putin's speech earlier. today. he was very wide ranging rhetoric to explain what he was doing. >> putin today said modern-day ukraine was full and on whole created by russia. he basically gave the russian people a history lesson about ukraine. what would you, what are your comments on that history lesson? >> it was surreal for me. i actually was taking part, as mr. putin was speaking, in the examination of a doctoral dissertation by a young retrain cranium historian. it's very strange, when you're surrounded by the reality of ukrainian history to hear distant tyrant declare that it doesn't exist. obviously he's wrong. not the soviet union, ukraine, opposite is closer to the truth. the soviet union transform it did, that, is as a union of republics with national names, precisely because the founders