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>> john: thank you, let's bring in jack keane, retired four-star general, and fox news strategic analyst. among the screen, i want to start add to the eastern part of ukraine where the military is in outline. this by the blue line is the donbas and donetsk region. so far russia occupies this section in here, and the question is might those forces move out this way to take the rest of the donbas region? and if they do that, might they further go into ukraine itself in a larger scale invasion that would be so reported with maneuvers from outside of ukraine where the russian forces are amassed? w...

Russian government. >> director brennan, is putin -- it's hard to ask this question this way, but is he more dangerous if the offensive in ukraine doesn't go as he'd intended and the reception in his own country is, at best, mixed but very polarized? >> i believe he is. i think his political fortunes are tied to how this whole initiative turns out. and if he sees that it's not going his way and the tide is turning against him, i think as a lot of these authoritarian leaders do, they will opt for desperate measures, and so i am very concerned about escalatory spiral, not just in ukraine in term...

Specifically will you be sanctions putin specifically? he sort of dodged that question. so today do you think president biden has gone far enough? >> i think this is the largest invasion in europe since world war ii and these are the harshest sanctions any country has experienced since world war ii as far as financial, travel, energy resources. there will be more to come. but i also think we have to build a sentiment, alisyn, in the united states, so that people understand why putin is a bad guy. he murders journalists who oppose him. he jails the opposition. that's inside his country. outside...

Wants are sanctions. >> i don't think they accept anything yet. i think what they're doing from talking to an administration source is letting this play out and so far they believe that it's playing out the way they thought it was going to play out. they were telling us in real time giving us intelligence, what putin was ready to do and when he was ready to do it and that played out pretty well. i think what they're focusing on right now is keeping the allies onboard. showing strength through unity because that's what they believe putin is going to respond to. and so you cannot -- you know, th...

The president. and right now he actually had a meeting with russian business people and made that argument this goes way beyond ukraine and that it was an exist egs threat from russia. the quote is amazing, it's hard to xre hence how our country could have continued to exist. now you ask yourself could ukraine be that threat? no, he's talking about nato but what he's saying to the business people there will be some damage and effect on the economy but you have to be patriotic and support this mission. a lot of them are getting money because they have these counter sanctions and help for big bu...