. >>> and we are back talking about russia and ukraine with david miliband, anne applebaum and richard haasschard, i wanted to get your sense of this. i want you to weigh in on the issue of what is putin up to, you know, what is motivating him? i tried in that opening -- what i was trying to do is put myself in russia's shoes and see how they viewed it. you know, i tend to think to understand all is not to forgive all, but it is important to understand. what's your sense of what putin is -- what motivates putin? >> people often confuse analysis with advocacy, but to understand putin i think the beginning of it is humiliation. in my experience, fareed, humiliation whether we're talking about the middle east or europe or anywhere else is one of the most powerful drivers of human activity, be it of individuals or countries. putin felt humiliated by the digs solution of the internal soviet empire that was the soviet union as well as the external warsaw pack. the ill-advised decision in 2008 by nato and led by the united states to open up georgia to the possibility of nato membership that has con

that will continue no matter what happens under negotiations. >> richard haass, why are the allies so nervous? and the president has been widely criticized for his news conference, but he was really saying out loud what's going on behind the scenes that france is going one direction, wants the eu to be more involved. germany has its own issues, they're not angela merkel. they've been supportive verbally. boris johnson, nato, secretary-general, all coming to the defense of the u.s. position, in response to what joe biden said. >> andrea, you've been covering these issues for decades, so it's not going to surprise you. first, not all the european countries are on the same page. and, two, the european countries in the united states are not necessarily in the same page. some countries, they are worried that we're not tough enough. you heard ukraine, for example, was unhappy with the press conference. then you have countries like germany that are worried that the united states is overly confrontational. and don't want to see this thing escalate. that's part of the diplomatic challenge here

richard haass, welcome back to the "newshour". so the u.s. has sent its written responses today.administration rejecting russia's key public demands? >> well, article 10 of the n.a.t.o. alliance talks about the openness of the alliance for other members, and we can't be in a situation where russia can essentially determine who gets to be a n.a.t.o. member or not. that's the province of the alliance, that's in the sovereign decision-making right of the united states and its # 29 allies. let me say one other thing, the russians know that. what we don't know is whether their positions represent an opening bid from which they're prepared to negotiate and compromised or whether this is setting up diplomacy to fail. >> reporter: so the negotiations and the the compromises the u.s. wants to talk about are limiting exercises and deployments and arms control agreements. do you think that's the approach the biden administration is taking? >> i think it's fine. you could add negotiations with the russian presence in eastern ukraine. the question is whether it's enough for mr. putin. he's ma

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richard haass, grateful for your time today. listen to the president of the united states yesterday. part of it is moving military assets. and part is getting all the military leaders on the phone. president biden says we're all together. listen. >> i had a very, very good meeting, with all the european leaders. we'll talk about it later. >> but you watched the move yesterday, putting these troops on standby and you tweeted this. not clear why u.s. should send troops, equipment to eastern europe. russia has not increased its threat to nato. less we fortify nato. why do you think what the president is doing now is not calibrated correctly? >> i think it's fine that we put u.s. forces on alert. shorten the lead time that if they needed to be sent to europe they could be. i think that's just fine. i think it would be premature to send them to europe since one of the things we're messaging to putin is essentially, if you go into ukraine, one of the ways you will pay a price is nato will be reinforced close to your borders in places

ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, and council and foreign relations president, richard haass who was reportedly in the george 41 white house later in the state department, but in the bush 41 white house when a lot of the original agreements over this territory were first made with mikhail gorbachev and then secretary of state jim baker, so we'll talk about that as well. peter, you've written about that today, we're covering all of that. let me ask you about the opening positions going in, what the u.s. is really willing to negotiate about. we're told they're willing to negotiate about missiles, they're willing to talk about exercises and mutual commitments on exercises, forward-based exercises on the eastern flank. what else is the u.s. really willing to talk about? >> well, those are the main things that they have said. right now they're willing to put on the table, as long as there is a reciprocal kind of agreements in other words that the west isn't going to say we're going to pull back unless russia pulls back, and there is, of course, lots of precedent for this kind of agree

