>> what is interesting is many people who have negotiated with vladimir putin decades. when we did it people believe he is acting differently, a premises of diplomacy, what you need to know is who you are negotiating with, there are expert to putin who believe he is behaving differently, he is detached from reality, not getting good information and acting irrational. we thought maybe during the obama years when we went to crimea he could go further we were concerned. we're dealing with a different putin today. and i think that has to determine a lot of how the negotiations will go. >> condoleezza rice said the same thing on "fox news sunday," this does not appear to be the vladimir putin he was used to dealing with. >> that is right. and i think what is interesting is that we need to get to a place here in those negotiations, we putin feels he as an off-ramp, we're not giving him things, i think only reason he is coming to table is that ukrainians are fighting harder than he thought they would, we heard him today threaten nuclear action, negotiators have to keep an eye

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president can hold against vladimir putin, when putin talks about the expansion of nato and the threat to russia. it is something president biden can speak to today. it is one way to reassure allies but is certainly a message that he is sending visually to vladimir putin that the troops are here to stay and that russia -- nato is stronger. that is something we're hearing from all of the nato allies, that this has reinvigorated the mission. just an administration ago in the united states and today it is a remarkable difference because of what we are seeing russia carry out in ukraine. >> peter, we're expecting to get a fleet of new sanctions. we've seen some sanctions levied by european nations including the uk, germany putting a stop to the nord stream 2 pipeline, which is a very big deal in terms of russian energy, monetary losses, also cost increases for the german people. what are you expecting to hear from president biden in just a moment? >> reporter: well, obviously i think we will hear pretty strenuous denouncement of what the russians have done now in eastern ukraine. they have

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well, vladimir putin _ believe that to be? well, vladimir putin does - believe that to be? that russia has modern weapons. he is constantly talking about russia's dilatory arsenal, the new hypersonic missiles that the russians have developed. —— military. claiming that the russian army is one of the strongest armies in the world, constantly sending out the message that if anyone should get in his way, if anyone should attack his country, then russia would respond in a necessary way so he added in that speech today, i hope my message, my words have been heard. we know that president biden has said he does not want to go to war with russia. america, nato have no intentions of putting boots on the ground in ukraine because they do not want this situation to spend even more out of control and become a world war. russia has now lodged effectively a full—scale invasion of ukraine. vladimir putin demanding that care have laid down their arms and warning that foreign powers should not intervene. —— kyiv should not intervene. —— kyiv should lay down their arms. how likely is it that

what happens to vladimir putin? the question is how does this end? i think if the russian people become squeezed and put pressure on putin. he holds power over from like any dictator. there is no reason to think that the sanctions or anything else we do will push him out of power in russia. he controls a very significant military. the only deterrent we have at the moment is showing as we have in the last week that the west is unified. we can't let up. if we need to put on more sanctions we should. more military effort into eastern europe, we will have to do that. we have to push back to show that he cannot push beyond ukraine. >> martha: we will see. we will see in the russian people want to put up with this. they have a lot of family members as putin pointed out himself on the ukraine side. they may not delight in killing people they consider part of their russian family. that's the "story" for thursday problem 24th. continuing coverage tomorrow. the invasion is on. we are on top of that. the president outlining sanctions that some that don't go far

this week, a different vladimir putin emerged. irrational, risky, paranoid. in a speech putin lectured about 100-year-old history saying ukraine isn't just a neighboring country, it's an integral part of our history, culture, spiritual continuum. in the end recognizing the two russian controlled separatist regions in ukraine as independent. the final pieces now in place for a false pretext russia's been manufacturing for months. a barrage of false claims of genocide and ukrainian attacks. in the east where this crisis was at its most acute russian forces have struggled to make advances. in kharkiv the kremlin's troops met what's emerging as a defining feature of this conflict, stiff, unified and resolute ukrainian resistance. vladimir putin may have thought all he had to do was pressure zelenskyy and he would fall. the master tactician may have understood estimated his enemy. despite overwhelming fire power in their favor, the first few days of battle have not gone as well as the russians expected according to a senior pentagon official. putin has plunged the

