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Of the donbas region. >> sandra: going to the history of ukraine. it is tied to russia. and lenin and asking why did we have to be so generous and give these republics the right to leave? it is just madness. >> john: you know, sandra, putin considers the greatest tragedy in russians history to be the downfall of the soviet union and letting all of that territory to the west, and become independent nations. he has longed to bring those nations back into the soviet sphere in some way, shape, or fo...

Than the economic consequences. iloathed than the economic consequences. what is the sense of— than the economic consequences. what is the sense of the _ than the economic consequences. what is the sense of the thinking on the geopolitics of that. vladimir�*s pete in —— vladimir putins mindset on this? in -- vladimir putins mindset on this? �* , in -- vladimir putins mindset on this? �*, , , ,, in -- vladimir putins mindset on this? , ,, �*, this? hes properly thinking hes still fi...

And how did we get here? well break it down this morning the situation in eastern europe. these are the boundaries of the former soviet union. these should be in he red, there would be a crescent there. the ussr. urk on the far western border, the bread basket of europe and provide 25% of all of the agriculture to russia. integral sphere of influence. baltic countries in the north as well. conflict in georgia in 2000 will. >> kazakhstan also broke off. >> steve: show us where crimea? >> crimia, ...

Sometime in the next hour. his foreign minister has also said that hes asked an immediate urgent u.n. security council meeting to deal with this issue as everyone tries to grapple with how to respond with this fast-breaking story. essentially what we know according to this decree, this sort of friendship agreement between russia and the independent or they would argue the independent republics of donetsk and luhansk they have a ten-year binding security decree which allows rush to come in and pr...

Attempt by putin to lay what he considers to be a quasi legal predicate for the invasion of ukraine. this is extraordinary measure. he will recognize two break-away republics that nobody else in the world recognizes, that dont control all of the territory and theyll ask for russia troops to come in and the russians will be in essence invading the territory of an independent country, ukraine. if we dont recognize that for what it is, which is an invasion and take tough steps in response, we will ...

Grows out of the barrel of a gun. >> i agree 100% and remember what putins goals are for ukraine, three fold. first, cause massive economic harm, so the threat of war means that theres a lot of capital flight and investors are wary of putting money in ukraine. his first goal. the second to destabilize ukraine politically. look at president zelenskys poll numbers, they are not that good right now, and thats a factor for russia in advance of the 23 parlimentary elections in ukraine, and the presid...

Up the world. >> absolutely. he said it was madness, in his word, that the former soviet republics actually include latvia, estonia as well, lithuania, madness that they were allowed to leave what he called the russian empire. remarkable. >> they never chose to join. it wasnt an option for them. they clearly chose to leave. jim, thavnks so much. great interview. opening statements on the way for an officer whose botched arrest left brianna taylor dead. and eaststman fighting to e-mails from ...

Looking elsewhere. now wanted to ask you about that and also wanted to ask you about the issue of russian media in the uk we will talk about that in a moment but lets bring francis scarr from bbc monitoring with us from moscow in this discussion. im guessing as you watch the news in russia, one story is dominating. yes, you are right. really up until friday, russian state tv, which is the main source of information for people here for around two thirds of the population, it was very dismissive o...

Putin addressing members of his national security council and then a history lesson from the russian leader. the signing of the recognition of the two rebel held republics in eastern ukraine. there were no astrologers, analysts, foreign policy, for a newscaster is reporting that that was how my day was going to end. get up and say, well, whats going to happen today and what should we do about it? in terms of the ukrainian response to this. are they following the lead of the americans are of nato...

Attacked at the ministry of defense is claiming. we have no verification on this. four russian tanks have been knocked out on the ring road that surrounds kharkiv, a city of at least 1.5 million people, john and brianna. they are also further claiming out to where we were yesterday on the border with the breakaway republics recognized as independent states just a few days ago, kramatorsk, they have downed several russian air frames, both aircraft and helicopters. again, we dont have any hard evi...