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Was saying and what the administration was saying in terms of the significance of this war, what it would likely mean, reshaping the way the western world operates and what we were doing. he was late on sanctions. he didn't initially sanction putin and lay down s.w.i.f.t. and didn't send the arms before the war that we're now rushing into kyiv. >> i think it's important, i was so struck by secretary blinken, he wanted -- >> it didn't make the news. it has been a shift in the thinking -- >> he's got to come out in favor of it. >> the question is are we just going to ban what the united states t...

Stingers and javelins. that's really the critical next step. >> the next question is is the administration everything it can do? this goes back to the public opinion question. people will be favorable to the biden administration if there's the impression as we watch this play out on our screens, on our phones, that the biden administration is doing everything it can. i think there is a growing sense that they are not. if you look at what president biden said on february 24th when he announced this to the world, we are going to be doing something and be tough, and he said russia will be a paria...

>> you imply it was biden's weakness on afghanistan, and the trump administration, they tried to roll back sanctions in 2017, and tried to lobby congress to weaken russian sanctions and legislation in 2017 and tried to remove sanctions on russian oligarch companies in 2018, delayed chemical weapons sanctions that were required by law in russia and let's not forget holding ukrainian aid hostage for a political stunt. you don't think any of those things sent a message to vladimir putin that the west is divided and america is divide and he can get away with whatever he wants? >> you said it in ev...

Russian security services, that the offensive is not going well, that some special forces, the russian pesnaps are furious because they've been sent into battle without proper support and many have been killed. they said the national guard forces and the regular army, which includes the chechen units, the two are not coordinating, and that the plan is somewhat disjointed, that it's partly a plan for war and partly a plan for peacekeeping and so-called denazi-fication in this country that has led to the lack of cohesion. a lot of this goes back to the man who is behind it all, vladimir putin, w...

Welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you for having me on. >> let me start you with the last question i asked secretary blinken, can this crisis be brought to an end with putin still in power in russia? >> well, i think putin will try. he will drag this out as long as he can. he's committed and he's an evil tyrant and will not stop until he can form the soviet empire. the lesson in all this, when tyrants speak we should listen, and he said he would take ukraine, and he is. and china said they are going to take hong kong. they did. poland and the ballot ticks. we should believe them. and ...