but under it was under clinton, clinton head clinton too, had given assurances. so had 3 other part to other presidents, bush, one and bush to and including the and clinton. and yet all those agreements and understandings were ignored. michael maloof, former senior pentagon security analyst joining us live during this breaking news on our end to national really appreciate it. thanks for your time. thanks for having me. and thanks for joining us. 019 international for our breaking news story is big news coming out of east ukraine, and of course moscow today are the, the area for trego. joining us here in the studio, elliot, bring us up to speed with the latest, you know, pretty shocking development so far in the past 2 hours for a hello there. well, 1st of all, i just want to go through some of the things that we heard from the russian president vladimir putin. some of us expected his speech to be quite short. we were expecting the announcement on the decision by moscow to recognize the independence of the dawn and can no guns republics. but. 3 a lot of people did