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Network. individuals can tweet. they're doing that. we're watching that. putin is caring about his own domestic audience, and russian audiences, 90% of russians get their news from state sponsored news, and putin is controlling that. one reason he shut down facebook is facebook, in russia, is actually the place where protest happens because the russian facebook is for, you know, for people who support putin. but i want to just foot stomp what john was saying. i don't disagree with jim about creating a coalition of the willing. i've talked about it myself today. but putin doesn't like sanctions...

Is possible to see a third actor hack into a communications network or an action that looks like one side or the other is preparing to take a new move against the other and could lead quickly to escalation. i think president biden has thi very clearly, we're not sending american troops. our nuclear weapons are not on the table. we will not allow ukraine to be subjected to this invasion without coming to their aid, and russia, i think, needs to think seriously about where this ends, and they have to take steps to de-escalate as well. >> john, we'll be calling on you early and often. thank you f...

The days go on, that we're able to do other things as well. and maybe, again, it's not as a nato thing. maybe it's a coalition of the willing. maybe it's something else that we might do, and i'm not talking about invading ukraine or this type of thing. but i think -- and some of the offices certainly in the pentagon and other western capitals where you have special forces and others, they might have some ideas that can help us up our game, but i think it's getting tiresome now, i think, for a lot of the people in the west to hear from the governments of all the things that we are doing, legiti...

Part of the reason we're in this crisis is when he's acting before, gone into georgia, moldova, crimea and ukraine in the past, whenever we've tried to push back against putin, he has quickly escalated and tried to intimidate and throw threats, and it's worked. it's separated allies. it sort of allowed us to say, wait a minute, let's not push too hard on putin. i think what we're seeing is the same thing he has done before. he's threatening and pretending like he's caught in a corner, and better not mess with me, i have nuclear weapons. these kind of threats are very typical of vladimir putin,...

Four nuclear power plants and 15 reactors. joining us is former director of arms control and nonproliferation and a special adviser of security to then vice president biden and now with global zero. john, tell us how you assessed what most of us watched in horror and terror last night on the tvs. >> i think the first thing i did is try to catch their breath at the shear stupidity that must be on display for somebody to fire at a nuclear power plant. and then very quickly try to gain whatever information i could, including elevated levels of radiation around the plant. there was none and still ...