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Alliance? look what he has achieved with non-traditional instruments of power. the leverage he has in terms of natural gas and energy. were not acting with a sense of urgency. the administration has missed an opportunity to do that. it is never too late to learn from failure and change course. after what we saw in afghanistan i just have seen nothing to indicate this administration is willing to improv eyes, adapt and admit failure the change their foreign policy and the most important thing to ...

Day. biden has driven our energy crisis higher by limiting domestic drilling, and who benefits from that? not us. before does. every time oil prices go up and bidens supporters love high energy costs, they are climate crazy, russia has more money in pocket to fund its military ambition. putin is happy. yesterday, it was trump, the bill and they could run against. then it was january 6th, then was covid, than the parents protesting at school board meetings, and now it is russia and fox news. but ...

Out in the breezeway all day long. >> dana: with his scarf >> bill: and talk and talk and the guy didnt have a bad word to say about anyone and god rest his soul. >> dana: check this out here. >> what is russias leverage over europe? energy. lets ramp up energy production right now. intelligence has been warning about this for over nine months. we should have been preparing for this and their insurgency. >> bill: senator rubio saying the west should get off the russian oil as russian troops inva...

Engaged in by himself and his key associates. what confidence do you have that, for all of the words from president biden, prime minister boris johnson and many others, what confidence do you have that the western powers 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, becaus...

Invaded you vein in 2014 and annexed crimea. that is a price that hes absolutely willing to pay. if we dont accompany the sanctions with the strongest diplomacy and more military assistance, were not going to have the leverage that we need to induce a change in putins behavior. we can see, 200,000 troops. he had 70,000 last spring when he got a summit with president biden. >> neil: dan, if the threat of sanctions isnt moving him, you know, the tumble in the russian stock market isnt jarring him,...

Pull have been displaced over ready. just over week. which is stunning. and the budget that the president just submitted a day ago for supplemental funding talks about 18 million ukrainians needing humanitarian assistance over the next three months. so this is extraordinary fast. highly destabilizing. these other tools, theyre probably going to have to be moving quickly to really move putin off of the direction that he. zone direction tha>> david, let me r thoughts quick on this brittney griner ...

And if you would have... if you would have done it, like, a couple of years ago, the war would not be happening today, thats first. and second, yes, now the influence of putins money in the west is so large that getting rid of it and exercising it as leverage would be painful. and, well, undersimilar conditions, a great leader of your country said, "i can promise nothing but pain and blood and tears," and i dont recall... right... so, even if there now is an acceptance in the west that they need...

Kendall-taylor, former intelligence officer for russia, richard, let me start with you and mike on the ground. where the action is happening, right, the new sanctions from president biden on nord stream 2, it seems as though from listening from the state department that the game-changer on that something that the president had not done to this point was germany going ahead and making the first move less than 24 hours ago. >> reporter: yeah, thats right, hallie, the white house trying to analyzed...

Exist in the 21st century if it cannot prevent russia from invading europe. howard: well, its a resonant question, will, but obviously ukraine is not part of nato. but some commentators on the right say president biden should have done more to prevent an invasion or the sanctions should have been of tougher. regardless, he had to build a western alliance, otherwise u.s. sanctions by themselves would have been useless. >> yeah, i think those are -- those on the right that are looking in their rea...

Thats concerning, of course, here in the key city of odesa because the pressure russia is putting on kherson is being translated into more pressure on to the next town and eventually on to here, the third largest city, a vital port that russia must control if it wants leverage over ukraines economy. warnings of a potential amphibious assault grow day by day. nick paton walsh, cnn, odesa, ukraine. >> while the u.n. believes that a million people have fled ukraine in the week since the russian inv...