was Forcing the teacher would go out to shake that which you have anything that compromises had all kinds of stuff. So that blew the whole program out of water. Small bowl holders to help so it was very demoralizing not only for me for for everybody that was involved in the station could something so good go so wrong that the Department of Defense help circumvent Congress and the law as part of the weapons for conference deal mushroomed into the biggest scandal of the Reagan administration's findings when Rick Prado's name never surfaced still undercover. He stayed on the front lines of the CIA's black ops against communist insurgencies in Peru and the Philippine I got called up the headquarters by our office of medical service. They wanted to do a psych eval me of why I was going from danger posed a danger posed as to whether to tell the psychiatrist. I believe in what I'm doing and I'm good at what I do and I am trying to pay back to the bad guys. What they did to family and wall in the collapse of combination. The bad guys were changing 1995. Prado was assigned to track the rising financier of terrorism named Osama bin Laden Prado had never heard of him but he had heard of the CIA operative who had been watching bin Laden is only one Billy why the world now 92 Billy wall is a legend in the world of black ops took the CIA's first surveillance photos of bin Laden. Back then, was living in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan planning pictures on this photo is if you're close enough to take those kind of pictures are you close enough to show them yes sir and we requested it many times you can put that down or killed every day of the week was main target was this man a notorious terrorist known as Carlos the jackal who'd orchestrated the spectacular kidnapping of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna in 1975 he was the world's most wanted man living in Khartoum where wall found him and took these pictures were taken from the fifth floor of my hideout and he's across the street from the jackal was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. Bin Laden remained a free man was very thought to trying to take bin Laden out.

Yes, of course. Unfortunately, the political fortitude wasn't there. It we could have kidnapped him with a time we were not allowed to do so. Obviously, if bin Laden had been taken off the landscape. A lot of history would been very different. CIA can't just go around the world. Kidnapping every fledgling terrorist. So when you say there was was the political will should serve in the political will, I think so and I'm not saying that we should kill bin Laden at the time, but abducting him in getting an interrogation incident see what he would cough up a thing that would've been something doable and justifiable. Three years after 9/11 Prado retire frustrated. The CIA had turned down his plan for going after terrorists. How do you justify a target being taken out by a drone but they reported by the fact that you're willing to put a bullet in the same single person's head and that's why a retired lifetime income, a lot of people listen to you and say Great American and the people who listen to you and say wall who let that guy's who didn't let that guidance and what would been the difference if we would've taken up bin Laden when he was in Khartoum Kansas are 9/11 would've not happened Mardi Gras. It offers us a brief diversion from the less than happy events of the day so we sent our crisp and clear to the big easy to dig into fat Tuesday's favorite food. The royal dessert they call the king cake. It's not as if you Orleanians never needed an excuse to party but after two years of covert the two months of indulgence known as carnival cruises on I declares the scene pretty well so after the last year Mardi Gras is that rate and traditional sweet treat only at carnival time in the Crescent city every Friday at school reading can cake every day in office break out of the parade route with your friends and family think it is everywhere.

When writer Matt Haynes moved from New York to New Orleans five years ago. He was determined to find the very best king cake in town. Some research I realized there are hundreds and hundreds of cakes out there, so I figured I would try the mind of having 88 of them that year and curious what made you go I need to eat 8018 cakes this process that I would've done more but are only lasts a long eternal that caloric heavy lifting into what he says is the first ever book about King cakes.

I'm not sure everyone realizes how diverse of a place nuances every single cake has a unique baker who has a unique story and every cake is an extension of that story. The king cake dates back centuries to ancient Roman festival celebrating the solstice adopted by Christianity versions are still found throughout the world. Most Louisiana King cakes are adorned with purple green and gold and almost all of them come with a tiny plastic baby baby has to bring the next is a great tradition for you guys grabbing one of these case echoes out the ordering every Carnival season. The Caywood brothers, Nick and Kenny Junior along with the rest of their family and Haywood and Randazzo's need braid fill fake ice and pack 50,000 cakes with 50,000 babies hidden inside pretty hard work for the big easy, but they sell enough King cakes during Mardi Gras to close for the rest of the year when can cake season is done when fishing for nine months month and the other three month crazy business just down the road at Dong Fong bakery there working around the clock under the watchful eye of counter trend trend fled Vietnam after the war and settled in New Orleans daughter Lynn suggested they start selling King cakes after Katrina, we wanted to give up something that the baby phone is ringing and that first year they sold only about 100. Now they can barely keep up 2018 bakery became king cake royalty earning the prestigious James Beard award.

