| conclude with one final point | 4.319 | Jump to 16.72 |  |  | 
              
                
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                  | and ensure we speak as one voice | 5.039 | Jump to 172.56 |  |  | 
              
                
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                  | you know four million to well over four | 5.04 | Jump to 329.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | million people starved to death | 4.08 | Jump to 331.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | annexation of crimea in 2014 | 6.401 | Jump to 403.039 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh from 2012 to 2014. | 6.4 | Jump to 634.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | almost four decade career in the united | 4.72 | Jump to 648.64 |  |  | 
              
                
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                  | from february to may of 2020 and he | 4.72 | Jump to 710.32 |  |  | 
              
                
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                  | two uh munich security conferences and i | 5.12 | Jump to 739.279 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | mcfaul you are now recognized for five | 5.759 | Jump to 782.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | going to try to summarize it in five | 2.479 | Jump to 796.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | focus on three topics today | 5.601 | Jump to 800.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | first putin's goals in mobilizing 150 | 4.641 | Jump to 802.959 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 000 soldiers | 3.68 | Jump to 806.24 |  |  | 
              
                
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                  | somebody i met in 1991 written about for | 5.92 | Jump to 823.279 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 22 years and dealt with indirectly when | 4.72 | Jump to 826.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i was in the government for five years | 4.481 | Jump to 829.199 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i'll focus mostly on the first topic | 4.399 | Jump to 830.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | but have plenty to say on the second and | 3.68 | Jump to 833.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | third time permitting or maybe during | 3.92 | Jump to 835.279 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so first what does putin want what is | 4.801 | Jump to 839.199 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | first this argument assumes that putin | 4.88 | Jump to 853.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | germaine to this crisis the 1994 | 4.961 | Jump to 869.199 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | second putin understands perfectly well | 5.92 | Jump to 882.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | invaded georgia in 2008 it's why he | 6.24 | Jump to 903.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | invaded ukraine in 2014 and now occupies | 5.841 | Jump to 906.399 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | third while we're distracting debating | 5.04 | Jump to 916.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | back 30 years about something that jim | 4.479 | Jump to 921.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | georgia in 2003 and 2004 putin has | 6.161 | Jump to 943.279 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | deployed multiple instruments 20 years | 5.12 | Jump to 946.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | fourth putin seeks to unite a single | 4.639 | Jump to 988.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | russians from his point of view are one | 5.519 | Jump to 1002.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nation or one people he wants to unite | 5.281 | Jump to 1004.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | fifth more broadly putin aspires to | 5.599 | Jump to 1011.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | settlement from 30 years ago was unfair | 3.36 | Jump to 1024.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | so i see i only have 18 seconds left i'm | 3.201 | Jump to 1059.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | not going to get to number two and | 3.52 | Jump to 1061.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | number three i worried about that let me | 4.159 | Jump to 1062.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | just say one last thing on the biden | 4.88 | Jump to 1065.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | testimony yesterday i had one criticism | 4.319 | Jump to 1072.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | five minutes for a summation of your | 3.12 | Jump to 1101.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | informed by my visit to kiev two weeks | 4.64 | Jump to 1110.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the kremlin has deployed more than 100 | 3.68 | Jump to 1174.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 000 well-equipped troops near the | 4.56 | Jump to 1176.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | crimea remains home to thirty thousand | 4.239 | Jump to 1181.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | a new offensive within the next two | 4.32 | Jump to 1192.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | pattern russia has employed since 2008 | 3.6 | Jump to 1217.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | seen since the 1995 dayton peace accords | 5.6 | Jump to 1280.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | straits codified in the 1936 montreal | 5.28 | Jump to 1359.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for five minutes for a summation of your | 4.0 | Jump to 1412.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | repeatedly over the course of his 22 | 4.76 | Jump to 1456.84 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | his 22 years in power there is ample | 5.52 | Jump to 1611.039 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | dealing with a more brazen russia one | 5.841 | Jump to 1685.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | recognized for five minutes for a | 4.081 | Jump to 1736.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | thank you first let me just say to uh | 6.0 | Jump to 1742.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | talked about nordstrom 2 | 4.959 | Jump to 1797.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | here in ukraine we had one uh uh | 5.68 | Jump to 1811.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and do nordstrom 2 sanctions nordstrom 2 | 5.6 | Jump to 1858.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sanctions by the way nordstrom one the | 4.72 | Jump to 1861.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 goes too far | 5.441 | Jump to 1870.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | comes to nordstrom 2. and | 5.919 | Jump to 1876.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 i think is shameful it's | 6.319 | Jump to 1898.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the two | 3.28 | Jump to 1965.84 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | first of all we were told that moving | 3.681 | Jump to 1967.039 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | three | 2.561 | Jump to 1972.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 50 former u.s intelligence officials | 4.399 | Jump to 1993.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one month before the 2020 election | 4.321 | Jump to 1997.519 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | five minutes for questions but in terms | 5.44 | Jump to 2052.399 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | or a hot war between two of the largest | 3.76 | Jump to 2153.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | self-government of uh 44 million people | 4.161 | Jump to 2199.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | first thing i want to talk about is | 3.76 | Jump to 2294.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh number two i think he thinks of his | 4.48 | Jump to 2320.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | investors that's the first thing i would | 2.32 | Jump to 2340.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | back to 2014 uh in my view | 5.921 | Jump to 2347.359 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sanctions um and and two things we | 5.199 | Jump to 2358.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | talked about nordstrom 2 nordstrom 2 has | 4.64 | Jump to 2361.28 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | you know years ago and number three uh | 4.4 | Jump to 2372.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and believe me it only takes 15 minutes | 3.679 | Jump to 2400.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | there for a week you get seven parking | 4.639 | Jump to 2409.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | just uh have one level of pressure and | 4.24 | Jump to 2419.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | but i know that's very unpopular one | 3.361 | Jump to 2423.839 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | third in part to tie our hands i think | 4.881 | Jump to 2444.