<ul class="summary-list"><li>Biden spoke about his views on civil rights and <keyword id="11902937" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="democracy" source="Orion">democracy</keyword> in a rare sit-down interview published Friday.</li><li>He said he "used to think that you could defeat <keyword id="12675602" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hate" source="Orion">hate</keyword>" but has learned "all hate does is hide."</li></ul>President <keyword id="99719" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="joe-biden" source="Orion">Joe Biden</keyword> said he "used to think that you could defeat hate," but has changed his mind over time and now believes "all hate does is hide" until demagogues exploit it for their own purposes.Biden participated in a <a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/interview-with-president-biden?s=r">rare sit-down interview</a> with <keyword id="13310750" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="heather-cox-richardson" source="Orion">Heather Cox Richardson</keyword>, a historian and professor of American history at Boston College. The pair sat down in the White House on February 25, the day Biden <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-formally-introduces-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson-2022-2">nominated DC Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court,</a> and Richardson published the interview on her widely-read <a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/?utm_source=discover">"Letters from An American" Substack page</a> on Friday.During the interview, Richardson asked Biden why Americans should be confident in the survival of American democracy, prompting a long-winded answer from the president."I still believe that the vast majority of Americans believe that — they don't think of the founding principles — they think that the United States is all about, at its root, being decent and honorable," Biden said. "They think that there isn't anything we can't do if we work together ... if we're united we can do anything." Biden argued that hate and divisive <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword> often win out during periods of rapid change. Biden first launched his campaign in 2019 with a message emphasizing a "battle for the soul of the nation," with his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOU2fTg6cI">first campaign video focusing heavily</a> on former President Donald Trump's equivocating response to a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. However, he also came under fire during the 2020 Democratic primary over his civil rights record, particularly his role in authoring the 1994 crime bill, which <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration">critics say contributed to mass incarceration</a>. The president focused primarily on hate as a political force."I used to think that you could defeat hate. But all you can do is — all hate does is hide," said Biden. "What I realized is hate just hides under rocks, and what happens is when people come along and breathe oxygen into it, it comes roaring back out.""One of the ways to gain power is to pit people against one another, based on things having nothing to do other than race, ethnicity, background, white supremacy," he added. "America began to lose its way a little bit."Biden also tied his efforts to unify the country to geopolitical crises abroad, including the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/live-updates-russia-ukraine-crisis-2022-2">ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>."The same thing occurred internationally," said Biden, adding that the Trump administration focused on things that were "only good for America" and was putting forward a "sort of phony <keyword id="13310751" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="populism" source="Orion">populism</keyword>."Biden said that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin felt emboldened to invade Ukraine because "we have been so divided as European democracies and other democracies.""I've spent all my time just trying to bring them back together again so we're on the same page," he added."The point is bringing nations and people together," said Biden. "And that's why in my administration — I think it's fair to say, I know it's accurate numerically — we have the most diverse administration in American history."<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R6Ks3BnFymQ" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>An 2019 clip of a meeting between <keyword id="9393544" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="volodymyr-zelenskyy" source="Orion">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</keyword> and <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> has resurfaced.</li><li>In the clip, <keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump" source="Orion">Trump</keyword> suggests Zelenskyy "get together" with Vladimir Putin to solve their "problem."</li></ul>An old video has resurfaced on Twitter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appearing to look alarmed and disgusted at then-President Donald Trump's suggestion that Zelenskyy "get together" with Russian President Vladimir Putin to solve their "problem."The video was taken during a meeting on September 25, 2019, between Zelenskyy and Trump, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. At the time, the meeting made the <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> for other reasons — namely, the release of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/read-the-transcript-of-trumps-call-with-the-ukrainian-president-2019-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shocking memo of a call between the two</a> during which Trump sought to pressure the Ukrainian leader to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.Initially posted by a journalist, Aaron Rupar, in 2019, the video was reposted by <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2022/03/23/usa-todays-women-year-heather-cox-richardson-newsletter-boston-college/6653111001/">the historian Heather Cox Richardson</a>, a professor at Boston College, on Tuesday.As of press time, the tweet had been retweeted more than 6,000 times and liked about 26,000 times. The <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1176928872346075137?s=20&amp;t=irhrsaA6pXV8Ftuu56525g">original video</a> from Rupar has now been viewed more than 2.4 million times.