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I watched tucker carlson, an extremely influential right—wing commentator who, i think its fair to say, is a great sort of sympathiser with the trump "america first" ideology, telling all of his millions of fox news viewers that biden is needlessly provoking russia. 0n the conservative right in america, there are many voices saying that america just needs to back off, that this whole kneejerk interventionism is a mistake. well, thats the old tale of isolationists. and it didnt work out. so if ...

International politics, where you abandon the notion that america fights for freedom and democracy on every battlefield. i dont think any american wants american troops in the ukraine. i dont think thats going to happen. thats really off the table. deterrence is really the key here to stop an invasion and to stop a war. and thats what im talking about — we need to ramp up the deterrence. and i applaud the president for talking about tough sanctions and deploying the troops to the eastern flank...

Have the isolationists, what i call the neocon artists, out there talking about how we are the instigators. this is what happens when he undermined the united states military. this is what happens or the like democrats. lets be honest about it. a lot of false pied pipers saying what does ukraine have to do a better america question mike i dont know. what does south korea have to do with america or taiwan have to do with america or israel or venezuela or cuba or any of the rest of them. they have...

Coming in. they depend on that not only for transporting troops but also for delivering weapons. you would see a scene from "saving private ryan" on steroids along the coast in the sea. and thats, i anticipate that might be one of the next steps that mr. putin might execute. >> pretty chilling thoughts. general mark hertling, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, john. >> next, im going to ask russian pro democracy leader garry kasparov whether he thinks this initial round of sancti...

Fire from six wing aircraft jets, helicopter assaults too, a whole bunch of helicopters coming in. they depend on that not only for transporting troops but also for delivering weapons. you would see a scene from "saving private ryan" on steroids along the coast in the sea. and thats, i anticipate that might be one of the next steps that mr. putin might execute. >> pretty chilling thoughts. general mark hertling, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, john. >> next, im going to ask ru...

My advice to him is provide the earlier to deter boudin from ever making this decision. >> zelenskyy was to his goal wa similar to churchill in convincing lawmakers to shift their views in 1941. >> churchill had been trying to appeal to american, but the united states was divided between isolationists and incidents alleged, especially i congress. pearl harbor thrust the u.s. into world war ii, lawmakers fear a no-fly zone draws the u.s. closer to war with russia. >> thank you very much. >> joini...

The light blue is getting ready. she will be getting to the podium to introduce him. he is expected to be asking for more aid, to be thanking america for its support, to be thanking the world for its moral support, but if his past addresses are any prologue, we will also be hearing about what is happening in ukraine, the devastation, the desperation, the death, the brutality, and the need to counter this with more military equipment. >> and not only is this influencing how republicans and democr...

>> congress is not asking for that. >> this is not meter or scenario . he indicated in his remarks tha he supports the establishment o a no-fly zone and indicated tha the providing ukraine with enhanced missile defense system would also help. >> the former ukrainian officia born congress during a similar address that after russia annexed crimea in 2014. >> are we on the eve of the new cold war? until recently is unthinkable. now its becoming a reality. >> its prompting lawmakers to act similar t...

Republican amendments before you get to the continuing resolution. and the government will stay open until december 3rd. >> and well then do this all again for absolutely no reason whatsoever. because the debt ceiling is something invented in world war i to appease isolationists from that conflict. maybe its time we got over it. >> thank you, rachel. the breaking news is not about infrastructure legislation. its about the more immediate business of keeping the government funded after midnight to...

But if for any reason the government wanted to spend any more than that, the congress would have to affirmatively regroup, write a piece of legislation and pass a new limit on what we could spend. that process was created in 1917 to placate the isolationists who didnt want us to enter world war i. that is the very specific history of how we got what we call the debt ceiling. we got it in 1917, the same year we did finally declare war on germany. and, you know, we eventually got over the whole gi...