All of this, its estimated new Orleanians eat about 750,000 cakes every year.

Not so hard to believe when you consider everything that qualifies as a king cake. We have a nontraditional in her La Vie En Rose Café Kirby Jones pays homage to her Creole roots with two offerings sweet Rose flavored cake and a savory cake stuffed with crawfish do you get challenged because this doesn't look like a king. Hey my name down the road thinking clearly, Don Creole while working on his book writer Matt Haynes discovered endless ways bakers can make a king cake, but only one way with a lot of people you're not supposed to eat pancakes by yourself. You're supposed to share it thinks are delicious, but the fun part about it is sharing Carnival season with everybody. That's what makes it special.

That's what normal is in wetlands and found himself playing both Ron, her tribes and menacing superhero's latest film is all about finding himself, Tracy Smith is our Sunday profile playing it cool is really your thing. Never has been, you ever wished you could go back in time for a do over your head and read one February 10, 2000 Netflix film project. Ryan Reynolds is a time traveling fighter pilot from the future crash land in 2022 and meets the person he spent years trying to outgrow his 12-year-old South Franklin to go 45-year-old Reynolds also produced the film along with director Sean leave for both. The story was resistible.

This idea you could go back and actually meet your inner child actually meet the self you used to be. What would that be like for you, what would that be like for that kit in the movie both versions of Adam get the chance to make peace with their long-lost dad played by Mark Ruffalo that my jacket looks a little tight on time to look like a condom with buttons you for the real life Reynolds. The notion of sorting out emotional baggage with one's father all hits very close to home.

Reynolds is the youngest of four boys from Vancouver, Canada.

Their dad was a former cop who ran a very tight ship to paint this picture that it was like horrible place to grow up, but it was very tense and I did because of your dad. My dad was a very tense guy and you know he's to serve describes like a skin covered landmine.

I attribute some of the wind in my job from that perceptive watch carefully for danger and you know is an adult I can really come in handy.

Can we be friends. Reynolds has been in more than three dozen films and being a sensitive guy often made him a natural to play the sensitive guy, like in 2009's the proposal opposite Sandra Bullock, Margaret from comms put Ryan Reynolds on the Hollywood map. This is what made him a global superstar. I share let's count them down Deadpool with Reynolds. Is it just figured superhero in a mask was a monster hit after setting limbo years you fought for more than a decade to get that movie made what you tell yourself through those years you know it wasn't like I was without a broadsword heading up that they held to fight my way through the executives again. It was new leadership would come in and go do the song and dance wasn't there a moment where you sign a cam to stop doing the song and dance like this is just not can happen for me. Yeah, I think it was about a year and 1/2 before we got the green light for the movie before he gave up completely test footage of the movie was leaked on the Internet, wondering why the red Dragon delete fans went crazy help convince film buses to give Reynolds the go-ahead to make the real movie Deadpool wanted to made more than 1.5 billion box office dollars but Reynolds says that like his character in the movies. His self-assurance is just an act.

So you've talked about struggling with anxiety yet had anxiety like whole life really and you know it's Thursday.

I feel like I have two parts of my personality would want to take over when that happens, when I would go out on like Letterman back in the day, nervous that I remember I was standing backstage with the curtain would open and I would think to myself and can die literally die here for the curtains and opened it. I just cannot escape your symphony of vomit. Horrible it happened, but it says that curtain opens and this happens in my work a lot to this little guy takes any psychic please welcome Ryan Reynolds feel like my heart rate drop and my breathing calm and I just this different person and it's like I believe that interview guide love to be that guy.

Wow I love to be that guy that Ryan Reynolds yeah maybe no one else would I write out there, it's Ryan Reynolds here with the deal from it mobile to tell him he's more than all right. Besides his flourishing movie career.

