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Are you comfortable with either of those descriptions, doctor? >> no. with all due respect to my senior colleagues, i think what we have here is an intelligence failure on the part of putins intelligence agencies and putin must be very, very angry and disappointed. >> meaning they told him he would be welcome with open arms? >> that this would be over in 48 hours and the courageous ukrainian people have -- and the courage of president zelenskyy, theyve fought back. putin is an eighth degree in j...

What theyre doing and what that ukrainian narrative is, its absolutely winning the day. and everything, as you go down the line, that the svr, which is the russian equivalent of the cia, their leader, you know, putin publicly humiliated him in that news conference a few days ago. everybody in that foreign intelligence agency watching that and across the board all these things that russia has tried to achieve, whether its dismantling nato, whether with its reducing u.s. influence in europe, wheth...

Given the likelihood of a real guerrilla war the we are going to see. weve got major rivers that are difficult to cross as well. for someone his formative experience was the director of russian security police, they are arresting russian protesters. vladimir putins background, this is an extraordinary intelligence failure on his part. these are things the russian military intelligence would have prepared for. you can argue 190,000 troops is not enough to secure ukraine. it has not been enough to...

Assumptions and mistakes that russia is making stems in large part from the political system russia has put in place and that is a political system where power is totally concentrated in the hands of one man, vladimir putin. it is that personalization of power that has led to these faulty assumptions and mistakes on the kremlin side. its highly likely that the kremlin was fed from their intelligence community over the optimistic assessment of russias military capabilities, they underestimated th...

Putin and he may be listening to the israeli prime minister. there may be other ways to get to him. >> ambassador, vladimir putin is a former kgb agent. we talked about this a lot. he is born and bred spy tactics and kgb. was this an intelligence failure on his part, underestimating the ukrainians will to fight back? >> yasmin, i think this was a gross miscalculation, and i dont know -- i dont know if it was an intelligence failure or a failure in the mind of president putin. he has always had t...

To see when russia can win this war. it is only hardening ukrainians opposition. its difficult to see how putin can win this conflict. >> i cant help but think about the major intelligence failure that has happened here. we talk over and over about the fact in a putin is the original spy, former kgb agent. he has ron this as a former spy, not as a military man. you can even see it kind of play out with this invasion on ukraine. but this has been a major intelligence failure for president putin. ...

>> senator, thank you for being with us. since you are on the intelligence committee, lets talk about the intelligence that vladimir putins been receiving in the lead up to this war. >> well, it looks like he has made one of the greatest mistakes any leader can make, which is to intimidate the people who are telling you supposedly the truth. this is a colossal intelligence failure, both in terms of the capability of the russian army, but more of that than the resistance of the ukrainian people. ...

That convoy slowly sort of, you know, trudging toward kyiv, of this dynamic of fuel shortages and jeremy and others have made the point that military-to-military, tanks to tanks, soldiers to soldiers, ukraine is outmatched 100 days to 1. but there is this dynamic of this sort of incompetent, halfhearted effort on the russian part. or is that a complete misread? tell me how you see it. >> well, i dont think its a misread. i think its clearly, you know, we appropriately give a lot of credit to the...

Message from the british or the west that chemical or nuclear weapon usage would result in greater involvement. we need to be very clear there is going to be serious costs of a rush this point otherwise they are going to continue in the drivers seat and they will continue escalating the war as see fit. >> trace: quickly i want to get your thoughts on this because it seems as if many people have underestimated the ability or overestimated the ability of the russian forces. everyone thought it wou...

Either to western ukraine, a place like lviv, or somewhere else made of unsafe or, or even to poland to have a government in exile he. refused to leave kyiv, as it is members of parliament, and government officials. kyiv still stands, and they are still in kyiv, and you are still in kyiv. we know that there continues to be assault on the city. there is a deadly assault overnight at a shopping mall. what is the situation on the ground where you are in kyiv? there was also a big intelligence failu...