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In the global system that you can have sufficient amounts of gas flow to europe in the absence of destabilizing crisis. there will be gas but only come at extremely high prices that will have major economic and political consequences for the political continent. >> and europe is a global market. that would raise prices, even though we have so much production here, correct? >> were talking first about natural gas and thats where putin has his leverage because you have about 40% of europes consump...

Something dramatic to get the western attention. there might be another goal, however. i think that in the kremlin theyre concerned that at some point the ukrainian leadership might walk out of the minsk agreements and it might try to use military force in order to get donbas back. this is something that putin apparently is trying to prevent. i think that he would like to make sure that everybody including paris and berlin might exercise their leverage on kyiv in order to enforce more complete i...

Not only did they test those hypersonic weapons, which experts say likely did have great scientific value, they also tested missiles weve seen north korea launch in recent years. short range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles. they launched a ballistic missile from a train. all of these things weve seen north korea do, but this month what they appear to be doing is demonstrating the full range of their military capability at a time the eyes of the world are going to be on this region. their nei...

Sufficient and then we can give energy security to europe and the russians wouldnt have the leverage over european allies. >> martha: its a big question. why did we give up our energy independence by shutting down keystone pipeline, other forms of exploration, dialling back our drilling around the country and offshore. put ourselves in a situation where we no longer are the biggest energy provider to the world. it was a huge geo political shift when that happened at the beginning of the biden ad...

Move for nearly two weeks now. we know he already put those 8,500 troops on heightened alert and is making this decision to send 3,000 troops to europe. this move is something the president signed off on yesterday morning following a meeting with lloyd austin, the defense secretary, and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley, and it comes as the president has been facing increasing pressure to do more before a potential russian invasion. a severe package of sanctions he would level ag...

An accommodation. i fear the likelihood is low because putin stands ready to invade and he has forces in position. almost all the equipment has been moved to the ukraine border, navalassets are on the way to the black sea so he has incredible leverage here. but macron seems to think that he can find a way forward. he is speaking in positive terms. i think that he has to. hope never dies and i hope he can ensure a breakthrough. but when you look at what putin wants and what he said he wants, he w...

I mean, i think in generalbe youre absolutely right. we should not be removing any leverage. i mean, i think what were what president trump and the administration that he ledni really shifted correctly on was understandingg that this is nota purely a commercial situation with china, but its intimatelyi connected to our nationalt security and its been associated with the deindustrialization and tremendouscicial number of problems that our country faces. so look, there are companies out there lhe ...

States should respond in the case of a russian invasion into ukraine. its been a debate that has divided the two parties about exactly how to structure sanctions, whether sanctions should go immediately before any invasion or instead, focused strictly until after any invasion to occur down along party lines. republicans pushed for the invasion sanctions to be part of the package. democrats and the administration have been more concerned about that, worried that doing so would take leverage to us...

There is a diplomatic boycott, elise. they will be watching carefully to see what happens. they know it is a huge stage. they know xi jinping wants it to go well, though sending an ominous note by bringing vladimir putin to town right beforehand. what do you think the athletes should do? >> i think richard is right. they have more leverage than nancy pelosi is giving them credit for and he was far more diplomatic than im going to be in saying it is shameful what she said, it is shameful to tell ...

The pipeline was a purely economic project at least now the government says a russian invasion of ukraine would have an impact. >> translator: if there is renewed aggression we have the full bandwidth of measures including nordstream 2. >> reporter: the u.s. has long urged berlin to use nordstream 2 which is not yet certified for gas transit as leverage to deter moskow. now the state department says if russia invades, the project is dead. >> if russia invades ukraine one way or another nordstrea...