policy research institutes. he's an msnbc national security analyst and a former army man. they both join me now. peter, i want to start with you because of what we were just talking about. russia has made this a bigger thing. we a bigger thing that a lot of people thought it was going to be in terms of the attack and where they are being undertaken across ukraine. the resume that he's given for the attacks. u.s. intelligence, as clint likes to point out, said that this was how it was going to go down. but this is, regardless of how it looks like and shaka now, it's a full scale invasion of ukraine. >> yes, it is a full scale invasion of ukraine. it's been a lot more than what president putin seems to be suggesting. at first he said he was only going to affect the enclaves in the east. but in fact this is what the american intelligence has said all along was put in school. and it's in fact what president biden said was going to happen all along. they are always saying that a full scale intact that would include the couple impede was