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Listen, this is not working, we want everything turned back on and russia wins in the end. >> thats what happened after 2014 and the invasion of ukraine then, it was tough for a while but gradually those sanctions eroded. and i think thats what putin is betting on this time and, oh by the way, during the beijing olympics and the putin summit before then, signed siberian gas deal, so putin can sell gas to china and cut europe off and have their cake and eat it too if europe does not go with their...

Ministration. one way or another of russia invades ukraine nord stream2 will not move forward. martha: why not reopen the keystone pipeline and reopen federal leases on u.s. land? we had energy independence that was large leverage for the united states of russia. now we dont have that anymore. in fact we buy more fuel for much than we have in the past. so why wouldnt she want to revisit those and able to increase our leverage over russia? >> first of all the niceties is a substantial producer of...

>> german government about nord stream 2, the future of the pipeline. >> well, as you heard the president say yesterday at the press conference, if russia further invades ukraine there will no longer be a nord stream 2, we will bring an end to it and the german chancellor said we are working in lock step and coordinated in our efforts. in terms of the specifics, well let those conversations happen through diplomatic channels. but also reiterate that nord stream 2 is not operational, its a point ...

Theyre doing militarily. no, i dont see them backing down in terms of their response. they are perfectly happy to talk to us about what they call secondary issues, arms control, nuclear and conventional, but they now appear to really want to control ukraine. and it may not be enough for them to even control just some part of it. you know, im afraid that what im hearing coming out of the administration is something more than just grabbing the donbas region, which is what i had anticipated he migh...

Exnumber of years, but thats already kind of a reality, that putin understands. ukraine is far from meeting the qualifications that would allow it to be admitted to nato. and you know, his grievances are purportedly so much larger than that. one possibility is that hes playing for some kind of leverage in these ongoing peace talks within ukraine that are trying to resolve the separatist war that has been underway there since 2014. and that he wants better terms or more engagement by europe and c...

Different than afghanistan. it just has to. >> harris, here we go with afghanistan all over again if you listen to what the president is saying. we need to be sewing doubt into putins decision making and we need to be whether troops -- were prepared to put troops in or not and we also -- you know, we need to have that leverage on the table. i think we need to send a very clear deterrence message that american citizens will not be harmed and we are prepared to act. at the end of the day, what we ...

Prepared to follow through on the sanctions if russia does attack. so ukraines a docemocracy. you have to listen to the politics of the democracy as well as doing whats smart. so there are often divergences in leaders opinions. it doesnt mean were not solidly behind ukraine. >> of course. and putin agreed to speak to both biden and the french president macron today. do you think that is a positive sign? i mean, should we be, you know, holding out hope that maybe diplomacy does still have a chanc...

Decade or two within putins political lifetime here. the second thing we dont know is whether or not, at this point, he is planning to use these troops for diplomatic leverage or he really wants to go in and grab some or all of the country. i think whats most alarming about the briefings that congress got on thursday and that many of us have heard from u.s. officials. you heard a little bit of it in those clips that you played before is that there seems to be a movement in the u.s. assessment aw...

Tomorrow, is real crushing americans today. >> sandra: and its one thing, if we were innovating for the future of green energy, but all we are talking about is spending, spending, spending money, worse for the consumer. meanwhile just a little bit of what we heard from senator cassidy over the weekend, talking about where we are now versus where we were then and why we are seeing these skyrocketing prices. >> this is a culmination of the united states dearming when it comes to energy diplomacy. ...

China is looking to be the worlds head they want to be the world superpower they are doing it as a dictatorship at this particular time. i dont think we should stand for it. that is not our democratic values. and it should not change because we are in another country. jacqui: david what is your thought on that? do you think we should have had a presence accompanying the athletes to be able to put across a stronger message? >> i think that diplomatic boycott makes sense. they are appointed offici...