no foreigner will have any effect on vladimir putin except if president biden says we are cutting all relations. then putin might decide to withdraw. arthel: where do we go from here? >> we need to kick russia out of swift, freeze every russian bank account and provide even more legal aid to ukraine. this is freedom's front line. we have no choice. defend ukraine is defending the international system. arthel: russia and china holding members of the security council. should they be kicked out? >> that is not going to happen anytime soon. i would like to see that. we've got to look at institutions other than the un in order to solve this. arthel: we appreciate having you on. this thing is unfolding quickly. thank you very much. eric: we are waiting for the biden administration to impose swift. we have marsha blackburn on it. other nations say one way to get vladimir putin's kick russia out of swift. the inspiration of the ukrainian people, amazing to behold. arthel: we are with them all the way. we will see you at 4:00 pm eastern. arthel enter good afternoon everyone. with the special c

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that was important to vladimir putin. the new administration gave a new extension without any concessions from the russians. i don't like criticizing the others. i was a lot smarter on these issues before i was national security advisor and i am smarter afterward but when you are in the thick of it, there are things that you know that the folks on the outside don't know. we felt it was very important to make sure the russians, there were concessions from the russians and not just paper agreements. that is something vladimir putin is concerned about and we need to make sure it is handled property. to be credible the negotiating table, we have to get back in the game with modernizing the triad and increasing our ability as necessary. >> one of the things that is purportedly and we don't have the full text on the table from the united states to the russians would be some arms control measures in your. -- europe. why not have deconfliction in and around the black seat? why not have more transparent ability to inspect -- that

donald trump says this invasion, he said at the upstate of it, that this invasion is genius, the vladimir putin is a genius for doing this. former trump secretary of state mike pompeo said he respects fully, flooding we are putin. vladimir putin is a mass murderer tonight in ukraine, and the previous administration still holds him in a very different regard. >> to hold such an immoral man, with such a vicious actions, it's just despicable, and shows how little moral compass donald trump has. but also, he's very shortsighted. because as i said, the ukrainian resistance will be fierce, i know so many ukrainians in -- i believe the sanctions that the u.s. put in, will constrict russian ability to function strongly, it'll restrict them and make them weaker and weaker. i don't think these initial claims by trump or pompeo are going to be regarded as accurate as we move on in time. >> when you were a kid, growing up in brooklyn, going to public school in brooklyn, and you watched the berlin wall go up. i know it felt at the time, to me, that berlin wall was going to last forever. it lasted for 28 yea

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just a few hours ago, we heard russian president vladimir putin do exactly what you heard former cia ing the independence of two moscow-backed breakaway regions in eastern ukraine. russia has been supporting armed separatists, a move that the "new york times" describes this way. quote, russia's recognition of the two regions could allow separatist leaders to request military help from russia further easing a path for a military offensive, ukrainian officials say. ukraine would likely interpret that as russian troops entering ukrainian territory. in response to putin's move, president biden is set to issue an executive order sanctioning russia but made clear these measures are separate and from and would be in addition to the severe economic measures the white house has been preparing if russia invades ukraine further. all of this following a weekend of signs that we are on the brink of war breaking out, including a frightening warning from the u.n. high commissioner for human rights, who said that it had received credible information that russia is planning to kill and arrest ukrainia

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vladimir putin knows that. and he has a black belt in judo, so he is going to use our strength against us, freedom of the press and democracy. essentially some additional throwaways to his propaganda. we do not have an option. that's what we do. i would not be the least bit surprised if he is going to follow the same playbook that he did in georgia and recognize them as independent of ukraine. that is exactly what he did with georgia. he believes that gives him veto power over georgia and now their ability to join nato. that is where the discussion started, not end, with any potential follow. or discussions at lower levels. >> sandra: very interesting analysis. if you could hang out with us, we could be hearing from vladimir putin any moment now. appreciate if you can stand by with their coverage. >> john: let's bring in general jack keane who joined us on the phone. we are told of vladimir couldn't told president macron and chancellor scholz that his intention is to announce tonight. does not necessarily mean

