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♪ what a wonderful world ♪ joining me now, a foreign policy expert who has held positions under the obama and bush administrations. and a history professor at nyu, and author of "strongmen," which delves into vladimir putin. ruth, vladimir putin is crafty. even invasions dont look like invasions. its quite possible that the invasion of ukraine has begun. i think we have a technical problem with ruth. but you and i talked about sanctions, how effective they can be. literally for the last tw...

Bret. i met with my counterpart many, many times met with vladimir putin. vladimir putin thanked me and president trump for saving lives in st. petersburg. we always knew that he needed to make sure and have good conversations. develop whatever level of relationship. you could work together. you could save lives in a place like russia. you ought to do that. but when you came to defending americas interest. we were pretty clear we were going to do that every single day. >> bret: democrats on capi...

So that we can support ukraine, and the people of ukraine, our nato ally, to the fullest extent possible. so while im dismayed at the behavior of a couple of outliers im hopeful that the general gop mentality is not going to be to follow putin as they have followed trump in the past. having said that, i also would like to see much more constructive dialogue about what we do going forward, what our administration, i think president biden has been handling this masterfully, i think he has done an ...

-- what we are seeing right now is russias third innovation with their neighbors in the past 14 years, right? they invasion georgians into thousand eight. and they already invaded ukraine in 2014 another doing it again. and what i saw just over that entire time period was honestly a complete lack of action by any administrations to make sure that this doesnt happen again. so, i am happy to see that we have begun the process of making sure it doesnt happen again. which has taken a hard position a...

To fake a lot of economic hurt in order to, you know, deal with that security concern. i just think if there were bases and im not defending putin in any way so im not a russian, you know, puppet here. but im just saying if the chinese put a base in mexico or canada, what would we be willing to do to make sure that that didnt happen? is that how putin sees this and are sanctions -- were they never going to work because of that? pete? pete: rachel, that is how putin sees it, rachel. the encroachm...

Germany. germany has also been reluctant to spend on defense what the natal recommended or agreed-upon target is. of the nato members got together and said we want to target spending, 2% of the size of our economies on our defense budget, thats something germany has resisted as have other nato members. thats something the united states has been pushing for several administrations to try to get nato to spend more money here. there are issues at play here. we are only seen the first couple of tran...

Has done some things very well and some things not so well. the not-so-well side is they continued the policy of prior administrations not to provide the defensive weapons ukraine needed. the positive thing was sharing our intelligence with our allies and combining our efforts with our al guys. look, we used to be 40% of the world economy. today were about half of that. for us to have the economic clout yes used to have in the 50s, 60s and 70s, we do need to combine with our allies. thats someth...

Thats something that he fears because its an example for his own people to see. >> reporter: but they also say the man born and raised in what is now st. petersburg, the seat of the czars, as his own legacy in mind when it comes to what happens in ukraine. >> he wants his legacy to be that like the great czars of the past or the heads of the soviet union, he left russia as a great power to be feared, respected, and treated seriously in the world. >> reporter: analysts say putin has chafed at wha...

Its a worry particularly for big banks even if theyre not exposed to this case this the ukraine or russia. but brian monahan, the guy that runs bank of america, in his banks case, that wont happen. take a look. >> our company, question invest a billion dollars a year in cyber defense. we have thousands of people working on it. all of our teammates have to work on it to be good. we protect our flank. with the industry and the administration going back the last two or three administrations, we wor...

At any time without the unnecessary fees. well help you go from saving... to living. ♪ play all day ♪ as the ukraine crisis takes center stage at the annual munich security conference, one question facing leaders is what is vladimir putins end game? its something past administrations have grapled with before. my next guests have all advised national security teams facing russian are aggression. andrea kendall taylor, former deputy national intelligence officer for russia at the national in...