*Darn. Ex-ambassador McFaul just made an apparently important comment about intro statement of

[elleng]

Rachel's stand-in Ayman Mohyeldin re: putin/russia status, and it was garbled. I think we need to hear it. Did anyone hear it?

[Hekate]

1. See if you can catch it on rerun, and use the captions. Maybe the station will have fixed it.

I saw that glitch too.

[vanlassie]

2. Garbled for me too.

[elleng]

3. My summary: **Ayman Mohyeldin Starts with USSR/USA arms race history,

discussed Sakharov, father of Soviet hydrogen bomb, who later became thorn in side of USSR. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

Sakharof founded 'Memorial,' recognizing brutal repression of Stalin era. Sakharov encouraged expansion of Memorial, and Communist party started feeling threatened. Investigating past stalinism to address growing stalinism >>>

Now, Memorial has been shut down, 'makes russia look bad,' as reminder of the past pains putin. Russia today locking up dissenters, adding to list of dissenters.

Against back drop that Potus today encouraged putin to de-escalate, re: Ukraine. 'Sanctions' would be a big mistake,' said putin to Potus.

US flew a spy plane over Ukraine, this week.

*McFaul: What Aymon did was profound. Direct vs. putin. (GARBLED, MSNBC must fix this garble.) Hopes our views are on table, to putin.

Hope diplomats de-escalate. Putin's belligerance aggravating, should be on the table.

Real danger: Conventional war in Europe, Ukrainians will continue to fight.