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vladimir putin, no one is fooled. another facebook post says, stay out of it. re's a facebook post this is putin's board and purposely flexing his muscles. it is a power game for him, he cares about no one. one final facebook post says line their border with minds and make their attempts a huge mistake. once again, we will ask you what you think we should do about the russian ukrainian border crisis. should america stay out of it and let ukraine falter russia, or should america bolster the nato troops that are already in europe? should america send aid to the ukraine? we want to know what you think about it. let's go to tim in ohio on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you today? host: just fine. go ahead. caller: we need to get our facts straight. russia is no longer a communist country. they were a communist republic that turned into a democratic republic and they turned into april a chariot government. we have to get our facts straight on the stories. -- a proletariat government. we have to get our facts straight on the stories. th

. it’s picture boris johnson about biden and vladimir putin.— and vladimir putin.in and vladimir putin. it's a way of getting boris — and vladimir putin. it's a way of getting boris johnson _ and vladimir putin. it's a way of getting boris johnson front - and vladimir putin. it's a way of getting boris johnson front and | getting boris johnson front and centre and it's a uk paper into would expect that. but the news overnight and in some ways, more significant given the strength of the language being used and it did come from present biden at one turn, vladimir putin even when george w. bush and barack obama for reaching out and much more cautious figure about vladimir putin and pretty uncompromising in his language for the russian invasion. vladimir putin is setting up the rationale to go much further and the action so far and independence for the two states in eastern ukraine and what is been interesting. a change of tact from joe biden, but also in the way the us and the west in general has handled the run—up to this conflict and joe biden doing it again here, t

who believed vladimir putin's legacy. this is also a very poor part of the country and people who do not have jobs, people who are underemployed, they think that will maybe a change of government is better. maybe putin is right. and that if he came in here, there would be more jobs, cheap gas, and people would be back to their remembered past of the soviet union. because some people here remember the great famine of the soviet union and remember the chernobyl and repression and others remember a time of a full albeit simple employment. >> richard we are going to stick close to you this morning as it starts. as we get any information, can always wait in front of the camera, we will go right back to kyiv now. we've heard a large explosion in kyiv, i want to go right back to air mclaughlin there, and what do you got? >> yet a now they're large boom. another indication that this capital is under attack. again, we heard from an advisor to the ministry of interior. cruz and ballistic missiles are being fired at kyiv. targeting m

as president biden tells the story, he was blunt with vladimir putin during a meeting in moscow more quote, i'm looking into your eyes and i don't think you have a soul, mr. biden recalled telling the kgb veteran. mr. putin smiled. we understand one another, he said. that sent chills down my spine when i read that, frankly. how well do you think they're reading each other today and what are the consequences if they get it wrong? >> i actually think they've had a pretty clear-eyed view of each other now these last few weeks and months. you can argue about whether president biden went into the administration fully appreciating just how much vladimir putin was going to come to dominate it. but in the last few weeks and months when they had warning about his intentions in ukraine, president biden has been right on the money. the intelligence agencies have told him and president biden has told the world that putin was going to do exactly what he ended up doing despite the lies we heard out of moscow, despite the doubts we heard out of europe, it turns out the american intelligence on this

will you still talk to vladimir putin after this invasion? and he did not say that he was revoking his invitation to talk to the russians any time i think that they're going to leave open the option, the only reasonable option for ending the conflict of dialogue. and you'll also note that the european union in the sanctions, it placed directly on president putin and on foreign minister lab rav. it did not impose a trouble ban on them because they want them to be able to come and talk. they want people to be able to go and talk to them. nobody thinks that there's a military solution to this crisis, and that's still the predominant line. but i think you have nato allies meeting now constantly in at 30 well 30 allies around the table talking about what more they can do to help ukraine. short of course of boots on the ground, but you see more equipment pouring in. you see more aid. you see humanitarian aid. poland has offered to be a hub for both nato and the european union because you can no longer fly supplies in. so poland is really stepped up

