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Some point in the future based on what the russians have been saying across these lines, it does appear they are openly and knowingly targeting civilian infrastructure. thats the kind of thing which investigators will be looking very closely at when it comes to future war crimes tribunals. >> katty kay, jump in. >> william, i wanted to ask you more about the generals and what you think that means in terms of morale of the troops, how that message may be getting back to putin. because one of the ...

Lets talk about, though, your reaction to it and how you believe that joe biden finally did divide the world again against democracy against the forces of autocracy. >> joe biden has been speaking since the campaign about a world divided between the forces of democracy and the forces of autocracy, and, of course, what weve seen in ukraine is a flare-up in that conflict. i think it was extremely important that he went right up to the edge of the dividing line that now sits across europe and he sa...

To collectively put the tools that president zelenskyy and his brave fighters need in their hands. >> ed luce, as a historian, i want your takeaway on the presidents speech and the words that are so controversial. i feel like spending an afternoon with those refugees and with the troops would steel him for every word that he said in that speech. >> yeah, i would agree with the consensus. this has the makings potentially of an historic speech, depending, as mike mcfaul says, whether it is upheld ...

To let the other side know youre not scared of them. the fact that joe biden didnt play by marques of queensbury rules, the fact he gave a scripted state of the union speech and as he turned to give the speech to nancy pelosi and others he said, lets go get him, he did it on purpose. people who are saying it is a mistake are fools. after the speech, near the end of the speech he says this as well. joe biden has been doing this longer than most people criticizing him have been alive. it is psy op...

Weapons? my concern with the speech, my concern with the line at the end is that i think it works against that. what it has done is in some ways taken what has been up to now a disciplined, limited war, and in some ways made it existential for putin. i dont want him to think he has nothing to lose by escalating against nato or by using chemical or nuclear weapons. i want him to feel that he does have a lot to lose. i want us still to be able to negotiate with him to bring this war to an end, aga...

Backed putin and who have not backed trumps relationship with putin and his attempt to undermine democracy in ukraine and his extraordinary sort of conspiratorial admiring relationship? if you want a split screen, biden speaking in warsaw this weekend should have trump in helsinki accepting putins explanation that russia didnt interfere in the 2016 elections. thats the split screen. just a final point, the "wall street journal" mentioned your father quite rightly as a great asset for president c...

Putin, it is our fault, we have hemmed putin in because of nato, this, that and the other, and theyre afraid were going to invade them. the invasions out of russia only go one way. hes been invading, you know, putin has been invading, stalin invaded. you know, the soviets went into hungary in 68, czechoslovakia in 56. of course, they went into afghanistan. yeah, over the past century the invasions have all gone one way toward the west, other than hitler in 41. so suggesting that the united state...

300, 400 years the invasions have all been going outward toward the center of moscow. >> well, except for napoleon and hitler, you are right about that. >> right. >> but those were dictatorships and lets be clear about that. what threatens putin is democracy. president biden does threaten putin because president biden and every other democratically elected leader has an alternative argument for their legitimacy. i really commend for everybody, listen to president zelenskyys talk with the four ru...

Tanks rolled west. you cannot find in that book of history nato tanks rolling into russia. frankly, the way to think about this is we are a strong alliance, a defensive alliance, but we are not going to back down in the face of this kind of activity and this kind of attack on democracy. i think, again, this is a good moment to send a shot across the bow of vladimir putin. by the way, final thought, context here, what happened right before the speech, by the way? putin launching missiles to weste...

Will reopen online, in part to provide psychological support and to distract children from the war, to keep going. in a possible shift in strategy, moscow says it will focus its invasion on ukraine on liberating the east. the russian defense ministry said on friday the first stage of its operation was largely complete. some observers say the new change could reflect putins acknowledgement that his plan to swiftly capture major cities has failed. joining us now notional security analyst for nbc n...