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I think what id be most concerned about is if this is somehow connected to the separatists who would be more than happy to invite the russians in and they may be provoking an incident to do that. >> help me understand as we try to get more information about this. what is happening right now at nato cyber centers? at the pentagon? at the united states intelligence agencies who are -- know these things could be coming and are tracking them. what are they looking for? >> well, they are looking for ...

And has been willing to negotiate or at least have conversations with people as they have come through moscow. >> well, to extend that analogy of poker, youve got to know when to hold em and when to fold em sometimes. is there an off-ramp for putin right now? obviously, this is a lot of gamesmanship, and although we are learning that perhaps there is as you mentioned the idea of the ability to have a force go in with enough force and presence that this is not a bluff. but is there a way out or a...

I cant see really why the russians would want to come and do this and destroy this place. i think its counter productive to them and i think the ukrainian people will fight them very strong, and im trying to find ways to help that. i really think a lot of its a bluff. i mean, im not a tactician or anything or a politician. but looking at what im, you know, i know the ukrainian people fairly well now, and i know theyre not giving this up easy. so it seems to me like unless putin wants an awful lo...

Weve been talking about the possibility of this being a bluff or bluster from the russian president and wondering if that is exactly what hes playing into at this point, saying, im not someone who bluffs on this stuff. and wondering if thats kind of part of his motivation here for all of this. gordon, lets talk about some of your reporting here as we were just hearing from mike and the readout. the conversation between the president and the russian president as well. what do you make of it, firs...

House tends to say that its all about compassion, but when you have american citizens that are dying because of the drugs coming across the border because the president and his colleagues refuse to secure the border, i have to call his bluff on that, john. >> john: on "cross country," call for number four, a woman who was an addict was pregnant and get off drugs. >> what is the breaking point? >> well, the breaking point, i was ten weeks pregnant with my first child and i overdosed. >> what was ...

The post war order in europe. >> thats a victory for putin, a loss for putin would be something that we have seen some signs of happening here, that is some unity within the nato alliance in terms of standing up to the threat of the invasion, but also some movement of nato forces further east into eastern nato allies which is exactly what putins claims is a threat to him. there is a tendency to treat him as a brilliant and flawless manipulator and strategist, but he makes mistakes. i wonder do y...

The fact that you have different leadership at the head of the intelligence, the head of the dni is -- bill burns. ahead of the sea and i is billboards. this is our people with a lot of -- and have a relationship with the president and his national security team. they are seeing the wisdom of exposing what russia is doing. so, there wont be these questions about like you said these little green men that the whole world will know if russia does decide to invade, if putin does decide to invade aga...

That we know who is at fault here. >> independent of the rest of the world, is it calling putins bluff? is saying, getting ahead of the news if you will, getting out in front of this misinformation, or disinformation is that putins achilles heel? is this the sort of tactical play that the u.s. has been looking for vis-à-vis putin? >> i think its the right tactical play, im not sure whos winning. because remember putin is telling the whole world that his people, and its people inside ukraine tha...

Ukraine. >> martha: we heard general milley when he was briefing talk about a potential fall of kiev in 72 hours. i know you spoke with our reporter, lucas tomlinson from the pentagon and said you didnt see that kind of invasion happening. so do you think that this amassing of forces in large numbers on putins side was a bluff? >> well, obviously general milley and the rest of the pentagon have access to intelligence that i dont have. i would not say this was a bluff. i would say the russians ha...

>> right. >> jeremy bash, as you listen to the ukrainian president, you listen to ukrainian diplomats they will say privately they believe putin is bluffing, even president zelensky saying western media and the west has overstated the likelihood and stepped up the rhetoric too far, and yet the west continues behind president biden to threaten sanctions, there are troops moving into eastern europe. so obviously the united states and the west is taking this very seriously. you are extraordinarily ...