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some time with us. hide and go leak. thats the focus of tonights angle. ♪ >> laura: we all love playing hide and go seek at least i did as kids. especially as the sun was setting on a beautiful summer day. well, its winter time and the adults in charge in the senate are still playing games. this one is called hide and go leak hide of the text senate border deal and leaking out pieces transparent attempt to sat phi critics. its a classic senator theater of the absurd move with oits ca...

counterpart railed against the west, and the russian president once again accused the west of escalating the conflict. he also announced russia is now suspending its participation in the start nuclear arms reduction treaty. phil mattingly is in warsaw for us. phil, tell us what the u.s. reaction was specifically to the news from vladimir putin that he was going to suspend his participation in the new start treaty? >> it was a split screen, not one that was planned. that state of the na...

Considering escalating, elev elevating its support of russia, and we heard from the u.n. ambassador that would be a redline for the u.s. if china crosses that redline, then what? >> i dont like drawing red lines in public, that we tell or adversaries or potential adversaries behind closed doors. its serious to us and there will be serious consequences. once you draw the redline in public and the russians start to come closer and closer to the redline, theres pressure on the united states to then...

And inflict even further harm on the people of ukraine? perhaps notjust with conventional munitions but chemical or biological agents or even nuclear weapons which is what has been threatening given that is the assessment and that is your worry, what should need to do with that information? i think we have to be pretty clear there are certain lines we dont want to be crossing and if we are talking about chemical agents being used or an industrial facility being bombed, we need to reassess where ...

Munitions, but perhaps chemical or biological agents or even nuclear weapons, which is what he has been threatening these last few weeks. given that assessment, what should nato do with that information? i think we have to be pretty clear that there are certain lines we do not want to be crossed, and if we are talking about chemical agents being used, or an industrial facility being bombed then we need to reassess where we are in this conflict, at the worst of the escalation, i think we should g...

Involved, you know, in a wide way, directly with ukraine and our allies. and does it warrant sending our troops, n.a.t.o. troops. neil: thats what im asking. >> into an international fight? im not prepared to say that, you know, ive learned after, you know, 25 years of doing this, drawing red lines is a dangerous thing to do. but look, theres growing pressure right now, as youve heard on your program, for the u.s. to get militarily involved. at this point i think thats still too risky, given wha...

Supporting. and what im really keen is its not a burden of me as prosecutor. its not a burden of the office of prosecutor. its not a burden just of ukraine or of states. these red lines that demark basic norms of acceptable conduct, a prohibition against genocide, need to be policed by all of us. >> in the world of politics and international, you know, diplomacy, political leaders are often wary of drawing red lines. youre not wary of drawing a red line when it comes to the law. >> well, you kno...

On the people of ukraine, perhaps notjust with conventional munitions, but perhaps chemical or biological agents or even nuclear weapons, which is what he has been threatening these last few weeks. given that assessment, what should nato do with that information? i think we have to be pretty clear that there are certain lines we do not want to be crossed, and if we are talking about chemical agents being used, or an industrial facility being bombed then we need to reassess where we are in this c...

Community thinks he will do, and inflict even further harm on the people of ukraine, perhaps notjust with conventional munitions, but perhaps chemical or biological agents or even nuclear weapons, which is what he has been threatening these last few weeks. given that assessment, what should nato do with that information? i think we have to be pretty clear that there are certain lines we do not want to be crossed, and if we are talking about chemical agents being used, or an industrial facility b...

That set the president off so much. a forceful statement, yes. it was news, but theres no shortage of statements like that that are flying around on a daily basis. >> i dont think you should look too much at the speakers comments as the thing that set him off. obviously, the signage was prepared to go into the rose garden. this was sort of a play in the playbook that was available to the president, that he clearly called, irrespective of what her actual words were. i think what sarah westwood ju...