and he has been tucked away in these meetings, going over the latest intelligence ever since. john. sandra: peter doocy if you no reaction from the white house in this moment. i imagine we will get some shortly. we are all just trying to digest what we are hearing. tomlinson over there reporting for us. just thought putin s ukraine was never a true nation. i am reading the words of france s foreign minister right now at a parliamentary hearing earlier today saying that recognizing the two breakaway regions which he is doing would be an attack without weapons. do you expect that we will get any further response from the white house as we work our way into the afternoon here, peter? we do expect a response, and part of that might be to come out informally say that the president is not going to meet with putin anymore. they were calling separately.
least of which had been the debacle in afghanistan. their resolve has always been a question of we are about to find out. remember, president biden made that gaffe, insisted very strongly that any military invasion into the ukraine would be treated the same as the occupation of the entire country. and hopefully that is the case. that s the only thing that we have left here because we have squandered so many other opportunities. john: critics of the present believe he let the cat out of the bag with that statement. private conversations that were being had in the situation room one public and gave putin an idea maybe i could take a little bit, and the consequences will not be too severe. stay by the bat phone, we will
a democracy. it could become part of nato. this is not just a threat to his vision of historic russia, but this is threatening the autocracy he has set up in russia. he does not want the people of russia to see democracy blossom in ukraine. a nation with such close historic ties to russia. so for putin, i don t think these two areas are going to be the only areas he is going to target. they might be what he will settle for right now. john: i guess a couple of questions right now. what happens in the immediate hours and days ahead? do putin ordered troops to head into that donbas region? does he feel like he needs to move troops into other areas to quell any kind of ukraine in response? does this demand response from ukraine? he s basically lopped off a huge part of the eastern part of the
people, especially here in the capital. when you listen to the language used, you pointed out a great point here appear to vladimir putin in the past has called the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century the collapse of the soviet union. this is someone who has recently as last year called the ukrainian and russian people one on the same. you hear him echoing this language in these reports, things modern ukraine was created by communist russia. this brings up a lot of questions about what comes next because putin has been laying the groundwork for this since last year. since 2019, even, there have been more than 700,000 fast tracked russian passports given to people in the separatist controlled area of eastern ukraine. right now the russian military is on the border. the question is when and if these regions will ask for military assistance. he is in the process right now of announcing their independence. the recognition by the russian government and moscow of the
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