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Reflection of u.s. values. not russian values, not isis values, american values. i wonder, bianna, when you were watching yesterday what you thought. >> well, you know, i was watching russian state media throughout the evening and sort of their reactions to this. this is not indication of why, in their view, democracy is dirty, it's ugly. why have to deal with this? this is something playing out in the united states. it's not playing out in russia right now. and here they are once again a divided weakened, in their opinion, country. if they can't trust their government, who is to say what they...

The flip side is putin's actions with ukraine having the effect of strengthening the nato alliance. because these dividing lines are not just the united states versus russia and china, a new alternative system. it's the west. it's democracy versus autocracies. >> the other major development overnight in ukraine specifically, was the united states saying that they have intelligence that the russians are trying this elaborate false flag operation. what does that mean? that they are going to fake a ukrainian action against ethnic russians and somehow that would be a pretext for a russian invasion...

In the world is between democracies like the united states and germany, versus autocracies, places where there are no freedoms, there is no democracy like russia, like china. do you worry that we are going to lose that fight? >> no. it is a strong fight. but the ideas that the united states, the ideas that were important for our democratic development, they are ideas of mankind. they are not just western ideas or north america and europe and some other places. it is something deeply in us as men. and because of that i am absolutely sure that we will succeed in this game because it is coming fr...

It doesn't matter what administration it is. if you question the integrity of journalists whose job is to ask questions. you can say you are siding by the enemy, it crosses a basic fundamental line. our enemies and opponents say democracy is divided and messy. the point is this system of rigor gives us greater strength than autocracies can ever have. so whatever frustration they may be feeling at that particular moment never justifies crossing the line into questioning the patriotism and intentions of the journalist. >> i about the way, whatever value russia sees from this and so on, bianna kn...

Now with the war in ukraine, that will be the focal point of the president's speech. a moment of crisis for the president to address the nation and the world really, to talk about the actions he's taken to build this global coalition, the sanctions against russia, and also the efforts to try to mitigate the impact of those sanctions on american and european consumers. and it will be the biggest o audience for him to talk about democracies versus autocracies. he will talk about inflation. he'll address it head on. he'll unveil new proposals. economic proposals to lower costs for american famili...