Ambassador Kurt Volker on What it Will Take to Stop Putin

Matt is in good health and recovering. And I want to say that for both of us. >> Putin has decided that he wants to rebuild the Russian Empire. He thinks the Zars were fools for letting it fall apart. He thinks the communists were fools for letting the Soviet Union fall apart. It makes you want to rewind the

clock all the way back to 2014 when Russia used this hybrid approach to take over the Crimean Peninsula. We did nothing.

>> [music] >> You're listening to American Power. I'm your host, Nat Tain, stand-up comedian, political speech writer, many other kinds of writer, and most likely to cause many important dignitaries to see the inside of my home office podcast host. Joining me as always is a panel of experts. However, we have uh some

slightly scary but good news today on the podcast. Uh those of you who are fans will probably already know this, but some of our listeners might not. Um over the weekend, we got the scary news that our co-host, our energy expert, Matt Randolph himself, many people know him as Mr. Global, uh Matt suffered a

heart attack over the weekend and is healthy and in good condition and recovering, but he will not be joining us today because obviously he has some more recovery to do. He is in good health and he has received an incredible amount of support from his fans and our fans. So, we just want to thank everyone

who has sent him a message already, who's kept him in their thoughts and who hasounded him in the comments to take care of himself because he's already back to posting. And if you'd like to hear his fully detailed horror story, he's already sharing it on his personal social media. So, if you want to hear