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President biden today announced a full ban on russian natural gas, coal import to the united states. he said he hopes this will deal another powerful blow to putins war machine. joining to us discuss, democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut who serves on the senate foreign relations committee and heard president zelenskyy. how big of an impact will this make, especially given that this is a unilateral move made independent of european allies, though im sure biden tried to get them on boar...

Power to do it on their own. thats why theyve been asking for western allies to effectively oppose a no-fly zone. which the sort of thing the allies did in libya back in 2011 and something before in previous conflicts but the issue with ukraine, of course is that the opposing side is russia. and so for nato to secure ukraines skies that would involve them shooting out, shooting down russian jets. taking out russias air defense systems, so a direct military confrontation between nato and russia. ...

Imperative to waive all the stuff and do it. i know that she is looking very carefully out whats bits of policy could reasonably be changed in order to do that. as i said, there is another way of increasing the speed at which this is done. that is the bit that we are involved in. we will make sure through working with our colleagues at uk immigration and -- ministers that we are providing staffing to these applications centers around the border of ukraine so that they have high capacity, and are...

Am i wrong in my analysis? do you have a better idea? >> sean, i think thats right. those two models were very consistent. they were speak pretty softly but when it was time to swing into action, you did it with full force, you werent late, you werent behind, you werent slow. you were protecting americas interests everywhere you went, in your opening talked about the moral imperative to do this. i think president zelenskyy talked about that eloquently today. there is an important american intere...

Theres an implication for every action so you see this problem as youre trying to figure out how do you empower ukraine? how do you deal with an oil embargo? all of these things that theres a political imperative and a humanitarian imperative to do something now but there are long-term consequences for all of these steps. >> if you look at the statement out of the polish government, theyre saying theres no such plan except, unless nato as an alliance said it must be the plan. were not doing this...

Biden, and when you consider how mired putins forces are in ukraine, would he really want to commit suicide by pulling the nuclear trigger, is there room to push him more than we are? >> i do think so and its imperative we step up as the united states of america with our nato allies and make sure that we are providing every opportunity for the ukrainians to push back against vladimir putin. that includes migs, that includes other forms of lethal aid as well as the humanitarian aid. but what i do...

Not only in the air, but involve strikes on the ground forces, etc. so this suggestion is being made somewhere along the line to provide ukrainians with an aircraft. clearly, the u.s. has taken the view that this would escalate things in a dangerous way. and it seems to be still being looked at with skepticism. >> yes. well leave that there sir adrienne for now. but as you mentioned, the fighting has been discussed. that nato would be drawn into a conflict with russia. but some, as you know, say...

Domestic energy so we never have to choose between one dictator versus another. >> republicans say the same thing except theyre not talking about clean energy. theyre just talking about american fossil fuels from louisiana or anwr or keystone. you raise an important point. you talk about the moral imperative of not funding putins barbaric war against the ukrainian people. but now well be funding maduro and venezuela? or the mullahs in iran? these are also government thats are doing things that, ...

So if you take all of the disused electronics around your home, that represents about 7% of the worlds gold. that is a huge number, and really gives us the initiative and the imperative to start recycling those electronics. globally, about 50 million tonnes of e—waste is being produced annually, but only 20% is currently being recycled. in the uk, each person generates 24 kilograms of e—waste each year. thats the second highest amount in the world. scientists say we could look to other count...

>> its a great point, nicolle. i think its imperative to do that because otherwise, russian families are going to be supported of the horror they otherwise wouldnt be supportive of. theyre sending their 18 and 19-year-old sons into combat in ukraine and the only way right now they really know whats happening is when one of those sons you know, is captured and calls home because the ukrainians facilitate that. and or they get on you know, an internet set up by ukraine so they can inquire as to th...