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Fighting this war broke out in your country. what are they saying to you? >> they are keeping up their spirits. they are realistic about it. they tell me its hard. a friend of mine and special forces contacted me, sent me a picture, and posted if anything happens. think for nothing has happened so far. he is alive and well. i cant tell you that much more because that would be divulging too much information, but everybody i know is still alive and well. >> both russia and ukraine have signaled th...

Regions that he has already moved into. so that is the argument, the belief in london and other western capitals is they need to keep some of these measures back in reserve so they can go further, so they can put further pressure on russia. the question that is being asked in london by opposition politicians and we have seen a tweet in the last couple of hours from ukraines foreign minister as well, the question is whether actually the west should be going a lot further now in introducing strict...

Those forces are doing there. and whether or not they come into contact with ukrainian forces. at the same time, brianna, they are under no illusions here that what vladimir putin is doing here is some kind of peace keeping mission. they understand fully that this is a pretext for war, senior official yesterday saying that president putins speech was meant to justify war to the russian people. so theyre watching this very closely, but they are also beginning to come under some pressure from lawm...

Close to vladimir putin that want to be isolated. i think that is a very important thing to remember. the more exposed to our abroad, and therefore exposed to sanctions, the less influence you have with vladimir putin back home. so it is the right thing to do, but i do not have any illusions that it is going to change putins calculus. >> and jackie, senator lindsey graham tweeted this after biden sanctions announcements, i am quoting. president biden is not seizing the moment, the sanctions outl...

The assistance from the west to react to the most severe sanctions. the most severe actions to stop putin. >> let me ask you about that very quickly since you brought it up, its an important point. youre seeing some of the initial reaction. some of the measures that have been taken. those announce earlier today including, here in the united states from president biden. did those measures go far enough? are those measures going to, from your perspective, going to change the time of this invasion?...

Ting something even well, i don. i think we should be very careful that we dont think we can predict the future, when were a start. id say a couple of things. first, we should be grateful that we did expand made nato. the debate weve been having the past couple weeks, is a good idea or not. think about the counterfactual, but if there was no nato? then there would be a lot more countries that will be exposed right now, they would have ethnic russians living in them. so thank goodness we have nat...

Resisting russian aggression. that does not include fighting inside ukraine, which president biden has properly said we will not do. were not a european union nation, theyre not part of nato. >> matt, i want to go to you on the ground in moscow. put putin delivered an address saying the interest of russia and security of its citizens are, quote, unconditional. you watch and pay attention to a lot of state media. what does he mean by that and what does that signal for where his mindset is right n...

Almost awe of the ability that putin has to spread disinformation and have it accepted by american politicians, one of the two parties but seems like limits to how credible he can be and his own country and wonder if you can tell me what that conversation looks like. outside of state media. there must be real questions about even what he said the night that the invasion commenced that this was a special operation. this is clearly a full-on invasion of the entire country. >> reporter: people are ...

I am not convinced that it will change the calculus. i dont think that putin is thinking about the stock market next, week or next month, or in your from now. i think that he is thinking about his place in russian history books 30 years from now. and remember, when we are sanctioning russian individuals and companies, it is a certain segment of the economy that we are sanctioning. there is another segment of the economy, the military, industrial complex, those that pump out oil and glass that ar...

Stand at each particular moment. because at the moment there is a certain amount of disillusionment that is coming. because, you know, i fully concur with inna whom you just had before me on the show, i mean, like we need that no-fly zone. were paying with blood, holding back evil. the evil that dont -- dont have any illusions. that evil wont stop. it wont end with ukraine. we are already hearing russian political analysts saying that this war will end further than the western border of ukraine....