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Understand that his countrys economy is in the tank and that he absolutely needs all of this, i mean, if this was a long thought-out plan that -- if he were going to survive, he needed that. >> dont listen to that. do you remember the sochi olympics? do you remember how pleased he was that there was no terrorism. he was basking in the glory and suddenly this crisis. why would he want this crisis? its spoiled everything he had spent five years and $50 billion achieving. this crisis was triggered ...

Understand that his countrys economy is in the tank and that he absolutely needs all of this, i mean, if this was a long thought-out plan that -- if he were going to survive, he needed that. >> dont listen to that. do you remember the sochi olympics? do you remember how pleased he was that there was no terrorism. he was basking in the glory and suddenly this crisis. why would he want this crisis? its spoiled everything he had spent five years and $50 billion achieving. this crisis was triggered ...

Jeffrey. if america got its back up and got serious, i think the europeans would follow. i dont expect them to lead in this respect. we could make life pretty miserable for putin in a lot of ways. >> but there has to be a way to find a face-saving solution or some way for president putin to back out of this. >> you want him to be humiliated. he needs to be weakened at home. >> steve cohn, we want him to be humiliated. no offramp. no reason for diplomacy here. what is kristols problem? what is th...

Like this? >> youve got two things going on at once. youve got putin bashing and obama bashing coming from these people. >> oh, i seattle. >> and theyre not exactly clear which one they want to bash more. give me one personal note. i grew up in the segregated south. i voted twice for obama as an act of historic justice. but he hasnt conducted himself well on the russian matter. we need to find a way to stop this because the next step that is being pushed by people like kristol and the others is ...

Theyve had before, governments of thieves. and they want add radical change. thats also a statement i think is worth looking at. i think, quite frankly, this putin bashing has become a kind of national sport in the u.s. media. its easy to do and its great fun, but i dont know where it leads you. >> well, i think that the concern is that you have the leader of such an important country who seems bent on doing things that are e anymore call to the cause of freedom. i think thats what triggers the ...

The scenes we are looking at right now. but, lets broaden the discussion to putin himself. >> all right. >> do you consider him a tyrant? >> no. an authoritarian leader. >> let me stop you there is he a former kgb guy. >> yeah. >> all right. he backs the mullahs in iran. >> yeah. >> he backs assad in syria, who is a killer. and you dont consider him a tyrant? he throws journalists in jail. he passes anti-gay legislation, i mean, what does it take in your mind to be a tyrant, doctor? >> i dont kn...

And thats why we are seeing the scenes we are looking at right now. but, lets broaden the discussion to putin himself. >> all right. >> do you consider him a tyrant? >> no. an authoritarian leader. >> let me stop you there is he a former kgb guy. >> yeah. >> all right. he backs the mullahs in iran. >> yeah. >> he backs assad in syria, who is a killer. and you dont consider him a tyrant? he throws journalists in jail. he passes anti-gay legislation, i mean, what does it take in your mind to be a ...

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