president saakashvili, thank you very much for joining us.t do you think the prospects are for the cease-fire? do you think it will hold. >> thank you for inviting me. first of all i have tell you i've joined me in my new capacity as adviser to president por shape coe. i accepted this position a few days ago because i believe that he's a man of peace, he's somebody who wants to cease this war. i come as you rightly said from the experience from the background of know kwhag the war with russia look like. and there is no normal person or especially presidents who would like his people to die or to send his soldiers into the harm's way. having said all that i spent a whole evening tonight with president poroshenko and i have to tell you that he is pretty realistic about the prospects. we know that putin is after the ukrainian democracy, wants to undermine them. he thinks ukraine gets time for the reforms, for change for all kind of, you know -- for issues with economic problem, then pew tip will consider he has failed. so we are pretty realistic

lou: always good to talk with you. >> thank you. >> michael saakashvili. lou: looking at our on-line poll results, do you believe leaders ofof nato and united states will have the the and wherewithal to stopputin. 95% of you said do you not. >> and our poll. we'd like to hear from you cast your vote loudobbs.com. >> mayor of jerusalem compared to a super hero for his actions in helping to tackle a knife wielding palestinian attacker who stabbed and wounded an israeli man in the streets 55-year-old mayor. and his security guard wrestleed the 18-year-old to the ground near city hall, victim had been rushed to the hospital with moderate injuries, the mayor went on served as a officer in the paratroopers brigade of the israeli defense forces. lou: up next, obama administration engages in a campaign of disinformation about the funding for department of homeland security. up next, i'll tell you what is at stake here. what does it mean to have an unlimited mileage warranty on a certified pre-owned rcedes-benz? what does it mean to drive far as you want... for up

. >> joining us now, mikael saakashvili, former president of georgia from 2004 to 2013, recently recruitedporoshenko to become an advisor to the international council of reforms. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for inviting me lou. >> this looks to me, and i think talking with general jack keen and others, to be extraordinarily a bleak moment for ukraine and the ukrainian people. they are basically at the mercy of vladimir putin are they not? >> it is a bleak moment not only for ukraine but indeed for europe and also for the united states. the united states [ inaudible ] preworld war europe and now this country, also the united states is about to lose almost all of the gains it has and russia is going to reverse what it has lost, the soviet empire, in cold war. this is incredibly dramatic and tragic situation which has been getting lots of attention but not quite enough of a reaction. i think that's the lack of reaction or adequate reaction that is basically causing all this tragedy. >> you and i have talked and i have listened to your theories on soft power smart power, over the cours

the former president of georgia, me mikhail saakashvili. i do not street grow with putin's way. i agree this land is about land resources, local place, railway junctions and airports. i think clearly seen like this and that's obvious for all of us around ukraine, this is not land where we worry about land this is a world territory, lives, about whether ukraine can break off from this post soviet vicious soviet corrupt inefficient failing societies, whether ukraine can really go to the west can really reform and really make changes. what russia is after not youukraine and i also believe the territory also after the whole south of ukraine. they want to gain access. they're after ukraine and democracy, they're after the kiev government and they want them to fail. that's from putin. there's so many connections between ukrainians and russians if ukraine succeeds he will fail dramatically in russia. that's the key thing about the whole situation here. >> the point is land is always part of getting political control. what is your precise role in this in helping and advising the ukraini