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Obama vs. Putin, clash of the Titans

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With Edward Snowden and massive human rights violations, what happened to America’s relationship with Russia? Things have been downhill ever since March 2012, when Putin stepped back into the Russian presidency. The New Republic’s Julia Ioffe, University of Connecticut professor Jelani Cobb, Buzzfeed’s Miriam Elder, and Dr. Nina Khrushcheva join Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss how much of this is about the particular personality clash between Presidents Obama and Putin and how much of this is more durable foreign policy.