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Russian landscape. but the truth of this disastrous decision by the kremlin, by putin, that is not something that putin has been able to entirely hide. >> ned price, i have a sense these are very busy days for you. were grateful to you for making time to talk to us. thank you, my friend. perfect segue for my next guest. kier simons in moscow. just pick this up where ned price left it. i also heard from a former senior intelligence official that in some ways as perilous as these crippling sanctio...

Every day from disbelief to horror and acceptance. i wonder what it is they accept. do they accept they will die saving ukraine? do they accept that russia is coming? what is that they think happens next? >> reporter: i think people are caught somewhere between disbelief that this is happening and that putin is coming for all of it. theres this fear that the disbelief was what led to the unpreparedness. that people woke up in the eastern part of the country and had to make a decision of what do ...

Intelligence is gathered, it is analyzed, verified and declassified i guess to keep putin off his game, to reveal him for exactly what he is. a liar making up false pretext. the intelligence community has been flawless in predicting whats going to happen next. i wonder if you can tell us whats going to happen next. >> i dont have a crystal ball, but heres what i can tell you. before i worked at the state department, i was at the cia. i have never seen a campaign like this to use intelligence to ...

Our best mechanism to end this war is probably the russian people. we need to understand is does this information work. everything putin does on every day is a theatrical presentation where he is the victor and hes the victim whos being prove kated to do these attacks. if you watch in the information space, theyve failed miserably, but where they have had minor successes, particularly in the south, theyve begun redeploying their war correspondents to build this momentum, that yes, things are goi...

As we can. >> it seems on the other side, putin made more than a couple false claims that were not tru. that there would be no street to street combat necessary. that he would, with little resistance, be able to install governors around ukraine and that an insurgency from the ukrainian people was not anticipated by putin. i wonder what, whether the assessment now is that putin is more or less dangerous no that hes been humiliated in the early days of this war? >> i think putin has really misjudg...

Being his closest confidants and he does have those people, like sergei, who hes known four decades. yet he dressed him down a week ago on television. it looks like the people that putin is really close to are the bodyguards, the leaders of the fsb, what was once called the kgb. that kind of crowd. his security crowd. intelligence crowd. quite a small, close knit group. they are incredibly loyal as far as we can tell and just another point about him being under covid isolation. that paints a pic...

Ukraine without facing any fighting, we are seeing now that is just not the case. the ukrainian people are defending their own country with bravery and courage and dignity and we are helping them with weaponry and supplies and will continue to do that. he also miscalculated if he thought that the united states and our partners and allies around the world were bluffing when we said that the russian economy would face massive, massive consequences, putin to go forward with these plans. president b...

What frame of mind is he in. >> and my understanding is that the advisers in his ear to the degree that there are any, are all those intelligence officials. is there rank -- because the intelligence seems to be what they screwed up. and some of those people have been with him for the 30 years that hes been on the world stage. >> yeah. well theres bound to be, isnt there? he do hear about it. we dont obviously speak to the people directly so but we hear about the rumblings and things and of cours...

As russias bonds have been downgraded to junk status. putin has also miscalculated if he thought he wouldnt face opposition at home. in recent days, weve seen thousands of brave russians take to the streets to make clear this is not russias war. this is not the russian peoples war. this is putins war. this is the kremlins war. this is a war that has been aided and abetted by those putin including his cronies, oligarchs, lieutenants. it is something that large segments of the russian people are s...

Obama presidency. and clint watts, now a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute and msnbc national security analyst. ambassador, i get to talk to you so many times on a day like yesterday and i want to go back to something we talked about in the 11:00 p.m. hour, which is the intelligence has been pretty good. the product in terms of what putin is going to do has been pretty good and its my sense that what it says are indications is that its a pretty grim picture i...