i went there before putin — total chaos. putin comes in... yeah, but you didn't — i mean, you made money out of the chaos, but then you began not to like the chaos and you said we need a guy who can impose some order here on this chaotic capitalism. and you thought vladimir putin was the guy. you even wrote a rather well—known times article in which you said, you know, "this authoritarian figure is just what russia needs." well, i'd hoped he was. we all put our hopes into this guy. he had this blank face. he seemed like an uncharismatic technocrat and so... i'm talking about regret. how much of it do you have? i was totally wrong. we were all totally wrong. george bush was totally wrong. tony blair was totally wrong. everybody was totally wrong about vladimir putin. it took me a little less time than most people in the west to understand that he's truly evil and we need to fight him. but we were all totally wrong. he fooled us all. and for people who don't remember the story, you, from 2005 on, were regarded as something of an enemy by pu

putin denies all of it. his private life is never talked about on russian television. >> there was absolutely no critical words about vladimir putin on the russian airwaves, none, not one word. >> the propaganda, the isolation, the bizarre behavior, all of it worries those who study him closely. >> he is extremely dangerous. he is backed into a corner. >> he is more dangerous than he has ever been. >> mikhail kor tichlt tikovski was once richard man. when i became a putin critic he ended up in prison ten years. >> when he was not greeted with flowers it drove him literally insane. more scary, he has a mission to show the whole world he is great. >> erratic. obsessed. enraged. is putin now that cornered rat he once encountered? up ♪ ♪ >> and blueberry hill. >> when vladimir met hollywood. >> and blueberry hill. ♪ >> the putin america bromance. ♪ >> we're going to have a very good meeting. ♪ >> that goes downhill fast ♪ worked out. i was over the moon, even though i was underound. we'll drive you h

putin denies all of it. his private life is never talked about on russian television. >> there's absolutely no critical words about vladimir putin on the russian airways, none. not one word. >> the propaganda, the isolation, the bizarre behavior, all of it worries those who study him closely. >> he's extremely dangerous. he's backed into a corner. >> he's more dangerous than he has ever been. >> mikhail khodorkovsky was once russia's richest man. when he became a putin critic, he ended up in prison for ten years. >> translator: when he was not greeted with flowers, it drove him literally insane. more scary, he has a mission to show the whole world he is great. >> erratic, obsessed, enraged. is putin now that cornered rat he once encountered? >>> up next -- ♪ ♪ >> when vladimir met hollywood. ♪ on blueberry hill when i found you ♪ >> the putin/america bromance. >> we had a very good meeting. ♪ on blueberry hill ♪ >> that goes downhill fast. ♪ ♪ ♪ until my dreams came true ♪ (vo) when it co

zelenskyy turned out to be cooler than putin. but what makes it easier to cover up failures and the economy. putin must go. he unleashed a senseless war, and is leading russia into the abyss. again, this was all today, all separate headlines today. one of the biggest pro kremlin state controlled new sites in russia. and it wasn't just the headlines that they've changed. each one of those that i just described to you, each one of those headlines goes to a full article, that has also been written. i mean, in a country where they do not allow journalism anymore, they do not allow criticism of the government, and especially of the war, these sentences, posted today on a russian new site, these were like a defcon one level threat to the state. look at this. quote, russian president vladimir putin bears full responsibility for the senseless and bloody war against ukraine. guided by farfetched protects about threats to russia, the head of state plunged to neighboring peoples into a war in which there will be no winners, only losers. the

putin, a ukrainian mp. now that we've heard from president putin and it seems that the special military operation as he calls it will continue, so we're looking at protracted war here. what will this mean? she was worried about the support, the continued support from the west and its allies. i know the g7 met yesterday. give us a sense of what came out of that meeting. there is a show of solidarity ahead of this. >> reporter: there was. and then it was designed to come ahead of this message in particular, too, you know, put a shadow on president putin's own message. and it was a message of continuity, of support, continuing to help ukraine not just fight the war with the weapons that it needs to hold russia back, but potentially push russia back off of ukrainian territory, which we have heard from so many western leaders is the aim. this is what ukraine calls for and there is respect and support for that. but also the immediate day-to-day needs of the ukrainian government to run the country, to pay its work

