well as foreign policy experts, have long said that putin's chief objective is to reconstitute the soviet union. sound farfetched? last december reuters reported that russian state tv had aired some provocative comments from a documentary "russia: new history." in that documentary, putin lamented the collapse of the soviet union, saying it was a disintegration of the historical russia under the name of soviet union. we turned into a completely different country. and what had been built up over 1,000 years was largely lost. yet for months during the escalating tensions between russia and ukraine, tucker has been questioning by the u.s. doesn't side with the kremlin. >> why would we take ukraine's side and not russia's side. sincere question. if you're looking for the american perspective -- but why? who's got the energy reserves? who's the major player in world affairs? who's the potential counterbalance against china, which is the actual threat? why would we take ukraine's