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-- i think there is going to be a final showdown with the way the city is fortified all over. i mean, you know, russian forces are trying to make a move from the northwest and the northeast right now, and they're spreading out their forces to try to surround the city. so i think in that -- i think people are fighting back. people are willing to fight back. and i think there is some hope for the city. >> let's hope indeed. stay safe over there. as i tell all of our cnn journalist on the ground in ukraine right now. be careful. we will stay in touch. appreciate it very much. and one thing we'v...

It's very much looking -- looking like the sort of germany under the nazis before world war ii. remember what we heard from the nazis -- i was just following the rules, i was just following the rules. putin is creating the rules, and there is a system and a law enforcement body and people that will follow those rules. and that's what's happening. so you end up being arrested today, you really don't know when you're going to come out the end of that, that legal chain. >> you've been doing amazing reporting for us, not just now but all of these years, going back 30 years together. we did the fir...

Now to help protect ukraine's territorial integrity? >> well, i think we're doing that at this point. we are doing the best to help the ukrainians defend themselves with extraordinary help coming from the united states and from the nato countries. i think we're doing our best to fulfill our obligation. they are not a nato member. if they were, russia would be in a very different position right now. >> secretary william cohen, thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. a witness to history from the thawing of the cold war to the possibility of a new iron curtain. our own nic ro...

I'm -- i was surprised when he decided to go and attack all of ukraine and tried to seek control of that country -- that came as a surprise to me. >> and it did to me, as well. we heard him threaten, we heard him threaten military technical measures in we don't get what we want with nato. nato needs to roll back, it needs to go back to 1997, it needs to stop ukraine becoming a member. i think people thought this was just putin wantating a voice at the table. once he got a voice at the table he wouldn't follow through. he's become more and more determined. we're now in a position of looking at ...

Outside the kremlin. the russians gave us -- the soviet union gave us the opportunity to do that. we broadcast live for several days. at that time you had the sense that this was a country that wanted to integrate to the west. fast forward a decade, putin comes to power. all those changes, all that alignment toward a european-style democracy and integrating the rest of the world, he said that was wrong. and he's reversed it, tried to reverse the position ever since with different invasions and now in ukraine, and that i think, you know, tells you because of his complete power there, it tells y...