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To succeed were he to be elected president. he did ascend and succeed. why do you think putin didn't engage in this operation while trump was president? >> well, it is a good question. he said yesterday this wouldn't have happened when i was president, or somehow he was too tough. i think a number of things, one, he didn't need help, putin didn't need help trying to drive a wedge in nato because president trump was doing that. president trump as we talked about in this program repeatedly badgered and berated the western allies, especially germany, for not paying enough in his view for defense ...

Ukraine. >> it is with a heavy heart that we all need to admit the grim reality of a new aggressive rule rising over europe. the beginning of a large scale war in ukraine will be the end of the world order as we know it. russia will not stop at ukraine. >> peter baker, you know more about russia and about vladimir putin than i do. you have the experience of covering the last i'll say three, put probably four american presidents, right. have you seen a shift this abrupt in terms of how the united states of america or at least one of its two political parties, not just flatters a dictator, but e...

Think it's going to be followed by an absolute travesty. >> jeremy, let me read you this reporting on sanctions, the limits of sanctions in dealing with putin. times is reporting putin's decision to press ahead suggest that he has concluded the cost of new sanctions are tolerable despite u.s.' talk of con kwenss. the biden administration might find it has to impose the harshest sanctions, ones that would inflict suffering on many citizens or look for a noneconomic option such as giving military aid. biden said he will not send american troops to defend ukraine. where are we on that continuum a...

Hear folks like donald trump praise putin and tucker carlson, i see it as the beginning of the end for them. they are -- they are stepping into a trap. it is okay for them to cheer lead outside of conflict and say putin is such a great guy, biden is not doing what he should be doing. but when you have tens of thousands of casualties, the republicans are going to own it. tucker carlson is going to own this. he's basically digging his own grave, so to speak, political grave and so is donald trump and so are the other folks that are on the record cheerleading for russia just days before they cond...

Arms, training, and equipment and clandestine forces. diplomatic support is going to be in the cards. in terms of sanctions, i think we've taken significant steps. there's more to go. we could sanction spur bank and vtb bank. other banks that are very critical to russian elites. to the russian governing state. once we engage in these export restrictions, probably about six months time, we'll degrade the russian industrial manufacturing capability, their high-tech capability. that's going to be a significant blow to the russian economy. so i think putin's going to have this fundamental choice. ...