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Russians are the ones that are dying by the hundreds and the thousands in ukraine, that their economy is going to be in shambles for ten years. they're going to be economic and political pariahs around the world, dependent on china. he doesn't care about the russian people, and they have to understand that. >> yeah, rick, i want to bring you in. you have written the book about putin, about russia's reliance on disinformation and propaganda. this is the first war that he has initiated since you've written that book, and i wonder if you could just speak to how effective controlling the informati...

I know journalists. i'm guessing these decisions are coming from people in the security side, not the journalism side. let me turn the question around, though, for both of you. what does this say about the threat that the truth poses to putin? >> well, the truth is the -- is putin's enemy. that's the thing that he's trying to repress. we were talking about that before. that's what dictators always try to repress. that is the thing that could cause regime change, and he doesn't want the russian people to get the truth. he doesn't want people outside of russia to get the truth, and when we close...

To the negotiating table with the world. it didn't work out. and since his army's stopped and couldn't make any progress in the north of ukraine, some progress in the south, but, again, less than they wanted. the third largest city of ukraine, the hub of odesa, is still standing. and putin failed to land the troops there. so, putin returned to his favorite tactics, bombing people into submission. he mentioned aleppo. he mentioned genocide on a scale. so, he can continue these tactics. i think it is a message to the rest of the world. i can do whatever i want because i have nukes, and you will ...

Pence is giving a speech tonight and may say that although i doubt i will say donald trump's name, and the second thing they need to do and most important thing, if these republicans are actually serious about having an adult conversation about vladimir putin and the future, they need to say that they will not support the return to the white house of somebody who's record on russia and ukraine has been so corrupt, so inept and so full of appeasement and gravelinging you saw over the weekend, senator tom cotton not ready to do that but this is a real challenge, nicole, i think the republicans a...

They're fighting the russians. they're fighting putin. he is after them. but if he is allowed to win, and biden said he would not win, biden said that the ukrainians would win, but if putin were allowed to win, then that's a challenge to, and a real threat to nato and europe. >> ambassador taylor spoke on cnn on saturday. now u.s. president joe biden said on saturday russia is facing a remarkable brain drain as more than 200,000 russians have left the country in the past month many of them going to turkey and some russian families spoke to cnn about why they decided to leave their home country...