civilian women and children in ukraine. what i think though is that he is absolutely stating that he wants to reconstitute the jae graphical area of the soviet union. we need to believe him. so we need to see that everything to deter him, to arm the ukraines has to be with the context of, this is a much broader war on putin. it needs to be stopped. >> what do you tell americans watching rate now and are concerned, seeing this individual described as erratic, isolated, unpredictable, and knowing that he has access to the second biggest stock pail in the world of nuclear weapons and he's put them on hey alert. >> he didn't put them on high alert. he said he put them on an alert status. it was undefined what that was. certainly aware watching from the intelligence side what movements, what is happening. we also have a nuclear deterrent. i think the big focus needs to be not on the statement that's