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They did not draw down as putin claimed, that that incident was an attack against ukrainians, not ukrainians against russians as moscow claimed. this is what the western alliance, the uk, all of the western leaders, the nato leaders as well as of course secretary austin in brussels yesterday had been claiming. what they did was to call their bluff. what secretary blinken did at the u.n. was say, if you really believe in diplomacy, lavrov, foreign minister, come meet with me, lets talk about that...

Security secretary, jeh johnson. over the last few days as you know, the white house has repeatedly sounded the alarm about potential russian chemical weapons attacks. does it sound like they know something we dont necessarily know? >> wolf, our intelligence community under the leadership of avril haines, a person i have a very high regard for, has in my judgment done an excellent job of declassifying intelligence, sorting through whether or not it would compromise sources and methods so that th...

Say by declassifying intelligence, showing the world how disconnected vladimir putin is. its also undermining him on the world stage. >> ukraines leaders are still trying to adjust to this, to the potential ramping up of russian forces without shifting some of the man power that has fortified kyiv. are they going to get stretched too thin? >> they will be challenged. heres good news. in a military, they enjoy the interior lines of communication, which means the russians have [ inaudible ] >> jer...

They will be able to see how this hoax, how the hoax or witch-hunt started and why it started. it was a -- an attempted coup or attempted takedown of the president of the united states. i dont know what it is. i have no idea. but i want to be transparent. everybody wanted me to declassify. i have done it. and youre going to learn a lot. i hope its going to be nice. but perhaps it wont be. >> bret: president trump on his way to japan talking about declassifying intelligence. actually authorizing ...

If you do believe that the previous administration is doing anything they can to discredit you to include declassifying intelligence before the election so that if trump wins the information is out there to build a case that there is some sort of collusion with russia. why would it not lead to you believe they did take some steps, extraordinary steps while still in office to monitor whether those conversations were going on. the president has been pretty cra substitute about getting ahead of the...