As President Biden travels to Brussels for an emergency NATO summit, The Circus examines Russia's threats of using nuclear weapons. Jennifer Palmieri speaks to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby about the U.S. response to Putin's nuclear saber-rattling; John Heilemann games out war simulations with one of the world's foremost experts on nuclear weapons, Zia Mian; and Alex Wagner assesses Putin's motives with former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev.

The Circus Season 7 Episodes...

• s07e01 - On The Brink
• s07e02 - The Escalation Ladder
• s07e03 - The Information War
• s07e04 - The Nuclear Option
• s07e05 - The Home Front
• s07e06 - There Will Be Blood
• s07e07 - Keystone Chaos
• s07e08 - Tip of the Spear
• s07e09 - Not in Kansas Anymore
• s07e10 - Rule of Law
• s07e11 - State of Denial
• s07e12 - Buckeyes and Bulldogs
• s07e13 - This Land Is Greene-Land
• s07e14 - The Main Event
• s07e15 - Here Comes The Flood
• s07e16 - Rip Tides

The Circus Show Summary

This documentary series pulls back the curtain on the 2016 presidential race, revealing the intense, inspiring and infuriating stories behind the headlines. Key characters and events from the individual campaigns are presented in real time, as they are happening. Produced in cooperation with Bloomberg Politics, THE CIRCUS is a non-partisan, never-before-attempted take on what promises to be one of the most fascinating and consequential elections in modern history.