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | wisconsin mr grothman for five minutes | 3.12 | Jump to 2480.16 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sanctions on nordstream 2. | 4.4 | Jump to 2488.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | it it it really sounds good but my eight | 5.12 | Jump to 2508.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one country uh has an over influence on | 4.959 | Jump to 2632.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | you i think the nordstrom 2 pipeline | 4.56 | Jump to 2635.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one big mistake that washington | 5.04 | Jump to 2641.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | should not have the nordstrom 2 pipeline | 4.641 | Jump to 2651.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one is fine when it comes to some | 5.04 | Jump to 2655.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | it's in a much weaker place uh in 2014 | 6.16 | Jump to 2752.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | paris okay one other quick thing um | 5.119 | Jump to 2776.24 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | about 90 years ago now there was a | 5.28 | Jump to 2779.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | questions for five minutes welcome | 5.68 | Jump to 2836.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | costs to human life upwards of 50 000 | 6.72 | Jump to 2894.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | a first stab but i i do think we should | 3.359 | Jump to 2931.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | third i want to remind everybody uh | 5.681 | Jump to 2968.319 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | consideration on the one hand he talks | 3.919 | Jump to 2985.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | fifty thousand or not i think um um as | 6.079 | Jump to 3007.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2014 and they never left | 7.319 | Jump to 3048.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | think that the three best things that we | 2.4 | Jump to 3080.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh number one uh continue to stick | 3.36 | Jump to 3082.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh for five minutes for his testimony | 3.119 | Jump to 3170.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | when putin uh attacked crimea in 2014 | 5.841 | Jump to 3200.079 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | from 2016 to 2020 when donald trump was | 5.439 | Jump to 3214.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | this uh russian gas pipeline it's one | 4.96 | Jump to 3273.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that there would be two | 5.201 | Jump to 3280.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two in germany that they would utilize | 8.64 | Jump to 3286.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two there is no more plans to have uh | 6.481 | Jump to 3296.559 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | uh when you talk about the two types of | 5.04 | Jump to 3371.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | mr mfume you are now recognized for five | 4.401 | Jump to 3511.119 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and after 22 years of pretty much | 6.241 | Jump to 3550.799 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | the 1950 and the soviet union's | 5.68 | Jump to 3598.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | this century in 2008 | 5.361 | Jump to 3627.599 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in 2014 as we all know and it has been | 6.0 | Jump to 3638.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | circle those two events and you look at | 5.04 | Jump to 3647.68 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2008 | 3.76 | Jump to 3661.2 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2014 | 4.72 | Jump to 3662.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | well two weeks ago bipartisan | 4.8 | Jump to 3724.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | years ago for the first time in the | 4.719 | Jump to 3780.64 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i know we're going over here a second | 3.599 | Jump to 3880.72 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstrom 2 pipeline | 5.121 | Jump to 4087.359 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nordstream 2 pipeline to move forward | 5.12 | Jump to 4106.96 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | pro-american policies america first | 5.36 | Jump to 4146.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and strong america policy america first | 8.241 | Jump to 4169.679 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sanctions on a russian north stream two | 6.4 | Jump to 4188.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | certainly getting rid of the nordstrom 2 | 4.159 | Jump to 4224.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | than to cut off nordstrom 2 sanctions | 4.72 | Jump to 4243.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | lobbied the senate to drop nordstrom 2 | 5.52 | Jump to 4247.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | from 2016 to 2020 we did not see this | 5.12 | Jump to 4276.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | miss wasserman schultz for five minutes | 3.12 | Jump to 4312.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | one | 3.201 | Jump to 4408.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | number two in that battle between | 4.48 | Jump to 4436.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | going back to the 19th century putin has | 5.04 | Jump to 4573.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | just described two autocracies right so | 4.64 | Jump to 4578.8 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | crimea in 2014 when barack obama | 4.88 | Jump to 4604.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | georgia in 2008 and they haven't been | 4.56 | Jump to 4649.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | recognized for five minutes although | 4.641 | Jump to 4702.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for five minutes | 4.0 | Jump to 4735.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and uh one of the members asked these | 5.76 | Jump to 4795.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | these two comments lead to a question a | 6.161 | Jump to 4798.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | after the first ukrainian incident and | 4.641 | Jump to 4806.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | first maybe respond to that and how we | 5.119 | Jump to 4823.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | deal with it and then the second part is | 5.12 | Jump to 4825.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | to those two things it's hard to trust | 5.2 | Jump to 4856.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 80 000 people that have moved from the | 3.76 | Jump to 4894.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | sector and the second point uh under you | 4.56 | Jump to 4921.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two plus two equals five and you have to | 4.48 | Jump to 4956.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | two plus two equals four and i would | 5.121 | Jump to 4960.719 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | in the last 24 hours that it looks like | 4.401 | Jump to 4968.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | on the one hand he sat with his foreign | 4.0 | Jump to 4976.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | time he said very two troubling things | 4.56 | Jump to 4982.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | while his parliament did and he did one | 5.28 | Jump to 4985.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of a pretext for war and second the | 3.76 | Jump to 4997.6 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | calling for the independence of the two | 5.599 | Jump to 5010.56 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | things you know we have just four years | 4.0 | Jump to 5091.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | miss mace for five minutes for | 5.0 | Jump to 5140.4 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | you're recognized for five minutes | 4.2 | Jump to 5172.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | are uh you have five minutes | 4.079 | Jump to 5240.08 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | hard complicated one that goes back | 3.44 | Jump to 5347.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i wrote a book in 2002 so already 20 | 4.319 | Jump to 5351.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | years ago and and one of the chapters | 3.92 | Jump to 5353.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | relations and chapter eight was called | 5.52 | Jump to 5357.84 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nato n-a-t-o a four-letter word | 5.28 | Jump to 5359.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | let me say two things one it hasn't been | 5.12 | Jump to 5372.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | throughout this entire 30 years of | 3.759 | Jump to 5380.88 | 
                      
