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Hes pro-trump, and it is all goes bust again. >> gary, good to see you as always. thank you for joining us this morning. gary casperoff, the founder of renewed democracy initiative and the chairman of the human rights foundation and a chess grand master who said stop comparing this to chess because putin is playing poker. the videos which recording the police killings of george floyd and other people of color not only captured the acts on tape, they captured the attention of america and in man...

Have to go back quite a while into the cold war days to see something of this magnitude. >> if that was unleashed on ukraine, it would be significant, very significant. and it would result in a significant amount of casualties. >> the current state of affairs traces back to a list of security demands issued by vladimir putin to america and its allies last month. in addition to the demands about ukraine, putin called for an end to the nato alliances eastward expansion to the few remaining nonalig...

Has not sent that you think it should? >> oh, unfortunately they are sending the wrong signals. i dont believe that many russian pilots are willing to die for putin and russian generals an admirals that are willing to become heroes to die for the war. they understand it is not the issue for our country. but they demonstrate the readiness to meet whatever threat putin is posing because if nuclear blackmail works now, then this blackmail will be used to spread putins influence to natso countries. ...

>> let me bring in gary casperoff, obviously, chess grand master most of his life and political activist and putin critic. gary, you and i have had conversations, id say, going back a decade now where at times youre frustrated with the american posture dealing with putin. underestimating him at times. what did you see today with putin? what is a pitfall you maybe worry that a president biden needs to avoid? and how much doll you play diplomat joe biden if youre joe biden today, versus pushing ba...

0 so president biden has shown his willingness to engage putin where he can. and i think if we dont see any reciprocity, if putin doesnt want for play then this mix that president biden has offered is going to have to skew much more heavily towards the confrontation side so he gets the last word. >> stick with us, andrea, as we await president biden, hes set to begin his press conference in a few minutes. were at the top of the hour. weve been discussing what will president putin said in his pre...

Honors are beneficiaries. the platforms were rigged against him, then he couldnt have used them so effectively in 2016. even the accusations of bias can have benefits. the white house forum for free speech violations also collected peoples contact information. theres a serious side to all of this. reporting shows the conspiracy theory about a murdered dnc staffer was a kremlin disinformation campaign amplified by folk os then far right. the president would support the honest ads act that would h...

Policy. and that two step that comes with sanctions, that is a much more difficult causal chain to push. i dont think there will be any change in russian foreign policy right away. >> gary casperoff was on this week, and i -- >> i saw him. >> and you know him well. and we talked about this issue of the president individually not getting involved in punishing putin. it is always left to the administration, it is always left to a piece of paper or to a staffer or cabinet secretary or national secu...

Election. so yes, weve got to crack down on russia, we have to make it clear that this cant be done. but we have to harden -- were on notice. and if this happens again, the blame is on us. >> right. now -- i think that is a very fair statement. let me ask you. this does putin see todays action as a gut punch or a slap on the wrist? >> you know, i think hes pretty much absorbed this notion that were going to be doing these sanctions. i think it is the right thing to do. but quite frankly, there h...

Before the break, the cloud of russia continues to hang over president trumps first month and a half in office. though in russia, his election was mostly met with fanfare, at least in kremlin-run media. recent lay it honeymoon appears to be coming to an end. whether or not vladimir putin could turn on president trump and what happens if he does that? joining me now is gary casperoff. a russian pro-democracy leader and a former world chess champion. hes run for the presidency in russia. hes also ...