cia operations officer. he thoughtug a lot about that . he joins us tonight.s brian, thanks so much forfo i think on . so this is one of those questions. i mean, look, i think ightthe public has a right to determine what it thinks of this and make that decision on the basis of all available facts. so i'd just be interested in asking what you think, how close are we to an openea war with russia and what would that mean for the united states ? great questions gets worse every day. the possibility of a hot war are real and getting more real every day. lookok what i'm asking american to do tonight is put aside their hatred for putin or zolensky for that matter or ukraine or russia. put allru that asidess foria. at . understand that we have in effect declared war against russia. have done three things. one , we have crippled their economy too. we are shoving in all these weapons. this hasn't gotten a lot of press. we are giving tactical intelligence to the ukrainian