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Judy gold here with us. you hear this, the academy is considering what to do. what do you think they should do? >> reporter: you know, i don't know, this is the first time this has happened i know if it happened in a comedy club, he would have been immediately removed. but this is -- i mean there is nothing prior happening like this on the academy awards and it's shocking. i definitely think he should be disciplined. absolutely. should they take his oscar away? >> no. but, yes, he needs to be punished. because that was, it was just crazy and it was an assault. he was assaulted. chris was assau...

Morale now, 23fred pleitgen, thk you so much for that reporting. we want to bring in the former director of european affairs for the national security council and author of here right matters, an american story. thank you so much for being with us. look, there are these reports from the russian side, mind you, of a ukrainian helicopter strike in russian territory. first off, how skeptical are you of the veracity of such a thing? would the russians make this up? >> well, i think there are some interesting precedence from these five weeks of war. the ukrainians have gone after targets that use...

Continue the fight. the deputy interior ministry saying they need support to succeed. >> what do you need from the united states? >> everything. >> military support. >> when poens to expel the invading army they hope and bring the suburb out of the reach after vladimir putin's cast. unfortunately this situation in large part is toward the outskirts of kiev. that's where that main thrust tried to come through. the ukrainian troops were on the ground there. their morale is extremely high. they still say they managed to beat them back and down, john. >> reporter: it seems like they have every rea...