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The russians got finished with it. it too looked like dresden. so what richard engel was telling us is this is an appetizer. this is just -- the building he was standing in front of is just a forerunner, and kyiv, of course, is not the only city in ukraine. in city after city in ukraine and other parts of it, in the south and the east, it is not just one building or five buildings or 3%. it is much more total than that. the damage that's been done, the fear that's been struck into the ukrainians is all toward one goal, to bring a nation of 40 odd million people to its knees, to rob it of its i...

Conflict. not everyone wants to let him do that, obviously. white house correspondent peter doocy has that part of the story tonight live on the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> good evening, bret. as the president was cutting off oil imports from russia he was arguing that promoting winterizing homes and electric vehicles is the only way to guarantee that people like putin cannot use fossil fuels in the future as a weapon against other nations. >> putin already hurting americans at the gas pump. >> that's a head scratcher for senator tim scott who asked what is biden talking about. prices ...

Is there anything to be gleaned by all of this and the interesting theory you posit? >> not a whole lot. in my experience, by the time we would know about it, putin would know about it. he's got the place fairly wired. so what we focus on normally is simply to create a context in which he can't succeed. that's really what the policy is about. arm ukraine, put the sanctions in place. try to create a context where putin cannot essentially fulfill his ambitions and that puts things potentially in motion. if it does happen, we're not going to be a party to it. i think we're going to be a witness t...

All of these things may possibly add up to something hopeful. although as you say, will, there is not a lot to agree on in terms of what each side actually wants. >> will: it is tough to see a potential -- we can always hope there has been great amount of sacrifice on both sides of this war so far. we know that putin cannot, for his own personal ambition exit this war without declaring victory. he simply can't go back to russia without declaring victory. as far as the ukrainians, i can't imagine a compromise that involves any type of territorial compromise or territorial sacrifice. >> steve: t...

And finally the risk assessment. this is a tough one. i mean, putin talks about nuclear war. obviously i think that's a lot of bluff but you can't be a hundred percent sure it is. so that's a factor. however, putin cannot have a veto power over what we do. every time each says nuclear war, we're can't stand back and say nothing. if we're able to have allied congressional unity, it's military effective and we're aware of the risk factor as well, but anything that will defer, it's not an easy call and the show boating about it doesn't help matter. >> john gunderson, thank you. kelly o'donnell, t...