bush on the aircraft carrier with mission accomplished. this is only the first act, but it is a devastating act for ukraine. you joined the cia back in 1990, just in time before the soviet union collapsed. how do you reflect on this moment in russian history? >> noted that putin was starting to arrest his generals and fsb officers for mistakes in the field and that didn't remind me of anything except stalin times. i spent time talking how putin is not like stalin, which is correct, but that type of activity, that way of turning on your own people in russia is extremely rare and i don't think we have seen since half a century, more than a half