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Available right now. no life translation. professor faris, to the point we were just making, this case is now being made to the russian people to the extent that this is being covered, anyway. at the united nations, the ambassador knows that he has to speak to the russian people while he is speaking at the united nations, and i suppose and russian media they can simply exclude everything else that is set tonight at the united nations? >> sure. they can tell the russian people whatever they want. i think what was missing from putin speech today of course that on what's being said right now, but...

>> david faris, david rough court and eugene robertson, thank you very much for contributing to our coverage. coming up, yale university history professor timothy snyder will speak about his response to the history of ukraine as taught to the russian people by vladimir putin today. russian people by vladimir russian people by vladimir puti always busy. i was starting to feel a little foggy. just didn't feel like things were as sharp as i knew they once were. i heard about prevagen started noticing things a little sharper, a little clearer. i feel like it's kept me on my game. i'm able to remem...

>> professor faris, does vladimir putin understand the threshold that he is on? he must understand that russia does not exactly have a stellar record of successful invasions of countries that don't want russian troops there? >> no, i think putin knows exactly what he's doing, but i still think that he is making an enormous strategic mistake, here. if this is about nato expansion into ukraine, i think that this could end up having the precise opposite effect. this could spur new discussions in finland, sweden about joining nato -- this could spur increased defenses in europe. it could spur a mo...

These two provinces or whether he's going to create a territorial quarter to another breakaway region in maldova the, or whether he tends to overthrow the democratic regime in ukraine. all of these things are pretty unprecedented in the post world war ii era. i think, i'm not sure that here the russian people are prepared for the ultimate outcome here, which could be having to install some kind of public regime in kyiv and rule over a broken and hostile country. i don't see the upside there for russia. i think that putin is acting capriciously here and i don't know there's anything you could s...

Which is very unusual. of course, we need to remember that when russia went into afghanistan and that turned bad, that was one of the things that contributed to the downfall of the soviet union. i think putin is aware of this but he seems to be proceeding anyway, and if ukraine mounts a resistance. if russia goes in and this lasts a long time, and it's costly for them, it could turn difficult for him on the domestic front in a way that his past incursions have not. >> the russian ambassador is speaking at the united nations now. if the control room can pick up with the ambassador is saying, le...