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Understand that his country's economy is in the tank and that he absolutely needs all of this, i mean, if this was a long thought-out plan that -- if he were going to survive, he needed that. >> don't listen to that. do you remember the sochi olympics? do you remember how pleased he was that there was no terrorism. he was basking in the glory and suddenly this crisis. why would he want this crisis? it's spoiled everything he had spent five years and $50 billion achieving. this crisis was triggered by something else. that's another story. but he doesn't want this crisis and he wants it over now...

Understand that his country's economy is in the tank and that he absolutely needs all of this, i mean, if this was a long thought-out plan that -- if he were going to survive, he needed that. >> don't listen to that. do you remember the sochi olympics? do you remember how pleased he was that there was no terrorism. he was basking in the glory and suddenly this crisis. why would he want this crisis? it's spoiled everything he had spent five years and $50 billion achieving. this crisis was triggered by something else. that's another story. but he doesn't want this crisis and he wants it over now...

Jeffrey. if america got its back up and got serious, i think the europeans would follow. i don't expect them to lead in this respect. we could make life pretty miserable for putin in a lot of ways. >> but there has to be a way to find a face-saving solution or some way for president putin to back out of this. >> you want him to be humiliated. he needs to be weakened at home. >> steve cohn, we want him to be humiliated. no offramp. no reason for diplomacy here. what is kristol's problem? what is this neo con brain soup that encourages them to think like this? >> you've got two things going on a...

Like this? >> you've got two things going on at once. you've got putin bashing and obama bashing coming from these people. >> oh, i seattle. >> and they're not exactly clear which one they want to bash more. give me one personal note. i grew up in the segregated south. i voted twice for obama as an act of historic justice. but he hasn't conducted himself well on the russian matter. we need to find a way to stop this because the next step that is being pushed by people like kristol and the others is to move nato forces to the western border of poland. >> yeah. >> the polish -- excuse me, the po...

They've had before, governments of thieves. and they want add radical change. that's also a statement i think is worth looking at. i think, quite frankly, this putin bashing has become a kind of national sport in the u.s. media. it's easy to do and it's great fun, but i don't know where it leads you. >> well, i think that the concern is that you have the leader of such an important country who seems bent on doing things that are e anymore call to the cause of freedom. i think that's what triggers the objectivity of the journalists. point me to the countries that are backing up what vladimir pu...