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@HC_Richardson) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1516250804667232264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2022</a></blockquote>In the clip, Trump leaned toward Zelenskyy and loudly said: "I really hope that you and President Putin can get together and solve your problem."At the time, Russian-backed troops were <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/russia-and-ukraine-in-2019-more-conflict-ahead/a-46856267">involved in smaller-scale military skirmishes in the Donbas region of Ukraine</a>."That would be a tremendous achievement," Trump said. "And I know you're trying to do that."Zelenskyy's eyes widened after the suggestion, and he did not reply to the US leader.Zoomed-in versions of the 2019 clip were also widely retweeted on Twitter, showing a clearer picture of Zelenskyy's response.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—George Conway (@gtconway3d) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1516251476754108422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2022</a></blockquote>During the same session at the <keyword id="11893452" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="un" source="Orion">UN</keyword>, Trump also, on record, <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1176927854426279936?s=20&amp;t=irhrsaA6pXV8Ftuu56525g">urged Zelenskyy to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden</a>. Zelenskyy later responded to press questions, <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1176929676280967168?s=20&amp;t=irhrsaA6pXV8Ftuu56525g">saying he had an "independent country" and couldn't "push anyone"</a> to carry out investigations.Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-impeached-house-of-representatives-congress-2019-12">was impeached for the first time several months after this meeting</a>, in December 2019, for attempting to solicit <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>'s interference in the 2020 election while withholding essential military aid to the country.

An old clip of Volodymyr Zelenskyy side-eyeing Trump's suggestion that he 'get together' with Putin and solve their 'problem' has resurfaced on Twitter

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Tom Keiser is the CEO of <keyword id="13830423" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hootsuite" source="Orion">Hootsuite</keyword> and lives in San Francisco.</li><li>He starts his day reading industry newsletters before responding to urgent messages and emails.</li></ul>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/daily-routine-hootsuite-ceo-tom-keiser-remote-work-sf-2021-3">Tom Keiser</a>, CEO of Hootsuite, about his workday morning routine. It has been edited for length and clarity.Each day, I wake up early and read a bunch of news and newsletters. The sites I regularly check include <a href="https://www.platformer.news/">Platformer</a> by Casey Newton, <a href="https://stratechery.com/">Stratechery</a> by Ben Thompson, <a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/">Letters from an American</a> by Heather Cox Richardson, <a href="https://newsletterhunt.com/newsletters/money-stuff-by-matt-levine">Money Stuff</a> by Matt Levine, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/section/business/dealbook">DealBook</a> by Andrew Ross Sorkin, <a href="https://cupofcoffee.substack.com/">Cup of Coffee</a> by Craig Calcaterra, and <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>.I usually start focusing on work at about 7:15 a.m. <h2>I'm a big list person and I prefer tracking my to-dos on paper</h2>I've used <a href="https://www.lab-notebook.com/about.html">Engineering Notebooks</a> from the Laboratory Notebook Company since the '90s to take notes and put my daily and weekly to-do lists together. I've tried to embrace technology for lists over the years, but having a physical notebook just works better for me.<h2>I mostly work from my home office in San Francisco</h2>When I joined Hootsuite in June 2020 during the pandemic, the entire interview and onboarding process was done on video, so I'd never met my leadership team or colleagues in person. When restrictions were lifted, I was finally able to travel to our corporate head office in Vancouver, Canada. I was excited to meet everyone and work together in person, so I traveled to our Vancouver office every week throughout the fall months. But in December when Omicron hit, I had to stop traveling again and now work primarily from my home office in California. <h2>As CEO, I spend a lot of time listening and communicating with my team</h2>This means clarifying priorities, removing roadblocks, recruiting talent, motivating people, making decisions and communicating constantly, a bit of <keyword id="11893563" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="strategy" source="Orion">strategy</keyword>, M&amp;A, and fundraising work.<h2>Writing is the first work task I do each morning</h2>My brain is clearest in the morning to be able to think through and grind out whatever messages or emails I'm trying to send. Later in the day I'm in decision, speed, and deal-with-it mode, which makes it hard to slow down and communicate as effectively.<h2>I always address the most urgent communications first</h2>For example, if I'm working on a planning project where our team is expecting my feedback on their presentation, I've usually jotted down notes and thoughts the day prior so I have a basic outline of ideas to work with. This helps me better respond to their specific questions and package my response into an email when my mind is clear.I believe in a weekly cadence of running the business. I have leadership meetings on Tuesday, weekly touch-bases with all of my direct reports, monthly touch-bases with board members, and then ad-hoc meetings as needed. I don't like surprises, so I try to stay immersed in every aspect of the business as much as possible.

