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These leaks, the one about the moskva and the one about the targeting of up to 12 russian generals being killed, look like domestic bragging. this looks more like american intelligence agencies or officials, rather, claiming credit on the american stage for being really effective. i'm not sure how wise that is, both in terms of protecting sources of american information but also in terms of provoking russia to escalate this war. if you can trace the death of particular generals to specific u.s. intelligence knowingly supplied, that's a different kind of intelligence leak. so i'm a little wary ...

Coming from the united states and surrounding countries, ed luce, and also these reports of intelligence being shared that might be leading to the deaths of russian generals and also the embarrassing sinking of the moskva. it can't be lost on vladimir putin that his ship sunk. ultimately, it's the ukrainians who are executing this. do you think it matters if the united states is revealed to be as sharing this intelligence? >> it certainly is a different quality of intelligence leak, signifying u.s. involvement, intimate involvement with targeting generals than we've seen before. i think this i...

Britains. we all have immunity. the chinese don't have immimmun. they haven't had covid. so they're at a very, very dangerous point, where these sorts of lockdowns are not coming at the end of a pandemic but could be the sign of normality to come for months, if not years. >> joe? >> yeah. you know, ed, isn't it something? i was just talking about the messiness of freedom. sometimes freedom is messy. sometimes we fight ourselves. sometimes people use their freedom and don't use it wisely. i think the pandemic is a perfect example of that. of course, things were terrible in the united states. we...

Putinista right in this country. these groups work, you know, very closely together, and putin knows how to signal to them. so we shouldn't underestimate this aspect of the war, the information war. >> so that's -- susan page, i want to get back to the aid. more aid announced. more aid going. obviously, most people want to see this war end and see the ukrainians prevail, except for those who somehow follow vladimir putin. but, you know, as much aid as we can give to this one area of the world, we're still stuck with this crazed, angry man stuck in time, who is a fixture on the world stage. it'...

Just saw an exchange of a hostage being held in the united states for an individual that we had appropriately incarcerated here in the united states. the russians are transactional. perhaps there is a transaction that can help here. >> so we're going to hear from the president a little later this morning. susan, i want to get to you on that. but, ed luce, you have a piece, "putin's other war on behalf of men." i couldn't say the backlash against modernity by putin is both deadly serious and irresistibly comical. explain this, please. >> well, this is the meme factory that's coming, not just fr...