MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski condemned Republicans for continuing to side with Russia in its invasion of Ukraine despite the death of dissident Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison.
The White House has hammered House Republican leaders for taking a recess without approving aid for Ukraine, which they've shown little willingness to approve, and Donald Trump has stopped far short of condemning Vladimir Putin for Navalny's death and instead compared the dead activist to himself.
"It's so staggering that my former party, Ronald Reagan's former party," Scarborough said, "we would be the first people standing up and speaking out, shouting, because we believe then, I still believe now, and I know you do, as well, that America is a city that shines brightly on the hill for all the world to see. It really is, when we are at our best. That's what Republicans used to believe – no more."
"They are about to elect a man in South Carolina and throughout the nation to represent them in the primary -- in the presidential election, Donald Trump, who has nothing bad to say about Vladimir Putin, who time and time again defends Vladimir Putin, calls his invasion brilliant, and won't even speak out on the murder of Navalny, won't even speak out," Scarborough added. "For young people here, explain how unimaginable it is that this Republican Party has become so twisted and so perverted in its foreign policy under Donald Trump."
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Brzezinski suggested the former president and Republican lawmakers were under Russian influence.
"Connect the dots, see what's happening – see Russian aggression pervading our politics, and see how she is standing in the face of this," Brzezinski said. "Why shouldn't everybody else participate in protecting democracy and the lives who want freedom, who are murdered by dictators?"
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