Fiona Hill on What Putin Tells Us About Trump

The Washington Roundtable’s Susan B. Glasser interviews the Russia expert Fiona Hill about Vladimir Putin’s long reign and Trump’s dismantling of American institutions. Hill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, previously served in the National Security Council and National Intelligence Council. She gained national attention as a star witness during the first impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, in 2019. Additionally, Hill, who is also a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, talks with Glasser about the Trump Administration’s war on academic institutions.

This week’s reading:

• “Did Trump Really Just Break Up with Putin?” by Susan B. Glasser
• “Why a Devoted Justice Department Lawyer Became a Whistle-Blower,” by Ruth Marcus
• “Sheldon Whitehouse’s Three-Hundredth Climate Warning,” by Elizabeth Kolbert
• “The Supreme Court Sides with Trump Against the Judiciary,” by Ruth Marcus

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