I'm the CEO of Hootsuite. I start my day writing emails because it's when my brain is the clearest — here's what my morning routine is like.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>GOP Sen. <keyword id="12217307" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="marco-rubio" source="Orion">Marco Rubio</keyword> said a Democratic spending bill that aims to bolster the social safety net is "<keyword id="12003101" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="marxism" source="Orion">marxism</keyword>."</li><li>One expert told Insider this is "nonsensical" and "hyperbole."</li><li>It's the latest example of a Republican demonizing something they oppose by tying it to <keyword id="12174574" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="communism" source="Orion">communism</keyword>.</li></ul>GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida denounced the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/whats-in-democrats-35-trillion-infrastructure-economic-plan-2021-9">$3.5 trillion spending bill</a> being pushed by Democrats, which includes provisions to address climate change and expand the social safety net, as "Marxism."Rubio tweeted: "The $3.5 trillion Biden plan isn't <keyword id="12138304" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="socialism" source="Orion">socialism</keyword>, it's marxism."This does not make sense, based on the definition of Marxism, and the Florida Republican was mocked by economists, historians, and Democrats about it on Twitter."Rubio is engaging in political hyperbole, a sin which both Republicans and Democrats commit quite often," Thomas Alan Schwartz, a Vanderbilt University historian and political scientist, told Insider. "What the Democrats are doing with the $3.5 trillion dollar program is one of the largest additions to the American welfare state since the Great Society in the 1960s. To that extent I do understand the hyperbole, even if it's nonsensical."Marxism, experts say, is a term employed to describe ideas posited by Karl Marx: the vision of a communist society whose workers share ownership of the means of production, therefore abolishing capital markets and the private wealth it generates - a political philosophy that in practice has never been achieved and mostly leads to the same widespread impoverishment it was intended to address.Rubio's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider regarding how the GOP senator defines Marxism and how the bill qualifies as such. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1443587964383100941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2021</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1443580592352686091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2021</a></blockquote><h2>Republicans continue to make 'socialism' a boogeyman</h2>The Florida senator's "marxism" tweet is just the latest example of a Republican attempting to demonize something or someone they oppose by linking it to communism or socialism."Socialism" and "communism" have long been dirty words in the US, which is largely thanks to the Cold War and the anti-Soviet sentiments and paranoia that typified that era. Polling continues to show that most Americans have <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/axios-capitalism-update/">a negative view</a> of socialism, though there's an evident generational divide in this regard."'Socialism' itself has lost some of its edge for many Americans, since they might associate it with European welfare states that aren't all that threatening," Schwartz said, adding that Rubio throwing in Marxism "does add a great sinister element" given the term is "closely associated with the Soviet Union and all of its horrific history."Republicans have played off of these sentiments by routinely labeling Democrats as socialists, Marxists, and communists.During the 2020 campaign season, President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> and his allies <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-socialism-focus-line-of-attack-against-2020-democrats-2019-2">repeatedly sought to tie Democrats to socialism.</a> This was partly linked to the fact that Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who ran as a Democrat in 2016 and 2020, is a self-declared democratic socialist (there's a difference <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/difference-between-socialist-and-democratic-socialist-2018-6">between democratic socialists and socialists</a>).The rising influence of younger, left-leaning politicians like Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York - who like Sanders identifies as a democratic socialist - has also contributed to the GOP's ongoing, misleading use of "socialist" as a line of attack. But even after Joe Biden - a moderate - became the Democratic presidential nominee, Republicans did not cease the "socialist" attacks and fearmongering. While delivering the final speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, for example, GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said that Biden wanted to turn the country into a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-night-of-rnc-was-dark-all-about-spreading-fear-2020-8">"socialist utopia."