Reynolds also has stakes in businesses like a cell phone company so that a proposed gene maker and a Welsh soccer team's recent film free guy was a huge hit. This is first time working with director Sean Leavy after a famous buddy insisted they meet your matchmaker with Hugh Jackman and men on the dating site Q.com Ryan and if I ever work with will never stop. The minute we first met on free guy, it was gangbusters there actually neighbors in New York and they have a few other things in common Reynolds with his wife, actress Blake lively has three daughters Leavy and his wife Serena have four.

You said that your coincidentally neighbors. You moved across the country.

I never got moved across the country to be closer to my mere features strongly a few great movies out of it's all worth it east to like the opposite of the Donner party to be so smart and well maybe he can't actually time travel.

Ryan Reynolds has come a long way to you mentioned that your 12-year-old self could see you now what he would think you give yourself a moment to step back and look at where you are and if so, what you think. I think I think my 12 year old self would be proud of me because I do this thing in a way that has some integrity. I like to think that 12-year-old look at where you were doing all right think even at a time of political turmoil. There are rays of light, reminding us of the inspiring power of good deeds department has a remarkable case in point. Students bundling out Raby high school auditorium in Chicago with this clue to everyone was about to hit the lottery you here for me something soon change every cadence is a businessman who started three companies you could call him a self-made man, but Pete would disagree. He says if you had different parents, different peers, different skin color been raised here on Chicago's west side most certainly would not be the multimillionaire is today. This country was built on the notion that no matter where you come from. You can become successful and wealthy that just factually is not true is college dream of yours. Yes money for this to Pete's point. This school is full of kids with big dreams bridled by harsh realities like that spotlight hope meet Armani.

Barbara Armani is a junior at the top of her class. She knows she could make it through college but doesn't know how should pay for any of it. Enter cadence, who along with former Chicago public schools CEO Janice Jackson hopes to fight inequity with the mammoth initiative called hope Chicago there's never been anything of the scale of this magnitude of this import done in this community.

This is going to be a game changer and I think to be a model for other cities. Large things across the nation, and it begins right now with this promise, college tuition, your room and board since he is paid for and you will go to college for free every year. Also, this place is because poverty is a generational problem. One family gets to go to college to over the next 10 years he and other donors plan to invest $1 billion in hope that they say the dividends are already pouring down the cheeks of the new generation by viewing the dream within our commentary this morning comes from John Dickerson, Pres. John Kennedy listed the challenges of the presidency.

This way, domestic policy can only defeat us foreign-policy can kill us president Joe Biden faces both unpleasant presidential truths. But Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just a test of Joe Biden.

It's a test of America. Once a global champion of freedom and self-determination whose presidents could rattle the Russians by merely testifying to those ideas out loud. We believe that freedom and security go together that the advance of human can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Mr. garbage off, tear down this wall.

Now those ideas are being crushed America and the American president responded will affect not just Ukraine but the health of those ideas around the globe.

At the start of the Cold War. It was so important to show American solidarity for liberty against communist tyranny political parties called a truce. Democrat Harry Truman and Republican Arthur Vandenberg, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed that politics should stop at the water's edge during the first world war to Roosevelt articulated a different standard to announce that there must be no criticism of the president is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public because presidents have more control over foreign affairs and domestic affairs. There should be vigorous debate and reminds us of what we believe and if we must sacrifice. It helps us understand why at this moment has a new twist in an interview after the start of the Russian invasion, former Pres. Trump said this is genius Hooton players a big portion of the Ukraine of Ukraine. Hooton declares it as independent. Oh it's wonderful praising code is power at the moment he is crushing. Human liberty is the perfect negative image of the American ideal. Under this view, Reagan would not have called on Premier Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall but praised him for the wall. Sturdy construction during the pandemic. Many have opposed public safety orders saying they trample liberty in Ukraine liberty is threatened not by masks but missiles the lowest possible block should be that the ideas of self-determination and freedom have support from the populations who benefit from living under them. History shows that when the signal is clear.

It inspires Ukraine's president sentence he told the Russians when you will be attacking us. You will see our faces, not our backs. Whatever the United States and its allies do.

It should show Ukrainians that they see their faces to I we count thanks for listening and please join us when our trumpet sounds again with this week.

Stephen Long live Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm money list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia.

Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like that you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take out with Maj. Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts