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What do you need exactly? He's open about working for Sputnik (it's on his Wikipedia) and he made that exact claim about Crimea on Rogan a couple of weeks ago.

Brother, do you think Google has the transcript of every podcast saved in memory? Of course not. You could have also scrolled down and found the multitude of Reddit threads on the first page of results where people are discussing Kiriakou spreading russian talking points.

Here's a short of him saying, word for word, "Crimea was Russian until 1953, Kruschiev gave it to the Ukranians as a gift and then the Russians took it back in '14" on Rogan a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BK4CDgGkxn8

Here's the timestamp for him saying it in the actual podcast: https://youtu.be/TZqADzuu73g?t=8514

Here he is on Danny Jones two years ago, asked directly if Putin wants to "conquer Ukraine", he says no and then goes on to say that the US actually betrayed Putin regarding countries joining Nato, and so this action in Ukraine is essentially self defense because the US is forcing Putin's hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uVdwKm5o4A

Which is literally on the wikipedia page for Russian disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine:

Although it seeks to join, Ukraine is not a member of NATO; a collective security alliance of 32 member states, similar to the Russian-led CSTO. In 1999, Russia signed the Charter for European Security, affirming the right of each state to choose its security arrangements and join alliances if they wish.

Putin claimed that NATO broke a promise not to let any Eastern European countries join. This unwritten promise was allegedly made by American and German diplomats to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, but the diplomats and NATO denied ever making any formal proposal. Such a promise was never included in any treaty, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. From then until the Russian invasion, 14 Eastern European countries willingly joined NATO. Political scientist Filip Kostelka says many of these countries sought NATO membership "to protect themselves from the Russian threat. They did not need to be pushed". The last time a country bordering Russia had joined NATO prior to the invasion was in 2004.

Putin has not always opposed NATO. According to Michael McFaul and Robert Person, this suggests Putin did not truly believe it to be a military threat. In 2002, Putin said Ukraine's relationship with NATO was not Russia's concern. Russia did not make threats about the Baltic states joining NATO in 2004. Putin said in 2005 that if Ukraine wanted to join NATO, "we will respect their choice, because it is their sovereign right to decide their own defence policy, and this will not worsen relations between our countries". It was not until his 2007 Munich speech that Putin openly opposed NATO enlargement. Nevertheless, Russia deepened co-operation with NATO in 2010, and the two continued to co-operate until Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

When Russia occupied Crimea and invaded the Donbas in 2014, Ukraine was officially a neutral country and was not seeking NATO membership. In December 2014, Ukraine's parliament voted to end this neutral status in response to Russia's aggression, and Ukraine only applied to join NATO in response to the 2022 invasion. Steven Pifer thus argues that Russia's own aggressive actions have done the most to push Ukraine towards NATO. When Russia invaded in 2022, Ukraine was a long way from membership. Members of the alliance have been wary of letting Ukraine join, partly due to Putin's warnings.