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Moment as well that leads us to even more scary moment than the one we sit in this morning. russias war in ukraine hurting energy prices here at home as president obama rising costs tapping into u.s. oil reserves. >> package it allow energy payments to continue. the united states will release additional barrels of oil as conditions warrant. i know this is hard, and that americans are already hurting. i will do everything in my power to limit the pain the american people are feeling at the gas pu...

Pauses. referencing the key natural gas pipeline from russian to have any affect on putin this needs to be locked with u.s. sanctions on north stream two companies. thats an interesting point. because some like general have suggested north stream two does not offer is a much leverage as one might think. the gas not currently flowing to germany. germany certainly wants that gas. and it puts them in much better economic situation but to or who forceful do you agree with that point they have got to...

Were not just talking about air private plans of -- oligarchs, there are a lot of nations retaliating against that country for this, it does seem that will be have a tremendous affect on the russian economy. reporter: it is huge. think about you flyover seas that great circle route, you want the shorter distances, if russians cannot flyover canada or other european nations, they have to fly all the way around, anyway, it big. jon: lucas tomlinson in lviv thank you. >> as we heard many american a...

On the way and mike tobin is live in lviv, ukraine. mike, were learning that there may be some talks between the ukrainian delegation and the russian delegation, what can you tell us on that and whats the latest on lviv? >> this will be the third round of talks with cease-fire delegation and met twice now in belarus, what they established last time was cease-fire of the humanitarian corridors, but those that went into effect today fell apart as quickly as they went into affect. and the last time...

Of biden and pledged to defend the borders even as he opens our borders to the worlds. invading america is equity and invading ukraine as a war crime. so with every day we move closer to some kind of conflict with russia, conflict that could easily spin out of control. the people running it have no fine motor skills. even the administration assures us this has nothing to do with repaying joe bidens personal debts to ukrainian oligarchs, not at all. the point here is to defend democracy. not that...

I saw you retweet edward lucas, a politician in britain. lucas makes a list of things he thinks the west should do. i will read a few and ask if any of them stand out as good ideas. things that are practical and that would have an affect on putin. withdraw all western ambassadors from moscow and send their russian counterparts home. remove r.t. and other propaganda elements in all countries with regulated broadcast media. delisting, asset freezes on kremlin cronies.

Moldova and i dont have a change to their posture. i dont know of any changes. >> continual up tick of casualty in ukraine. we talked about long range fires. how much of that has a sense to do with increased casualties? >> we assessed the reliance on long range fires. missile strikes, artillery, rocket attacks are having an increased affect on increased casualties. we do believe its a direct result of their increasing reliance on these long range

This is not the ukraine from 30 years ago. this is the ukraine that has been for decades building a democracy and striving for democracy and freedom and now you see theyre willing to fight for it. >> given your three tours of duty as an army ranger, give me a sense of how you perceive the street by street combat that must be going on in cities like kharkiv and in kyiv as well, lviv as well potentially down the road. is there a tremendous advantage to being on home turf? you know the streets. how...

About to be repealed which means the crush of the border will be increasingly worse than it is already with record numbers of people, 200,000 people coming over every signal month. you have a secretary by orca having trouble internally with border patrol feeling like their mission as lost as a result. i think the administration of the crime issue is looking around the country seeing these radical leftist das being recalled and then applying that to the situation with midterm elections coming up ...

In this aggression would be very, very costly for their economy. but that argument didnt work with president putin. you said it yourself. he seems to not care, at least at this point at what the sanctions are and what the affect are on his people. so im not going to try to predict what the chinese do, but i do hope that they take and look at the situation and understand that the unity of the democratic world could affect their economy in ways that they could never have had nightmares of. >> what...