vladimir putin is not thrilled. he throws whatever caution shown, which is very little, to the wind and he goes crazy in an all-out attack on civilians as well and that this gets desperate for him and unhinged for him? >> well, a couple of things. first of all, putin was always crazy. it's just that now the world sees him as crazy. >> we knew that he was crazy for the last eight years when there was a war on the east of ukraine. second, is he going to regroup and attack with all of his forces? yes, definitely. there has not been one hour since the peace negotiations when there was the most vicious and most aggressive attack on kyiv in terms of the firearms and in terms of the air strikes that we experienced in five days. but you know what we learned in eight years? that putin is lying all the time. when he says peace, it means war. when he says okay, i'm withdrawing my troops, it means i'm grouping my troops. he said my army is not there, it's here to kill you. we don't trust him. that's why we fight so hard. we kno

judy: russia, under vladimir putin, has launched what u.s.icials describe as the most significant military action in europe in 77 years. from the north, the east, and the south, russia has attacked ukraine with airstrikes, missiles, and troops. ukraine says that at least 57 people have been killed and 170 wounded. elements of the russian army, one of the largest in the world, are heading toward kyiv, the capital. and the u.s. fears the goal is to take over the country and evict the government. nick schifrin begins our coverage. nick: in a european capital, the full weight of the russian military, what the u.s. calls the initial phase of a full-scale invasion, with russian helicopters flying low over residential rooftops and at the outskirts of kyiv to seize a military airport, military vehicles pouring into southern ukraine, and russian troops taking over the chernobyl nuclear site on their way to sack the capital. ukraine and u.s. say the russian military is advancing on at least three axes, from belarus in a pincer movement toward kyiv, fro

than 100,000 people in the streets of germany today, actions taken by the german government, vladimir putinor of germany. that is not happened. and but i don't know how that ends, i don't think that putin knows how it ends. trey: jennifer griffin. we will end as we began, i did not understand colonel mcgregor's analysis they don't want weapons on their border. thank you for your service and your reports. >> thank you, trey. trey: there is a debate that has raged for since centuries about power and justice. and what known as million dialogue, not much of a dialogue. athen said surrender or die, the millioned said we want to be neutral. friend to all, enemy none that is a contrast in power, and weakness, it represents illusion that power is just that power makes something right, we know better. the right side does not always win. powerful can be unjust. i guess the question before us is what obligation do you have if you are both powerful and just? do you sit while weaker nations are over taken? do you apply a test of self interest or do you believe the self evident truths you wrote about in

the war is far from over but ukrainians are showing significant level of resistance that vladimir putin didn't expect was how do you think things play out moving forward? >> i think russia and putin now have a risk they did not anticipate. others saying the same. i think this is moving much slower than anticipated and insurgencies which is what vladimir putin will have on his hand if this goes sideways are a slog, expensive and costly. i don't believe he anticipated this as many others have said and they are at much greater risk than they ever anticipated. todd: thank you for taking the time to join us. space x founder elon musk activating his starling satellites to provide ukraine with internet announcing the move on twitter in response to a direct we from ukraine's foreign minister for help. the network of satellites will provide connectivity to alleviate internet blackouts in ukraine where land-based internet hubs of gone down. carley: protesting russian vodka as the invasion of ukraine continues. ohio and utah pausing sales of russian-made vodka entirely to protest vladimir putin at

is that the case in regards to president biden's response to vladimir putin?: he has a lot of support in congress for tough action. that is an unusual bipartisan sentimen they have not been able to turn that into anything concrete because of divisions and the divisions are the republicans had wanted to authorize sanctions preemptively, before mr. putin might take any move and president biden in the administration and many democrats have been clear they are not wanting to take preemptive action. in the end, congress was not able to come through wit the tough sanctions bill even though there was a fair bit of bipartisan negotiation and optimism about finding some sort of compromise. so yes, he has support for strong action, but there are still differences, which means there has not been bipartisan agreement. ros: thank you very much, as ever. now look at what we actually know wh's happening in eastern ukraine a full minutes time. let's have a look at the response to russia's actions in the last four hours. u.s. is the latest country to announce fresh sanctions.

