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Speech thats kind of lack luster and turning around and not taking questions. americans want to know what their president is thinking, and it would help him because even if americans would say i dont agree with that, at least they would know where hes coming from. i think more opportunitieses would be good, but i think theres sometimes that the press office decides its not good for him to be out because it might screw up their news cycle. if they could get any more screwed up. howard: right. if ...

>> i appreciate your time. thank you so much. senator will be in that classified briefing from the secretary of state tomorrow. i want to go now to former cia deputy chief of russia operations. john, let me ask you. biden approves deployment of 3,000 troops to eastern europe. putin has now put out it gives russia an obvious reason to be worried because the u.s. is continuing to pump up the tension. those are their words. do you think the troops especially given theres no situation under which th...

I hope it can be prevented. >> and thats exactly what the ukrainian president has been saying not only throughout the day, in the lead-up to today, as well as in his read-out from the phone call he had with the president earlier today as well. this is incredibly personal to them and it seems as if the world is not necessarily acknowledging that and part of all this is what they see as kind of the bluster of all of it. masha gessen, thank you. we appreciate your voice on that. thank you. coming...

Security concerns that hes got in ways that civilized nations do. civilized nations sit down and they talk, and they negotiate, and they lay out their concerns for the other side. and then the other side lays out its concerns. our concerns. thats the way it can resolve itself. and there are multiple ways to do that. multiple places. we have talked about in geneva, having u.s./russian conversations. we talked about in brussels having a nato/russia conversation. we talked about in vienna having a ...

Russia on putin. there are serious consequences to this action that he is about to take and you mention the "wall street journal" article. i think it was a very well done article how the world order is going to change as a result of this attack if he does this invasion. >> dana: the other thing i wanted to ask you about is this idea and graham talked about it in his interview this week and saying it for a while. sanctions should be done now, not after the fact of an invasion. but this is the rus...

Is already deep in the bone. his approval ratings, you could argue, are down from what pretty consistently in the 90s. but is there any hope that at some point, trumps luster to republican voters will fade from a strong majority? >> i dont think it matters anymore. i think -- what cost the republican party to be what it is today, he is a rare election of what the republican party had become over the last ten years. which is why he won the nomination in 2016. he did win the nomination because he ...

Authoritarian governments that we currently see in russia and china. >> but theres a how here question, because the other part of that statement, putin and xi said, in part, friendship between the two states has no limits. there are no forbidden areas of cooperation. so, what threat does this tightening relationship pose to the u.s.? i mean, how can it be countered? >> look, i think that in this age of interconnectedness, global networking, global economy, if russia and putin ties hands and we s...

Another gathering in 2020 while the country was in lockdown. scottish natural party leader said police are investigating and the labor party leader had this to say. have a listen. >> lots of words, lots of bluster, no answers. were at -- thats not going to work with the police. >> he had quite a few good jabs yesterday, didnt he? were seeing, scott, a drip drip of letters from members of his own party coming forward. do we know where we are on the threshold? >> reporter: the bottom line is the c...

Kremlin themselves and the kremlin spokesperson says it gives russia obvious reason to be worried and is that bluster on russias part? >> we are getting a lot of b bluster and counter bluster these day, but it really is important that the united states and our nato allies do not blink in the face of what russia is trying to do and thats what russia is testing. theyre really trying to see whether or not as they continue to try to ramp up an invasion force and continue to add additional support fo...

Try to see if they can make us -- break the unity that we have. the key is they see the unity that we have with our western allies, with our european allies, with our nato allies, with our allies, for example, in australia and india, moving forward, and so what they would like to do with this bluster is to see if they can divide us. if they cant divide us, then i think that you will see them move back. >> lets go to the escalating tensions between russia and ukraine. last week, you ratcheted up ...