Putin's Interview

From Yahoo:
"Megyn Kelly’s Vladimir Putin Special Will Reset Her ‘Sunday Night’ Show"

NBC said its hourlong primetime special featuring Megyn Kelly interviewing Russia president Vladimir Putin will be titled Confronting Putin and air Friday at 10 PM ET. The episode will serve as launchpad for the return of Kelly’s Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, which will return after this week to its 7 PM ET slot for a mostly weekly spring and summer run until football season. Kelly sat down with Putin for two exclusive one-on-one interviews last week — one inside the Kremlin and one at Kalinigrad. Lester Holt teased the special during Saturday’s NBC Evening News broadcast. Topics in the interview included Putin being asked about Russia’s role in the hack during the 2016 presidential campaign that includes 13 Russians indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, nuclear weapons and his views on President Donald Trump. The special will include interviews with former CIA director and NBC News Senior National Security and Intelligence Analyst John Brennan, President of Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass, and NBC News and MSNBC Chief International Security and Diplomacy Analyst Admiral James Stavridis, among others. Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly launched to great fanfare in June 2017 with the debut episode also featuring an exclusive sitdown with Putin. It scored a 0.8 in the 18-49 demographic and a 1.2 rating in the 25-54 news demo. NBC said today that Kelly will anchor Sunday Night for its new run dependent on her schedule for her morning show Megyn Kelly Today. 

^  I just finished watching Megyn Kelly's interview with Putin and I have to say that I am a little disappointed that Putin has become so lazy in telling his lies. He used to do a much better job at trying to hide the truth and then shrug it off when given evidence of his lies. In this interview he not only back-tracked on himself a few times, but basically all but admitted to Russian meddling in the US Elections, with money laundering and with helping to gas civilians in Syria. This definitely doesn't seem like a traditional Putin interview where he is tough, strong and assertive. You would think that would be the case with him up for re-election on March 18th, but maybe he already has the ballots made out and knows he will win again so he doesn't have to show a case to the world or the Russian people.  In a way I miss the old-style interviews because at least you had to look in between the lines (as Russians are very good at doing) to find out the truth rather than simply being told the truth and not caring who knows. Russia - more importantly the Russian Government - has been involved in countless incidents and events in the recent past and even present (the Crimea, the War in the Donbas, the war in Syria, the US Elections, the Olympic and Paralympic Doping Scandals and bans, the "unexplained" deaths of popular Russian politicians who spoke out against Putin and the poisoning of a Russian in the UK) - just to name a few. It reminds me of the old Soviet Union days in which Russian (well Soviet back then) espionage happened throughout the world more easily in the West since we were an open society and people (good and bad) could move around more easily. The current cyber war Russia is doing on the US and most of Europe (if not the world) is an extension of that openness and easiness making Russia able to do things to us when we have a much harder time to do anything to the Russians because their society is more tightly controlled and watched. One thing that I have to really call Putin out on is when he stated that he doesn't know everything that happens within Russia. Nothing happens in Russia without Putin's knowledge and approval - NOTHING!  ^

https://www.yahoo.com/news/megyn-kelly-vladimir-putin-special-153330699.html