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Presidential historian michael beschloss, the host of "fireside history "on msnbcs "the choice" and julia, founding partner and washington correspondent for puck news. thank you both for being here. michael, ill start with you. there is this sense that putin thinks hes rewriting history but he doesnt seem to understand it very well. because the kind of aggression that hes putting forward, i guess he thinks hes the hero in the movie. hes literally every single villain from world war ii forward. h...

Crisis. the united states and britain have threatened russia with immediate sanctions following president putin formally recognising two breakaway regions of ukraine and organised dominic ordering his troops to enter. a un security council meeting has broken up in the last hour or so with the us ambassador calling the russian action unprovoked, while the russian envoy insists that moscow remained open to diplomacy. mark lobel has the latest. this is how independence looks in the rebel republics,...

The independence and sovereignty... of the donetsk peoples republic and the lugansk peoples republic. i asked the federal assembly to support this decision and to ratify the treaty on friendship and mutual assistance with both republics. this afternoon, mr putin presided, almost tzar like, over a special session of the kremlin�*s security council. after which he called olaf scholz of germany and frances emmanuel macron to inform them he was effectively giving up on the 2015 minsk agreement. im...

Security council talking about, very emotionally, perhaps she does believe that given what russia has been hearing on russian television, but the genocide in these areas, notjust to russian—speaking ukrainians, but hundreds of thousand of russians live in those rebel held republics that have not been recognised as russian and some of them have only received russian passports in recent years and just judging from the reactions on social media by ukrainian politicians and members of society, the...

Military response might be to this. and thats because there is now after a long time of taking the attitude of keep calm and carry on, there is a sort of grim reluctant awareness of the fact that putin very much has the possibility to launch a further incursion. because when they talked about recognizing throws two independent breakaway republics, those two republics as being independent, putin today clarified that he looks at their borders, not as being the current front lines but being their d...

Borisjohnson, told president zelensky the uk had already drawn up sanctions to target those complicit — alongside the us and eu — to implement imminently, and they will explore sending further defensive support to ukraine. so what could that be? we have now enough rockets to cover all the tanks which can cross our border. we have some troubles with the sea and air. thats where our efforts are concentrating right now. kyiv�*s long feared russia would create a pretext for war. in the past fe...

The russian president launched what he called a special military operation in the donbas region, aimed at what he said was the demilitarisation and removal of notification. russia says it is targeting military infrastructure. ukraines foreign minister has accused mr putin of launching a full—scale invasion. leaders around the world have strongly condemned this offensive. russian military convoys have entered ukraine from all directions — including from neighbouring belarus. earlier, this wee...

Self-proclaimed donetsk and luhansk republics that are about a third of the area, they have requested help from the kremlin in quote, unquote repelling ukrainian forces from the area. youve been to donbas more than any other cnn journalist. explain to us the significance of this possible pretext? >> it provides for better russian assault in areas controlled by the ukrainian military under the pretext of them coming in and being peace keepers to respect the newly recognized donetsk and luhansk pe...

But i told i dont need your unit... i dont need a ride, i need a your ammunition. telling, as he oysters, ukrainians to remain calm and that ukrainians to remain calm and that ukrainian army would fight. that ukrainians to remain calm and that ukrainian army would fight. at least weve been talking _ ukrainian army would fight. at least weve been talking about _ ukrainian army would fight. at least weve been talking about the i ukrainian army would fight. at least| weve been talking about the rus...

Tanks into country y without invitation, what do you call that? thats my final exam question to everybody. thats an invasion. yes, the circumstances about who controlled what territory at the time makes it complicated here. but until yesterday, russia, putin was allegedly trying to have an agreement about the future sovereignty of these two republics, regions of ukraine. yesterday he decided he wasnt interested anymore and invaded ukraine. its just that simple. >> so, why do you think the white ...