. >>> joining us to discuss is ambassador richard haass, president of the council of foreign relationsand author of "the world: a brief introduction." welcome to the program. great to have you on. i can't get over the one comment that president biden made yesterday, and that is that vladimir putin has to do something. it's not because i necessarily disagree with him. many a top russian experts and analysts have said the same. he sort of pinned himself into a corner now and he has to act. but it sounds different coming out of the mouth of a u.s. president. i'm curious your perspective. is that good policy to broadcast that an invasion is perhaps inevitable that the point? >> well, i don't think an invasion is inevitable. it's obviously possible. it's not clear that mr. putin has made up his mind. the idea that putin might quote, unquote need something in order to need something to justify backing off after this enormous buildup is fair enough. i don't necessarily agree with saying it publicly. the real question is can you structure a diplomatic outcome dealing with europe that would giv

president of the council on foreign relations richard haass and former deputy security adviser to presidentichard, what do you make of what you've heard from the two men? they have had the meeting, have given their addresses. lavrov said the united states will give us a written point-by-point reply to our demands. what do you make of it so far? >> there's zero chance. soap the real question is what does mr. putin, not mr. lavrov, he never shows more flexibility, what is putin prepared to accept? the president said an interesting thing today. putin needs something. can he find that something diplomatically in europe? does he decide to do something in the western hemisphere to create a parallelism? you've created threats to me. i'm going to create some threats to you in venezuela or cuba, nicaragua or something like that. that's the real question f. he wants to climb down, if he wants to off ramp, it's there. the real question is whether he wants it or whether for reasons of his legacy and psychology he is using diplomacy as a pretext rather than purposefully, and that's what we will find out

and russian officials and with no sign of progress amid growing tensions over ukraine, richard haass in two minutes. n votg rights we're back in two minutes. >>> it's the top of the hour. s. >> look at that, willie. >> live look at new york city. >> what are we looking at down here, willie? >> you and i are in the boiler room shoveling coal so mika can stay warm in the penthouse. >> i'm actually in washington. >> we will have to retire that one. >> i like that one though. >> that must be good since i haven't actually been to the south of france until you took me there. that was nice of you, thank you. >> historic trip. we went there, and you know what she said, "i don't really like it." >> it reminded me -- >> she said she would rather be in maine. okay, that's cheaper, let's get in our dodge dart and go there next time. i wish you told me that before i sold the house so i could afford the tickets. >> kick it down. >> we'll sell the van so we could record an album, so i had to sell my house to take her. yeah, i like maine better. >> it just reminded me of. it was nice, it was nice. >

richard haass at the 12:00 hour. ♪ jonathan: their we close out january?ut january? let's do it now. your equity market slightly negative. "the countdown to the open" starts right now. >> everything you need to get set for the start of u.s. trading. this is "bloomberg: the open" with jonathan ferro. jonathan: from new york, we begin with the big issue. one big guessing game. >> as we approach the march meeting. >> all options are on the table. >> we start to hear talk of seven interest rate hikes this year. >> the center of gravity is now five. >> inflation stays stubbornly high. mably get seven or more rate hikes. >> bank of america at seven. >> who can forecast number o

with me now is richard haass president of the council on foreign relations and. also a professor of international affairs and soeft dean at the new school. richard, former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul tweeted this morning, i find it hard to believe that putin will invade ukraine. if i'm right,i think diplomacy has more time. >> actually i think it's likely. xi jinping has made the olympics an extraordinary priority to showcase what he will try to communicate as his accomplishments, china's success, quote, unquote, dealing with covid. so mr. putin is scheduled to show up there at the beginning of the olympics. so i think there's a pretty decent chance we get through february 20th, at least, without any sort of intervention. the real question is what happens next. quite honestly, jose, it's not -- the issue isn't timed for diplomacy to work because there's no mystery about what's being offered by the west. there's clear limits. the real question is what ultimately mr. putin is willing to accept. >> if he's willing to take a pause so my friend can hold hi

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and president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is with all of us this morning. i'm in warsaw, poland, again this morning where there continues to be grave concern over what russia will do with its troops on the ukraine border. the pentagon says it has put thousands of u.s. troops on high alert as fears increase that russia may invade ukraine again. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, has the details. >> reporter: with fears rising that russia could invade ukraine, president biden centering a major show of force near russia, putting up to 8,500 u.s. troops on heightened alert, mostly as part of a nato force. >> military action could come at any time. >> reporter: the president at camp david this weekend, reviewing pentagon proposals to move thousands of troops to countries around ukraine, fly bombers over the region and send ships to the black sea. nato putting more troops on stand by and sending additional fighter jets and war ships. >> what this is about is reassurance to our allies. >> reporter: the president after a secured video co