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Was saying and what the administration was saying in terms of the significance of this war, what it would likely mean, reshaping the way the western world operates and what we were doing. he was late on sanctions. he didnt initially sanction putin and lay down s.w.i.f.t. and didnt send the arms before the war that were now rushing into kyiv. >> i think its important, i was so struck by secretary blinken, he wanted -- >> it didnt make the news. it has been a shift in the thinking -- >> hes got to...

Stingers and javelins. thats really the critical next step. >> the next question is is the administration everything it can do? this goes back to the public opinion question. people will be favorable to the biden administration if theres the impression as we watch this play out on our screens, on our phones, that the biden administration is doing everything it can. i think there is a growing sense that they are not. if you look at what president biden said on february 24th when he announced this...

>> you imply it was bidens weakness on afghanistan, and the trump administration, they tried to roll back sanctions in 2017, and tried to lobby congress to weaken russian sanctions and legislation in 2017 and tried to remove sanctions on russian oligarch companies in 2018, delayed chemical weapons sanctions that were required by law in russia and lets not forget holding ukrainian aid hostage for a political stunt. you dont think any of those things sent a message to vladimir putin that the west ...

Russian security services, that the offensive is not going well, that some special forces, the russian pesnaps are furious because theyve been sent into battle without proper support and many have been killed. they said the national guard forces and the regular army, which includes the chechen units, the two are not coordinating, and that the plan is somewhat disjointed, that its partly a plan for war and partly a plan for peacekeeping and so-called denazi-fication in this country that has led t...

Welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you for having me on. >> let me start you with the last question i asked secretary blinken, can this crisis be brought to an end with putin still in power in russia? >> well, i think putin will try. he will drag this out as long as he can. hes committed and hes an evil tyrant and will not stop until he can form the soviet empire. the lesson in all this, when tyrants speak we should listen, and he said he would take ukraine, and he is. and china said the...

This what it actually is, which is a war. with the russian economy crippled by sanctions, putin is now calling that a declaration of war. there are growing concerns that a cornered putin could lash out and widen the conflict beyond ukraines borders. we will start with two reports from the region. kelly cobiella near the poland border, reporting on the 1.5 million ukrainians who have fled the country and first we will kick things off with richard engel who is in kyiv. a lot has happened overnight...

Basically just help me. ill fight my own fight, just give me the tools to do it. and for us to hesitate or anyone to hesitate in the free world is wrong. and he said that. he says, if ukraine falls, europe may fall. where do you want to stop -- >> what does that mean for you? would you support a no fly zone? would you support doing this which could trigger a wider conflict? >> i understand that, but right now you dont signal to your nemesis. this is putins war, this is not the russian peoples wa...

President putin was willing to engage diplomatically to bring this aggression to a close. right now were not seeing him. he was on the phone, president putin, with president macron of france a couple days ago, and by all accounts, according to the french, hes digging in and doubling down. and i think we have to be ready that this could go on for some while. the sheer force that russia can bring to bear, the manpower, the expanse in its military, has the potential to keep grinding down these incr...

That ukraine is someone, that nobody is really serious about protecting ukraine. and that was ultimately a sign of weakness. its our political divisions, and our party infighting that was on full display now. and putin is quite shocked now that we have some collective action together. >> we want you to listen to a member of the ukrainian parliament about the no-fly zone zone. >> we all know that also the next step that we see is a no-fly zone over ukraine. i know that everybody is saying, no, no...

Horrible poll numbers. winston churchill had a great quote. he said that "an appeaser is a person who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." that is what joe biden is doing. he appeased aoc at the beginning. he appeased her on the border, appeased her on keystone, appeased her on the trillions of dollars giving it away, now he is appeasing putin, appeasing china, he has appeased putin on the nord system, that is all this guy is about, is appeasement and weakness and all the things we ha...