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Couple times, there are four elements of national power. the diplomacy is working. the west is not divided. that's a goal of russia. nato has, for the first time in many years, a sense of purpose and they are stronger now than they were just a few months ago. russia is subjugated to china. the diplomacy amongst several european nations is extremely strong. secondly, information. russia has failed for the first time in my memory to control the information environment. they are on their back foot. the u.s. has taken a different approach. they are putting more information out to the public. they ...

To hold the alliance together. it's important that the united states establishes russia as the aggressor for the europeans. they've been putting this information out because it allows us to control the information environment around what is the perception of a potential russian invasion, and that will help us both blunt putin's effort to gin up domestic support in russia but also help bring along allies behind sanctions and the fortification of nato, all the things we're seeing. >> general allen, it feels as if it's clear to me there are exit ramps for putin if he wants them. in fact, whether ...

Like the laws we're seeing in states and last year limiting how teachers can talk about race, gender or actual orientation. all of that is possible because of the development you're seeing with trump further moving his base into a narrow, controlled dome like information environment. his influence, we'll have to wait and see. he is still the dominant figure in the republican party even if he is lesser than he was. we'll see how far we can take that in the primary season. i don't think whatever happens, that would indicate there is an imminent rebellion against him if he chooses to run again. >...

Ukraine. i want to get your analysis of this situation. >> yeah. unfortunately, that seemed pretty clear over the past 24 hours that all the remaining indicators that vladimir putin had made the decision, had kind of fallen into place. the massive uptick in the propaganda campaign and setting the information environment, the pretexts coming together, this idea that the ukrainians were somehow driving this, and then of course, the obligatory nuclear saber rattling, this doctrine that's supposed to warn off, deter adversaries from considering their own involvement. the problem with all this is t...

To civilians" as missiles continue to hit major cities. so, let's begin. let's start with the daily mail if we may. do you want to start us off with this one this time? a very striking image. i don't know if you've ever been to kyiv to my but i have several years ago and the television tower is one of the most prominent sites on the skyline along with the cathedral. and of course these towers were almost symbolic, almost a symbol in itself of we are almost a symbol in itself of we are a modern, advanced and we have the power to communicate all over the country and we always know that when atta...