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To come, potentially, for all of ukraine. the power shut off, the power now that putin has over the energy as it flows to ukraine has basically just skyrocketed. they will use it for nefarious purposes. they will use it to squeeze the ukrainian people. weve been having an ongoing discussion about the refugees out of ukraine. but also the people remaining in ukraine will be subject to starvation, lack of water, lack of food, lack of warmth. it this is incredibly disturbing. >> it is. brit, you ma...

Incentive on the part of the russians to try to use diplomacy to reach a stable modus operandi and they would grab what they wanted under biden. and when he had the kind of exit from afghanistan which he did, and then when he essentially took america out of energy independence, increasing the leverage of russia dramatically, i thought it was inevitable. >> bret: you say russia gate was horrible. >> the mainstream media is talking about the big lie, and the stolen election. they are forgetting th...

They want to use the plants as leverage as part of a broader push to take over the cities. and then they hope the russians, the russians do, to take over the country. . >> no elevated levels of radiation. no serious damage to reactors. but, jim, the risks you are willing to take, the russians are willing to take by firing at a nuclear plant, even if its the outlying buildings at that plant, when something, even as minimal as a power outage could have a serious impact does show you how have the r...

>> do you think theyre trying to use the wnba star for leverage, will they negotiate her release? >> i dont know the answer on the negotiations but i know this, i know the president pretty well, and secretary blinken pretty well, and they in the state department are doing every single thing they can to get her home and safe. >> thank you so much, tom donolan, thank you, ambassador bill taylor, and at the ready, a firsthand look at how forces in latvia are training in case vladimir putin does mov...

Child washed up on a turkish shore or when the chemical weapon attack happened in syria as well. we, one would have thought this is as far as its going to go and the west will do some kind of intervention. you asked me what more the west could do, but i think at this point, perhaps the west should use leverage with china to stop this war. china actually has very big interest in ukraine, economic interest. before the war, president zelenskyy called china ukraines biggest economic partner. so mayb...

Was leverage. the lesson we have to learn is that tyrants do what they say will do. putin said he would do this. china said they would overtake hong kong and they did. now we are looking at the fact that china wants to take taiwan. iran wants to destroy israel. take them seriously and we need strong u.s. leadership. you do it by hitting russias energy sector and rallying the europeans and by making more natural gas and exporting that out. germany, enough has been said from germany. they allowed ...

Decisions, of course they -- putin but others have to implement, take tactical decisions so to say, and all of them almost all of them have money, have families, have property abroad, including miami where i am now. and new york, and of course london. so, that is very powerful instrument. people, if -- they have equity. >> so what kind of power if any do russian oligarchs have, i think that is the question tonight because, do they have an ability to leverage, or any leverage to get him to change...

Involvement. so at this point, the real concern, given the rising escalation between the u.s. and russia, is will her arrest be now used as a political tool, or some type of leverage in these ongoing discussions? that is really the situation here, as she is a celebrity. she is an athlete. will this be used in some political way, moving forward, given the climate that were facing right now between russia and the u.s.? amen? >> all right, nbcs katie back, thank you very much, katie. when we come b...

The relationship with putin to their advantage. with and bs now coming around, mohammed, the prince of saudi arabia. saying he can be an honest broker between both the united states, ukraine, and russia. >> i love the idea of people being honest brokers. the kind of people we are having to deal with, and different parts of the world. brian let me ask you this. the oil issue is a big issue here in the u.s.. sudden -- something everyone can get behind, targeting all of our x. we talked about in th...

From russia having the ability, the money, and the leverage, to invade ukraine and because the situation, that is going on right now. donald trump had energy independence for america. donald trump made sure america did not rely on russian oil, the rest of the world was less reliant and now we see the position that joe biden and the democrats have put us in. it is horrific and its bad obviously for americans, paying more for gas, paying more for everything, but then you have a situation like this...