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That is a little dramatic. secretary blinken made, basically, last-minute decision to attend a united nations security council session, which the russians had called. so, they wound up unwittingly given blinken a platform. the russians wanted to talk about the long running conflict with in ukraine, which is separate from this threat of russian invasion that could come from outside of ukraine. since 2004, the russians have been fomenting a separatist you rebellion in ukraine. russians wanted to t...

Ability to get russian resources. that is a sticking point. that has been a sticking point all along. putin not only get rich from natural gas, but he has immense political leverage over a year appeared we are not united. we are not seeing eye to eye with the european countries over this. >> john: you know, let me go back to what president biden said about swift. when asked a question about why he didnt pull that trigger. apparently lets re-rack the tape to listen to what he said. now apparently...

Would be we energy independent but we could supply the needs of europe to reduce the leverage russia has over them. >> martha: if he opened keystone, saying we will alter our policies. this moment merits to be independent. i think he would improve numbers with voters he lost. a military question. the president announced that 7,000 troops will go to germany. we bumped our presence in the nato countries. what do you think happens next? what kind of impact can we have by doing that? >> well, the te...

Surrounded and russia has the troops at the ready, i think. partly to deter ukraine from launching attacks elsewhere in the event russia expands outside of donbos, even in that continualing region. to get back to the point about leverage over russia. vladamir putin is willing to pay an economic price for this, he will be more supportive on china for hydro-carbon and he knows hes insighted unity from nato. it is counter intuitive, but that is what vladamir putin wants. he knows nato lends credibi...

Tell. the ultimate objective of sanctions is to change behavior. and that probably hasnt happened yet. will it? well, hope so, but the jury is out on that. >> do you think the staggering of these sanctions is helpful, this desire not to just do hammer down all at once? >> well, thats almost a religious argument. you can make a case for doing it both ways, the administration has elected to hold back some for leverage and deterrence purposes, rather than doing the whole money right at the outset. ...

Lot to the industry, its time to go. lets stop messing around, and stop having silly arguments energy is where it is, if we have global energy dominance we will have leverage we need to prevent these types of things in the future. trey: ill let you go with this question. you are a thoughtful guy, you are the commander in chief, when it is worth u.s. troops actively involved in someone elses war? >> we have nato for a reasons. right now i dont think that anyone saying, there are a lot of people c...

Are going to impose the sort of economic pain on russia that really will force putin to think again? we hope they will finally decide to do so. so, once again, we have urged them. we have asked them, like, for years to do this, to use, to exercise their leverage on putin, because they actually had enormous leverage on putin. corrupt regime needs at least two countries to operate. the one country where the rule of law is nonexistent. in our case, russia. which allows them to steal enormous money....

Think the president meant this but he is using an away say look, we are receiving support from some people in the united states, that is wrong. we are today is where your question goes. at the fact of the russian people are resisting the scum of the fact ukrainian people are that will be giving their lives to defend their land, dont get me wrong, they need weapons, i agreed the big mistake we deal with not advancing weapons, but i dont care how many weapons you advance the people in those countr...

Lincoln said this about russia and ukraine. >> let me ask this question. in your assessment wide is ten escalating with ukraine now? why did he do this under the previous administration who was not as supportive of nato? steve: lets think because in the real world not the fake pr world most politicians in all senior members of the biden regime in the real world what you do is more important than what you say. what the previous administration did blair send arms to ukraine with the obama biden po...

Would put in place, were going to be measuring their effectiveness not in days and weeks and months, but years. because russia is a dictatorship. the people being sanctioned cant go to the parliament and say, hey, wait a minute, mr. putin, we need to withdraw from this war. theres not going to be mass mobilization of people being sanctioned. although i do want to say im very struck by the demonstrations weve seen out of russia so far. and ive even participated with russians today and many, many ...