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We have those really disturbing comments earlier this week about cleansing russian society, about those who oppose him being scum and traitors. as you sit on something like the national security council of people looking at him thinking this is a guy who has lost the plot and this seems to be moving in the wrong direction, comment about self cleansing, society of traitors and other crazy comments he made. you know, this looks like someone who may be thinking about a major escalation because i think he's being backed into a corner. and as i said earlier, i think it is so essential that we have ...

>> john: the sound of suffering from innocent ukrainians as vladimir putin's war enters its fourth week now. and you heard there from the russian president himself, he's now got some of his own citizens in his sights. and disturbing speech saying russia needs "self-cleansing of society from traitors and scum who oppose his campaign of terror in ukraine." i'm john roberts in washington, kick off "america reports" for this thursday. hi again, sandra. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york. begins with the war reaching new lows as russians target a theater in the southern city of mariupol packed wit...

Head, or whatever. it's occurred to countless people. and not least among them, party members. there's an apartment building called the house on the embankment -- one war party official would disappear. that would be the end of him. it happened every night. this kind of self cleansing and something else. this is all a corks in their yachts racing for the maldives. it's young liberals and computer programmers, intellectuals, people from urban middle classes, who would now be the natural enemies of putin. fearing for their existence is, and heading off to near ivan, istanbul, and they don't know...

There is no question that putin looks to leaders of the past as models with in terms of ideology and style, and how he conducts himself. and he knows a little bit about historical residents. the other day, when he gave a short speech and started referring to fifth columnists and a self cleansing, that was the phrase, self cleansing of russia, those are -- you know, everybody with half an ounce of knowledge of russian and soviet history knows that this is a reference to the 30s and stolen. the bushiest, the great purge of that time. but in those days would happened, night after night, after nig...

Schwarzenegger says these are my heroes. these are the patriots, the people who stand up against this war. putin says the opposite. anybody who doesn't stand up on this war aren't patriots. they are the scum and traitors. we know who they are, and we're going to go through self-cleansing to get rid of them. . >> how would russians be able to do this logistically? . >> they can view it on telegram. it is the only major social media outlet that's open. i haven't heard that it's been pulled town from there. they can see that. and of course people in the kremlin and some parts of the government ar...