vladimir putin in general.t them get away with genocide in georgia, sierra, and crimea donbas the malaysian aircraft shutting it down and recently belarus and we keep sending our state department we say it is okay it's like czechoslovakia maybe it will satisfy previous appetite just increases. because we abandoned ukraine all the embassies left kyiv, nato has left kyiv. it's open season i can walk in and i will. >> them a little and they will be on their leash. but the ukrainian people are resistant to where resistant like no one else. ukrainian people are fighting not just for ukraine but for all of us. the civilians with a bare hands or stopping tanks. in america they are fighting for their land, fighting for their home, fighting for their families. russian soldiers are fighting for putin they do not understand what they are fighting for many of them starving many refusing to fight defecting dropping their own weapons but the resistance is very strongly president zelensky who many people thought was just a cl

host: is vladimir putin dependent on the oligarchs or are the oligarchs dependent on vladimir putin? guest: the oligarchs are more dependent on vladimir putin. they do not challenge him politically and their wealth is largely dependent on their loyalties to vladimir putin. as you recall, there have been various attempts to go after oligarchs who are deemed disloyal to putin. the trial and conviction of -- is the best example of that. host: does vladimir putin care if an oligarchs loses a yacht? guest: no. host: what would going after them mean? what is the point? guest: it would be going after their finances that are sequestered abroad. going after the banks and the bank accounts and their exclusive lives that hate they have led in the west. for making sure that the oligarchs who are still in russia can travel -- cannot travel and roam around the world and visit their various bank accounts in the cayman islands. host: independent, good morning. caller: my question is given the current administration, do you think if we were still under the former one we would be in this? guest: hones

i'm vladimir putin has to know that.t also not seen any demonstrations really in support of what putin is doing. a gun, and to crimea, where there was a support to what cohen was doing, it's because he was so clean liam-limited and focus on this piece of territory, and then a lot of russians felt like was part of russia. russians know ukraine, they know how it's a big country. they know the green people are going to resist. there are cross family ties between russia and ukraine. there are russians who are worried about their families in ukraine. the russians are actually worried about the ethnic russians that putin claims to be defending ukraine, but who are now engraved danger. in addition to just the popular opinion he has to worry about, you saw him convene a meeting of the top oligarchic's, basically convening the group of people who were going to have all of their assets targeted now by the sanctions. potentially, their children assets targeted. their property seized, the banks taking huge hits. gas from the russian

president trump described vladimir putin as a genius. jason and the audience, i'd like you to watch this and comment. roll tape. >> i went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and i said this is genius. putin declares a big portion of the ukraine, of ukraine, putin declares it as independent. i said, how smart is that? stuart: jason, donald trump leads the republican party. is this the republican response to the ukraine invasion? >> no. i think, i think donald trump would agree, i think all the republicans would say this is a tyrant. what he's saying is, is that putin is out there spinning it, spinning it to the russian people, spinning it in ukraine and to the europeans, and joe biden is silent. that's the problem. it's not meant with a response -- met with a response from the united states president to show the absurdity of what he's saying. and so putin is spinning this in such a way, and i think the president is saying, well, yeah, if you're going to be the tyrant, that's probably a pretty smart thing to do. it is not admir

what vladimir putin got was a summit with president biden. we never did enough to make it clear to putin that it would be prohibitively costly in terms of spilled blood and treasure if you were to invade ukraine. now for the first time in decades we have a war in europe, a massive one. russia has violated ukraine's independence. it has profound ramifications for our nato allies in the border of ukraine. but also just for u.s. global leadership, stretching all the way obviously to china and taiwan. they have to be watching this crisis unfold. in taiwan's case with the greatest of concern. >> absolutely. rebecca, there have been reports that kyiv could fall within 1-4 days. this is a quick timeline. "the new york times" dealt with the pretty eye-opening report. apparently there were a half dozen to one dozen secret meetings to u.s. intelligent has shared with the chinese. each time the chinese officials, including the foreign minister or the ambassador to the united states, rebuffed the americans saying they didn't think an invasion was in the w

