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Far into the republic of georgia or hold it. so part of what putin did when he came back to power in 2012, was he said i'm going to spend $7 million to modernize the russian military and i'm going to make sure that that doesn't happen again. and when we saw the lightning attack in crimea, we thought he had done it. because he had to use special forces. now what we're seeing is he's put a lot of money into these doomsday weapons he's publicized on television and building these very lethal cruise missiles and thermo baric weapons that are now attacking the innocent ukrainian civilians, they're n...

Succeed. so you have this almost overwhelming narrative right now here in the west saying this is a blunder, this is a mistake. putin certainly has not achieved his objective so far, but the great i think we all unfortunately accurately foresaw this attack on the cities and civilians of ukraine as one escalation. well, there are other kinds of escalation we may now see from putin if his military objectives continue to be frustrated. that's what concerns me. >> yeah. well, i think we're entering a new an and more dangerous phase of this because he's not been successful with the lightning attack...

Indicates is that perhaps a growing realisation in moscow that its pre—war planning, which was for a lightning attack on ukraine along multiple fronts simply has not worked, and that may be what they need to be doing is concentrating on one objective at a time. clearly the objective of what they describe as liberating the donbas, that is securing those two separatist held areas in the east and extending the boundaries of that territory and linking that with this land corridor along the sea of azov to the crimean peninsula. those are really the kind of core primary war objectives and perhaps ...

Voice in the south to make a decision in this primary contest. so, they wake up this morning, maybe not seeing a frontrunner, but they are exactly where they want to be and making sure that their opinion is heard across the country during this primary season. >> david mattingly for us there in south carolina. we're continuing to look forward. david, thanks so much. the conservative wloe torch of iowa radio might need more butane gas? why? kind of flamed out last night. not exactly a repeat of the 2008 caucuses. we're going to talk to mr. blowtorch in just a few minutes. the obama campaign ...

at the winners and losers and dan lothian and david mattingly looking ahead to the battlegrounds that are now more important than ever. all right, let's start with dana bash. dana? >> well, we have some potential news this morning about what this caucus has did to the field on the republican side. michele bachmann who, of course, came in a disappointing sixth, effectively dead last here in iowa is going to hold a news conference in a few hours. her campaign is not saying what it is about, but it is hastily arranged news conference. it is hard to imagine that she's going to have somet...