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And not to president putin. one of the things they are talking about now is a second gas pipeline coming from siberia. but, you know, the traits here, there is something in it for xi but for putin, it is that world stage and it is a possibility to find some economic solace facing what could be big sanctions if he invades ukraine. >> nic robertson in moscow, appreciate it. thanks. want to turn next to steve hall, served as chief of russia operations at the cia. so, steve, how typical is it for russia to lay groundwork like this as, according to this reporting, as pretext for an invasion? >> yea...

Different aspects to it that, you know, point to the detailed intelligence work we call intelligence preparation of the battle space. that took place and it shows not only the professionalism but the competence of the forces involved in this. and we can be very proud that these people did this in the way that they did. it was from all accounts so far a pretty successful operation. >> and bob, how much of an isis resurgence has there been in syria specifically? >> well, it's coming back. we raided a prison and took it over for several days, so they can mount an assault on a lot of places around...

Domain infrastructure within ukraine. in some respects it's so unbalance ukrainian leadership and the ukrainian population, but it's also to prepare the battle space potentially for physical operation. so the fact that the russians are lying shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. in fact, anyone who knows anything about information operations knows that the russian terms we use all the time to characterize deception and information coined by the russians and the soviets. so this is completely the conduct that we should be expecting from the russians at this point. >> ben, given your experienc...

Disinformation has been part of the battle space, and it's possible that intelligence like this could be deliberate, perhaps intended to mislead. that said, it's important because we have heard from the president, the secretary of state, the vice president, the defense secretary in recent days saying that it is their view, it is the u.s. view, that putin, that russia, has made the decision to invade. we've heard that first from president biden on friday. sense then heard it echoed by vice president harris in munich, antony blinken today. tony blinken saying in his words that the russian playbo...

A 36% approval number. mike gallagher from wisconsin and member of the house armed services committee. good to have you with us again, sir. what we are looking at right now. we spoke yesterday. but now we see that these cyberattacks are underway in ukraine and that they are attacking government agencies. also media outlets, which is exactly the plan that we had heard would go into place as an invasion was imminent. do you believe that's what we're seeing here? >> i do. i would call this preparation of the battle space. i think what we'll see throughout this conflict as it worsens is how the ru...