putin's russia will never win this war. the carling and resolve of the ukranian people is legendary but to hiceen the demise, america must act. ukraine's fight for liberty is the world fights for liberty in this modernerra d.m. anand: put an end, sooner rather than later to the bloodshed that putin's has unleashed. thank you chairwoman delauro to bring this critical bill forward. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields. >> the i yield to the ranking member of the state and operations for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. rogers: i rise in support of h.r. 769 #, the emergency supplemental appropriations act for ukraine. this vital assistance will continued support of ukraine's heroic and assistance of our countrymen and will continue to support their heroic and inspiring resistance to russia's unprovoked invasion. we miss provide the the assistance and help preserve ukranian independence. for those in this country and elsewhere, mr. speaker, who thought that war was a 19th or

putin. he thought, i think, that he would walk into kyiv like the taliban walked into afghanistan. at that would accomplish his goals. boy, was he surprised. he was surprised by the grit of the ukrainian people and he was surprised by the charismatic leadership of president zelenskyy, who i think of as a modern-day reincarnation of winston churchill when it comes to rallying the people not only of his country, but around the world, for the cause of the ukrainians. senator cardin is right, the president has existing authorities. but one of the problems is getting this equipment to the ukrainians fast enough. that is the message we have heard. and now that they have begun to flow, and i think the biden administration has done a good job, although we all wish it could have been done faster, getting these weapons to the iranians. -- to the ukrainians. it is not just cutting the red tape that is so important here, it is the message that it sends, one of bipartisan unity in support of our allies i

we talked about putin. we talked about president xi of china. right now, america is led byjoe biden. you referred earlier to the possibility... you implied that he will be running again for a second term. you know better than i that if he runs again for a second term, he will, just... he'll be 82, 82 by the time the next election comes around or just a few days after. that means he'll be 86 when he is still in office as president of the united states if he wins a second term. is that healthy for america? let's see where the future leads. i think president biden is providing the kind of leadership, the reunification of nato, the re—establishment of america's leadership on the world stage. were there overly ambitious plans in a first year? but the fact that we have managed to take on covid, that we do have job growth at record levels and that we finally put on the board a massive infrastructure plan. i think if we put those out as goals, there would be much greater support for what was already a very, very successful first 15—16 months. senato

russian commentators said already before actually that with this war, putin wanted putin said that we will russians and ukrainians are one nation. but what does the world see now? ukraine is proving the whole world that it stands together as a nation against russia, an aggressor. and the other thing putin wanted to do with this war is to keep the natto away the natto aggression or whatever. and what is happening to the nato came as close as never before to russia and this is what, what many russian commentators predicted. and they they said right from the beginning this war is a huge mistake. and and now as the reaction of putin is it seems relatively mild. yeah. um he started a war against ukraine who's natto membership was in the far far future. and now when sweden and finland and knocking right on the door of the nato, he says yeah, it doesn't have it's not a threat, but please be aware. so. and they say this proves that it yeah, it doesn't have it's not a threat, but please was never about the ukraine not joining nato nato this war. it was always about yeah, russky mir the russian

rebuke to putin, it was also an attack— rebuke to putin, it was also an attack to— rebuke to putin, it was also an attack to all _ rebuke to putin, it was also an attack to all the _ rebuke to putin, it was also an attack to all the putin - rebuke to putin, it was also an - attack to all the putin sympathisers in the _ attack to all the putin sympathisers in the west — attack to all the putin sympathisers in the west. and _ attack to all the putin sympathisers in the west. and he _ attack to all the putin sympathisers in the west. and he perfectly- in the west. and he perfectly encapsulated _ in the west. and he perfectly encapsulated why _ in the west. and he perfectly encapsulated why ukraine i in the west. and he perfectly encapsulated why ukraine isl in the west. and he perfectly. encapsulated why ukraine is on in the west. and he perfectly- encapsulated why ukraine is on the front lines— encapsulated why ukraine is on the front lines of— encapsulated why ukraine is on the front lines of freedom _ encapsulated why ukraine is on the front lines of freedom and - encapsulated

