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That is an area that has not ever been tested yet. a wider geopolitical thought — some of your opponents here in the us senate, and i'm thinking of people like marco rubio and lindsey graham, want biden to be even tougher, send more weapons, impose tighter sanctions on vladimir putin. and they say notjust because we have to win this fight in ukraine, but also they say it has huge ramifications for our wider struggle, particularly with china. they say that unless putin is defeated and seen to be defeated, president xi of china will see it as some sort of green light to invade taiwan. do you a...

But you know the inside story. yeah, but that's not my role to share that information, particularly on a broadcast show. but i will say this — that leading up to the invasion, one of the things that... and again, intel, whether it's british intel or american intel, you know, by nature those folks in that community don't like to share information. so what we... one of the things that was remarkable was early on, putin expected not only to be militarily successful, but actually had ideas that he could launch a coup in ukraine. it was american intelligence leaning forward, saying if a coup happ...

But what matters is the united states. when the defense secretary, lloyd austin, said not long ago, quote, "we want to see russia weakened to the degree "that it cannot do the kinds of things that it has done "in invading ukraine ever again," that's a message to russia that putin has no future. biden, in an unscripted moment, talked about the fact that he felt putin could not be allowed to remain in power. is that the prevailing feeling today in washington? here... sometimes i have the luxury to say things that perhaps senior administration officials should take a bit more care. but i look at,...

The american public properly for the degree to which there is now perhaps a greater danger of an escalating conflict between nuclear superpowers than there has been since 1916. we live in a very, very dangerous time, and an aggression that was purely started by putin's grand design of recreating the greater russia and whether we stand with democratic—elected nations. our failure to do so, and if we'd allowed this aggression to go unchecked, we all know putin would not have stopped with ukraine. you not only sit there as chair of the intelligence committee, you're also, i believe, a co—chai...

In essence, putin cannot be allowed to continue, are you risking nuclear war? and the countervailing risk is to turn a blind eye to the type of atrocities that we in the west have said we will stand firmly against. where this leads... i think that is absolutely the right question to pose me and to other leaders across the west. but the notion that we would suddenly turn a blind eye and say, when this is, all is forgiven and we're going to invite you back in to the to the club of respectable world leadership... you know, i'm not sure how that meeting goes. to quote the cia director, bill burns,...