But administration, are you surprised that the administration included it in their official statement about the decision?' They were in complete control of the outcome of what would happen to Snowden from the second he arrived at that airport. 'Julia, to start with the Snowden factor, for the Russian statement to say, 'this is a situation which we did not create,' is of course a lie. Which is why I wish you'd let me finish answering your bullshit question, which went like this:

READ: Obama Bails on His Inevitably Awkward Date With Putin In fact, it is how you introduced me: 'Previously, she was a Moscow-based correspondent for Foreign Policy and The New Yorker.' I'm not going to toot my own horn here, but I was there for three years, I'm a fluent, native speaker of Russian, and, god damn it, I know my shit. I was invited on the show to talk about Obama's (very wise) decision to cancel his Moscow summit with Putin, about which I wrote here. What bothers me is that, look: your producers take the time to find experts to come on the show, answer your questions, and, hopefully, clarify the issue at hand. That O'Donnell interrupted and harangued and mansplained and was generally an angry grandpa at me is not what I take issue with, however. Tonight, I went on Lawrence O'Donnell's show, and Lawrence O'Donnell yelled at me.

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