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Ukraine. cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood joins me. this is notable. seems to be this man believes he ll have an easier course in ukraine in biden is no longer president and trump is. that s exactly it. officials concerned he s factoring in the u.s. election, which we should note is more than a year from today, into his strategy on the battlefield in ukraine, essentially banking on the possibility that if joe biden doesn t win this election, there s a republican in office, of course potentially trump being one of those, considering he s the leading player in the primary right now, that u.s. support for ukraine is going to diminish, and that would of course benefit putin, essentially incentivizing him to drag out this war for longer. resources, of course, are a question. there isn t an intelligence assessment his mind on this, but this is what sources are saying. putin knows trump will help him, and so do the ukrainians and our