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Putin has called Trump politically persecuted, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has opened an impeachment inquiry into the president, and Joe Biden has saved the economy but now just wants to go to bed.

It's another normal week in America. David Frum - former speechwriter for George W. Bush - joins us and we ask if any of this is moving the state of political play.

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The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, leaks reveal. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including Aaron Maté.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Aaron Mate discuss a new level of censorship.

A trove of once-secret documents is proving an embarrassment to both America and its allies, and a danger to Ukraine’s planned counter-offensive. The tech industry is shedding workers at a striking pace; we ask where all those laid-off experts are going. And more evidence that suggests pet ownership reduces childhood allergies.

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Filmmaker Sean Stone discusses American Secrets, Russia, and Ukraine with RFK Jr.

Krystal and Saagar cover the Biden comments about Putin he made, bloodthirsty media neocons and liberals, terrible polling for Biden, Trump's 'Stop the Steal' Georgia rally, SCOTUS Justice Thomas's grifter wife, drama at the Oscars, the Left's betrayal of Amazon workers, MSNBC's war against fitness, and how Wall Street crushed Gamestop redditors!

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Krystal and Saagar break down the collapse in Russia-US relations, threats of a Russian cyberattack, Trump's hawkishness towards Russia, Trump's fanatical obsession with 'Stop the Steal', Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens' abuse, generational warfare in the economy, Oscars cringe, food crisis incoming, Saudi Arabia humiliation, and a Russian anti-war activist live from Moscow!

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