MICHAEL KNOWLES (CO-HOST): This raises this question which is — forgive me, I'm just being the devil's advocate here. Does Vladimir Putin have a point? He made his grand speech giving the pretext for war in Ukraine. And he made a ton of historical claims, a ton of political claims. He made a ton of security claims about Russia, those were basically the three facets of the speech. And it is mind boggling that this two-bit leader of a backwater former super power that is now just a petrol state that's basically surviving on whether gas and energy prices are above a certain threshold — that this guy is basically eating our lunch right now here in the West. How is he doing that?
SENATOR TED CRUZ: Well he's doing it because of presidential weakness.