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Behind, abandoning their cars, trying to make their way to a foreign country. the nobody decides to be a refugee. it happens to you and it is happening now to millions of people here. the other thing that i mentioned yesterday, the russians took out the transmitting tower for ukraine intelligence. so, what i am telling you is not going to be heard on tv tomorrow here. the tvs are blacked out. and the president here, president zelenskyy, who has really emerged as the leader of this war, is no longer able to communicate with the people of ukraine on tv. he will do so on social media. that will r...

Everything i hear is about a leader who has just become ever more obsessed with this, who has not been susceptible to rational calculus and has been moving at least since july towards this invasion. we sent our ci director, bill burns, who speaks russian to see him in november to say, hey, we have the intelligence, we see what you are doing, stop it, here are the consequences. he blew right through that. i would come back to what we were talking about in the previous hour with ambassador mcfaul. this is a long fight. it is not going to be over next week, next month probably. it will require th...

Unanimity of thought and action that is between us and our allies at the elite level based on the recognition of where we're headed. we haven't that effect on the u.s. population yet. we're about to face something very, very difficult and very, very stark and really there is almost no opportunity to avoid it. there is a question of whether china could weigh in and i don't have as pessimistic a view. they don't want to up end a system that allowed them to be a rising power and sat out on the sidelines of it. maybe they're the only ones that could stop it at this point. it is a big deal. it is g...

Inspiration. i want to know what you think. this hour go to my website at smerconish.com and answer this week's survey question, should nato go to war for ukraine? joining me now to discuss is retired army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, former director of european affairs of the national security council. he's author of the best-selling memoir "here right matters." and wrote this peace for "the atlantic," south america could done so much more. colonel vindman, thank you for being here. >> the biden team policy is 20 years of ineffective russia policy. so that just very narrowly bounded ...

But lest he is not. vladimir putin used to be known by republicans as the most visible and prominent ones, ones with all their body parts as a killer. there is now a real sense among former investigators and prosecutors, colonel vindman, this may have more to do with what they want to do in the next presidential election. is it possible that all this -- you think of what mike flynn did, imagine the calls that could go on with vladimir putin for the next three years about lifting these sanctions. what do you make? what adds up in your mind to calling someone who puts 700,000 human lives, 450,00...