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Kremlin was asked what president putins response was to president bidens announcement, whether he was watching the announcement, the response given was that president putin didnt have time to watch the biden speech and that he was busy with another meeting which i think really plays into what jill was saying about this sort of sense of inevitability that the train is in motion. so the question really becomes now is this going to be a larger invasion or has president putin done all of this in lie...

Worry about civilians and have called on -- thats a big concern, and they have offered to help in any kind of deescalation. this is what the ukranian foreign minister told me. >> he assured me that china is not interested in this war and is ready to seek peaceful solution of this conflict through diplomacy. so i appealed to the chinese foreign minister and also to the india foreign minister to take advantage of their leverage on putin, of their relationship with russia, and urge putin to stop th...

Why are they not imposing sanctions now? why are they not at least announcing the kind of sanctions they will impose, the kind of sanctions ive been calling for for months as the only possible detenter to vladimir putin? unfortunately, it seems like the presidents going to wait until putin decided to go for the jug la and announce half measures that will not have that kind of effect on vladimir putin. maria: so what kind of sanctions would those be whether it be right now since everyone seems to...

Under siege. will the russian people see that? will they get that information, and if they do, what impact will that have on them? i have to say about the state of the union address, 6,800 protesters that have been arrested so far, more than a million signed russian language petition, i suspect all of them, chris, would have liked to have seen the president spend the whole speech talking about ukraine. >> that wouldnt surprise me at all. thank you for that, keir. so nina, you are uniquely positi...

When we have to consider the other measures that hes threatening us with, the cyber messages, targeting his people directly with the truth just as he targets our people with disinformation. this is a whole new world. were not going to meet it with half measures. think about it, back when we were confronting the soviets during the cold war and we embarked on the berlin airlift, we didnt say well get half the food they need, well save a little in reserve so we have leverage to give them more food ...

Of anxiety, not just because of russian peace keimers potentially arriving as we speak in those breakaway republics, but also, because of the tone of president putins speech which you just hit on. essentially negating the very existence of ukraine as some kind of a sovereign country. calling the leadership here a puppet regime of a colony. and running through a raft of historical grievances against nato which really appeared to many listeners, i think for the first time, to potentially pave the ...

Preparedness. making hour their vehicles dont get low on fuel. making sure they have gas in their cars. should americans be filling up their gas tanks and going to the atm and getting cash? >> i dont think its necessarily time for that yet. but i will be waiting to see from our government not just at the federal level, but state and local to advice us on how serious the threats are. russia wants us to live in a state of fear because it gives put where leverage. right now hes losing. we have been...

In a state drake of went losing defeats. >> the white house has been leaning hard on diplomacy in this ukraine crisis. but then, things really ratchet up today. blinken makes this emergency trip to the un. what do we know about how that came about? how significant do you see it in terms of [inaudible] of things that have happened last 24 hours or so? >> yeah. thanks, chris. that is a little dramatic. secretary blinken made, basically, last-minute decision to attend a united nations security coun...

And weve heard president putin indicating he may well use garks turn off gas supplies to europe if he gets heavy sanctions on it. we heard the italian prime minister theyre getting cut price gas from russia and putin indicated that maybe theres a way italy could avoid that. we heard when the german chancellor was standing next to putin who said if the gas prices in germany go up, dont look at me, look at the chancellor. theres no doubt that they want to use gas and the price of oil as leverage. ...

Grievance. president putin laid out this summer why he feels so strongly there is a deep connection between russia and ukraine. and possibly teeing this up for this more expansionist announcement than we were expecting. we were expecting the recognition of the breakaway republics as independent. that would give vladimir putin a major piece of leverage at the negotiating table. then he could say, as long as i get something in return, we will not move troops in to these areas. the ukrainian govern...