putin sees a chance to restore the core of the russian empire. >> i think that down deep in putin there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union, because it wasn't just the soviet union, it was the russian empire. >> he has seen the collapse of empire once. i think in his mind, he is rebuilding what was lost in 1991. >> please make sure to set your alarms for 8:00 eastern or pacific so you can watch this new special "inside the mind of vladimir putin." our international viewers can watch at 1:00 a.m. london or 4:00 a.m. abu dhabi or 8:00 a.m. singapore or whatever 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time in the united states translates to for you. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week -- tonight and next week. ♪ ♪ ♪ make way for the first-ever chevy silverado zr2. with multimatic shocks, rugged 33-inch tires,, anand front and rear electronc locking differentials. dude, this is awesome... but we should get back to work. ♪ ♪ this good? perfect. if you're gonna work remote... work remote. find new work

my belief is this is what putin and his cabal have brought on. i fully agree that this has become much bigger than ukraine versus russia. i think most of us in the west over the last few years, particularly here in this country, have felt, whether it's with covid, some of the political dysfunction in this country — can liberal democracy be successful against authoritarian regimes like russia or china? and i think what at least the ukrainian people have said is they are voting with their lives to say we will give up our lives to have a taste of the kind of freedom that we in the west enjoy every day. and i think we all do need to rise to that occasion. but is there a danger of going too far? we've talked about the weaponry, the intelligence. also, we could talk about the unprecedented economic sanctions that you in the us have imposed on russia. what it looks like to russia, but also to some observers outside russia, is that here in washington there is now an intent to effectively neutralise russia and destroy vladimir putin's regime. if this wa

putin wanted something else. he wanted to stop the east, the east expansion of nato he provoked something completely different. perhaps this, he he's decided he's who is provoking actually in this situation. this is this is one thing. the second thing, of course, is that once those two countries are in nato and i do believe that will, they will be members of nato soon. the questions will arise in the more eastern part of the continent. why not moldavian? well, the moldova why not ukraine. so, i think this is not the end of our very difficult discussions. in theory, any promises made not ukraine. so, i think this is not the end to vladimir putin in the past would now be essentially void. given the fact that circumstances have changed legal doctrine says as much on the other hand, that's legalistic stephanie the reality as we say, is that we don't know how putin will respond should nato take in these new members? absolutely. i'm a big advocate of not leaving sweden and finland any longer in a strategic gray zone be

what about putin and his future? the defence secretary of the united states, lloyd austin, said, "russia must now be weakened to a point where it cannot do things like invade ukraine in future". it might have been a slip of the tongue, butjoe biden indicated that he believed that putin could have no future in russia. again, it is the decision of the russian people. that wasjoe biden saying that. i understand, i know what he said but if we are a democratic country, and if we honour the values of democratic countries, then the citizens of a country should decide of their leadership and that is what we do in democratic countries and that is my decision but, of course, you have to stop putin to do his aggression, that is why we do economic sanctions, why we support the military of ukraine, because we want their victory, we want them to keep theirfreedom and democratic regime, because that is the best... my point, i suppose, is this, like emmanuel macron, for example, has said we have to talk to putin. europe, he says, ca

what is putin trying to do? a bit less ambitious. create the russian empire and the former soviet union anew, crush democracy that have had a chance to go a different way. and are you surprised that the ukrainians are fighting? who would want to live under putin's thumb? would you? would you want to live in putin's russia? would you want him to be your leader if you didn't have to? people who have gone down the communist road are literally willing to die because they don't want to raise their children that way. so we're going to have a discussion here in a moment about some things that we can do that will matter beyond money. the american taxpayer should not be the only source of help to the ukrainian people. count me in for that. there was a proposal left out of this bill that would empower the department of justice to go after putin and all of his cronies and take from them their yachts and their villas, sell it and put money in the ukraine to buy bullets. that got left out of the package. to the american peop

putin is a war criminal by any definition. if you think he is satisfied with ukraine you are miscalculating him like we did and the last century with hitler. in june of last year putin talks about the russian empire being re-created. well it's just not ukraine he considers it would be mulled over and when you look at his views re-creating possibly the former soviet union the nato nations. what does it matter to the united states if europe is in a constant state of turmoil youou have russia toppling one democracy afterte another. it means a lot to us. we cannot live in a world that way or at least i choose not to live in a world that way perch of the american people $40 billion is a lot of money. if we can stop putin and that ukraine it would be the best money you could ever spend. let's not be penny wise and pound foolish there running out of ammo. they're kicking the russians all over the ukraine. they are doing fighting on behalf of freedom itself and we should be the arsenal of democracy per de you should spend more. the ge

