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>> yeah, bret, it does seem counterintuitive, doesnt it? in the one hand, were trying to cut off supplies to vladimir putin and at the same time look at dubious, nefarious characters for oil elsewhere. >> yeah, i want to pick up on the point, especially with regards to venezuela. i was out to dinner this evening with a senior, latin american official who was left speechless by the visit of senior use officials to caracas. ostensibly, they were there to look at options when it comes to reopening ...

Countries. it just was not obvious the way poland has been going. its, like hungary had been backsliding on the democratic scale in the last few years. >> good evening, ali. its good to be with you. i think, in fact, poland has been since it join nato in 1999, the most important strategic repositioned ally of the united states in the region. and that become critically more so since this invasion started just over one month ago. poland shares about 330 mile border with ukraine. which puts it righ...

We havent seen that but he will go essentially shore up the troop, look at the humanitarian crisis and probably reemphasize his pledge to take in refugees, and other people from ukraine, in the u.s., and then sort of go and talk with duda, that is interesting, it is interesting john, rewind six month, poland, there were a lot of folks concerned about a backsliding of democracy here in poland and sort of the fallout of that and what the implications of that would be, the russian invasion of ukrai...

And the photos reminding me of what life must have been like for them. i want to show you live pictures of a meeting under way at the building next door to me, which is the presidential palace here in warsaw, thats a live shot of a meeting under way between the president of poland, andrzej duda on the right, and president biden who is on the left of that screen, closer to the camera you can see secretary of state antony blinken. theyre having a discussion. the interesting thing about president...

Its why we want it to stop sooner rather than later. and indeed, this may happen in time. my hope is that there wont be a deeper escalation of the invasion in ukraine, where we would see worse happening, because, as youve rightly said, people have lost their lives. there are people who are not getting water and food, humanitarian aid, although we are working to try and, with humanitarian organisations, get those supplies into the country. so we are doing a lot and, of course... does it worry you...

Bloc and eastern european countries. it just was not obvious the way poland has been going. its, like hungary had been backsliding on the democratic scale in the last few years. >> good evening, ali. its good to be with you. i think, in fact, poland has been since it joined nato in 1999, the most important strategic positioned ally of the united eastern region. and that become critically more so since this invasion started just over one month ago. poland shares about 330 mile border with ukraine...

We have arrived at the kind of a pocket moment that people thought 9/11 was. and it is closing the chapter on the kind of world order that francis fukuyama identified. the end of history at the end of the cold war, liberal democracy ascended at its peak. when we have seen over the last several years is the move toward liberal democracy and openness between nations, backsliding. weve seen it in europe with the rise of hungarys viktor orban who describes himself as a illiberal democrat, and the fo...

Democracy, it was a country whose government was only partially democratic, in fact it had been a full democracy, but it had been backsliding. it also had a population who had divided themselves politically, so the political parties were divided along not only ethnic lines, but in to some degree linguistic and geographical lines as well. so the question is, what do you do in a situation like this? that is not going away in ukraine. western ukraine will always be much more heavily russia leaning,...

And the awful european history that it summons up. >> let me ask you about the politics in europe. joe biden said something very interesting in his meeting with president duda, and he said the ability of the united states to do its job around the world relies upon the stability of europe. what weve seen in europe over the last decade or so is -- you know, a backsliding of democracy in some places in europe. here in poland, in hungary where i was, it almost seems like what has happened in ukraine...

Democratic. in fact, it had been a full democracy, but it had been backsliding. it also had a population who had divided itself politically. so their political parties were divided not only along ethnic lines but to some degree, linguistic lines. thats not going away in ukraine. western ukraine will always be much more heavily russia leaning. it contains a large proportion of its population who came from russia over the last 50 years who are russian speakers and thats eastern ukraine, and wester...