intent is to possibly infiltrate a sovereign nation. guess what, they have done it before in 2014. so it s not like it hasn t been done it before. we have to make sure it doesn t happen again. so i guess the question now is could the sanctions targeting putin and his buddies and their families work as a deterrent? do you have any reason to believe right now that the pressure that the united states is mounting is perhaps getting the russians and vladimir putin to recalculate those intentions? i would hope that it does. but i don t think anyone know what is putin is going to do. i don t think putin knows, to be honest with you. and so i think that by mounting and bringing together unity among the united states, our nato allies, our eu allies and ukrainians, that unity is a
here about what is going on. they can see what is happening. if you heard jake sullivan say the national security advisor, they do not believe the go order has been given yet. but you look at the circumstances what is going on in the region it very well could happen over the next few days. as for american citizens it s unclear how many are left though administration officials are telling any americans in ukraine right now it is past time to get out. the white house think putin has boxed himself in? that is a very good question. i think you have heard some of the officials from the administration speaking over the last couple of days and say there could be a situation where he decides to turn around, de-escalate this on his own. that s the choice vladimir putin has to make here. i believe they think he is going to box himself in if he launches that attack. you heard would the u.s. sanctioned russia before or ahead of anything, any invasion of ukraine? but what you are hearing from t
mute person talking to a deaf person. british have been undermined by the person. british have been undermined by the weakness of our government, by the weakness of our government, by accusations that liz trust was using by accusations that liz trust was using her by accusations that liz trust was using her trip to moscow for a photo opportunity using her trip to moscow for a photo opportunity and a pr stunt. i think it shows opportunity and a pr stunt. i think it shows figures in the nato alliance, it shows figures in the nato alliance, there s been criticism of germany alliance, there s been criticism of germany not coming down hard enough or fear germany not coming down hard enough or fear of germany not coming down hard enough or fear of you germany not coming down hard enough or fear of you losing the gas pipeline or fear of you losing the gas pipeline. there s been anger with president pipeline. there s been anger with president macron making his own nomadic p
well, he s making a cost-benefit analysis for sure. but he does think he s winning, ali. starting in 2008, in georgia, then 2014, 2015 in syria, 2016 in our elections and now this, so he thinks he s on a winning streak. but i want to underscore a couple of things that were really jumped out to me about what the president said. first, let s make sure we all focus on this. he said definitively that they know that putin has made this decision, and then he alluded to the fact that we know because of intelligence, and he said that in an address to the world today. you put those three things together, this is a very grave moment. this is a significant different place than we were just literally before his statement. the other thing i want to underscore, he alluded to the fact that they believe that they have intelligence that shows that the attack will not be some small thing. it will not just be in donbas. he said they have reason to believe it will be on the
but even as we take some encouragement from what the russians appear to be doing, we always have to remember who we re dealing with and who he is. putin is one of the most manipulative characters who ever walked across an international stage. he plays the low cards very well. doesn t have a lot of high cards in his hand, but he learned how to play low cards very, very well. he s ruthless. we re not going to be out of there for certain until a lot more progress has been made and a lot of the troops move back from the border. vladimir putin has made some good calls and he s made some bad calls, there is an argument that by pushing so hard into ukraine, threatening other nato countries, that he s strengthened the alliance, brought more forces closer to his frontier. is it possible, and, again, we have a long way to go, but if you see a continuing withdraw, is it possible that putin blinked here? i don t think putin is