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Been covering all along, its just hard to know how serious those talks are. but one thing that does seem clear, from all the reporting we have. again, this is sort of a black box. its sort of okay. but to the best that we can tell, from the reporting we have, from the observations we are seeing, taken all together, reading between the lines, it would appear, at the very least, that putin does not believe this war is going as planned. whether or not that leaves to a doubling down on the atrocitie...

The question of what is the ideological story being told here to me seems -- seems a little vague. im not the audience for this. this is serves as nationalism. reference of scripture. he talks about catherine the great in the speech announcing the war. a sort of restoration of imperial russia. i guess the reason i think that is important, is it seems like perhaps it gives some indication of wind breaking point there is for him. whats possible outcome there could be. >> you make a great point. th...

Unprovoked war with ukraine. a small faction of the right, also pushing pro russian propaganda, including congressman madison cawthorn, in north carolina. >> remember, zelenskyy is a thug, the ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt, incredibly evil, and has been pushing woke ideology. >> i should tell you, that video of cawthorn, calling a thug incredibly evil, and pushing book ideologies, has also been played, over and over, on russian tv, media after the clip surfaced. some establishment r...

Where civilians are being attacked without any military targets in the area. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, from the ukrainian capital of kyiv. this entire week weve been seeing reporting, russian forces, deliberately targeting, apparently, civilian areas. whatever it is, apartment buildings, schools, hospitals. it is a similar pattern we have seen another eastern, and central ukrainian cities. for the first time, and through weeklong war, russian missiles hit lviv in we...

About as difficult and fraught, and cross pressured as possible. how do you think the biden administration has done so far? >> chris, i think theyve handled it exceedingly well. im certainly one who can call them out when i think that they have not done things well. the reality is theyre treading -- threading a careful needle. wanting to signal as much and provide as much support to the ukrainians to defend themselves. wanting to martial the worlds democracies to essentially evict russia from th...

Dangerous undertaking, and not a great odds of actually being able to hit targets, before the ukrainians lose those assets to. that is why we have focused where we have. that is a middle ground between what zelenskyy has been vocalizing, and what the west has been willing to do. >> since you were a moscow bureau chief, in a correspondent to moscow during the annexation of crimea, in 2014, that rally today, which i dont know if we noted up top, was, ostensibly, a sort of memorialization, and cele...

Experience, but a long career in espionage. most recently head of the shadowy federal security service, formerly the kgb. longtime spy in germany. secretary of yeltsins advisory council, with sensitive, powerful kremlin inner circle. and fiercely loyal to the president. and in another -- he names putin -- but also his choice for president in next years election. >> notably, just a month after that report aired, putin solidified his power by positioning himself as a strongman in response to a ser...

Leadership as the congressman becomes russian propaganda. >> madison is wrong. if theres anything in this world, its putin. >> with all in, starting right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. today weve got an image of what russian president vladimir putin wants the people in the world to see about his invasion of ukraine that has been so strongly condemned by so many. at a carefully staged rally in which thousands of fans came to support their dear leader, and has he tells it, at le...

Of lviv placed more than 100 strollers in the town square to represent the number of children killed in the war so far. in the southern port city of mariupol, rescue efforts are underway to find hundreds of people who are trapped under the rubble which was reportedly bond by russian forces while 1000 civilians were sheltered inside. in that same city where to ap journalists have been the only international media present, people have been stuck with nowhere to go for weeks as the citys besieged b...

What little information we do have. there are reports that two of putins top officials are under house arrest for the supposed crime of not getting the president the right information ahead of the invasion. obviously, if he was told that they were going to take even a matter of days, you can imagine he was pretty angry about that. a study by the institute of the war said he might be perching general offers an intelligence personnel. how that is in contrast to putins public shows of strength, not...