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for a long time. he uses maybe one part of his leadership. he was up one day -- then the other day, pushback on somebody else. kind of the classic divide and rule. i think prigozhin was a handy tool for him to put pressure on shrug you, maybe you blame shrug you or others for what was happening. but it is obviously gunning out of control. he thought he could control, now he cant. >> how does this and do you think? >> like i said, i think in the short term he will be able to squash this...

The putin machine and have the western banks, we would not be here today. >> the thing is, i mean, we dont have to speculate about what putin is capable of. he did it to aleppo. levelled aleppo. he did it in chechnya, brutal. >> thats how he came to power. >> exactly. the idea that -- i do wonder if the ability of -- including western media to look away at those conflicts made him feel okay, i can get away with brutality. im still surprised he thought in his mind that he could get away with doin...

Or is something being fed to him with the intent of sort of shaping his conduct, shaping his words and shaping his actions? these are incredibly important questions. it doesnt mean you and i will ever know the answer to it, but these are incredibly important questions. >> okay. sometimes things happen that make me hit pause and rip up the script and one just did, so bear with me. i want to dig into this with you, michael mcfaul. what has he done -- what other possible explanation is there for to...

Iraq, syria and vietnam. stupid and not because he is bad businessman, you know? florida representative mario but because this machine and the diaz balart, one of many voices putin machine work together and firing back on twitter saying destroy his business including ive always wanted to travel to banks and including his business a corrupt country that is not a in aircraft and everywhere. free democracy and now castros lap dog wont let me. putin messaged main guy. if you are business, forget all...

I think hell get a pretty strong united front in favor of what ambassador taylor was just talking about, which is an escalating set of sanctions against this act of aggression. >> well, lets still denying those are russian troops that he might have to order back to their bar racks. so it seems like were a few steps away from that. former ambassador william taylor and charles kupchan. thank you very much for your time on this important story. >> thank you. coming up, what are the russian people...