not yet, no. >> ifill: michael mcfaul what about the u.s. role?discussion that the u.s. should be arming the ukrainian government and helping them by sending lethal weapons to hold that line. did the prospect of that perhaps force some sort of tentative agreement snare. >> i do think the specter of new arms to ukraine helped accelerate the negotiations and focus the minds and get all the leaders together in minsk, i do believe that is true. i also believe it is true that putin is the big winner here. let's be clear about that. both sides are off today because of this agreement than yesterday, but putin is a lot better off. now his proxies have consolidated their gains, given up very little, and we could be replaying this game all over again in six months-time after some military offensive. that's what's happened between the first minsk accord and the second. so it's better than the alternatives but i still think putin gains very concretely to his ultimate objective which is to weaken and ultimately destroy the government in kiev. that's what he re

michael mcfall, a former u.s. ambassador to russia and of course a panelist. david, andrea, katty and steven. gas ambassador mcfaul, let me start with you. we talk -- you heard me ask secretary kerry about essentially is vladimir putin a rational actor here? how do you answer that question? >> he's a rational actor who's also very emotional. like most people, by the way. he's playing a long-term game here with multiple objectives over a long period of time. i think the kind of fundamental tension that you see is that the west, we want to solve the problem. we want a deal. we want a peace plan. putin's purposely happy not to have a peace plan. to let this linger. to let it fester. and that will help him achieve other goals. >> there was a report earlier this week that there's some secret dossier from a war college examination that vladimir putin has -- might be have asperger's syndrome. now we actually e-mailed a professor, simon baron cohen, director of the autism research center in cambridge, who is a relative of the comedian sacha baron cohen, and he said that the claim that putin has asperger's syndrome based s