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>> democracy is both fragile and resilient and we are seeing both sides at the moment, but the resiliency of democracy and the capability of democracy to correct itself, and thats why theres going to be a lot of work to do. >> u.s. president joe biden issued a lengthy tribute saying in part madeleine was always a force for goodness, grace and decency, and for freedom. the u.s. senate judiciary is expected to vote april 4th on judge ketanji brown jackson -- were going to go to boris johnson, th...

Armour or tanks, and that seems like on the low tech end spectrum, and thats the kind of capability we would feel comfortable in the west providing the ukrainians, and we have been providing offensive weapons in terms of javelins and i think we will move to more sophisticated surface to air missiles, and theres a reluctance to talk about the specific capabilities and where these capabilities are coming from. some countries dont want to be publicly identified of providing from their defense stock...

Times on 18 hours notice from its home base in ft. bragg, north carolina, to any contingency around the world. their expertise is forcible entry, meaning under fire, parachute entry into objectives, potentially behind enemy lines. nobody thinks thats going to happen here. here, its about reassurance, deterrence, helping with the refugee crisis as the polish government requested additional help but it is an important message that the 82nd is there, its telling both poland and russia what kind of ...

Alternatives, orjust use less fuel. they said it would bring down carbon emissions. what do you say to that? at the minute we cant get diesel engines— at the minute we cant get diesel engines for manufacturers in the uk. i engines for manufacturers in the uk. i dont _ engines for manufacturers in the uk. idont think— engines for manufacturers in the uk. i dont think it will make much difference in the short—term. at i dont think it will make much difference in the short-term. at the moment...

For it. >> he lacks the money to do it. he lacks the economic band width and power to recreate the old soviet union. but united states allowing that, weve allowed him to have enough resources to do this in ukraine. it all goes back to he lacks the economic capability to recreate the soviet union. at the same time, lets stop giving him this energy revenue to do what hes doing in ukraine. i dont see an easy solution. this is building for years. so im very actually fascinated to see how we come to ...

There have been in ukraine, but it really is. >> it is a huge deal. no one expected this to happen at all and throughout this six weeks the ukrainians have basically done a lot of defensive action and in the past week or so they started mounting counter offensives, on specific targets, in and around kyiv. very small and local counter offensives. so, the fact that they went across the border to knock out this oil depot with two helicopters, its extremely significant for several reasons. chief amo...

Settlement, but were not going to give yo any territory in thest. -- east. again, hes called out the west, hes called outside biden and said, lead, give us the fighting tools we need to win this fight and drive russia out of the eastern part of ukraine. by the way, neil, russias not going to go to the west. they cant. they dont have the troops, they dont have capability to get there, they dont have the mass to do it, and theyd be truly in bad territory if today did. if they went west of the dnip...

Russia for this. >> my apologies, i have to ask, does the success of the ukrainian military places they are able to push back russian forces, does that increase chances putin will launch chemical weapons attack if he understands he doesnt have the man power to win on the ground does he then change the rules of the game? >> well, i dont know whats in his head. certainly he has the capacity an the capability to use chemical weapons. we know he has them. hes used them very famous examples in recent...

Its really about capabilities and its based on constant conversations with our nato allies on the eastern flank. >> are those marines nato response force committed or are they just individual -- >> right now these are individual decisions based on available capability that we had and in talking to our nato allies. i dont -- as you probably saw in the nato summit, they announced another four battle groups and i think the nations are still feeling those out. i think were leading the one in poland....

There is no obvious clear answer. its possible that they want to maintain this ambiguity to conceal some sort of capability, perhaps, but the closest thing i can compare it to in the course of ukraines operation so far would be the destruction of a russian naval ship. this was an operation that ukraine carried out about a week or so ago. they destroyed a russian naval ship while it was docked in a russian-controlled city. on that occasion, though, ukraine did accept responsibility. what they did...