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Being his closest confidants and he does have those people, like sergei, who he's known four decades. yet he dressed him down a week ago on television. it looks like the people that putin is really close to are the bodyguards, the leaders of the fsb, what was once called the kgb. that kind of crowd. his security crowd. intelligence crowd. quite a small, close knit group. they are incredibly loyal as far as we can tell and just another point about him being under covid isolation. that paints a picture of only those people being around him. >> we talk so much about the reaction putin has to bein...

Ukraine without facing any fighting, we are seeing now that is just not the case. the ukrainian people are defending their own country with bravery and courage and dignity and we are helping them with weaponry and supplies and will continue to do that. he also miscalculated if he thought that the united states and our partners and allies around the world were bluffing when we said that the russian economy would face massive, massive consequences, putin to go forward with these plans. president biden likes to say big nations don't bluff. the united states was not bluffing. we have made good on ...

What frame of mind is he in. >> and my understanding is that the advisers in his ear to the degree that there are any, are all those intelligence officials. is there rank -- because the intelligence seems to be what they screwed up. and some of those people have been with him for the 30 years that he's been on the world stage. >> yeah. well there's bound to be, isn't there? he do hear about it. we don't obviously speak to the people directly so but we hear about the rumblings and things and of course, any city like moscow, there's an establishment here and there's lots of gossip so you hear th...

As russia's bonds have been downgraded to junk status. putin has also miscalculated if he thought he wouldn't face opposition at home. in recent days, we've seen thousands of brave russians take to the streets to make clear this is not russia's war. this is not the russian people's war. this is putin's war. this is the kremlin's war. this is a war that has been aided and abetted by those putin including his cronies, oligarchs, lieutenants. it is something that large segments of the russian people are staunchly opposed to. we know that people have, in russia, have taken to the streets knowing t...

Obama presidency. and clint watts, now a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute and msnbc national security analyst. ambassador, i get to talk to you so many times on a day like yesterday and i want to go back to something we talked about in the 11:00 p.m. hour, which is the intelligence has been pretty good. the product in terms of what putin is going to do has been pretty good and it's my sense that what it says are indications is that it's a pretty grim picture in ukraine in the coming days. we found a line in the speech that comes the closest to leveling wit...