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Welcome back. i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm andy cohen. the first a.c. and a.c. and a.c., in case you were wondering. since we're talking about australia, and we're on live around the world, i want to discuss this guy who is my favorite story out of australia this year. the awfustralian of the year, o course i'm referring to the ripped kangaroo. >> what was -- are all kangaroo -- >> is that a kangaroo on roids i'm looking at? is that a juiced up -- >> it's a little putinesque, it's a little like vladimir putin. >> i was thinking it kind of looked like a shirtless zac efron. >> zac efron has gott...

List? >> person who belongs on the interpol list is vladimir putin. vladimir putin is a criminal, he's a killer, and he was responsible for covering up the murder of sergey mag nisky, my lawyer killed in police custody in 2009 and crazy and ironic that instead of him as criminal, he tries to label me as criminal and have interpol try to arrest me to be sent back to russia. insanity. >> you've been a leader on stuff for a while, sometimes people say kafkaesque to refer to literary criticisms of unjust systems, wondering if have to describe it as putinesque, lawyer died in russian prison under q...

This is the kind of thing that gives fodder to those who say he is running an autocratic more putinesque-style government. >> and there's probably some truth to that. when we talk about the potus account, that's 15.1 million people had an opportunity to see donald trump tweet from a federally taxpayer government twitter account where he would defend his daughter and talk about her line. that's outrageous. to your point, we talk about how nordstrom's stock rebounded. this happened very early in the day. it had time to rebound. for someone like yourself who has covered wall street extensively fo...

The head of state rather than watching the news, meaning the 500,000 women gathered to protest him so we're watching the leader and not watching the news. you, as e.j. said, covered vladimir putin, which is no small thing. is this what putin does? are we overreacting to see this as putinesque? >> it's absolutely what putin does. and what we saw happen in russia, and in some ways it's not a comparable situation. what we saw happen in russia, very quickly the media split into opposition and loyal media, but they all had the same agenda. they all had putin on the front page all the time, even if ...

Morality of what vladimir putin has done. >> did he say one thing that was clear the u.s. military will not be involved more than it currently is. more than it's currently doing. obviously in polls you would see america saying, you know, we don't have any interest in getting involved in something bigger. what about that aspect of it, though? and what the president said and didn't say today. >> well, i mean you're right, there's no appetite for any kind of military activity at all. and especially not there. but steve is right that this is vladimir putin's sort of b minus war on eastern ukraine ...