ukrainians are giving up. zelenskyy has fled. all of these things are wrong. and then there's the wider messaging that they're trying to do to the outside world, to the west, and that isn't going very well either. there's the strong sanctions, there are protests around the world, where it is seeing protests in moscow and around russia, so the vaunted russian messaging machine is coming up against reality and it's losing. >> and richard, partly -- part of what they're showing on russian tv, russian state tv, is donald trump praising vladimir putin, secretary pompeo, tucker carlson. you know, with his praise of putin and denigration of joe biden. that's part of their propaganda. just wanted to show you -- let me show you what mitt romney had to say about that this morning. >> how anybody in this country which loves freedom can side with vladimir putin, which is an