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The sinking of that "moskva" the failure to take kyiv. now vladamir putin is claiming russia liberated mariupol. he has to find some sort of win to give to the russian people are. they buying it though, is the question? >> you know, at the very least, don, i think putin has to walk away with at least the donbas and perhaps sort of that southern swath if he can convince the people he had a significant victory. he went in saying he was going to take over the whole country. thats a propaganda probl...

>> if you look at the war in bosnia, there is a prospect there will be people in leadership positions that will be brought to justice. but the concern is that those leadership positions tell an 18 or 20-year-old that what theyre doing is appropriate. steve is dead on. this says a lot about how the russian military is operating. in a professional situation, an 18 or 20-year-old is going to say, the enemy is a horrible maybe person, but maybe a horrible animal, unless theyre led by leadership to s...

Mudd. its great to have you both here for a conversation that could not be more important. phil, lets just start with you. whats your reaction to zelenskyys warning here. . >> look, if youre sitting in the white house, even if you consider a 1% less chance that putin would use a nuclear tactical weapon, you cannot sit in front of the president and say were not considering those options. mr. president, with he didnt think about the implications. when you are thinking about the implications it is ...

I think all the world, all the countries have to be worried. because you know that it can be not real information. but it can be truth. because when they begin to speak about one or another battles oren mys or nuclear weapons or some chemical, you know, issues, chemical weapons, they could do it. they can. for them life of the people, nothing. thats why. we should not be afraid. be ready. but that is not a question to ukraine but for all the world. i think so. >> joining us now, cnn global affai...

Kind. your question is how to use this to increase isolation and the replacement of vladimir putin. as soon as you go low, you use a nuke, you might lose some of the europeans, moral situation globally. how do we ratchet up the pressure to get putin out using allies in western europe who remember world war ii and dont remember any of this. i am looking at it as an opportunity for diplomacy in squeezing not using nukes ourselves. >> cutting off all energy purchases in germany, not just tapering l...

>> an escalation. on the subject of escalation, phil, the cia director warning that the united states should take seriously the risks of a cornered vladimir putin using these tactical or low-grade nuclear weapons. there is no significant intelligence that putin is planning it, just it is increasing. . >> if you look at whats happening in ukraine, we used to use the phrase low probability, high compact. he said the likelihood of these. he doesnt see movement of things that would be part of this. ...

Very high. the chance that ukraine can hold out forever, i just dont see it. . >> just dont see it. all right. phil, thank you so much for that. appreciate it. just in, a cnn exclusive on the january 6th investigation back in the united states. were now seeing text messages from trump allies in congress to the white house. so what do they reveal? plus, violence erupting in jerusalem. more than 150 people hurt after fights break out between palestinians and israeli security personnel at one o...

$800 million of heavy womens. they will get them to the polish border. ukrainians will have to pick them up and move them across the country into eastern ukraine. the last time the u.s. tried to move $800 million worth of gear, it was lighter weapons and it took them a month. so time is of the essence here. time is nobodys friend on the ukraine side of this fight. john. . >> yeah. they have a long way to go. once they get to the border, they still have a long way to go to get to the donbas regio...

Youre so close that you dont want to cause, you know, too many people getting in the way of being able to apprehend the individual, so the fact that they have got this credit card, the fact that they have been able to trace it now. they probably have a fairly good photo. if they know where he rented the van. you cant rent a van without a drivers license and other i.d. and probably have addresses and everything else that they are working right now in surveillance and so forth, so i think they are...

Through camera footage all across this city, looking to see if theres any way to actually locate this person, so, i think well learn a lot from the news conference. certainly the biggest thing we all want to know is who this person is and where are they, and well be waiting and standing fwoir that. >> its about to begin were told, very, very soon brynn gingras covering the story for us. thanks so much. lets discuss whats going on with cnn law enforcement an lives charles ramsey and counterterr...