</a>Biden, who has a long, well-documented record of working with Republicans over his many years in Washington, is a centrist who often butts heads on policy with progressives and those who identify as democratic socialists. There's really no basis for calling Biden a socialist, but that's not stopping Republicans and their allies in conservative media."The $3.5 TRILLION Biden-Bernie budget is an effort by Democrats to double-down on their plans to make America a socialist nation," Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana <a href="https://twitter.com/ToddYoungIN/status/1440731478216695812?s=20">said on</a> Twitter last week. "Biden needs to realize Americans cannot afford his rapidly increasing socialist agenda," GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said in a tweet on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren on Tuesday said that the spending proposed by Democrats amount to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tomi-lahren-biden-spending-socialist-starter-pack-debt-bomb">"socialist starter pack." </a><h2>Experts define Marxism, socialism, and communism</h2>At this point, Republicans have used "socialist" as an attack so often that the word has seemingly begun to lose any meaning. "This is actually a really interesting tweet," Heather Cox Richardson, a historian at Boston College, <a href="https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1443604415815032849?s=20">said on Twitter</a> in response to Rubio. "It is entirely meaningless, but clearly the scare word 'socialism' no longer packs enough of a punch, so he's going for the even scarier 'marxism.' First real tell of GOP fear I've seen today."Marxism, socialism, and communism are often - and incorrectly - employed interchangeably. The three are related, but also have distinctions."Marxism is just an adjective designed to highlight Karl Marx's concept of class warfare and to give the patina of intellectual respectability to such theories," Schwartz said. Communism, in Marx's view, was "the rule by the working class over a society of political, economic, and social equality," Schwartz added. "That idealist image seems never to have existed in any society that called itself communist. In fact, what you got was the oppressive rule by a small minority of privileged party bosses over a cowed and submissive population - a.k.a., the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, etc."Socialism in the simplest terms refers to "the state taking a leading role in the economy, essentially creating a welfare state that provides care for people from the cradle to the grave," Schwartz said, going on to say that there's "enormous variation in states that have socialist characteristics, from the benign socialism of a Norway or Sweden to the corrupt socialism of a Venezuela."Rubio has "hurled himself into an academic debate that has been raging for decades," Lawrence Quill, professor of political science at San Jose State University, told Insider."Socialism and Marxism both stand in contrast to capitalism and are critical of it. They share a commitment to common ownership rather than the private ownership of the 'means of production' common to capitalist societies," Quill said. "As far as I can tell, the spending bill does not advocate the abolition of the private ownership of the means of production. Sen. Rubio may therefore rest easy.""It is worth saying that Socialism is sometimes regarded as distinct from Communism, which is supposed to be the full blown realization of [Karl] Marx's goals," Quill added. "We may further speculate that what Sen. Rubio was suggesting was that the Democratic spending bill was an example of Communism rather than Socialism."Quill said if Rubio is being "critical of state spending then he is in good company," and this appears to be "what is really going on in that little Tweet of his."Republicans have consistently portrayed themselves as the anti-Big Government party, and have pushed against some government spending for decades while continuing to support massive increases in defense spending. There was a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/14/trump-legacy-national-debt-increasee/">historic rise</a> in the national debt under Trump, so they don't always practice what they preach. As Quill put it, "The utterances of politicians ought to be taken with a pinch of salt."

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