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Out a statement to say, in part, nato leaders met on the one year anniversary with unprovoked and unjustified with ukraine and determination to hold russia accountable for brutal war and our commitment to strengthening the nato alliance. those are all three of the top things theyve been talking about in that room behind closed doors but it came after president zelenskyy himself addressed the group via video conference. he was not physically here at the summit, of course, hes in kyiv and ukraine ...

Congresss requirement take into account not only the sentencing guidelines, not only the recommendations of the parties but also things like the stories of the victims, also things like the nature and circumstances of the offense and the history and characteristics of the defendant. congress is the body that tells sentencing judges what theyre supposed to look at. and congress has said that a judge is not playing a numbers game. the judge is looking at all of these different factors and making a...

Defeat them. its extraordinary. and thats because they had a leader who told them they could win, and they had the grit and determination. were seeing something like that right now, and the stories coming out every day, and i know david will warn us, its a long war, and russias a huge powerful army, but still, the determination, the grit that the ukrainians have shown is just nothing short of remarkable. >> even the pictures were looking at here, president zelenskyy in combat gear, sure its symb...

Disintegrating in ukraine. i think there is more motivation to fight the united states and nato. i dont want to give them that, especially if we can help the ukrainians win with the kind of assistance were providing. >> we have just a few seconds left, but i do want to ask you, you worked on human rights under the obama administration. does what were seeing from putin now amount to war crimes in your mind, and inso, what does the world do about that? >> totally. they are indiscriminately firing ...

And as the violence worsens, the need for medical supplies to help the wounded continues to grow as does the wests determination to help. president joe biden signing $13.6 billion worth of aid only last week. >> the bottleneck is not funds because there has been a great deal of solidarity and generosity. so we now really need to step up the operation and response inside the country. >> reporter: in the knowledge that the longer the conflict lasts and the more the aid is needed, the more dangerou...

Twin brother, is here as well, along with his wonderful wife, dana. also here from park city, utah, are patricks older brother, gardy and his wife, natalie. and last, but certainly not least, my very dear in-laws, the matriarch and patriarch of the jackson family, pamela and gardner jackson have traveled here from boston to be with me today. im saving a special moment in this introduction for my daughters, talia and leila. girls, i know it has not been easy, as ive tried to navigate the challeng...

Released to the public. is that an outcome that should be concerning? >> senator, in law school when i was writing a note i was looking at a brand new set of laws that had not previously been enacted in any jurisdiction. they were new. and i was assessing at the time as law school students do what criteria i thought might be used by courts to make a determination in the future as to whether or not they should be treated as punitive and therefore not unconstitutional but as therefore ones that ca...

Framework for your decision-making? >> no, senator. >> does the united states need more of your police? >> senator, the determination about whether there should be more or fewer polices policy decision by another branch of government. it is not something that judges have control over and i will stay in my lane in terms of the kinds of things that are properly in the judicial branch. >> joining me now is senator richard lewin fall, he is a democrat from connecticut. he sits on the judiciary commi...

Determination not based on one data point in general, which is what you asked me in general should we lower or heighten sentences, a judge is making a determination in a particular case looking at all of the factors. its discretionary for sure but we do so within the bounds of a sentencing range that congress prescribes and at times in which congress decides a personality needs to be heightened, they impose a mandatory minimum and our range is shorter. and when looking at the crime, were not loo...

The right to an abortion. contraception. >> treating of slaves as chattel property? >> i dont quite remember the basis for the dred scott opinion, but i will trust you that -- >> the fact is, is it not, that you can use substantive due process to justify basically any result. >> well, the court -- >> whether its conservative or liberal, libertarian or conservative, whatever you would like to call it. its just a mode of analysis by the court that allows the court to substitute its opinion for the...