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As long as the tanks are there, we have to be prepared to deal with them. or ukraine has to deal with them. >> you alluded just a second ago, in 2014 when russia anexted crimea, you were there. and in the bush years, both bush and obama responded with sanctions on russia. sanctions that don't seem to have stopped putin's ambitions at all. are you confident that the sanctions that president biden is threatening would actually work? >> yeah. you're talking about crippling sanctions. what the key here is, not just the united states. that's why we've got to keep the unity among all of our allies i...

Russia claims ukraine sent warships through the kerch strait without permission. the russian embassy posted on its facebook we call upon the united states to finally curb their ukrainian stooges. the current neo-nazi lawlessness in ukraine must end. unclear what the united states is considering in response. ambassador haley mentioned the united states will maintain the sanctions on russia for other 2014 seizure of crimea where this is all happening. >> bill: what if it escalates even further? >> russia says that it's initiating court proceedings against the sailors in its custody. and on top o...

Watch this. >> we know action more important than comments. we're waiting for the very strong position of the united states leadership of the united states. we still count and i think it will continue our military assistance to ukraine. >> bill: you mentioned it. will russia pay consequences? what will president trump do in return? >> let's first remember ukraine and russia are at war. russia illegally an nexted crimea and providing military support to sprapists and attacking ukraine with massive cyberattacks against the power grid, media and finance and government ministries. i think it's tim...

Questions. why is putin, why does he continue to target ukraine do you believe? >> i think at the heart of it what scares vladimir putin the most is democracy. especially in the former soviet union whose collapse putin's said with the greatest disaster of the 20th century. ukraine has a sizeable russian speaking population committed to enhancing their relationship with the european union and becoming a nato member. that's a threat for putin. the latest move is designed really to strangle ukraine's economy. that strait is an economic lifeline for ukraine and important to support the besieged ci...

Content farms in macedonia, these thousand trolls, these tense of thousands of bots, because you know what? we have every right to have a vigorous debate in america, but we don't want it be interfered with and sub bornd by putin and his allies. >> now, while full disclosure, i have a family member who works at facebook, rachel referred to this in shorthand as hillary clinton's facebook answer. and it seems to me things at facebook are about to get damned interesting as they hearing calls like that. you're a veteran of the news media and of the government communication side and this is the whol...