[djhn]

This is was a bit of a misinterpretation of the exchange in the viral tweet I think you're referring to. Consider as well that the other 7 guests, as well as the next three days' incarnation of the talk show, were all-in on pro-regime propaganda. Tthat Russia is just pre-empting an inevitable war against the US and NATO in Ukraine; that Biden has bioweapons labs in Ukraine; that the Americans launched their russophobic sanctions with the "special military operation" as an excuse, and an absurdly implausible excuse at that; also that said sanctions will hurt the Americans a lot more than they hurt Russians.