a cia officer whose name is on the wall at langley, a profound moment. i think burns laid out a positive speech for the future of the intelligence community. again, when he speaks people better listen. yeah. uh-huh. it really is something, what the white house has been doing from the beginning, talking about using intel against putin, saying he is going to invade when all of our allies, zelenskyy was saying, no, he s not, stop panicking. i can t imagine anything talk about psy-ops, i can t imagine anything driving putin crazier when you have a pentagon spokesperson going behind the podium, with the pentagon sign behind him, saying, this is what is happening to the russian military now, these are the problems they re having, this is why their operation in the donbas is going to be slow for a while. they may i mean they have
the united states watching everything the russians do including this account in the new york times that the russians have been drawing down staff, mostly family members, but significantly drawing down staff at its embassies within ukraine. could it be a bluff or a sign to get the women and children snout. with russia you always have the possibility of a faint as opposed to something that s genuine action base psy-ops, branda are always part of its shadow war and hybrid warfare tactics, but it s a significant move so the u.s. is taking it seriously. i should also note this, john. my colleague barbara starr reporting this hour that the u.s. has noticed an increased deployment of troops along the ukranian bothered. that not a positive sign. not at all and a very, very tense moment in world affairs. appreciate the breaking news reporting very much. and some more breaking news, this one here on the home front. at&t is it, quote, voluntarily delaying some of its 5g rollout because of
extraordinary. and so when i watched it, i was trying to figure out, okay, why is he saying this, what s the purpose? and i was thinking of the old spy days, you know, vladimir putin, former kgb, and you know the psy ops, psychology operations. you try to get into the other guy s head, you try to get him afraid or to do something he didn t want to do. it might be possible that he actually believed he could talk to the ukrainian military and convince them to do this by saying, look, your women, your children are being held at human shields. it could be that. or it could be, this is kind of deranged, and when that word comes up with vladimir putin, everyone is saying, well, he s a different person.
the evil empire back in 1983 and everybody said, oh, my goodness, this is shocking what he said. now we all remember that as a very clear statement of the truth back then. and it sent a very strong message, admiral stavridis, to dissidents in russia. you heard after the fall of the soviet union, you heard dissidents say when reagan and other western leaders would say something like that it shouldn t a strong message. by the way as far as joe biden saying something like this you don t have to go back to 2011 or 2012, he said it at the end of his state of the union address and it was clearly planned as he is walking away from the mic he says, let s go get him. a clear psy ops message to vladimir putin. joe, first and foremost, as you point out, there are different audiences here. you are absolutely right.
to let the other side know you re not scared of them. the fact that joe biden didn t play by marques of queensbury rules, the fact he gave a scripted state of the union speech and as he turned to give the speech to nancy pelosi and others he said, let s go get him, he did it on purpose. people who are saying it is a mistake are fools. after the speech, near the end of the speech he says this as well. joe biden has been doing this longer than most people criticizing him have been alive. it is psy ops, he is letting vladimir putin know we re not playing in between the lines. i think most americans agree with him, putin is a butcher and putin shouldn t stay in power later on. the state department did their job cleaning it up, we understand, but we have to be grown up enough to have a little bit of creative ambiguity and that s exactly where biden has putin right now, guessing, finally. well, you know, joe, richard