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Are completely contrary to the place where the rest of the world has arrived. >> is that a step youre prepared to take? >> its not a bluff. its on the table. >> sanctioning president putin? >> yes. >> on the table there, president biden speaking out. ukrainians continue to scramble for safety. cameras capturing citizens bunkered in subway tunnels as one place to get a kind of a makeshift or automatic shelter underground. explosions heard around the capital and other cities. citizens woke up to s...

It stunning and disappointing, marco rubio and others have wondered whether this is the same vladimir putin that weve been dealing with for 10 years, maybe there is, im not a cognitive expert, but they say he is different. >> i think what is interesting, if you look at what condi rice and president macron they have met with putin in the past, president macron and others president of finland, they say he is a different person. i dont know what that means, but condi rice, former national security ...

About nato because we know you wont use your air power. we know that you wont hit a major logistical hub like this. it also tells us that even despite all of this combat power, they havent solved the big three classes of supply, food, fuel and ammunition. they really havent been able to do this. theyre not trained. theyre not built like the u.s. military. they struggle in this. so i think just this convoy, this photo is indicative that he thinks he can use those three things, nuclear, cyber and ...

This. and that is the general view, that this is a threat, a bluff as it were, as russia is on its back foot during this invasion. the russian president drawing attention, rattling the saber. i know because of the simple fact that it involves nuclear forces of russia and a public threat to put those on alert, that very fact makes u.s. officials take it seriously, look at it seriously. but another dynamic here, too, is that with the russian invasion not going according to plan and with a percepti...

Demarcation line. across a narrow no mans land, are russian-backed separatist military, and theyre equally well dug in. the narrow walkways and tunnels, the near silence all add to an eerie sense of foreboding. sign says, beware, sniper. theres been a cease-fire here since 2015, but its constantly violated with both sides accusing the other. but russia is now involved, building up troops, even threatening an invasion. the ukrainian soldiers think its a bluff. they say theyre ready anyway. with h...

It feels as if our strategy has been to call his bluff, and we keep seeing out of the they troops ready to go, youre surrounding ukraine on three sides, including the water, okay, what are you going to do next? do they think this is the best way to get him to back down? >> chuck, they do, but i think theyre also realistic about it. they dont have big cards here. they went after some of the children -- thats a qualitatively new step. some of the children that are close to putin. but i just think ...

Sense that ive been detecting of russians, at least in my social networks, that ive come in contact with throughout the past day, in life, theres a growing sense that somethings off with the narrative, that there is more going on here than their government is telling them, they were shocked by the invasion itself, just 72 hours ago, i think most russians would tell you, its bluff, theyre not going to do anything, we cant invade ukraine. so one of the things that really struck me this morning, of...

Howard: when president biden took questions after announcing severe sanctions against moscow, reporters wanted to know whether that would be effective and why he wasnt doing even more. >> youre confident that these devastating sanctions are going to to be as devastating as russian missiles and bullets and tanks. >> yes. russian bullets, missiles and tanks in ukraine. yes, i am. its not a bluff, its on the table. >> sanctioning president putin? >> yes. >> why not sanction him today, sir? why not ...

And everything you talked about so far this morning i agree with. this is clearly going much worse than what putin ever imagined. it is going more slowly on the ground, which is one theater. it is going worse at home with all of the economic as well as political pushback. here is the danger in this, which is all of this, quote, unquote, good news from our perspective is bad news for him. this then, i think, raises in his mind the need to change, and the most likely thing is not that he sues for ...

Further and hes using his last bluff, nuclear blackmail even works in ukraine why do you think hell stop using it? dictators never ask why but why not? we see now from washington western capitals is a cover in favor of these guys with putin. >> i talked to a woman whose husband was volunteering to fight. shes sitting in a shelter tonight in a basement in a building with her three children and shes been there since the start of the war in kyiv. one of the things she said to me is she thinks that ...