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And they havent, bianna? >> another ruling from the court on a rare case involving the returning of a painting thats confiscated by nazis during the holocaust. what do we learn about that? >> this is an interesting case. this is a supreme court ruling, a family trying to get the return of the painting confiscated by nazis from their great grandmother. a technical case here, the supreme court ruling in favor of the family saying that theyll be able to apply california law instead of a foreign law...

To germany because the russians invaded. but i would also like to add for your history buffs, and i know you are one, jose, the russians also attacked ukraine in 19 -- and poland, in 1939. so they were the recipient of the germans and the russians from both ends. >> absolutely. jonathan, the president is set to meet with the secretary of defense and the joint chiefs of staff today. what can we expect from that meeting? >> well, i think it will be a discussion on the next military aid package to ...

Can. and theyre really bearing down, of course, as youre all seeing on the ground there in the east. but the ukrainians themselves are, of course, still feeling that, look, they can beat the russians as they did in the west. so i dont think either side right now is prepared to say, okay, lets sit down and talk. but eventually, strategically, somebodys going to have to come to some sort of agreement. the ukrainians like to kick the russians out completely probably to include crimea but certainly ...

Dont trust what putin is going to do, because we see what he has done in ukraine? >> its the latter. your analysis is spot on as usual, alex. put yourself in the shoes of the finns and the swedes. theyve got a long, bad history with russia. and by the way, go back to 1939, google winter war, finland, 1939. soviet tanks under stalin rolled into finland, much the same premise as we see going into ukraine, they carved out about 10% of finlands territory. they forced finland into neutrality. thats w...

Companies doing whatever they need to do to support ngos here in lifting up the people who are arriving across the borders. but what is driving the commitment to do something is that again this is 1939 in the minds of the polish people, in which they are resisting an invasion of a cruel foreign attacker and its exhibit a of what i am talking about, ed. >> just to follow up, ambassador, kaylee, if these reports are confirmed that katin is being targeted for possible demolition, this, of course, b...

Is wrestling where just as one million more refugees wait across the border in ukraine to come in as the next wave, based on whether hostilities continue in ukraine or not. it looks like they will continue. >> mr. ambassador, if i can come back to my second question what do you hear on the question of whether more could be done to help ukraine fight back this next wave of russian attacks, do pols support that? do they talk much about the danger poland, itself, can get drawn into this war? >> wel...

What you see with the young people, particularly rushing to the ukrainian-poland border, arriving in the middle of the night to take say a family or another ukrainian family. this is their moment to stand up like they had hoped the country would have been able to done when nazis invaded poland in 1939 so there is a tremendous desire here. not j you to empractice tess refugees but to do more in ukraine. and its also the case, david, that there are things that could be done that could make things ...

The victim. nato is a defensive alliance, founded by the u.s. and allies after the second world war to act as a collective bulwark against soviet expansion. history shows really clearly why russians western neighbors are the ones who have good reason to fear russian aggression and not remotely the other way around. ill spare you the story of russias partition of poland or the attempt to take warsaw in 1920, lets start with the second world war, okay. in 1939, during the nonaggression pact with h...

Union but basically just take finland. and stall their own puppet, pro soviet government, or maybe just even just annex finland, make fun of part of the ussr. erase it as a sovereign country. again, they didnt think that it would be hard. they think it would take a few days. it did not work that way. the fins, in 1939, fought them off furiously. i mean, at the time, there were 4 million -- less than 4 million people in finland. 180 million people in the soviet union. and proportionate militaries...

Reason it needed to invade the neighboring nation of finland was because it was a threat to it, when obviously finland was no threat. i mean, the soviet union, it just like what putin is claiming about right now, the soviet union claim that they were in mortal danger from the much, much smaller country on the border. a country that was doing nothing at all to menace its much larger neighbor to the east. just like what putin is saying about ukraine, the eu soviet union said the same thing about f...