states took advantage of russia s moment of historical weak weakness in the 1990s s risk appetite has grown as his grip on russia s titans. eric: are we doing enough to face russia and putin retired general is here is the author of the book chasing the lion and joins us now. general deprived administration is sending more material, armored personnel carriers, sending helicopters. but they have not greenlighted the mig 29 s. what would you do to try and help ukraine more kuester. hey eric great to be with you. that $800 million worth of equipment i think is too little too late. russia continues to grind away. the ukrainians are defending well from interior lines, thank god zelenskyy is there or if you ll recall this administration wanted to remove zelenskyy right from the very beginning and taken from the country. the sinking of the moskva is a
right now putin s credibility when it comes to diplomacy is enabled, it is zero it does not exist but as president zelenskyy says there has to be a decision made by putin to stop. there has to be some diplomatic process to get that done. but in the interim while he cannot defeat the ukrainian people he can level their cities and commit the atrocities that we are seeing on a near daily basis. but the pressure continues, the sanctions are biting russia, they are nearly in default the ukrainian military is getting stronger by the day and so this continual pressure and push back on putin is critical to try to get him to recognize this is a fruitless endeavor it s only bring harm to him and his economy certainly right now there is a low credibility in his words of the diplomatic table. and he keeps doing it. no sanctions or having no sort of effect when you got people they are and you ve got these brave, beyond brave civilians and soldiers there on the
replace justice steven breyer, whose confirmation hear aing he led back in 1994, faced her own. congressional correspondent chad pergram reports. good morning, judge jackson. good morning. reporter: senators asked about gender. can you provide a definition for the word woman? i can t. you can t? i m not a biologist reporter: they asked about abortion. can an unborn child feel pain at 20 weeks? senator, john. you can bank as long bang as loud as you want. there s no point in responding, he s going to interrupt you. reporter: judiciary committee chairman dick durbin is responsible for piloting jackson s nomination through the senate, but i the man who picked jackson enjoys an unprecedented vantage point about the course his nominee faces. the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? i do, mr. chairman. president biden presided over
comes with word of perhaps more peace talks today in turkey. president biden seemed to imply vladimir putin should not be in power. blinken says he was merely saying russia should not have power over its neighbors. jon: i m jon roberts, president biden blasts president up inin a powerful speech but off the cuff remark that has captured the world s attention. for god sake, this man cannot remain in power. the secretary of state saying this is about putin s grip on ukraine, not russia. we do not have a strategy of regime change. jon: now the challenges ahead after a pep talk with u.s. troops and show of force with nato. the u.s. announcing new sanctions and help for refugees but ukraine says it needs more
stop telling biden what he will do, start giving resource to the ukrainian people, rally nato and do the same thing. i don t get why migs aren t there. we need more antiaircraft, antiship, antitank equipment there. zelenskyy is telling us what he needs, thank god zelenskyy and the people are willing to defend freedom because if they don t where is putin going to stop? biden he has to start acting and getting things done and start misspeaking. stop misspeaking. john: we have an incline of an idea when articulating. we will concentrate on consolidating defense of donetsk and luhansk, the donbas region, that seems to be an indication that maybe they are giving up on the idea of trying to take over all ukraine. is this time to give ukraines the weapons it needs to win