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Lopezes one of several gold star families today demanding accountability. >> i don't want to hear lies. i don't want to hear excuses from joe biden. >> reporter: many blaming president biden. >> several presidents preceded mr. biden in this 20-year war, but none of them are to be held accountable for the withdrawal. that is he and he alone. >> reporter: the chaotic u.s. withdrawal began as the taliban quickly took over the country. president biden has argued leaving afghanistan was the right choice. >> i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. >> repor...

Opinion. >> it's so help for you to have had that access because a year and a half into this war, it's still difficult to gauge how russians feel about it. i mentioned those polls, even the independent polls, you have to take with a grain of salt. when you're an authoritarian state like russia has become, it's very hard for people to give honest assessments. were you able to leave the country with a clear sense of how russians felt overall in terms of what you call putin's forever war? >> i think so. certainly a lot more of a sense than when i went there. i'm pretty old school. i believe there...

Concentrate recruitment in remote areas of russia. where i was is 3,500 miles from the front yet the war is much more present there than it is in moscow, in all those graves with freshly turned earth and the faces of dread that i saw at the airport of young soldiers beginning the journey toward ukraine with their tearful families around them. and what he is doing, president putin, is offering contracts of $2,500 or more a month to people whose salaries generally speaking are more in the $400, $500 a month range. so he's buying people to go fight and die. the 20% number you cited just reflects ...

Of president putin, that's not surprising given the propaganda cascading over the air every night. at the same time i met people who denounce the war, who felt the declaration of war against ukraine was not normal in the words of one opponent of the war that i spoke to. he could not explain to himself why president putin had done this other than to rally the country yet again. he's done this through successive wars in chechnya and georgia and elsewhere, other than to rally the country to his side with a presidential election and election i think should be in quotes probably, coming up in march...

Have made no bones about their strategy and their path. they're moving forward in an aggressive way and they're going to make common cause. sure they'll find an excuse and camp david statement, the declaration is an excuse that they'll point to but it's not going to change or even accelerate their efforts. what it will change, however, is their ability to actually move beyond tantrums and threats and take provocative or take violent action because it really raises deterrence to a new level. >> you mentioned the war in ukraine and both south korea and japan have not only offered more aid and as...