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I have ptsd about people in the senate telling me that things are going to be handled in a bipartisan fashion, work in lockstep with the goals of the white house. this package has fallen apart before. you just said it was not the substance but really the trigger that was this thing that sort of paused the whole thing to fall apart. you already see the beginnings of polite to-ization around what is happening in ukraine. president trump's comments today calling putin's moves genius probably haven't helped anything. you are really convinced that next week, when you guys are back in session, repub...

Ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, former director of national intelligence james clapper here on cnn calling putin unhinged. but hasn't this always been his m.o., the way he operated, whether it's chechnya, whether it's crimea, whether it's georgia, even poisoning his enemies at home and abroad? >> there is no doubt. clapper and mcfaul, both of whom i worked for and with know him well. this is part of his style. it's how authoritarians work and especially in russia. it is something that is very common. the biggest question in my mind is this, of course, was entirely unprovoked in ukraine. ...

Putin came to the line a couple of times and saw the defense and called a time-out. i think that was significant. basically from january until february 24th gave the united states the ability to close our embassy skpp got our people's out of harms way and a lot of arms and weapons to the ukrainians. it required consultations with allies and partners. we searched troops to the eastern flank of nato. we have been doing that up until today and the president and commander in chief announced deployment of troops to the eastern flanks it. i think we positioned ourselves well to hold the line at nato...

>> obviously not true so the russian people, do they believe him and how important is controlling the message for putin to stay in power? >> putin is a massive propaganda. this is what he was trained to do as a former kgb officer. the intent is to really confuse not only your own population about what is going on, but to confuse our leaders and the u.s. intelligence services, west intelligence services what his ultimate intentions is. remember, he has assembled a pretty contingents of 190,000 troops right under president biden's nose while engaging him in negotiations. yes, controlling the nar...

Preparing his playbook on his orders and very sophisticated nuclear document has been developed according to which he has prepared to take the conflict into a tactical, nuclear weapons employment. in the first instance. what does it mean? it means that he perceives that he is losing the conflict. he can and went straight a nuclear strike in europe. the reason he is comfortable is because russian tank capability with low yield nuclear warhead. >> todd: assuming for arguments sake this was not a mistake by putin and that this was a planned attack in the state by the troops come i should say, is ...