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About nato expansion. >> the great thing about the free world, western alliance, nato, you have a group of states, and they know how to settle differences and i expect the differences will be settled. i expect nato will speak with one voice in support of finland and sweden at the end of the day and the remarkable unity with respect to sanctions coming out of the e.u., united states and indopacific partners, the support we have provided ukraine in terms of humanitarian and military assistance is ...

Destabilize the e.u., and instead, finland and sweden are going to join these blue nations in nato and look at this. right now, youve got a border of about 225 miles between nato and russia with latvia and estonia, but when finland joins, thats going to add about 804 more miles of nato border with russia. epic, epic failure on russias part. >> putin is losing on the northern flank as well. and sweden has not been in a war or alliance since 1814, yes, 1814. shattering important decision for them,...

Rather than waiting to this point. now, when, if they were to get the f.d.a. and abbott and the others in the same room and, say, tell us what are the roadblocks, what red tape should we remove, where should we put a preclearance situation in place to speed up this production. how should we be waiving restrictions on the e.u. and u.k. to import this formula. that would bring some short-term relief and some midterm relief, but this is something they would need to address long-term. look at this s...

Call for the congress to support the bill for $40 billion. and i think that that will be very good example when some nato member states again repeat the same action on their parliament, the land lease to supply everything from nutrition to ammunition because you are absolutely right, we fight here for the global freedom, for the global security, and simply help us to help you. and the european union and for the leaders, i know what it does mean the special structure. it is my signature on the th...

Western democracy. and there are so many millions of and millions of americans, millions and millions of europeans have been so inspired by that. that is why i was shocked yesterday and would you love to get your response to the president of frances comments that ukraine could be years away from joining the e.u. when i know the americans, i know the head of the e.u., i know so many other europeans want to fast track. what do you say to the president of france? >> first of all, let me thank you f...

Zelenskyy laid out exactly what needs to happen on that. >> european union should have the united position, they dont have it yet with respect to certain sanctions for those sanctions that the european union introduced we are very thankful to them for. >> and john, we also talked about the fact assumed the presidency of the u.n. security council whether he thinks more needs to be done, he indeed pushed for that among other things. and i also asked him, john, whether or not it was important that ...

>> john: explosions rocking lviv again causing widespread outages and train disruptions and the south, russian forces pounding the key port city of mariupol. officials there say the bombing campaign is intensifying as civilians are evacuating. griff jenkins joining us live from kyiv, and you interviewed volodymyr zelenskyy earlier today, what did he have to tell you? >> good afternoon, john. day 70 of the war and president zelenskyy sat down with us for 57 minutes and covered everything from mar...

In -- [inaudible] >> neil: lets go to phil flynn on this. you did see this coming but its not improving. doesnt look like its going to. what is happen something. >> it sure isnt. too bad the federal reserve cant drill for oil right now. maybe that would help or at least diesel fuel and refine it. were seeing diesel supplies here in the united states hit an all-time low. we have never seen supplies in this country lower than it is right now. this comes at a very critical time for diesel because r...

Global economic growth is slowing to a crawl. as covid and the war in ukraine rattles the worlds biggest economies. and as fears grow about a recession here at home, fed chair jerome powell is set to announce a big rate hike later this week. >> so many questions. so many questions and i know mika on your birthday you want clarity. so i have brought in columnist and editor for "the new york times" and co-anchor of squawk box, andrew ross sorkin. >> it is my birthday. and im 55. >> happy birthday....

They are to pay norfor gas in euros. the e.u. warned paying for russian gas in rubles would cause sanctions. two accounts for gazprom, one in euros, they say one could involve the russian central bank. the lag time between the depositing of the euros and the conversion into rubles could essentially mean, you know, europes gas importers are loaning the money to gazprom which would be in violation of sanctions. the other thing they say, we dont know enough about the system russia has put in place ...