Introduction

Fred Poliken joins us now from Moscow, Fred. We were expecting to hear more of the same, I think, from President Putin,. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will, quote, disappear if it stops what Moscow calls this special military operation. And late last night, after Vladimir Putin's initial speech, I actually got a message from the Kremlin spokesman, from Dimitri Pescov commenting on President Biden's speech. He believes that he's essentially wanted the disintegration of Russia. It's simply something that's not being spoken out there loud and clear enough. This concludes the part of the summit open for media, so I kindly ask the media to leave the room,