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These are weapons that are designed to kill but also to terrorize as weve seen in places like syria. >> hala, this is so complicated, and your coverage brings this out. on the one hand, weve always understood that putin has an enormous ego. hes a prideful person, and this has gone terribly wrong, and there has been concern that somehow we leave him an off-ramp, a way to back down and save face, right? on the other hand, todays remarks by putin that suggest regime change, he cannot remain in powe...

Have to start talking about winning. it feels as if were in a situation where putin isnt going to -- he needs to come away with some win here, and i dont see how the ukrainian people feel comfortable giving him a win. if anything, as ive said, if your next-door neighbor tries to kill you, how are you supposed to live next door to that person? because a police officer came and said no, no, no, your neighbor is not going to do it again. >> well, i dont think im willing to accept the conventional w...

Efforts at diplomacy ween russian officials and their counterparts in europe and the west, with feshls desperately trying to find an off-ramp in the run-up to the war. russian officials saying for weeks, we have no intention to going to war and mocking the western press. lo and behold they went to war anyways. i think russia goes through the motions of acting like a responsible international player and theyre engageing in good faith diplomacy. what we see in reality and secretary of state tony b...

The russians going to do? they are not going to give up their fundamental claim. with... they have been very— fundamental claim. with... they have been very actively advocating for an off ramp. _ been very actively advocating for an off ramp, so i think they think it is possibly— off ramp, so i think they think it is possibly worth giving a chance to. is possibly worth giving a chance to ithink— is possibly worth giving a chance to. i think the biden administration, and probably the uk gov...

Fear most, many are contemplating possibility of offering vladimir putin an off ramp, a face saving solution in order to return to normalcy in political and trade relations with russia. once the war ends, well hear lots of arguments in this vain. lets compromise with the kremlin, try to persuade mr. putin to make a few concessions. i will tell you to be honest what concessions i would expect from russia, withdraw from ukraine proper and war reparations made after the war, and all the war crimina...

Original aims, and that was, as you well know, to take kyiv in just a couple of days. were now at the one-month point and its clear that russian forces are not performing as anticipated and this has not gone as planned. so because of that, i think russia is reassessing and theyve indicated theyre going to alter their tactics. lets give it some time. the next couple days, the united states working closely with allies and the ukrainian government will be looking for evidence of this shift. >> reas...

Perhaps theres a mole in his midst, that is one of the goals. all information operations theres also secondary goals and one of them that i thought quite a bit about is that this also offers him down the line perhaps an off-ramp because he would be able to say ultimately to the russian people, ive been deceived by my own military, deceived by my own intelligence services. they didnt give me the right information. i think thats the goal of this u.s. information campaign. i dont know if putins goi...

These people couldnt agree. >> of the extensive devastation across ukraine, mariupol continues, at least appears to have gotten the worst of it. 160,000 people still trapped in that city. again, no water, no power, no heat. we learned this morning that there will be no humanitarian corridors today to allow people to escape from mariupol or anywhere else. the siege there fits with what the russian military is describing as its key focus now, controlling the eastern region known as donbas where se...

Impact, theyve been hands off. theyre afraid to go after energy, which gives them a pretty free hand domestically to help protect the rest of their economy from economic pressure. thats a choice the u.s. has made. i think its the wrong choice, but there certainly is the prospect that if the war continues and it lasts for longer, gets bloodier, we have more tax on russians, ukrainian cities. we could see an intensification of sanctions on the cities and from russia. >> even if the u.s. could go f...

Supplying fighter jets to ukraine. give the ukrainians what they need in order to win this war because the only way this war ends in a justifiable manner is if we have a russian comprehensive defeat rather than some sort of face-saving off-ramp where concessions are made to the putin regime. i think that is untenable at this point. >> i want you to listen to the spokesperson for ukrainians ministry of defense and what the ukrainians now believe are russian goals to the east, at least in the shor...