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>> general clapper, i appreciate your time, as always. thank you, sir. >> thanks, erin. next, the special master trump picked now taking him on, calling his his spoconspiracy theories bogus. the migrants flown to marthas vineyard. an attorney representing some of them says this is not true and they were preyed on by an individual pretending to help. conspiracy theorist alex jones on the stand in the sandy hook defamation trial. it went off the rails today. >> i said im sorry and im done sa...

Particular emotional or spiritual value, i suppose, for the russians marking the defeat of the germans in world war ii. so this would be, i think, a natural milestone if putin is going to try to embroil or engage more of the russian population. i will say that i dont think that, if this means mobilization of reservists, i really wonder about their military competence. and i doubt that they have any more will to fight than the troops that the russians already have in the ukraine. >> general clapp...

Be not even a country, just a soviet republic. and according to his most recent rant the other night, not even worthy of considered a sovereign nation. the idea a country like that could turn its back on russia and instead push towards the west, wanting to join not just nato but wanting to join the eu, wanting to have increased trade ties, that is just anathema to putin, and hell do everything he can to stop it. as weve seen before with the former soviet republic of georgia. so this his red line...

That putin could use and all of it in the cyber realm, so i think -- and the general information operations, misinformation, disinformation, those kinds of things that i think he would employ against former orbit -- countries that were formerly in the soviet orb which he also feels very defensive about because he views them as unfriendly, so i dont think just because of what happens in ukraine, i dont think its going to be the end of it, and i certainly dont think that if he incorporates these t...

That we need more in the way of force, military force in europe deployed as a deterrent. >> more u.s. military force deployed as a deterrent? >> yeah. >> general clapper, grateful for your insight. the russian president vladimir putin is giving a national address as russian forces continue to violently attack ukraine. well bring you morere, next. they just found d out they can redeem rewards for a sesecond honeymoon. romance is in the air.r. like these two. hes realizing hes i in love. and d t...

Breaking news. cnn learning that there is a fire at a nuclear power plant in ukraine. it is the one that is attacked by russian troops. it is a plant in south central ukraine. just heard me talk about it with general clapper. it is one of the largest in all of europe. there is a fire there now. mayor of the town there posting a message on facebook that reads and i quote him, a threat to world security as a result of relentless shelling by the enemy of the buildings and blocks of largest nuclear ...

Not just the latest episode but in general. stephen hadley, george w. bushs former national security told me it was a mistake for the bush administration to not impose sanctions on russia after russia took parts of georgia. general clapper told the other day he wish the the obama administration had been more aggressive in 2014 when putin seized crimea. are we doing to have another interview in five or six years of somebody from the biden administration saying, yeah, we did some tough sanctions b...

People that are telling some of his ideas are bad. hes surrounded by sycophants that are yemen so hes not getting opposing opinions or opposing views, so i think we need to -- we need -- as the united states, we need the worst case of this and do what we can to reinforce nato and start those sanctions, turn them on right away pause they wont take effect in the next few days. >> but he knows -- i was going to say, general clapper, sorry for interrupting. he knows, putin, if he were to attack one ...

Show up, however you can, for the foster kids who need it most— at helpfosterchildren.com another ominous development. additional ukrainian government websites are now down, at least eight including the foreign ministers website. joining us now retired air force lieutenant general james clapper, author of "facts and fears, hard truths from a life of intelligence." also with us steve hall. director clapper, i wonder what you make of the white house saying putin is supposedly improvising and a...

Vladimir putin wants to send a message at this point what is he doing, what he did yesterday, he sent missiles into western ukraine into lviv at the exact moment that president biden was making his speech and appearing in poland just a few dozen miles across the border is poland right there from lviv. so vladimir putin right now has the ability to do that, but just to pull back, it is remarkable that more than a month into this war ukraine still has the ability to fly, ukraine still, you know, h...