joining us now is general steve anderson and cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier. h you, kim. putin also said he never intentionally said anything about use of nuclear weapons, only that russia responded with hints to threats from the west. from what we heard from putin, is a nuclear tactical attack or any type of dirty bomb any more or less likely based on what you heard from vladimir putin today? >> well, look. his speech had multiple different audiences. one of them was the international community showing that he is sticking to his plan, moving ahead with this military campaign, but also again sort of flirting with the use of nuclear weapons, kind of saying, oh, i didn't really say that, but look. every time he uses this tactic of bringing it up, what it does is change the channel. most recently away from russia on the battlefield. the other audiences he's aiming at are those within russia who might be on the side of the majority of people as i understand it from polls which are not always authoritative, but it seems like the majority of people are with him and h

kim dozier, daily beast. continuing on the theme of alliances, has the transactional nature of this administration, so far, because any sort of damage that can't be pulled back , something that a future democrat or republican alliance organization couldn't fix? you do have ambassador bolton, who is fairly pro-nato. >> on its back up some, why don't we have alliances and partnerships anyway? these aren't things we do for foreigners, this is a multiplier for us, and people who reflect our values and our interests and enough that they might fight alongside us, and having somebody fight alongside of you is better than doing it by yourself. and you can't do that transactionally, it's like a family or something. transactions are a marriage. there has to be an underlying relationship as well, particularly among democracies. after you called into question to get it back into solid ground. i think what's going to make that tricky where we had done that is that these are democracies, so you are not dealing just with th