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People. normal humans who said, i have no idea this was happening. they were just shocked. so there was an abruptness, but i think persuasion was part of the whole thing. he had to persuade a lot of people to make a movement triumph. >> you can't have persuasion when you have a young supreme court. they're going to be here for decades. this is a super majority that is not going anywhere anytime soon and it was done because of, as i say, merrick garland not getting a hearing and then three trump justices who misled the senate, and so whether you like that or not, it can't be done at the senate ...

Before. >> translator: so yes, there was duplicity. yes, there was conscious choice by vladimir putin to launch the war when we could still negotiate peace. >> reporter: if the abruptness surprised the french president, the tone did not. says a french presidential source who describes him as rigid and paranoid. something they say that chimes with what macron had first noticed during his more than five hours of talks with the russian president in moscow on february 7th, when the russian president struck him as different, stiffer ander month isolated, than he had been in the past. and will few w...

He said no. still president putin recent behavior raising questions about his grasp on reality. >> it was only a week ago. a rambling tv address in which vladimir putin signalled the start of a war. and the abrupt end of weeks of frantic diplomacy. so abrupt says the frempbl president the discussions had continued until just a few hours before. >> so yes, there was duplicity. and deliberate conscious choice by president putin to launch a war. when we could still negotiate peace. >> if the abruptness of the announcement surprised the french president, it's tone did not. says a french president ...

Melissa bell now reports. >> reporter: it was only a week ago. a rambling tv address in which vladimir putin signaled the start of a war and the abrupt end of weeks of frantic diplomacy. so abrupt, says the french president, the discussions had continued until just a few hours before. >> translator: so, yes, there was duplicity. yes, there was deliberate conscious choice by president putin to launch the war when we could still negotiate peace. >> reporter: but if the abruptness of the announcement surprised the french president, its tone did not. says a french presidential source who described...

This is a seismic moment over at fox news and to a lesser extent journalism, but why is it important to mark the fact that chris wallace is leaving? >> i think it is because by and large chris has been a port in the storm, if you will, in the political storms that we've engaged in. he has been that source of speaking truth to power, keeping the journalism honest to the best of his abilities. i would suspect that while the statement he made was true, that they, quote, didn't interfere with or let him book or ask questions the way he want, that there was growing pressure on that and, you know, b...