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In this particular case, we can say that they believe that, you know, theres a greater chance that they are more ready than not to do something like this. >> colonel cedric leighton, thanks. i always appreciate your analysis and expertise. and our thanks to max boot as well. cnn will have much more coverage of this crisis throughout the day. tune in this afternoon. my colleague jake tapper has an exclusive u.s. tv interview with german chancellor olaf scholz on "the lead" today at 4:00 p.m. ...

Russia might start a war. this is actually a very effective information operation on our part to preempt any kind of maneuver that the russians might make. >> max, the pentagon says russia has well over 100,000 troops on the ukraine border. president biden telling americans to get out of the area. uh, listen. i -- i dont know whats going to happen but had a bad feeling about this all along. is diplomacy failing here? >> clearly, diplomacy is failing. and i think its failing for one reason only, ...

Out of it. bre n donaldot out, come back . its the end of our democracy. might see the end ofac democracy in the coming years.y >> so youre saying its not possible we could lose our democracy here in the united states? without a doubt if americanse lose faith in the veracity and honor of our elections, its the beginning of end of our democracy. i think that could be the end of our democracy not to be too ,you know, pointed about it.butp but i want people to understand hillary clinton saideo a co...

>> its the end of our democracy. >> we might see the end of democracy in the coming years. >> so you are saying its still possible we could lose our democracy here in the united states? >> without a doubt. if americans lose faith in the honor of our elections, it is the beginning of the end of our democracy. to speak i think that could be the end of our democracy. not to be too poignant about it, but i want people to understand. >> hillary clinton said it could be and of our democracy. you shoul...

Was in the idea of a full blown emotional breakdown. how else to explain a reaction like that? for a well-adjusted normal person, unwanted election outcomes are part of life. voters dont always do what you want them to do. it is frustrating, but that is how it works. in fact, when voters reject you you get a chance to assess your own behavior. chances are there is a reason that people didnt want you in power and you know have time to think about what that reason might be. that is a healthy proce...

Officials had indicated, if russia was impacted by sanctions, they could take measures such as cutting off gas flows to europe, oil flows to europe. so these are among some of the measures. but russia hasnt announced them yet and it does seem to be that they are caught by surprise. there was an indication from russian officials previously that they thought they wouldnt be bit by the impact of being cut off from s.w.i.f.t. so russia at the moment is still trying to figure out its way through exac...

Boot was in the middle of a full blown emotional breakdown. he must be because how else doot you explain a reaction like that for a well-adjusted, normal person, unwanted election outcomes are part of life. voters dont always do what you want them to do. it is frustrating but thats how it worksks. in fact,yo when voters reject you, you get a chance to assess your own behavior. there is a reason that people didnt want you in power and you now have time to think about what that reason might be. th...

Person who commands a large military, the worlds largest nuclear arsenal and theres kind of a sense that covid has made him more isolated and more out of touch with reality. >> and i just wonder if the anxiety that so many of us have felt through covid, if that has actually emboldened the ukrainian people to say weve just been through this, were fighting even harder now. max boot, great piece there in the "washington post." hope people can go read it. thank you so much for your perspective. we a...

In his inner circle, is he often casts this in terms of autocracy versus democracy and those values, and he has a good story to tell about how the u.s. has really led with holding the western alliance and nato allies together, but we have not seen him give that sort of uplifting rhetoric specifically about the ukrainian people. i think as julia said, america has been incredibly moved by their stories, but that is very much from the images that the public has seen on twitter, on social media, fro...

For the way he tried to extort president zelenskyy and ukraine. in fact, just today, you had steve scalise offering some lame explanation for the republican failure to convict and theres not even a general rethinking about trump, given what were seeing about his buddy, putin. i mean, trump has been consistently putins number one fan, even a couple weeks ago, he was saying what a smart idea, how savvy, what an act of genius it was for putin to invade ukraine. and you would think that there would ...