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and he chose putin. that is why this relationship is very, very important for putin. >> it's a choice, once you cross that, you can never go back. so and i just asked you about that yacht we mentioned, just got the news tonight, that mega yacht many believe belongs to putin himself seized today in italy. there's been extensive reporting from navalny's organization tieing every single person who work on that yacht many back to the fsb so have done all of that work. they, said to be worth $700 million. how much does something like this impact putin? >> i think it impacts him a lot because it impacts his the secrecy he introduced around himself and it's an absolutely off-limits to talk about his properties in russia, about his yachts, about his palace and see now, this conversation about his yachts while people in russia might have a chance to actually learn something about the real face of putin. >> right, right. you know, the selfless public servant as he pushes himself to the russian people and there's t

perhaps putin recognizes this. while his popularity is high, there perhaps isn't enough support for a war that may not go his way. so if he escalates and loses, that's worse than maintaining what he has. and finding a strategic calculated narrative of victory that, of course, isn't. >> this whole like russian media image that is being projected inside russia, but once you start to have more funerals, right, and more soldiers coming home, one wonders if that turns the tide. but this message today wasn't for any of us. this was not for the rest of the world. this was an internal audience he was speaking to, right? >> reporter: hugely so. and best interpreted that way, that he really needs to keep this narrative of we're fighting nazism, this ties him with our history. this is about fighting with the mother land. it wasn't just his speech obviously. this parade is very well choreographed in advance. every shot of the russian generals sort of just stop, their vehicles stopping right where the cameras were, panning off

putin does not honor nationally agreed upon borders no matter the cost. sweden and finland both have well-resourced militaries and i look forward as one senator to welcoming them into n.a.t.o. and i hope all of our colleagues will agree with that when the time comes. i'm grateful to leader mcconnell for putting together this past weekend's trip and found it enormously educational and i think it sent a great message not only to president zelenskyy and the ukrainian people that we will continue to support them, whether it's with lethal aid or humanitarian assistance, and likewise, i think it sent a message to our impending additions to n.a.t.o., sweden, and finland, that we will support their addition to n.a.t.o. when the time comes here in the united states senate. lastly, i want to share a message from ukraine. president zelenskyy asked us, as representatives of our various states, and the american people to convey to the american people his personal thanks and gratitude for supporting them during this existential fight with russia. we, in turn, thank pre

it all comes as putin gives a defiant message to the world during his so-called victory day speech, putin referred to new nazi threats in ukraine, again, making the baseless claim this invasion is meant to de-nazify ukraine, despite the pageantry of the day celebrating the soviets beating nazi germany, missing was the planes flying overhead but also any victory declared by putin. even as air raid sirens went off several times in kyiv today, president volodomyr zelenskyy chose to mark ukraine's victory day by walking the streets here in kyiv and vowing to keep up the fight tuntil putin's forces retreat. >> translator: very soon there will be two victory days in ukraine, and somewhere won't have any. >> we are live across ukraine tonight and sam kiley begins our coverage in kramatorsk east of where i am this evening. sam you are not far from the front lines tonight, what is the latest where you are? >> well, erin, the russian offensive continues to grind on here, most recently killing a large number of people who were sheltering in a school in another location where it is not yet clear, whe

