turned out to be absolutely right. and even the ukrainian leadership was dubious of it, and unfortunately it turned out to be correct. now he s saying that the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons, battlefield nuclear weapons, it doesn t really our fears is a real possibility. and we should know what s going on in moscow. it is new. i was reading in medusa, a terrific russian language web site, that s independent, and now being forced to operate out of the baltics that sources for this reporter who s very tied in are saying that people are i can t say it on the air, they re scared to death of putin. but they don t respect him any longer, that there are a lot of the people around putin who are pointing fingers. and saying we never should have done this, and we had no plan and now we re screwing up.
official before the war. and they were in a different reality. they ve been in a different reality, even now with all of this happening in ukraine, with the russian army collapsing, there doesn t seem to be any pragmatic thought about how do we get out of this, save face, and reset. no, none whatsoever, i mean, i think for putin, this is existential. i don t think he can politically afford to be seen, to be losing this war. so if there is any realistic way an off ramp could be created by the west, it would be to help give him the appearance of not having lost this war while having actually lost this war.
just curious what do you think, everybody is talking about this off ramp, this off ramp. there are it doesn t seem that anybody in russia is interested in a negotiated settlement. we do not have missiles in turkey to put on the negotiating table. and so i m just curious what you re thinking as joe biden the president of the united states says this is the most dangerous time since the cuban missile crisis, what is your take, and how do we how do we allow putin to back out of the corner when the hard liners are pushing him further? well, i think we should listen to joe biden very very carefully. you know, joe biden at the beginning of this crisis, and all the security people around him very carefully provided information on what was going to happen. would there be an invasion, would there not be an invasion, and in realtime, gave us a lot of predictive information that
let them in the same building. did they drop anything into those files? or do they do it later? does no chain of custody here with them. sean: would not be on videotape potentially? president trump: i don t think so they are in a room. sean: let me ask you this question because i think this is the next logical question because the president of united states you unlike say hillary clinton in her case a president has the power to declassify. okay, you would set on treat social a number of times you did declassify them. okay, is there a process what was your process? president trump: there doesn t have to be a process as i understand it. different people see different things. if you re the president of the united states you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even if just by think about it because you are sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. it doesn t have to be a process, it can be a process but it doesn t have to be. you re the president you make
but how would you declassify a document that contains such sensitive information as to make vulnerable human intelligence sources overseas? well, you really can t unless you go through a significant process with the agency that generated the information and that has the equities in it. for instance, the government even hypothetically, yasmin, if the former president was able to declassify everything, which i don t believe you can do i think it s fanciful. disclosing that information could still do great harm to the united states. let s not get hung up on whether or not it s classified because the statutes on which the government relied on don t require it, and moreover, there doesn t seem to charles s point to be any evidence that he