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Nor enormous amount of weight. what is your reaction? >> the president spoke his mind. and he is trying to move putin out of power. and we had an invasion a month ago a scale of nothing weve seen since the invasion of poland since 1939. and this was aggression. thousands of civilians have been killed. cities rubbled. that is the background of all of this. and so the president stated -- he didnt say the united states was going to take the regime down but supported it in principal. and im glad tha...

Castle? >> you know, wolf, its interesting, the white house is not trying to lessen expectations for these remarks as you detailed. anytime there is a moment like that, the backdrop is intentional and the decision to pick the royal castle, it will be interesting to see how the president weaves and ties it into the history of this building, this kind of symbol of the polish nation and perhaps most importantly the symbol of the ability to rebuild. this castle, which is so critical here in warsaw, ...

Weapons and we need real serious sanctions. russia talked about swift. it was said to the world. but its not. seven russian banks are cut off. which makes only 15% of russian financial systems. is russia really cut off from swift? no. so it should be cut off from swift. it should be stopped receiving money from european states nor gas and oil and coal because with these billions of euros, every week, he will continue the war. he will not stop it in ukraine. he will go further. he will attack pol...

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Lets let putin try and figure it out for a change. >> strategic am biguity, thats important for sure. putin seems to have some concessions ahead of these peace talks, including ukraine would consider neutral status ahead of this peace deal, meaning nato membership would be off the table. how significant is that? >> i think its important, wolf. and if you think about how this ends, heres one for folks to go back and google. look at the winter war with finland, 1939. russia invades finland, the fi...

The desire is for americans to feel like their lives are improving, not just that theyre getting back to work, which is a good sign. but that they can afford what everything is costing them these days. >> and thats exactly right. the economy as a whole, 11 straight months of more than 400,000 jobs. thalts trr the best track record since 1939. were talking about -- >> unbelievable. you know, were used to thinking 150,000/200,000 in a month is a pretty good month. we got revised for last month ove...

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Russians, then you just trust it and thats reason number one. well, as for reason number two, look, lets say italy of 1930 with mumusilini, what do you expect them to say? if you have something like that in germany of 1939 or 1940 or any time during the soviet era in the soviet union. yes, there was no way anybody would answer that i do not trust the communist party or the president. of course, on the one hand i do not trust those polls. we cannot trust their exact numbers no matter what they sa...

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War crime. we just heard president biden join president zelenskyy calling it that. biden stopped short of calling it genocide. youre an expert on the development of these legal concepts. is this a genocide? what do you think it is? >> a little primer. until 1939, there was only one international crime and that was called war crimes. that includes things like targeting civilians which apparently is going on. the images are absolutely appalling. in 1945, at the nuremberg tribunal, crimes against h...