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he called vladimir putin's actions a flagrant violation of international law and referred to a speechesterday that biden believes putin will go much farther. we might see a major military attack on all of ukraine and also -- he also questioned the ukrainian right to exist. what president biden, and the last days and weeks announced was that there would be sanctions following russian troops going into ukraine and invading ukraine. this is what we heard today, blocking to russian financials the duchenne's, cutting -- institutions, cutting them off from the debt market. targeting russian elites, families, and this is the first time president biden spoke about the oligarchs and their connection to vladimir putin. it is also important to point out there will be more and can be more should vladimir putin decide to escalate the situation further. michael: what are people saying about how much of an impact the sanctions will have? >> that is really the big question, because this is not a surprise for vladimir putin. for russia, they have had a lot of time to think about exactly this question.

he desperately wants to be vladimir putin. i think i was clear throughout the four years of his presidency that he was jealous of this guy who got rid of journalists and got rich off of being the leader of his country, not worrying about events. i think we have seen from the weird security council meeting a few days ago, where vindman putin basically humiliated all of his senior officials and his government, and his cabinet, forcing them to kowtow to him on national television. i'm sure trump would love to have a meeting like that broadcast on national tv. fortunately, when president trump was surrounded by officials, who are traditional republicans, who wanted to pursue a traditional american foreign policy towards russia. we managed to hold onto that, even when the former president was in the white house. his personal intentions were always clear, aligning with vladimir putin, getting the u.s. out of nato and blackmailing ukraine. that is the only thing that he ever consciously did for ukraine was blackmailed them. >> human

and i think the overarching question here is with vladimir putin, will these sanctions motivate vladimirutin to, in fact, back off. and you in fact, right, that these traditional tool of deterrence and diplomacy may in fact not be enough. >> right because in fact here you've got a situation where we believe anywhere vladimir putin sees this as a legacy for him. in other words, he's now been in office for 22, 23 years. he's about to turn 70. he's thinking about his place in history, and he wants to reverse the results of the 1991 collapse of the soviet union to some extent, rebuild, at least to some extent, the russian empire. and to that kind of mess yannick mission, it's awfully hard to get into that decision calculus through economic means or through diplomacy. he already knew going into this they would sanction him. he knew they would probably cut him off from the s.w.i.f.t. banking system. he knew that they would impose these kind of measures, and he decided to do it anyway. he decided the trade-off was worth it and he was willing to pay the cost. the question is whether the rest of

we know that for sure. >> keir, the first exploengss were heard as vladimir putin was addressing the try. what is the russian government telling its people about this invasion, and what kind of reaction are you hearing? >> reporter: chris, president putin made his televised address before 6:00 a.m. in moscow. people woke up to it being replayed again and again on russian television across the television channels. it was rambling. it was unscripted. it went from issue to issue to issue, nato, kosovo, iran, libya, syria. he even touched on political divisions in the u.s. and called the u.s. an empire of lies. he said this is not an occupation but, you know, chris, at times he sounded delusional and chilling. one particular moment in the speech, he says russia remains one of the most powerful nuclear states, in this context, there should be no doubt for anyone that any potential aggressor, appearing to address western leaders, will face defeat and ominous consequences if it attacks countries. he appeared to address the west and saying don't intervene. but, you know, chris, we've been on

vladimir putin is very unpredictable. so it remains to be seen how he responds, but he should know when he responds, we will be prepared to respond as well. >> you've seen some remarkable resilience from the ukranian people, but they're also pleading for more weapons to fight back. the secretary of state blinken announced up to another $350 million to that end. is there anything more that the u.s. can do, like more military support, air support, intelligence, imposing a no fly zone in ukraine? >> we have provided not just $350 million, close to a billion dollars over the past couple days and billions since this situation started. and we're continuing to work with the ukranians on the requests that they had delivering support to them on the ground, and also bolstering our nato allies on the border with ukraine so that they are prepared to respond to russian aggression. >> what about the no fly zone? is that something that's on the table? >> the president has made clear that we're not going to put boots on the ground, we're