in effect, a losing putin or stifled putin is more dangerous than one moving forward? >> yeah, that's always the question, jim, is where is that delicate fault line between being assertive and aggressive against putin, which the west has done very well at, but also not reaching the point where he becomes so unpredictable that it's difficult and he might engage in dangerous behavior. of course, vladimir putin himself is extremely aware of the west's concern about this. so, he's playing that, you know, for all it's worth. i think what we saw in the speech, both putin and zelenskyy, was a little bit of information warfare. set aside the battlefield warfare but information warfare is heating up. it will be very interesting to see how putin responds in those terms as well. >> i mean, the way they are both using that information warfare, i think, is a great point, steve. peter, i know you recently interviewed president zelenskyy but in that piece you had real insight into what we've been watching as he tries to connect with his audience. you experienced that firsthand. i won

vladimir putin is about to speak in 20 minutes. may 9 a huge day, we are expecting him to give us an indication of what we want next in ukraine. tom: we are seeing quite remarkable pictures out of moscow as they marked that anniversary in the capital. at the markets, you're looking at this hour to sentiment. friday last week investors had to digest that jobs report. that tightness in the labor market suggesting that the fed cannot walk back from its hiking cycle. mohamed el-erian saying that the fed should never have taken 75 basis points off the table. we continue to look at cpi out of the united states on wednesday. that will give us a sense of whether the recession is starting to peek. after five straight weeks of losses across global stocks and bonds, the cac 40 up by .7%, the spanish ibex also lowered with a drop of 30 points. in the u.k., basic resources will be a factor in the weakness. the ftse 100 lower, the italian would see in similar territory. let's see how things are playing out across the assets. building on further

putin gave a speech. which is usually something that went outside of russia much cares about, but in this case, there was rampant speculation that putin would use victory day today, that he would use his speech on this huge day, this huge occasion with the military parade in all the rest of it. there was widespread expectation that he would use the speech to declare something about the war that he has started in ukraine. speculation that he might declare victory himself, in this war. and an ounce tauranga ended to leave in ukraine, or maybe do the opposite. maybe formally declare war, no longer call this a special military operation, maybe he would call it a war, declare war, and announced that russia have not yet begun the fight. he was gonna call of the mass mobilization of even more russian troops to go into ukraine, and to permanently occupy it. widespread international, and well informed speculation, that putin was gonna announce something today about this insane war that he has stuck in. some way to

putin initiated. we know it's a long campaign and it gives us the capacity with that long-term support to defend itself. this is an easy decision. it is good versus evil congratulations to senator cornyn on —- senator cardin to get this past when you want to get legislation then you have to work in a bipartisan way. the support of ukraine is bipartisan and senator cornyn, use that bipartisan support to move the bill in record time and now we can get equipment to ukraine in record speed that willo be critically important to whene the campaig. >> senator cornyn what would you like president to do with the authority your bill will give him? >> what has been so challenging is nobody knows how long it will last. least of all vladimir putin. he thought he word walk-in like that happened they had walked into afghanistan without a shot fired and would accomplish his goals and boy was he surprised. he was surprised by the grit of the ukrainian people and by that charismatic leadership president zelensky who

putin's father was an actual exterminator. his job was to shoot people in the back of the head who were politically unreliable. so when putin talks about denazification of the ukraine, he's a clip -- chip off the old kgb blog. his ideology is human life has no value. he says stalin is a great man who was simply misunderstood and the dissolution of the soviet union was history's greatest tragedy. that explains exactly why he has pursued the ukraine. it also explains why the ukraine versus so fiercely. they lost four to 8 million people to stalin. all of their musicians were killed in 1931. they were all executed and thrown in a mass grave. likewise in china, xi jinping has said that stalin is a great man. but you can't be a good communist if you don't believe in stalin. he believes the total control over human life is important. so the methodology of boast -- of both of them is very little value for human life. the purge of the chinese communist party which has lost a third of its members in the past nine years. it was exactly

