shouted about the sanctions. what are you waiting for? when the bombs are falling on us, it will be too late for sanctions. and he s absolutely right. these our ally. putin is making up this crisis so he can try to build his legacy by reclaiming russian sovereignty over ukraine, which is just a fiction. so i think it s really time now for the u.s. and europe to be extremely tough on putin before it gets worse. neil: senator, very quickly. the kremlin is now saying that vladimir putin is ordering russian forces to maintain peace in eastern ukraine. maintain peace. what does that mean to you? right. you can t believe anything that he says. again, he says this whole thing is about keeping ukraine out of nato. gnaw toe is a defensive alliance. he knows that nato doesn t threaten him. he is looking for an excuse to