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Though it has trouble. >> there is this threat from putin to cut off europes supply. secretary blinken saying its imperative for european countries to stop relying on russian energy. as you point out, for the u.s., this is a lot easier. a very small percentage of what we use in europe. were talking about 40% of europes gas, 20% of its oil, germany, 50% of its gas. the immediate impact, if europe is cutting off supplies or greatly reducing supplies, where do they get those fuels that they need? w...

We need russias firm, clear, public and unequivocal commitment to allow and unequivocal commitment to allow and facilitate immediate unhindered humanitarian access for humanitarian partners in ukraine. very specifically, we call for the russian federation to agree to and honour in the faith —— good faith, it humanitarian safe passage in specific agreed—upon location. we call for the establishment of a ground—level notification system that will facilitate the safe movement of humanitarian...

Team because he beat three -- assassination squads squads and you say it is imperative if ukrainians going to persevere he has to live what would you do if zelenskyy asks -- >> three teams wrapped up i have a feeling somebody is providing good information of those guys. brian: russians. >> theyre helping ukraines i would move them out of harms way. i know that as a leader he was stand up front and lead from the front. but we cannot afford to lose him. theres not anybody in ukrainian that can rep...

Where most of these people have come from, theyve taken city buses here and been dropped off. luckily this line seems to be moving at a decent clip, but it is absolutely massive. some people wait to get on trains on lines that stretch out the door. others are taking city buses and they are ending up here having to wait, we hope for not too long of a time, but, you know, these people -- these people, however long that theyve been traveling, wherever theyre trying to get to, some to poland, some b...

Putin eventually reverse force? or might it be more permanent? >> it really depends on how putin reacts. some of the company are pulling out because it has been so much more difficult to continue operating in russia. if you cant get money in and out of the economy, for example, or you cant be sure that youll get american made or otherwise european made parts for whatever you might be producing in russia, it is very difficult to continue operations. whatever the moral imperative may be. it really...

Its partially religiously motivated? >> we always miss the religious currents before these stories. we missed it in iraq, we missed it in afghanistan, we are missing it here. im going to take it back to the vision of putin on the patriarch carrillo of moscow. they share one mind that anyone who is -- not ordained -- baptized in the russian orthodox church is de facto a russian citizen in the land they stand on is sacred russian soil. all of ukraine was under the moscow patriarch until 2019 when ...

Probably in a more politically realistic way, sadly, the red flag could be very significant civilian death imposed by basically a russian war machine that is going to go with a vengeance. so, just ask you, very significant civilian deaths — havent enough ukrainian civilians died already? ido agree... so whats the figure, whats significant? 50,000,100,000? i think you should ask members of the us congress, you should ask our leaders what is the moral threshold where they will have an imperative...

At the heritage foundation, brand, glad to have you on the show. the united states navy playing a proactive defensive role on clamping down on russias ambitions. >> for the russian strategic laid down, important ways, this was supposed to go to the persian gulf and has been there since january but since vladimir putin invaded ukraine the key strategic imperative has been to prevent a widening of the war to nato. the baltic states are the most thinly defendant despite the buildup, and naval force...

Biden to be the leader of the free world and the leader of a piece. president biden should pick up that challenge and go to nato and say its imperative we push back against russia, push back against these war crimes, the artillery due date-- artillery they are using with the hypersonic and it to make certain that the ukrainian army has what it needs to protect itself. we know xi jinping is washing this very closely, maria and we need to be standing with taiwan. we ought to be selling to taiwan r...

The first is peaceful and russia is doing everything in its power to make a mockery of that word through its aggression on ukraine. so if russia wants to engage in peaceful coexistence which of course in principle we welcome , it needs to start by actually making good on the word peaceful and ending the war. on this trip, eastern european countries pushed the u.s. to ban russian oil. we asked blinken this afternoon how the administration would prevent even higher energy prices when it takes russ...