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It's the big question in global affairs today. what in the world is vladamir putin thinking? it may not be answerable by anybody except the russian president himself. but i find it helpful to talk to people who know putin, who worked with him. my next guest fits that bill. mikhail was a russian oligarch, owner of a russian oil and gas company, and at one time, the richest man in russia. but then he got on putin's bad side by promoting reforms in russia and spent a decade in prison for fraud and tax evasion. charges he says were politically motivated. he's now one of putin's biggest critics and...

It's the big question in global affairs today. what in the world is vladamir putin thinking? it may not be answerable by anybody except the russian president himself. but i find it helpful to talk to people who know putin, who worked with him. my next guest fits that bill. mikhail was a russian oligarch, owner of a russian oil and gas company, and at one time, the richest man in russia. but then he got on putin's bad side by promoting reforms in russia and spent a decade in prison for fraud and tax evasion. charges he says were politically motivated. he's now one of putin's biggest critics and...

50,000 troops, 100,000 troops, 150,000 troops. more recently, we told the world exactly what putin would do according to the playbook. he would manufacture a pretext. claim in a theatrical meeting of his national security council that he had no choice but to go into ukraine. he would deploy those forces. those forces would terrorize a civilian population. we have seen that play out very clearly and in many ways, nicolle, i wish we could, i wish i were sitting here with egg on my face saying we had it wrong, the intelligence wasn't accurate. this wasn't how it played out. unfortunately, this is...

Democracy if that's what it takes. so i think he could have done more to buck us all up, but he certainly did the right thing calling attention to what the ukrainians are doing and what they're about to face from this day forward. >> i was going to ask you a drill down a bit on your last point. what are you bracing yourself for? >> right. so i mean, we know what putin has in terms of military mite. in terms of the power he has. unfortunately, he has a lot of fire power that's very imprecise. i, as somebody who have watched the evolution of the russian military and putin's management of it, hav...