as he has argued before, a proxy war by nato and the u.s. through ukrainian forces against russia. okay, so if he s not going to declare war or a mass mobilization or something, he does presume bewant to announce a victory of some kind. but given the russian troops so far haven t made any major gains, how do you think he ll spin it? reporter: it seems the best they ll be able to say is that they have taken mariupol, from what we re hearing from the progress of russian troops on the ground. we ve also heard in the past 24 hours of some pretty heavy rocket fire, some towards odesa. and some targeting that steel plant where the ukrainian government has said all of the civilians have been evacuated. but we know that there are still possibly hundreds of soldiers in the tunnels beneath. it seems the russians may be planning, since those troops won t come out, just to flatten
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i want to move on to syria, if i may. you and i talked about some you and i both believe we need to counter the threat of iran. then i talked to you yesterday about the sort of the incongruency of our policy in syria. the president has announced he would freeze $200 million in stabilization assistance and that the u.s. would pull out of isis excuse me, as soon as isis is defeated, he wants to pull out as soon as possible. i m wondering what s your view on that presidential intention is. there is active discussion. i ant to bewant to be a little careful. i can talk about the long-term strategy as opposed to the situation in front of us.