Effort Ruth News Today

And author of strongmen. also with us, linda, deputy director of the atlantic council eurasia center. it is good to see you both. ruth, over the last few months, putin has remained isolated. weve all seen images, 20, 30 feet away from his inner circle. youve asked forward to today, we have new video of putin sitting at a crowd of table of women staffers of fresh estate airline. what is it that hes trying to show the world? its very interesting that he went from these absurd ways he was ridiculed...

In sanctions. and after theyve been in power, unopposed for so long, they naturally become more fearful. and putin is doubling down, towards his own people to. because the thing with autocrats is they may, many leaders dont care if they annihilate the enemy, but they do care about their own people. but autocrats like putin score in their own people, and so, they dont have so many checks on them. >> and then, you layer onto your excellent analysis there, ruth, the reality of his age and the ways ...

West. so russia is always the victim, never the aggressor. everything is done for self-defense. so that translates into this policy of you are not allowed to call it an invasion, because then russia will be the aggressor. >> ruth, melinda, im so grateful that you started us off. thanks for being with us. next, the cyber threat from russia. they are certainly up to their usual tricks. and not on the scale we know they could be. so what is up? were gonna ask an expert. plus, ukraines president tod...

>> and weve been told over and over again is just the beginning sections of course repair along the wrong term investment long term effort ruth, thanks to putins disinformation campaign were talking about disinformation earlier with our colleague ben collins. talking about disinformation facing out. were not gonna talk a little bit about disinformation that russians are saying, because theyre saying a very different conflict play out on state tv. bbc talk to ukrainian woman. her mom lives in mos...