                        
                      
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                  | way uh when boris yeltsin first took | 4.88 | Jump to 5387.92 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 1997 go back and read it there's a lot | 5.199 | Jump to 5401.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | because in 1997 we were not in a uh a | 6.801 | Jump to 5406.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | even before he was president in 2000 he | 4.159 | Jump to 5417.04 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | and even just in 2010 when i was in the | 4.961 | Jump to 5432.639 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | his first you know back in 2002 i want | 5.44 | Jump to 5466.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | after september 11th that last major | 4.96 | Jump to 5474.239 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2002 was not a big event | 6.161 | Jump to 5479.199 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2003 2004 and then what happened in | 6.319 | Jump to 5482.32 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | 2014. thank you thank you very much dr | 4.879 | Jump to 5485.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | i would yield you five minutes for any | 4.32 | Jump to 5570.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | um mr grinnell one more question | 5.519 | Jump to 5625.12 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of issues um first of all i would say | 5.28 | Jump to 5647.76 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | that no one should be telling ukraine | 5.281 | Jump to 5650.719 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | but no one should be telling a country | 4.88 | Jump to 5666.48 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | your opinion maybe i should give one of | 3.84 | Jump to 5709.44 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | nato expansion is one issue but this is | 4.96 | Jump to 5742.719 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | for males i think from 18 to 35. uh | 8.56 | Jump to 5886.0 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | think three different points first as to | 4.159 | Jump to 5981.52 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | of 2014 | 3.681 | Jump to 5990.239 |  |  | 
              
                
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                  | comes to ground forces one of the | 3.6 | Jump to 6021.36 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | basically there are four u.s navy ships | 5.76 | Jump to 6093.84 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | if i may one last thing the best the | 4.56 | Jump to 6164.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | they talk about january the 6th um they | 5.281 | Jump to 6186.159 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | after january 6th uh | 4.88 | Jump to 6244.88 |  |  | 
              
                
                  | objection all members will have five | 4.241 | Jump to 6298.239 |  |  |