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>> general clapper, i appreciate your time, as always. thank you, sir. >> thanks, erin. next, the special master trump picked now taking him on, calling his his spoconspiracy theories bogus. the migrants flown to martha's vineyard. an attorney representing some of them says this is not true and they were preyed on by an individual pretending to help. conspiracy theorist alex jones on the stand in the sandy hook defamation trial. it went off the rails today. >> i said i'm sorry and i'm done saying i'm sorry.

Particular emotional or spiritual value, i suppose, for the russians marking the defeat of the germans in world war ii. so this would be, i think, a natural milestone if putin is going to try to embroil or engage more of the russian population. i will say that i don't think that, if this means mobilization of reservists, i really wonder about their military competence. and i doubt that they have any more will to fight than the troops that the russians already have in the ukraine. >> general clapper, hole on for a moment. our pentagon correspondent is getting more information right now. he's jo...

Be not even a country, just a soviet republic. and according to his most recent rant the other night, not even worthy of considered a sovereign nation. the idea a country like that could turn its back on russia and instead push towards the west, wanting to join not just nato but wanting to join the eu, wanting to have increased trade ties, that is just anathema to putin, and he'll do everything he can to stop it. as we've seen before with the former soviet republic of georgia. so this his red line. he's not going to let these countries go. he just can't see it happening, and it's important for...

That putin could use and all of it in the cyber realm, so i think -- and the general information operations, misinformation, disinformation, those kinds of things that i think he would employ against former orbit -- countries that were formerly in the soviet orb which he also feels very defensive about because he views them as unfriendly, so i don't think just because of what happens in ukraine, i don't think it's going to be the end of it, and i certainly don't think that if he incorporates these two people's republics into the larger russian orb that he's going stop. >> yeah uncertain, very ...

That we need more in the way of force, military force in europe deployed as a deterrent. >> more u.s. military force deployed as a deterrent? >> yeah. >> general clapper, grateful for your insight. the russian president vladimir putin is giving a national address as russian forces continue to violently attack ukraine. we'll bring you morere, next. they just found d out they can redeem rewards for a sesecond honeymoon. romance is in the air.r. like these two. he's realizing he's i in love. and d that his dating app just went up. must be fate. and phil. he forgot a gift, so he's sending the ha...