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Producing 70 million blue fake pills. >> tucker: without the united states, mexico has no economy, so we probably have some leverage to stop this, maybe we should. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: wars bring more powers, of course, that is what people are for them. the war in ukraine is being used as big tech as a way to crackdown on russian disinformation. its anyone who holds the wrong opinion is censored. we have examples straight ahead. ♪ ♪

Theyre designed to put china on the spot. the u.s. is growing increasingly frustrated with beijing. calling for peace talks and their huge economic leverage over moscow and the close personal relationship, theres no indication china is attempting to stop this bloody war. the most active part china seems to be doing is parenting a lot of the kremlins talking points and disinformation campaign thats why at this stage many analysts say it doesnt seem to be china is serious about playing the role of...

Have expected, and, you know, fareed, the other side of what makes this case exceptional is important. russia is a much more deeply integrated economy into the world than cuba ever was or that iran at the time of the hostages was, and that means that sanctions can do much more to disrupt what was otherwise going on than happened. weve never thought about doing sanctions to a country that had hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves before, and the ability to basically freeze a central bank wi...

Been some hesitancy but secretary blinken says he spoke to the president the speaking of the potential to be in the import of russian oil. >> we are in very active discussions with our european partners about banning the import the russian oil while at the same time maintaining a steady global supply of oil. the actions we have taken to date have already had a devastating impact on the russian economy. >> as the president is getting an unprecedented number of calls telling him to abandon russian...

Congress. xi knows all of this because he has watched it unfold over the past 25 years. which brings us back to the current nightmare in ukraine. biden could demand that john kerry go out and say the ministration is putting climate change goals on hold at least a china remains in destabilizing force on the world, he could also say that as long as they ccv is trying to buy proxy overthrow that zelenskyy in ukraine were not going to abandon our oil industry, but o course the biden people would not...

Hard for me. in fact, ukrainians have said this, they would not accept -- moscows already proved to be with broken promises made in several trees including the budapest alignment. so it will be suicidal for ukraine to accept it. and it demonstrates the past year fight. the question is will we be strong enough and not intimidated by putin, to send all the arms ukraines needs in a timely fashion, if weve not done such a good job before in that respect? >> do you think, sir, that we should, the u.s...

People dead during the first ten days. i think that is the reason why theyre doing that is to use it as a leverage in potential negotiations. >> we saw that masquerade by ukrainian officials in that town of mariupol on unable to deal with the number of people who are being killed. the mayor of melitopol has been detained by russian forces. theres security camera video of him being led away. you tweeted out earlier today a picture of a russian flag flying near the mayors office there, saying they...

So theres a lot still on the table. clearly, vladimir putin is feeling the heat. who wouldnt be cutting down on his country in such an aggressive way, if we dont understand that there are very weak links underneath him right now, in terms of what hes doing. but it is gonna still take some more time. to davids point, this is a lightning speed humanitarian crisis. over 1 million people have been displaced already, in just over a week, which is stunning. and the president just made a couple of days...

To help us get her out but maybe the lesson for me would say dont do drugs or have drugs when in russia looking for any excuse to detain americans especially high-profile like this. im not sure if this was pointed on her, i feel bad because the sentence is five to ten years, he made it sound like she had pounds of marijuana on her, its a political move. they should be coming home. >> what you think, is this putins way of dangling an american in front of the war and daring us to do something more...

Production. and i think we very much need to keep those threats in reserve so as to be able to exercise maximum leverage. now the challenge for us is to bring these early successes to some kind of conclusion. and thats a very dangerous and complex thing, but i think one has to give the biden administration enormous credit for whats been done so far. i think the concept of escalating sanctions over time never firing your last and most brutal bullet so as to maintain leverage is a very good one.