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Believes that he is a man of destiny in a long line of russian heroes from ivan the terrible to peter the great and, yes, stalin, men who have protected and restored russia's greatness. and putin sees his mission on this earth as restoring russia's greatness and some of its territory at least. and we make light of that at our peril because it does not matter, jim, what we believe. what matters is what putin believes. and for him, ukraine, that's the die line. he has -- again, i'll use a word we don't usually use in connection with putin. putin has a mystical or near-mystical attachment to ukra...

Putin wants ukraine. he doesn't know how to get it. he probably has not made up his mind about whether or not to invade. you'll wait and see how the january 10th talks go. but my message to american decision makers, do not -- just because putin didn't go to the right schools, just because he doesn't have great table manners, don't take him lightly. here's a man who's punked three u.s. presidents in a row, working on a fourth. he was dealt a pair of eights. we have a royal flush, and we fold it again and again. putin is an extremely talented, a brilliant man, sometimes a crude man. but it never...

It sounds like president biden put putin on notice here. >> it was a standoff. and the perceptions on both sides are a bit different. now, it does look like biden stood his ground. putin apparently really did hit hard and repeatedly about, you know, how he'd huff and puff and blow the house down if we imposed more sanctions on him. of course the sanctions would be in response to russian attack. what was interesting to me was that the russian media is now reporting that the -- one of putin's press spokespersons has said that and stressed that, well, putin got biden to agree not to put strike we...

Reading the russian press and what they're leaking out, he seemed very, very frustrated, and that's not necessarily good. >> right. and as we mentioned putin told biden today that any new sanctions against russia would be a, quote, colossal mistake. how much weight does a statement like that from putin carry. if he invades ukraine, of course we're going to respond with sanctions. he must know that. >> well, yes, he does. and he's really at a loss for how he could respond effectively to really massive sanctions that took russia out of the dollar trading system, et cetera. and yet that may well ...