he s preparing for a purge inside russia rather than empathizing with their new financial plyte and he s railing against these people saying they have condos in miami, to hell with them. do you think a complete financial collapse changes anything in terms of the support he has and his ability to stay in control? well, joy, i listened to that rant in russia and it was quite extraordinary by putin s standards. he s getting more and more angry and unhinged and i m glad you pointed out. we talked about it a few weeks ago. people are saying isn t it great they re seizing the assets of oligarchs and will put pressure on putin and you just saw what putin thinks of the people. he doesn t respect them. he doesn t like them. some of them by the way are family members of people that are close to him, let s set that aside but you seen that he s turning this into its black and white, you re with us or against us. he was talking about in that
that this new russian involvement, which by putin s standards is huge, is only going to exacerbate the plight of the syrian refugees and make that situation worse, not better. and oh, by the way, by defeating or by attacking the free syrian army, he s opening up corridors for isis then to move into assad s territory. the scenario couldn t be worse. it s echoes of the holocaust, and reminders today that isis is being strengthened, they say. finally, before i let you go, a few moments ago, a news alert on bowe bergdahl, that the army lieutenant colonel in charge of that hearing is recommending no jail time for bergdahl, who walked off his base. your view. do you think that s appropriate? this is pretty mature, erik. an article 32 investigation is like a grand jury. the judge in this case, the general court-martial convening authority, a four-star, can either accept or reject the article ii findings. and either refer bergdahl to a court-martial or not.
just does not give a dmn. we had somebody on the show suggesting he s worth $200 billion. he is detached from reality. he does what he wants to do. and i think both george w. push and barack obama willie have underestimated the danger that vladimir putin poses, not just again not just to his region which barack obama tries to down play him as a declining regional power. this is an extraordinarily dangerous man. who will gun down his political opponents in the shadow of the kremlin? he fears nobody. he fears nothing. he s been killing journalists for a decade now. chechnya. this is brazen by putin s standards. there were huge crowds in russia out today again demanding answers of the murder of