, vladimir putin has delivered a defiant speech in the last

. >> reporter: to to putin is what a modern victory looks like. dozens dead or missing from a russian air strike on a russian-speak village as part of a russian campaign that putin says is to protect his kin folk in ukraine. the rescuers are saying the heat is overwhelming. local authorities fear about 60 people died here. this is a school in eastern ukraine. villages were sheltering in its basement. some had been there for weeks. survivors were left with little but grief. his family had been with him. his mother didn't survive. it is not lost on anybody here that on the eve of vladimir putin's celebration of the soviet victory in the second world war over nazi germany, it is civilians who are suffering the most in the name of putin's denounce if ication of ukraine. i got slammed down by a slab, bent into a bull, then another explosion sprinkled darkness. then i looked, and the dust settled and a ray of light appeared. sergey dug out and dug me out, dug my aunt and uncle out. we crawled all in a fog, he said. ukraine has stalled russia's plant for

putin has not been able to achieve the success he was expecting. they had troops, armored divisions for kyiv and they didn't manage to actually take the city. they were driven back. they haven't had that quick military victory. brent: is he angry with his generals? is there animosity between the two? guest: i would love to be a fly in the wall in their conversations, but as i have been covering the country, i can't imagine he is a happy man. there were rumors he placed some of them under house arrest when this started to go south several weeks ago. it doesn't look like he's trying to get out of the conflict quickly. much like the soviet conflict in afghanistan, he seems to begin this for the long haul, saying to people, "this is going to be a long fight against us end the west. of fight for our existence. you have to stick to this fight." brent: it is like he is stuck in the 20th century. almost as if the soviet union were still there. and that is what he is trying to reclaim. guest: i wouldn't go so far as to say he's trying to reclaim and rebuild

putin is no civil lib tearian. and putin is no civil libber tearian. he is looking access to media and throwing people into prisons for people and finds a new law to impose 15 years in prison on anyone who publishes or broadcasts what the government considers false for. it is against the law in russia to describe the invasion of ukraine as an invasion or a war. you can't describe it. talk about orwellian. why did we hear nothing from our colleagues about that. do they think that putin is fighting for civil liberties in his invasion of ukraine and his attempt to demolish a country? mr. speaker, the american people, in every public opinion poll we have seen stands strongly with the people of ukraine and understand illegal aggression when they see it and we know that putin is trying to crush the sovereignty of the people of ukraine. and america stands with the nato countries. america stands with the democratic governments and america stands with democracy. all over the world. that's who we are, that's who we are and we will never forget it and never let g

take a listen. >> president putin has failed. he has failed to take kyiv, as we all know, since we're here today. putin failed to replace ukraine's government with russian stooges and he failed to subject the proud ukrainian people who across the entire country including those in the east of ukraine refused to bend to his will and told the russians go f yourself. >> reporter: we spoke to a ukrainian soldier recovering in hospital for a number of shrapnel wound. he's fighting on the eastern front. i asked him, when you're better, are you going to go back out? he said, of course, i'm fighting for my children, i'm fighting for my country. >> thank you so much. joining us now is retired lawsuit generally steph twitty. let's talk about what happened today and what didn't happen today because putin on v-day made his remarks. he seems to be sending the same messages, the same anti-nazi messages which are so fake from the get go. he didn't announce any extension, expansion, escalation. he didn't declare war rather than a special military

cheers for vladimir putin. as i say, he has drawn a very strong comparison between the events of the war against nazi germany and the war in ukraine. in the past 2a hours, he talked about russian soldiers fighting side by side to rid the land, ukraine, of nazi filth. but there was no declaration of this special military operation, as it is called in russia, being officially legally declared a war, which would give him the possibility of drawing up give him the possibility of drawing up conscripts and putting them into the theatre of war. even though president putin said originally that conscripts would not be used, they have been. just watching these pictures in moscow on this bright sunny day is as a security correspondent frank gardner. it is interesting, frank, a lot of speculation that he would say this was a war, that he would say this was a war, that he would say this was russia fighting against the west and nato. half of that came out of the dispute but know that he was declaring it has a full—blown wa

and finally gets to putin and, you know, finally the clock runs out, the music stops, and putin is left in the seat. one wonders how history would have looked if any of the others had taken power. putin was different. the others were bureaucrats. putin was a kgb officer and he had the skills of deceptions of the belief in a deep russian state and the belief in the power of russia. and that made him different. but part of that deception was, he didn't let on when russia was weak, when it needed loan forgiveness and western aid. you see when the debts are paid and the oil prices skyrocket. >> absolutely. and now he's christdriving a ha bargain with the entire world. it's difficult to see how young put together a global response to rein him in. finland and sweden are on the determine of joining nato, which has gotten putin's attention. does their membership change anything for putin and his obsession with ukraine or add to the west's impression that he's miscalculated? what is your sense of it? >> i think it's chlearly an escalation on both sides, but putin has only himself to blame. putin

