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Part in eastern ukraine? >> i hesitate to say this, but it is working militarily. i think that severdonetsd in the days or weeks ahead. and they have twice the range of the ukrainian artillery. so there are just carpet bombing from a distance and the ukrainians can't fire back and reach them. so there was an announcement that the united states plans to send some rockets that would help the ukrainians, but i think that it is important to face the reality here, this new strategy by vladimir putin is working. and i was disappointed, we can talk about it separately, but there is some this new emba...

Putin's pretext for this invasion. and sever is important to the area, they say that they need one thing from the u.s., from the international community which is longer range artillery. because right now they are outgunned. the other point i'll make about the fighting around severdonetsk, right now russia is concentrating so much of his artillery power on that area. what it means that is they have left other areas absolutely more open and that is seen in the last 48 hours, we've seen ukrainian counter offenses pop up in the kherson region. >> thank you, molly. david, let's talk about what moll...

As you see the terrible events unfold in ukraine and you reflect on more than two decades of putin in power, do you in any sense feel a sense of responsibility and deep regret that going back to the late 1990s and early 2000's, you were one of the power brokers in russia that actually aided and supported putin in his bid to take power after yeltsin? without you putin might have struggled, with you he was a political force. do you regret your association with him?

No missiles going up. we have a good relationship. >> the frustrations going in both directions. >> the white house announced on twit their putin is coming to the white house in the fall! say that again. >> you putin coming -- >> did i hear? >> yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> white house officials say they are preparing for coats' departure but caution they are not sure how long coats will remain at his job. >> white house officials say conversations about who could replace dan coats is in the early stages and the president may end up deciding not to do anything, not to fire him....

Members. here is the canadian prime minister, his response. >> i said very simply that it is not something we are even remotely interested in looking at at this time to have russia return to the g7. >> and here is what is even more striking. russia was kicked out after it went into ukraine and annexed crimea. and the very same day the president of the united states says they should be allowed back in, his director of national intelligence in a speech in europe says this, as russia is still meddling in the united states election, still meddling around the world doing things outside of the norms...