and we re the ones to do it. look, i think we have to face a reality here. this isn t 2016. this isn t a country which is basically comfortable but angry this is a country this which is battered, frightened, for the first time americans have a really deep sense that our best days are behind us, well, we are very intimidated by the scale of the chinese challenge. as i said, we have mental health problems on a scale we have never seen, largely compounded by the first public health decisions i think in modern history. all of which deserves to be explored. people want political leadership which is going to be serious, have an honest conversation and find a way to bring us together to actually fix these things. not just have more of this totally partisan bickering. i think kevin mccarthy with his whole notion of a commitment to america, and the kind of people he has been recruiting, i think he understands, this is a
when you look at the sweep yesterday, it was not an insignificant start. you started with nord stream 2, you have the u.k. sanctioned banks and oligarchs. you faced some before. you have the russian duma who votesed to recognize there. individuals feel that. then you have the u.s. piece with the president promising further ones today. they clearly have some sort of menu that they re ticking through with each moment. when that reaches a point where the costs are too high for putin, we don t know. maybe never. when you listen to that speech the other day, putin was making the case to say, this isn t a country. yeah. right. exactly. exactly. ominous signs all around. jim sciutto, great to have you here. here with us in lviv. now i am michael holmes in lviv. we re going to have much more ahead on the russia/ukraine crisis coming up on early start in 20 minutes. isa soares back k in a moment.
they are vulnerable. their territorial sovereignty has been violated for years now by the russians. they need this show of alliance. they need this show of united force. so there isn t a country that doesn t need something for us, and ukraine needs more than most country does from us. i want to read a quote from a former senior administration official in washington post, and whenever i see former senior administration official these days i think john bolton, but the truth of it is, john bolton just represents a pyramid of people, who fit the description of former senior administration people. but this is a particularly negative quote. it s the kind of smackback at the president that you could expect at some point from john bolton, if he did witness this and if it was true. a former senior administration official who repeatedly discussed the issue with trump said that the president thought what we were doing in ukraine was pointless and just aggravating the russians. the president s
president trump for some reason pushed back on that. third, they needed the show of solidarity. the ukrainians need us more than most countries need us because they are vulnerable. they have been violated by the russians. they need this show of alliance and a united force. so there isn t a country that doesn t need something from us, and ukraine needs more than most countries do from us. i want to read a quote from a former senior administration official in the washington post. whenever i see former senior administration official these days, i think john bolton, but the truth of it s john bolton just represents a pyramid of people who fit the description of former senior administration official. but this is a particularly negative quote. it s the kind of smack back at the president that you could expect at some point from john bolton if he did witness this and if it was true. that says former senior administration official who related to discussed the issue with trump said the pres
they have been violated by the russians. they need this show of alliance and a united force. so there isn t a country that doesn t need something from us, and ukraine needs more than most countries do from us. i want to read a quote from a former senior administration official in the washington post. whenever i see former senior administration official these days, i think john bolton, but the truth of it s john bolton just represents a pyramid of people who fit the description of former senior administration official. but this is a particularly negative quote. it s the kind of smack back at the president that you could expect at some point from john bolton if he did witness this and if it was true. that says former senior administration official who related to discussed the issue with trump said the president thought what we were doing in ukraine was pointless and just aggravating the russians.