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This viewer question. and this viewer asks do you think that response from the u.s. and nato alliance would be different ukraine was a major exporter of oil and gas? >> might be. might be. i mean obviously george h.w. bush came to the aid of kuwait when a smaller power than russia -- iraq, saddam hussein 's iraq invaded kuwait. that was 30 years ago, and it was a different global time. but remember there's a difference. russia's a super power. it has nuclear weapons. once you start going in against a super power with nuclear weapons, you have to be very sure you know how to control the escalat...

You've seen the world react in unison the way it has. >> yeah, i mean, no doubt. the u.s. intelligence community was several steps ahead every step of the way during this and has been warning for months that this was going to happen and it's really something i've never seen as a journalist, so much transparency coming from the u.s. intelligence community, of course, you know, that is separate from getting the appropriations, for sending over weapons and so forth that the administration is engaged in now, beyond what it already sent over to ukraine, before the russian invasion, but just quickly...

>> really quickly, i don't mean to cut you off but have this viewer question, i've received so many of this same question. how do you hold putin accountable for crimes against humanity? >> well he could be charged with war crimes. he could be charged and also tried for war crimes should he ever be deposed or retired from office. pending that, he will remain in power and be seen by mankind as he's killed thousands of innocent people who pose no threat to him so war crimes could be instituted against him at some point in time and tried in the future as malosovich was in bosnia. >> thank you so m...

Conventional shortfalls. the russian army in its current form is not what it was during the halcyon days of the soviet union. it is a much lesser, smaller force than it was. so in the soviet remind -- the russian mind, a freudian slip there -- the way to compensate that is to consider the use of t tactical nuclear weapons. all of these factors, least for me, have sort of got the yellow flag up in terms of watching his continued behavior. >> yellow flag, not yet red flag, i'll note that. on that note, a viewer question, could the war cause a nuclear war? that's a question on people's minds now....

Going to solve it. you never know, that's about the state of play. >> yeah, you never know and never know exactly what putin is thinking is the bottom line. i want to get to this viewer question. we saw the video there of the police dragging the protesters away. this viewer wants to know, how does an average russian feel about this? do they accept, support their leaders reasons for invading ukraine, how will they react to russian soldiers coming home in body bags? >> yeah, well there are kind of two different questions but, you know, overall, to generalize about russians is very hard. so i wou...