>> do you think putin is really just looking for some sanctions relief, ambassador? >> i don't. i don't. i think what he is really after is what he's been after the whole time. i think he is after ukraine. and so if he fails this time, don, if he is not able to achieve his goal of controlling, containing, absorbing, dominating ukraine, if he fails at this at this time and he has to go to the negotiating table to cut some kind of deal he'll be back. he won't give up. this is not about sanctions. it's about stopping putin right now. >> ambassador taylor, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you, don. lots of skepticism about russia's claims it is rolling back attacks in kyiv and chernihiv. so what is vladimir putin really up to? >> we don't relax. don't lower our defenses in the north as well as anywhere else in ukraine where the russian