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Young man. you know? fun to be around. life of the party, have fun, smiling all the time. dont bother people. for this to happen is crazy. its crazy. and im just to the point right now, i dont know what to do. i dont even think this is real. i feel like it is a dream. >> thats the father of three children there. the mayor of sacramento also spoke yesterday saying that the response here has to go beyond thoughts and prayers. >> it is beyond time to have a sane conversation about guns in america. ...

Systems and coastal defense systems. lets take coast it will defense systems as an example. president biden went to brussels to talk to key allies about how to get defense systems to ukraine because theres not a good u.s. option. last week, the uk announced at the close of its donor conference the coastal defense systems would be provided to the ukrainians. its a good example of how working with allies and partners were successfully responding to ukraines request. we expect additional new capabi...

At that. many people oit in the public raised their eyebrows at that. hes not going to head at a time to call a spade a spade, call it like he sees it and neither is the u.s. government. >> on the sangs that the president was talking about today, should we expect those this week or whats the timing? >> you can expect further sanctions announcements this week. were coordinating on what the exact parameters of that will be. this week we will have additional economic pressure elements to announce. ...

It may not be matter of a few weeks before all is said and done. the first phase was measured in weeks. this next phase could be measured in months or longer. >> what would winning look like? >> we believe that our job is to support the ukrainians . we do have confidence in the br bravery, skill and capacity of the armed forces. >> one thing on chemical weapons, the president and other allies have promised consequences without saying a they would be. last time russia used chemical

Vladmir putin believed the west would not hold together. they were surprised the united states was so effective in preparing the world to prepare for and respond to the invasion. after president biden reenforced and reinvigorated over a series of summits just 11 days ago, the russians have realized that the west will not break. at this juncture, we believe that russia is revising its war games. russia is repositioning its forces to concentrate the offensive operations in eastern and part of sout...

Lives, before any more of that country is destroyed. and im not sure this conversation necessarily gets us closer to that goal. >> so lets talk about sanctions then. the president says that more sanctions are coming. if the expectation from the white house, and this is what we heard from jake sullivan and from others that these sanctions do not deter. they are to impose a cost and it wont come in days or weeks. it will have been over months. what is the argument for incrementalism? >> incemeteri...

Weapons, there were sanctions but not stiff ones. are you ready to define consequences? >> im going to say the same thing i said from this podium that the president said from a podium down the hall in this same building is russia will pay a severe price. we have communicated to them directly. we have coordinated with our allies and partners. im not going to go further into the specifics. >> the administration did not call this war crimes. eventually they did. do you think that will be the case w...

Causing economic destruction and terror in ukraine. what did you hear? >> thats right. the other thing i heard significant is jake sullivan use the term retreat when describing the russian movement of troops . it has significant impact diplomatically as well as militarily. that was one of the key factors there. >> phil, to you at the white house. president biden says and we heard from jake there are new sanctions that will be coming.

It has to be accountability. the united states will work with the international community to ensure that accountability is applied at the appropriate time. >> the president was careful to say he does not see this as genocide. many believe it is. where is the line , in your vie, and how would you counsel the president between general side and war crimes? >> this is something we monitor every day. we have seen atrocities, war crimes. we have not seen a level ov systemic depravation of life to the ...

Be worse. the dcarnage is exposed after te russian troops retreated. it calls for consequences for vladimir putin. president biden calling for more sanctions and for putin to be tried for war crimes. cnn fred saw the atrocities first hand. tell us what you saw. >> hi there, the situation is really devastating. its the only way we can describe it. one of the things we saw there was a mass grave behind the main church that was getting filled and has been getting filled since the early days of the ...