She said Trump is actively trying to get sanctions lifted by two ways. One is by overturning the Mueller report and the indictment of Russian oligarchs. What was the Ukraine angle that benefits Russia?

Thousands of Ukrainians have died in war there - since the Russian invasion in 2014, as I understand it!

I knew Russia was occupying Crimea. What she said is Trump is trying to get Ukraine to settle with Russia over the Crimea invasion to allow the West to lift those sanctions. That's the part I missed.

treason to date. I just kept thinking...what do our armed forces officers think about all of this. I have been thinking that our intelligence services revealed the phone conversation. Now going to assume it might have been our top brass.

They are definitely not on Russia's side. I can not imagine what it has been like for our foreign services officers to watch this effort to tip the scales to Putin.

And the Middle East.

In addition to being owned by Putin, Trump is a highly ineffective deal maker.

So good, that I took a picture of the TV screen during the interview.

Hopefully, her book I preordered will be waiting for me when I arrive home in some days.

on Audible....

Could listen while running about on vacation.

shortly here....so at least we know why she was taking all that time off...

.... there was talk that the Russian national oil company had been broken up into shares and distributed
and most of the new ownership had been identified by investigative reporters and researchers but there
were several billions of dollars worth of shares unaccounted for.

Does anyone know if her regular staff keep writing in her absence? She probably has a producer who calls the shots, right?