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Forward with a meeting. which brings us to the key question, how do you stop a war from breaking out when one side isnt afraid of engaging in one? heres michael mcfall yesterday. >> he believes his own propaganda. he thinks hes got a mission from god to do these things and hes moving towards doing it and its i think therefore very scary. one other thing i would remind you about in terms of getting into putins head. hes been to war. many times. georgia, 2008. ukraine, 2014. syria, 2015. every sin...

And making them worse than vladimir putin, this is at the core of what the party wants. and this is -- there is this contrast happening right now. some of the old guard, who know, you know who follow the traditional rules and you dont see mitch mcconnell out there doing these kind of childish trolling in the same way and, but you see, like, a ted cruz will tweet that joe biden is a surrender monkey. classy. for not being tough enough with the sanctions or whatever. meanwhile you have trump and j...

Immediately endangers the human lives of 700,000 people, 500,000 of them u.s. allies? >> no, i think that you have to go back to preworld war ii to find anything like this. the republican party of the world war ii era was skeptical of the use of force to rewrite boundaries in europe this way. and one of the potential, former president who may run between for president as well as another candidate for president seemingly, you know, praising putin at this very moment, it is rather remarkable. hard...

But lest he is not. vladimir putin used to be known by republicans as the most visible and prominent ones, ones with all their body parts as a killer. there is now a real sense among former investigators and prosecutors, colonel vindman, this may have more to do with what they want to do in the next presidential election. is it possible that all this -- you think of what mike flynn did, imagine the calls that could go on with vladimir putin for the next three years about lifting these sanctions....

Russia is prepared to attack. an official says putin has everything ready for a large scale invasion and that russia is quote, as ready as they can be. ukraine today beefing up preparations for violence, declaring a state of emergency. calling up military reservists and issuing a draft law that would allow citizens to carry firearms for self-defense. those of the number of ukrainian banks. the white house is pointing the finger at russia saying it considers these incidents to be consistent with ...

450,000 to 500,000 troops from the ukrainian side and at least 250,000 in forward positions on the russian side backed up by hundreds of thousands more, im sure. so this is what with 700,000 human lives on the line, and political assassinations in the works for vladimir putin, this is what mike pompeo who would like to run for president some day thinks of vladimir putin. >> very shrewd, very capable, i have enormous respect for him. ive been criticized for saying that. i have enormous respect fo...

Him. >> jeremy, you understand this better than i do, but one of putins tools for uniting his own country is playing an endless loop of republicans like mike pompeo and tucker carlson cheering him on. taking his side over the side of the american president. are we at the point now where you can offer any analysis of the impact in terms of how that strengthens putins hand in this conflict? >> well, general mccaffrey knows this as well as anybody. one of the ways that the united states prevailed d...

Donetsk asking for recognition and the night ended with now i would say the infamous speech, where putin essentially laid out a deeply paranoid and grievance filled view about the west. about addressing what he saw as a laundry list of wrongs committed against russia that need to be addressed. and he really kind of whittled away methodically at the idea of the concept of ukrainian state hood and left it at saying russia created ukrainian. this is russian territory. and ukraine is now a threat to...

150,000 troops, air, land, sea capability looks as if putin is proceeding deliberately. >> you were the second person since weve been on the air to anticipate that combat is imminent. can you say more about that? >> well, one of the things i noticed richard engel was reporting, there was light armor moving through the streets of these two separatist provinces last night with the markings painted out. really incredible the hybrid warfare that putin has learned in his multiple invasions of other c...

They kept him in it. his party now clearly was where trump was. and i want to read kinzingers tweet to you, tim. he writes, still technically a member with house republicans, let me with all my might condemn this awful tweet during this crisis. you can criticize policy this is insane and feeds into putins narrative, but, hey, retweets, am i right? what do we do with, like, adam kinzinger and liz cheney as the only people left with a pulse of moral clarity in terms of u.s. foreign policy? >> the ...