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On my terms. this is extremely irresponsible. to -- to have a doctrine like escalation domination. but also, erin, you remember in february of 2018? he was giving a speech before the parliament and he -- he used this animated video and he showed russian missiles descending essentially like on mar-a-lago at florida. >> i remember that. >> so this -- this nuclear bluster is not new for him but again, i think it is another sign of weakness, erin. >> yeah. well, its fascinating and i think that cont...

We said, including that russia said over many yearsant how a nuclear war is not winnable. something that was reaffirmed as recently as the meeting between president biden and putin in the summer in geneva. so we watched this very, very carefully. there is a lot of bad loose talk and bluster. at the same time i have to tell you, we have real concerns that russia could use a chemical weapon, another weapon of mass destruction. this is something we are very focused on. unfortunately we seen them us...

Worry comments like these show russia is ready to escalate or is this straight-up bluster? >> sean: just a side note, when you have missiles that hit 12 miles from the border, that is escalation, when you are killing civilians, that is escalation, this is probably meant more for the russia peep toll show rubbing is pushing back against america, turn tide of public opinion in russia against the united states. this is more of what this is. there is escalation, this is not it. >> carley: yesterday ...

Why putin may be using these hypersonic missiles. he said, is he running low on precision-guided munition, kind of raising point that maybe theyre using it, in part, because theyre running out of other stuff. could that be? >> its a possibility, erin. but im going to go back to what kim said before. i think it is sort of a bluster moment. remember the first time putin rolled this thing out a couple of years ago. he had a big film, he was standing on a stage. and one of these missile whats aimed ...

>> please. >> i think that right now weve seen no flexibility in the russian position. you have on the one side, relatively junior people negotiating. and in those talks, weve heard some interesting and even flexible things. but then putin, every time he opened his mouth, basically demands a conditional surrender from ukraine, as he did with erdogan, just two days ago. so all these talks about flexibility in the russian position is based upon something which is not white real. and we should not ...

I dont think hes directly threatening to leave our astronaut there, and if they did, he can just come back on a spacex. theres no immediate danger for mark vande hei. neil: so the spacex have the ability to link up with the international space station? i dont know, terry, sorry for the ignorance. >> actually, it does. almost a decade we went without the ability to launch people from america, and russia was a good partner. they took us to and from the station on their soyuz, but a couple years sp...

Silver lining right now at this moment, again, time stamp 7:12 eastern time is that vladimir putin both hasnt shown additional ambition yet for other nato countries, rhetorically not talking about it there is always bluster. but there is no real indication at this point. if anything, the only thing he is trying to do get belarus to send more troops into ukraine. he is calling in more reinforce. s into ukraine. to your point, the more is he bogged down there, the less powerful the argument is tha...

-- bluster, which doesnt have any utility but is a show of force. >> it is, if you look at past conflicts, the very difficult challenge for russia is if you have a motivated population that has a, you know, territory terr they can spend time on and shelter in, they will continue fighting. frankly, the u.s. saw this in afghanistan. we had overwhelming dominance in the sky but if you have a determined enemy with a safe haven its difficult to conclude. >> thanks to all three of you. and a mountain ...

If kim keeps thumbing his nose, we tried, the policies fail and dem crate with allies that fully nuclear north korea is unacceptable. >> john bolton coming out saying that the white house hasnt been doing us right. another slap on the face. >> when you say its perfect and i get love notes from kim jong un, theres nothing to be concerned about, thats a lie. feels like the presidents bluster is much like the big bad wolf and hasnt worked and sounds like john bolton is compelling him to say so. >> ...

First decade in power, there are virtually no dissenting voices within his small circle of advisers, nor are there any insiders who challenge his leadership. instead, russias major political figures are now all yes men who tell putin what he wants to hear and hide inconvenient facts. that squares with what weve heard from almost every other analyst. i want you to tell me more, and tell me how this question of putins isolation relates specifically to the question of his desire to use his nuclear ...