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Kaspirov. he understands the national game of russia chess very well and were seeing a chess game here. putin is pushing, pushing, pushing, he also wants to consolidate defense around what he perceives as a less defendable borders for russia in the wake of nato. one other point to be made here, stephanie, is that putin also seeks to divide nato, he seeks to divide europe on this issue. he knows theres controversy about oil and gas and above all he would like to divide the united states and portr...

Relationships across the atlantic with nato, i think we can count on our nato partners to stand with us economically, diplomatically and even militarily. now, that doesnt mean a nato troop deployment to ukraine in response to an invasion, but it probably means military supplies to the ukrainians, training, exercises, cyber, intelligence. look, we know that vladimir putin is probing here, russian proverb probe until you hit steel, then withdraw. i think weve got a pretty good chance of him not co...

And the u.s. and our western allies are pushing to get russia to back off from a possible invasion. the biden administration saying no firm commitments will be made and the feeling is mutual for russia with officials warning to the u.s. not to overplay its hand. carol lee joins us from washington, matt bod ner and admiral james stavridis and gary kaspiroff. matt, the u.s. and russia did not sound optimistic on either side even going into these talks. tell us where we are now. >> reporter: so the...

The demands of the terrorist putin, the invader putin, the man president biden correctly called a killer. does the united states negotiate with killers over how many people they can kill? >> then, gary, when you hear people talk about blinken leaving the door open for a diplomatic deal with russia, are you laughing at that? telling us that youre negotiating with a terrorist? >> blinken said yesterday that one of putins goals was to restore the u.s. -- and i was amazed. it only took four u.s. adm...