vladimir putin also learned the hard way today how joe biden defined the word invasion. and again, putin had a right to wonder. exactly what would mean the biden definition of invasion that would trigger sanctions? joe biden briefly misspoke at a press conference in january when he once referred to the possibility of what he called, quote, a minor incursion. the president and the white house tried to correct it, any confusion about what that meant, but vladimir putin still had a right to wonder about it. yesterday, when vladimir putin decided to violate previous russian agreements on the territorial integrity of ukraine, and officially recognized to areas in ukraine under rebel control as independent states, vladimir putin how to write to wonder how joe biden would react to that. russia did not send tanks rolling into those areas, there was no imagery of invasion, but vladimir putin simply signing his name to those documents yesterday declaring areas of ukraine to be independent states was in and of itself an invasion according to joe biden. >> if we listen to his speech

does the united states believe that vladimir putin has made a decision? pbs newshour reported that united states does believe that vladimir putin has made a decision and has communicated that decision to the russian military. is that accurate? mr. sullivan: the report that you just referenced which i have not seen, it does not accurately capture what the u.s. government's view is today. our view is that we do not believe he has made any kind of final decision or we don't know that he has made any final decision and we have not communicated that to anybody. reporter: my colleague is citing three officials that say they believe vladimir putin has made up his mind. are you saying that is not true? mr. sullivan: what we have communicated to our allies and partners, our latest intelligence information does not include a statement that vladimir putin has definitively event in order to proceed with the invasion. reporter: you haven't been briefed on intelligence that speaks to that? mr. sullivan: we have not seen anything that says a final decision has been take

he is still talking about how smart vladimir putin is. -- one of the grandest miscalculations on the world stage of anybody in our lifetime. >> yeah, that moment at the end of "the last jedi" comes as luke skywalker brushes off his shoulder and he tastes the planet, which i never understood, but you are right about the former president. he throughout his time as a candidate and as president of the united states was wildly deferential to vladimir putin. we saw him in helsinki side with putin over the u.s. intelligence agencies about their assessment of russia's election interference, and he hasn't backed off of that. we know he has been drawn to strong men, putin in particular, and was praising as savvy, smart and canny. we have seen trump have to back off a little bit over the last few days. he spent time yesterday praising the ukrainians, he praised zelenskyy but he still wouldn't condemn what putin did or what putin stands for, he never has. that will be an uncomfortable moment perhaps as he enters the political arena. that speech over t

you put vladimir putin in his place.aid who went toe to show with vladimir putin. in june a world class idiot in the "washington post" said the biggest winner in the biden and putin summit. democracy. a few month later she said biden sent a redline to putin. this genius wrote: no, joe is playing checkers and it's already been checkmate. joe doesn't know it yet. 3 days ago one fake news cnn analyst tweeted. they must all be high on a chemical we don't have at fox. that's all garbage. and steve king tweeted: that's right he is not dealing with trump. he is dealing with the always weak and cognitive mess joe biden. biden vowed he would go toe to toe with vladimir putin but not willing to play footie as putin is going through a major european country. how far these ambitions go is anybody's guess. where does this end? >> did you under-estimate putin and do you still describe him as a worthy adversary? >> i didn't underestimate him. i read most of everything he's written. i am not being a wise guy. you heard the speech he mad

this is very much vladimir putin's war. | punished today. this is very i much vladimir putin's war.s atkins looks now at the man who is prepared to use overwhelming force on his much smaller neighbouring country. vladimir putin grew up in the aftermath of the second world war. in 1945, the us, the uk and the soviet union met to shape the new world. seven years on, he was born in what was then leningrad and is now st petersburg. by the �*70s, putin had studied law and then joined the russian secret service, the kgb. at this time, the soviet union's influence reached across the communist nations of eastern europe and in the �*80s, putin was posted to dresden in east germany. from there, he witnessed the fall of the berlin wall, the fall of communism. this was a visceral example of people power. to putin, though, the demise of the soviet union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. and while that demise was negotiated, putin was heading home to find a place for himself in the new russia. russia's president in the �*90s, boris yeltsin, would help him do that. he made