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Shaping his thinking. i think you have western leaders, macron and others, president biden, who have tried to reiterate for putin that it may not be quite as easy as he thinks it could be. >> and youre also professor mcfall. so, put on the professor hat for a moment. because i was reading some of the history some of us may have forgotten, if we ever knew it, which is how ukraine won its independence. in 1991, from boris yeltsin as a move to exacerbate the soviet union and gorbachev and awarding ...

As it is. first of all, russians are people. they arent all vladimir putin and theyll suffer as this crisis wears on. hes going to be fine. russia is a big country with a lot of people. its not usually a zero-sum game. if putin sucks too badly, if russia is going off the cliff in a way thats not going to reverse any time soon, how much should we worry about that despite the political shoddenfreud it might bring with it? joining us is an nbc news analyst, professor mcfall. thank you for being wit...

Worried about the future. its always been his deal. you let me govern the way i want. i will grow the economy. next year the economy is not going to grow and that does over time create a real problem for him going forward. >> michael mcfall, great to have you here. thanks for your time. as bad as things are very vladimir, though, he is loved. what are you doing? the dishes are clean.