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Great. if they can swap jail cells, then they will do that. but steve is right. this is knot easy. i think this is certainly the riskiest move vladimir putin has made in 20 years of rule -- rule. he has probably spent years thinking about it, years planning it. and as steve said, the apparatus they have operating in ukraine is massive in order to book on everything they are going to have to do. even with all that, i think, personally, the insurgency is a huge problem for putin. if he changes the...

Distance and they persisted intermittently throughout the morning. exactly hard to know what was being hit. some of them ferocious, so we could hear their imhakt from miles away. and snake island some distance in fact. appears to have been attacked by a russian warship. and on it, the population is basically just ukrainian soldiers defending it. here is the intercept of the conversation between them and the russian forces that approached them. [ speaking foreign language ]

The russians would want to get there. it also of course means this is a symbolic value to it, and putin, of course, believes in symbolism and that is something that cant be underestimated in this particular scenario. >> um, matthew, there -- there -- on the streets, what are -- i mean he, on the streets yesterday, were people going around? i mean, are there roadblocks? are there, you know, people with weapons walking around on the streets? i mean, there was talk in the weeks leading up to this o...

The russian-held side of the river over to this side, still held by ukrainian forces. it seemed like the russians had, in fact, moved over that bridge yesterday and we dont quite know what they did. there were sgds suggestions they might have peeled past the time. and there were persistent low-flying jets sweeped in buzzing the town. unclear whose they were, unlikely given the frequency, russians. we heard some distant air strikes, too, and just this morning, there was another low-flying jet. so...

Have been going off. >> also, where things stand right now and what new steps are are being considered to. a up pressure on putin. plus, two veteran watchers weigh in on what putins next moves might be. that and more in ourur live-lat hour continuing. "andererson cooper 360" fro the director of pridide and prejudice and darkest hour, critics calling it it one of the best pictures of the year. sirano, only in movi friday rated pg-13. tomorrow. youre a one-man stitchwork master. but your staff...

Your options? if you are on defense, you are automatically at a disadvantage. the guy on offense, in this case vladimir putin, has a lot of possibilities and he can start changing things up when he -- when he lreally wants to. he could, for example, just do this. originally, we just talked about going to the don about a, the eastern part here. and like you and matthew were talking about, that is the kind of thing everybody thought he would do -- bell, him everybody. i was never convinced that wo...

The kremlin decide they havent put enough forces in because perhaps they were expecting surrender of ukrainian forces, they underestimated the strength of ukrainian forces and their abilities. that may have achieved a short-term delay in this. but it -- it would probably provoke a much larger, stronger response by the russians to make sure they achieve their strategic dpoels. >> its not -- its not entirely clear what the strategic goal is, at this point, of russian forces. i mean there are -- yo...

Eastern time, russian forces entered ukraine through belarus and were 20 miles away from kyiv. could those forces have already come to the outskirts of the capital by now? >> yeah, about six hours ago, anderson, almost six hours ago, yes, it is absolutely possible. i mean, they only have this much to go from the border -- that is about 56 miles and when you look at -- at that particular distance if they are already more than halfway there, then yes, they could actually be in the capital or the o...

Its always something when it looks like they will have success and something knocks them down and this feels that way. how do you handle this? >> this has to be the ultimate nightmare if hillary clinton could damage the campaign, this had to be it. the conflation of the e-mail story and the anthony wiener sexting story, i listen to pete describe how this came about and the fact that anthony wiener using a laptop to communicate with an underage girl sexting that also contains potentially classifi...

Eye poppingly bizarre. whats interesting about the response to his call for a religionest test for immigration is probably it is probably not going to hurt him in the polls. his supporters dont seem off-put at all. the reason is there is a large swath of the american voting populous and the republican base, comparatively large, bigger than we expect, that isnt actually represented in d.c. these folks who are just terrified of mus, terrified of any immigrants. there arent people speaking for them...