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Is snowing really heavily. and the big question is whether or not somehow that might impede some of the russian forces that have obviously been striking ukraine. especially those air assets. the russians launching a lot of military aircraft here out of this region. we did have one of the folks working with us go around this area a little bit, earlier today. and he said he did see two fighter jets take off from a base, also a lot of military convoys here around the area as well. certainly seems as though what the russians are doing is continuously bringing assets in, but apparently also taking ...

But, they don't know is coming next either. and the reports of this approaching russian column, the concern around not being a rational actor, about being cornered by the sanctions, as everyone on edge. we don't know what will happen next. >> colonel vindman, qassem. of these influential oligarchs, who do matter a lot to putin, could they turn on him? they don't live in russia, they don't care about ukraine, they live in new new york, and the south of france, and they don't want their assets frozen, or their yachts taken away. could they turn on putin here? >> i don't think that's going to be ...

That the reason putin announced this today was because last week, the u.s. government leaked that he might attack wednesday or that -- and jake sullivan, the national security advisor, said very openly that, you know, the attack on ukraine could happen any day now. and so, you know, if everybody's expecting war on wednesday, putin comes out on tuesday and says, no, i'm declaring peace. whether or not that's a fakeout, that gives him cover and some time to, i don't know, maybe invade down the road or buy more time for diplomatic talks, we don't know yet, but i agree with colonel vindman that, y...

Thought this might be his death knell. >> professor krinor, thank you for your analysis. >> thank you. >> more social media action from twitter i think. what do we have? considering this as another biden failure. do not see how this helps his presidency. our energy independence kept putin in check and biden destroyed that. also as expected his response is slow and weak. i'm not thinking you can lay this off on joe biden. i think colonel vindman had a good assessment and much more informed than mine. there's a lot of blame to go around here for the reasons that i've stated. what most frustrates...

Peacefully, they will destroy them. and frankly, that might eventually -- the russians will damage or they can claim that they have set ukraine back, do you not the fight it, demilitarized it -- because they've destroyed enough equipment. that will probably -- be the core of the ultimate settlement of it, weeks or months down the road. maybe without diplomatic gains. >> colonel vindman, let me stay on that point you just made about the so-called -- denazification, that vladimir putin is promising and is now a central mission to this campaign. what would defined do you nazi vacation for putin p...