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I don't want to be his lawyer by any stretch of the imagination. >> you write so clearly on that part of this story. >> this guy is an autocrat and he has shut down dissent and i don't want to speak from point of moral equivalence but it important to understand what his motivations are in terms of diplomacy, in terms of his military moves. why did he take crimea? why did he take crimea? a lot of it was aimed at the west as well as the situation in ukraine. ukraine was the bridge too far for him. the idea that the west would establish a diplomatic and economic bridge head in a country that puti...

Don't want to speak from a point of moral equivalence but it's important to understand what his motivations are in terms of diplomacy, in terms of his military moves. why did he take crimea? why did he take crimea? a lot of it was aimed at the west as well as the situation in ukraine. ukraine was the bridge too far for him. the idea that the west would establish a diplomatic and economic bridge head in a country that putin doesn't even consider a country, he considers it part of the russian heritage. that was a bridge too far. >> stalin was from crimea. >> he was from georgia. >> was he from g...

>> this guy is an autocrat and he has shut down dissent and i don't want to speak from a point of moral equivalence but it's important to understand what his motivations are in terms of diplomacy, in terms of his military moves. why did he take crimea? why did he take crimea? a lot of it was aimed at the west as well as the situation in ukraine. ukraine was the bridge too far for him. the idea that the west would establish a diplomatic and economic bridge head in a country that putin doesn't even consider a country, he considers it part of the russian heritage. that was a bridge too far. >> st...

Surgical extraction, not of a ten-day or two-week operation with a bridge head. senator glenn said, this is a reentry of a magnitude we have not envisioned. i can see north vietnam deciding not to let us get these people out and attacking our bridgehead. then we would have to send forces to protect our security forces. that, he said, fills me with fear. john glenn, famous astronaut, famous test pilot, says, "that fills me with fear." congress was willing to fund an evacuation. congress was willing to fund getting every last american out entirely. every last one out of vietnam, even if it meant...

Senator john glenn was in the room too, the famous astronaut and pilot, right? he told president ford, to his face, this is an amazing quote, the idea here is very different from what i envisioned when he said. i and most senators thought of a surgical extraction, not of a ten-day or two-week operation with a bridge head. senator glenn said, this is a reentry of a magnitude we have not envisioned. i can see north vietnam deciding not to let us get these people out and attacking our bridgehead. then we would have to send forces to protect our security forces. that, he said, fills me with fear. ...