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And you do also see a lot of that russian army, but armor around here as well. i want to play on one of the things that sam was saying. it was interesting he was talking about the people who are down there in the region where he was. i was able to yesterday speak with some folks who fled those separatist republics and are now near the rostov area in russia. they said they witnessed some of the shelling, one woman told me the school that her daughters were in was shelled and destroyed. and they s...

Lloyd austin, sending equipment to those former soviet republics that border russia, as well as to poland that is alongside belarus and ukraine as well. this is sort of a careful calculation. a detailing that just moments ago, but its clear after there was some reluctance here by the white house to describe this as an invasion, that thats what theyre watching and doing everything they can to find a right balance in whats effectively a very dangerous game of chess that has the risk of a world war...

Roll back the calendar about 30 years, and revert to the way things were around 1991, before the fall of the -- the collapse of the soviet union. hes stated that. well, that potentially is very dangerous for -- because what he means is changing the fundamental security infrastructure of europe that has existed for 30 years. whether he actually goes after the former soviet republics, the baltics, as steve hall described, remains to be seen. but it may not necessarily have to do it just by militar...

With the world to stand by him, to stand with him. being given an out to leave the country, and instead, deciding and declaring, he will stay and fight to the end, with the ukrainian people. talk to me about the differences and these leaders, right now. >> we forget, jasmine, just a few years ago, he was under fire with the whole issue of president trump, and that he was trying to play for trumps own personal gain. ukraine, again, he was defending his country in that sense. the two leadership sh...

>> let me ask you something. it is 1:30 in the morning, the kids are asleep. we can talk politics for a second. there was a time in the last administration when the former president of the united states actively undercut and undermined nato. and it looked, to some people, who are old enough to remember, why nato exists, to be very worrisome, to allow for expansionist administrations like the russian administration. has that been fixed? or is joe biden in the process still of fixing that? >> no. ...

And ukraine have come to nothing, with russia insisting it will only stop the invasion if ukraine meets all its demands. today, russia set out its most detailed statement yet about what it wants to end the fighting. the demands were outlined by kremlin spokesman dimitri peskov and include the following — a ceasing of military action against the russia invasion. a change to ukraines constitution to enshrine what russia calls "neutrality", acknowledging crimea as russian territory and recognisin...

On my people. there is no -- for war crime knows. they go straight to hell, ambassador. >> there is no purgatory for war crimes, the go straight to hell. earlier, you are saying good and evil. we have to call things for with they are. that was the ukrainian ambassador to the united nations addressing the russian ambassador, who happens to be the chair of the security council, because it rotates and russia is the acting chair of it right now. he was saying, call lavrov right now, relinquish your ...

Corner. they took countries that were former soviet republics, and turn them into western countries, and that is what it has provoked that. what is someone like you going to say to that? >> first thing i would say is, go to the journal of democracy dot org, and read my article about it. because im sick and tired of hearing these arguments. first thing everyone should know is, thats his argument today. its not what he said in 2002 about nato, go read it, i just put it in quotation marks from yest...

And we just heard the british war secretary talking about putin wanted to turn clocks back. he declared his intention 15 years ago in munich. he told the whole world about his plans to return to the spheres of influence and claim russias rights to control not only the former soviet republics, independent states like ukraine and baltics but even eastern europe. and he was consistent about pushing it through, and we had four american administrations and god knows how many governments in europe tha...

Like that, do you believe, generate the kinds of sanctions and response that president biden has been speaking about? >> i see that as an effort to use the old soviet practice of freezing conflicts in place. creating these areas of controversy that nations on edge, destabilized countries like ukraine. this is ukrainian territory were talking about. its not up to putin to yun latl unilaterally declare, thats not for him to do. those areas are ukrainian and we have pledged to respect the sovereign...