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THE CIRCUS EXAMINES THE FALLOUT FROM PUTIN'S WAR
Season Premiere ‘On The Brink’ Airs Sunday, March 6 at 8 PM on SHOWTIME®
Emmy® Nominated Docuseries Returns With Eight Episodes This Spring and Eight More in the Fall
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The Emmy-nominated series THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE GREATEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH returns this Sunday for its seventh season as President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address amid the international crisis created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
From Eastern Europe to Washington, D.C., hosts John Heilemann, Alex Wagner, Jennifer Palmieri and Mark McKinnon explore the showdown between Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin and the fight between authoritarianism and democracy.
For a preview, go to: https://youtu.be/xVQZKxTGFeY.
Episode interviews include:
- U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski on the exodus of refugees from neighboring Ukraine and NATO's unified response to Putin's invasion.
- White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the strategy behind Biden's first State of the Union address delivered as the world witnesses the horrors in Ukraine.
- Nina Khrushcheva, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's granddaughter, on the parallels between today's Russian-American face-off and the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- John Bolton, former National Security Advisor to President Trump, on the Republican response to Putin's invasion and where the conflict is headed.
THE CIRCUS is produced by Left/Right for SHOWTIME. John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon, Alex Wagner, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Tom Johnson and Siobhan Walshe serve as executive producers. To learn more about THE CIRCUS, go to: SHO.com, follow on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and join the conversation using #TheCircus.
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