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Long before he was a world leader, Putin was a mid-level KGB officer stationed in Dresden, East Germany towards the end of the Cold War.

For your terrific reporting. russia replaced its deputy defense minister today and appointed a man to that position who led the siege of the southern city of mariupol. this comes at president vladimir putin toughens the punishment for those who refuse to serve in the russian military. nearly 1,500 protesters have been detained in cities all across russia since putin announced his call-up, his mobilization of 300,000 reservists and possibly more to come. meanwhile, four russian-occupied parts of ukraine are voting -- we should put that in quotes -- on joining russia. ukraine and western gover...

Whether it's by air or by road. jack, do you think that countries, like countries in europe, should make it areas for these fleeing russians to get in so that putin cannot bolster his forces for ukraine? >> why not? of course. but let's not overestimate what we are hearing from selective reporting. russian nationalism is still alive. and when it comes to this -- these sham elections, this is -- this primarily plays to the internal audience. because putin isn't stupid enough to believe that anybody in the west or outside of his country believes in that. >> steve, on this question of the mobiliz...

Propaganda that the west is trying to destroy russia. and the propaganda that one of the reasons that putin is going into ukraine is that he's fighting nazis there. if you repeat the same lie over and over and over again, it will stick. >> except now the rubber is hitting the road, and a lot of those people are going to go into ukraine themselves rather than just watching on state television. gentlemen, we have to leave it there. steve hall, jack barsky, thank you. governor desantis of florida has declared a state of emergency for the entire state. we'll have the very latest on the forecast ...

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