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>> he is a bright, he is tough. and i have found that he is a -- as they say when i used to play ball a worthy adversary. >> now biden accuses putin of creating a false pretext for war. >> this was never about a genuine security concerns on their part. it was always about aggression. >> aggression designed to redraw the map of europe. >> did you under estimate putin and would you still describe him the way that you did in the summer as a worthy adversary? >> at the time he was -- i made it clear he was an adversary. say he was worthy. i didn't under estimate him. he has much larger ambitions i...

>> we see them add to the more than 150,000 troops that they already have a radar on that border, and i know first hand that you don't do these sort of things for no reason. >> they don't do these things for no reason. well, they're also laying out putin's playbook for the world. the russian leader isn't known for his honesty, shall we say. he's manufactured crises before as a pretext for war. and biden and company are warning, beware because it seems to be happening all over again. >> we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in. >> russ...

Those forces are doing there. and whether or not they come into contact with ukrainian forces. at the same time, brianna, they are under no illusions here that what vladimir putin is doing here is some kind of peace keeping mission. they understand fully that this is a pretext for war, senior official yesterday saying that president putin's speech was meant to justify war to the russian people. so they're watching this very closely, but they are also beginning to come under some pressure from lawmakers, including some key democrats like chris coons, senator very close to president biden, sayin...

Into putin apologists here in the united states. i've repeatedly heard the claim that the west provoked this war by going back on promises made to russians back in the '90s about nato expansion. and we've also heard putin claim that nazis, neo-nazis are running ukraine. drug-addicted neo-nazis. does any of that seem like actual things vladimir putin believes, or are these just pretext for war? >> well, i don't know what he believes. he's made three immediate cases for the pretext for war. one is that the country is run by neo-nazis, i think that is on its face ridiculous. a second that ukraine...

Writer olga hazan, the author of "weird: the power of being an outsider in an insider world." olga, "the new york times" reports that the kremlin's pretext for war keeps shifting. quote, drug addled neo-nazis, genocide, american shifting. genocide, american biological weapons factories, birds and reptiles trained to carry pathogens into russia, ukrainian forces bombing their own cities, including theaters sheltering children. what is the dominant narrative that you have seen when you have been watching and listening to russian tv? >> yeah, it's sort of all of that and more. i still am hearing ...