the loss putin never got over. part not just of the soviet union, but also the czar's empire. >> because it had belonged to russia for 300 years. >> putin's brutal assault on ukraine may be the fulfillment of his greatest dream. the world sees an unprovoked blood bath. putin sees a chance to restore the core of the russian empire. >> i think that down deep in putin, there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union, because it wasn't just the soviet union. it was the russian empire. >> he has seen the collapse of empire once. i think in his mind, he is rebuilding what was lost in 1991. >> please make sure to set your alarms for 8:00 p.m. eastern or pacific so that you can watch this new special "inside the mind of vladimir putin". our international viewers can watch at 1:00 a.m. london or 4:00 a.m. abu dhabi or whatever 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time in the united states translates to for you. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i'll see you next week.

that's exactly what president putin is violating. in the early weeks of the war, there was a great deal of talk and concern about the possibility of russia using nuclear weapons. putin put his nuclear forces on a higher state of readiness, we had sergey lavrov, the foreign minister, warning against nato's provoking a third world war, saying the nuclear possibility should not be underestimated. is that something you still consider on a daily basis or is it your analysis that, actually, a lot of that was bluff and there is no sign whatsoever that russia is contemplating the use of a nuclear weapon? russia has not changed their nuclear posture. at the same time, the nuclear rhetoric is dangerous. it's reckless and irresponsible. and russia has actually agreed they did that early this year, that a nuclear war should never be fought and cannot be won. and therefore, it is reckless what russia is doing, just to talk about the potential use of nuclear weapons, the way they have done over the last weeks and months. our response is to strengt

vladimir putin has in his mind? cynthia: if you talked to the ukrainian church they would stress there is a schism between ukrainian and russian orthodoxy. vladimir putin listed a number of cities that have courageously resisted the nazis, and the cities are in belarus, ukraine, and russia, and vladimir putin spoke to a spiritual unity which he implied is much stronger than any contemporary ideas of national sovereignty. lisa: at the same time we see spiritual unity when it comes to trade between russia and china. how is that message fit into what you are talking about? cynthia: vladimir putin is emphasizing that russia is standing together with the majority of the worlds population in resisting united states domination. he talks a lot about china, but also india and africa not supporting sanctions against russia. he stresses that is where the majority of the world's population lives. he also emphasizes, just as he did in 2014, when russia first occupied crimea, that if europe is going to cut russia off with sanctio

matthew, what did you make of putin's speech? what stood out the most? >> well, jake, what stood out the most to me is the fact that this was a widely anticipated event that many people speculated was going to be the backdrop to a major announcement on what vladimir putin intended to do about his conflict, what he calls his special military operation inside ukraine. there was speculation he could have made a formal declaration of war on ukraine and mobilized the country on a more of a war footing which would give him more troops, more conscripts, more resources to plow into what is a stuttering military campaign in that country. but to answer your question what was striking is he didn't do any of that. perhaps he had pause, he had reason he felt to hesitate. perhaps he understood that not everyone in russia is onboard when it comes to more bloodshed, more warfare, more conflict in neighboring ukraine. and so that's something that i think was a takeaway from this, that it was a much more muted victory day parade than was expected, jake. >> how did this ye

putin gave aa speech. and which is usually something that no one outside of russia much cares about but in this case there was rampant speculation that putin would use victory day today, thatn he wod use his speech on this huge day, this huge occasion that the military parade and all of the rest of it, there was widespread expectations we use the speech to declare something about the war that he has started in ukraine. speculation that he might declare victory himself, and announce how russiaf, intended lead things in ukraine. or maybe he didin the opposite. maybe he would formally declare war. no longer call this a special military operation, maybe he call it a war, declare war, and announce that russia had not just begun the fight and call up a mobilization of more russian troops to goza into ukraine and permanently occupy it. widespread international and wellwi informed speculation tha putin was going to announce something today about this insane war that he has started, some way to get out or get way f