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Been covering all along, it's just hard to know how serious those talks are. but one thing that does seem clear, from all the reporting we have. again, this is sort of a black box. it's sort of okay. but to the best that we can tell, from the reporting we have, from the observations we are seeing, taken all together, reading between the lines, it would appear, at the very least, that putin does not believe this war is going as planned. whether or not that leaves to a doubling down on the atrocities that he is currently to this hour, minute, leveling on the ukrainian people, remains to be seen....

The question of what is the ideological story being told here to me seems -- seems a little vague. i'm not the audience for this. this is serves as nationalism. reference of scripture. he talks about catherine the great in the speech announcing the war. a sort of restoration of imperial russia. i guess the reason i think that is important, is it seems like perhaps it gives some indication of wind breaking point there is for him. what's possible outcome there could be. >> you make a great point. this has been a struggle since the collapse of communism and the collapse of the soviet union. in ye...

Unprovoked war with ukraine. a small faction of the right, also pushing pro russian propaganda, including congressman madison cawthorn, in north carolina. >> remember, zelenskyy is a thug, the ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt, incredibly evil, and has been pushing woke ideology. >> i should tell you, that video of cawthorn, calling a thug incredibly evil, and pushing book ideologies, has also been played, over and over, on russian tv, media after the clip surfaced. some establishment republicans, like senator lindsey graham, south carolina, spoke out against it. it took more than a w...

Where civilians are being attacked without any military targets in the area. >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, from the ukrainian capital of kyiv. this entire week we've been seeing reporting, russian forces, deliberately targeting, apparently, civilian areas. whatever it is, apartment buildings, schools, hospitals. it is a similar pattern we have seen another eastern, and central ukrainian cities. for the first time, and through weeklong war, russian missiles hit lviv in western ukraine, just close to the border with poland. they struck near the airport, and a stark exam...

About as difficult and fraught, and cross pressured as possible. how do you think the biden administration has done so far? >> chris, i think they've handled it exceedingly well. i'm certainly one who can call them out when i think that they have not done things well. the reality is they're treading -- threading a careful needle. wanting to signal as much and provide as much support to the ukrainians to defend themselves. wanting to martial the world's democracies to essentially evict russia from the global economy and from integration with europe and the united states. but also wanting to avo...