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Separatist area. without presenting evidence, something he has said before, the word genocide gets bandied around by russian politicians perhaps a lot more liberally than the context that we would normally use it in. but again, that helps create a narrative for putin at some point to say, okay, i have got to go in and protect the russian people in the east of ukraine. he's handed out 600,000 passports to them, by the way. so you can see all these different potential pretexts and quasi-legal ways he can develop a narrative to say i have got to go and do this. >> putin is trying to give himself ...

You can see he's working an angle with the timeframe in mind. so by taking the vote today, there's a track opened up for him because that vote goes to his table. it will be up to him to sign off on it or not over a period of time. he'll sort of play it out. if he doesn't get what he wants perhaps through talks that are not forthcoming so far, then he can go that route. he's also saying today, accusing the ukrainian authorities of genocide committed against russian speakers in the eastern area of ukraine and that separatist area. without presenting evidence, something he has said before, the wo...

Officials are feeling as if they're providing him advice he's -- they're providing intelligence he's not listening to and his staff walked in with pages and pages of how to deal with putin and he threw all of that out as well. so in that debate you were having earlier with general clapper about whether or not people should resign, the main reason they may resign is they're probably feeling they're completely ineffective. >> yeah, in fact, that's what he said. how can you not feel irrelevant today regardless of the work you're doing overtime presenting the evidence to the president. speaking of...