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Can you do to save lives and ukraine. its just that simple, and maybe its not mig-29, maybe something else, why can you do to save lives and ukraine. >> john, do you agree with that? with the exception of moving putin from power, is there anything that is going to stop this man? >> no, i think we couldve expected that he was going to double down. we saw what happened in northern chechnya and in the 1990s and 2000s. they thought i was gonna be easy, going to put in a proper government, in recogni...

Who can help extricate her? >> im sure theres somebody at the embassy thats going to try to get in touch with her, and find lawyers who they believe are honest to try to help her out. if we remember from the broader magnitsky problem, well meaning lawyers can find themselves cracked down in the state. whats happening in russia is quite a bit of oppression, they have closed russian media, any kind of independent media, they have closed western media, theyre cracking down on anyone whos a threat t...

And what should we do, its our country, its our lives and our children behind us. we dont have a place to run. we will defend it and we will win. now the only question is about humanity. its not just a war anymore, its just looking at how people are killed, now and several days will be looking at how people are dying from hunger. >> it is extraordinary to watch all of this. dimitri o, thank you for joining us. we are thinking of you and your parents tonight. >> bye-bye. >> with that, lets bring ...

Law on democracy. its something we need to take incredibly seriously, this country is the arsenal no for democracy in world war ii. we did the berlin airlift, we did lend lease, we fought wars on the part of cassava and kuwait, wars one against terrorism. this is equally -- only to the experts whether no-fly zone should have been, or mig-29s, those are things that can be decided. but if we are doing everything we, can were showing timidity in doing what vladimir putin might consider escalatory, ...

Change, and immediate overthrow of putin or anything like that. but we need to sort of start to get information into that system, because as the russian people who are suffering here, not as much as the ukrainians, obviously, putin is throwing them under the bus. their economy is going to be terrible for the next ten years. people are coming back in body bags, their pariahs around the world, and theyre going to be dependent on china as a live little brother for years to come. they need to unders...

I -- that is turned out not to be as helpful as they probably should have been. but if there is anything that cia was created for, its exactly this. its the kind of thing where we need to get into the people we need to get information to those people in russia. not necessarily because we know its gonna create an immediate change, and immediate overthrow of putin or anything like that. but we need to sort of start to get information into that system, because as the russian people who are sufferin...

>> it is extraordinary to watch all of this. dimitri o, thank you for joining us. we are thinking of you and your parents tonight. >> bye-bye. >> with that, lets bring our experts, michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia, and msnbc international affairs analyst john cipher, a former cia affairs officer. ambassador mcfaul, you just heard that, youve been in the center of this for the last two weeks. you talk and people in ukraine, you are with us on air. at this point, is there anything ...

Was a virtual certainty russia had listened in to the phone calls with giuliani, telling the paper that the kremlin may have been able to learn about, quote, the kremlins attempts to investigate a political rival months before that effort was exposed and could have used those insights to adapt or amplify its propaganda promoting the baseless claim that ukraine rather than russia hacked the democratic committee in the 2016 election. one official told the paper that russia likely knows more about ...

Exposed and could have used those insights to adapt or amplify its propaganda promoting the baseless claim that ukraine rather than russia hacked the democratic committee in the 2016 election. one official told the paper that russia likely knows more about trumps conversations with giuliani than impeachment investigators do. quote, congress and investigators have call records that suggest certain things but have no means whatsoever of getting the actual text of what was said, thats according to ...

Order to extort money out of people who were the royalty of saudi arabia. he claims jared kushner gave him that enemies list. that is not a normal use of intelligence processes that we have. could donald trump say i did this, i gave him as the essential adjudicating authority i gave him this clearance? yes. but if at any point that information is found to be in the hands of our enemies or is found to have been traded off in some form of horse trading for some personal benefit, then you have an a...