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So what im looking for, unfortunately for ukraine, is a significant rise in air attacks, missile strikes, more mass being thrown at the problem because thats the russian way of war, overwhelm with mass, do it from the air. it is not working perfectly on the ground. he is going to try to really knock the ukrainians back in the air. last thought, what should we be doing. we need to be doing exactly what the president and his team are doing, which is to say rally the west, push the diplomacy, but a...

To ask him about the nuclear threats. take a listen. >> reporter: for decades russia and america have maintained stability despite fearsome nuclear capability. can you reassure the world that russia would not fire a nuclear weapon in anger, would not fire a first strike? >> weve got a military doctrine which describes the parameters and conditions for application or deployment of nuclear weapons. we do not have -- we do not have any escalation in order to deescalate as western powers tried to pr...

Happening. now theres nobody to tell them what is going on in ukraine. >> you know, andrea, though it may have been symbolic that vote yesterday at if u.n. general assembly where only five nations voted to support russia, russia in a league with north korea, syria and belarus, it was significant in displaying the isolation of vladimir putin in russia. we understand that president macron of france just got off a 90-minute call with president putin. the pressure continues from the west. the questi...

Fundamentally a russian ethnic and speaking city is putting up deep resistance is quite remarkable. at the top of that pyramid of ukrainian resistance you have to put president zelenskyy, who is turning out to be quite remarkable. we have got to keep him alive. we have got to keep him as a symbol of the resistance. on the putin question and nuclear weapons, concerning, ominous. he does appear very isolated. whether his inner circle would rise up if he attempted to use nuclear weapons i think is ...

Ukrainians. 100,000 troops now in europe as part of nato or the unilateral force. the germans doubling their defense budget for next year. they essentially disarmed themselves 20 years ago, and things are steadily increasing the pressure on the russians. i personally hear all the time about creating no-fly zones in ukraine. look, theres no question, the u.s. air force, the brits and the french could establish a no-fly zone and drive the russian air power out of the region in a week. but to do so...

Trump doesnt want to just let it slip. wants to throw it out of the window. >> yeah. i want few get to vladamir putin. i just want to play this. a our pine ueuropean union pres with a message to donald trump ahead of the summit. >> i would look to address president trump directly who, for a long time now, has the been criticizing europe almost daily. america, appreciate your allies, after all you dont have that many. >> so, mark, stand by. i got a putin question for you. want to give this to sus...

He gets his cut of the big on this thing, hes going to walk away from this alliance, i think this is a moment of incredible political and global tragedy if we let this slip away. it feels like donald trump doesnt want to let it slip, but throw it out the window. >> i want to get to vladimir putin, this is the european unions president, with a message to president trump ahead of this summit, watch this. >> i would like to address president trump directly. who for a long time now has been criticiz...

Putin and stormy daniels may know something about trump? >> well, we know what stormy daniels knows. shes told her story on "60 minutes," in excruciating detail, i might add. you know, the putin question, i honestly -- i honestly cant answer. i mean, thats something, obviously, that robert mueller is looking into. and, you know, that is the big question. why has this president been so reticent to criticize vladimir putin? you know, its a mystery. its a mystery and we dont -- we just dont know th...

Of protocol either. until he careened off script on the putin question, the asia trip was largely a success. >> ian, the part that struck me is trump seemed quite determine shall to china and he was -- he was asserting a narrow american interest, xi was asserting these larger global interests and this comes at a time, as you pointed out, china is both more ambitious and appears quite successful. >> in my view in my entire lifetime there have been two speeches that have changed the global order. ...

Of the american-mubarak relationship. >> this goes back to something you said. its a re-creation of the imperial egypt, or the pharaohnic egypt if you want to use a cliche. egypt wants to play that role and has been trying to play that role unsuccessfully with respect to syria and trying to recapture in diplomacy what the revolution did recapture in the arab popular imagination. so this is a place where u.s. interests, morsi and israeli interests, because you have some of the israeli right who s...