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Forcing putin to end the illegal invasion quickly remains the best way to prevent disaster. that could truly open up a level of risk not seen since the worst days of the cold war. aren't we about here? >> yes. remind me of the saying never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. i can't understand how this is part of the war plan. and of course, a bunch of stories today about putin having the back against the wall and doubling down and of course what he does. so we need to provide some kind of off ramp. i'm for no war in any circumstances and should be a ways with ukra...

And to contemplate the pros and the cons. the cons in this case are quite significant. >> martha: we need to think several steps out in terms of any action that we would take and what that would lead to. i hear what you're saying there. i want to get one more question in with you before i let you go. emanuel macron is the point person for discussion with putin. he said that he got on a ut90-minute phone conversation d he's convinced it's going to get worse. he showed no signs of negotiation. he also said that putin said that everything is going as planned. >> clearly it's not. because the war ...

Some units being told that they're operating under a war plan. others operating under what is more of a police action or a special military operation to, quote, unquote de-nazify this country, which is the way vladimir putin is describing it. so much of it goes back to the man that ordered these operations, vladimir putin. yesterday he gave a bizarre speech. first of all, he was speaking to a group of flight attendants, which is a strange place to have a big speech on war and talking about nuclear weapons and the future and potential sovereignty of his country, but that was the forum. that was...

So resistance there that when you hear matthew chance say from his sources, ukrainian sources, there is fierce fighting, it is the u.s. view that there is fierce fighting. we do know and this has been a consistent assessment by the u.s. and nato that ukrainian forces are far outnumbered, by multiples in terms of personnel, armor, aircraft, air defense, et cetera. but that they're not giving up without a fight certainly at this stage. and that's important. that said, too, russia's broader ambitions here from the beginning as we have been talking about this war plan, even going way back to novem...

Unrealistic demands that putin is making, demands he knows will be rejected and knew from the beginning would be rejected. any intention other than going forward, but nonetheless, we want to go to the last mile to try to avoid war. because if it comes to war, it's going to be a humanitarian disaster. that casualties could be very significant, but i share the celebr sentiments you're expressing. >> there's been a step discussed short of war, perhaps part of a broader war plan but that is to recognize these eastern self-declared republics, i mean, really areas, as you know, russia has been doing...