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>> all right. bring in retired brigadier general kevin ryan, former attache to russia and a senior fellow for the harvard kennedy school. good morning. thanks for being with us bright and early today. lets talk first, we heard a little about it in that interview just showed. the bulk of russias invasion forces is now about 15 miles outside of kyiv. at this point do you believe russia is still aiming to encircling capital and cutoff or a full advance still in the cards, do you think? >> i think b...

Try to ultimately end the violence in ukraine. now, when it comes to those costs that the u.s. said they will impose on china if it were to supply russia with military aid, u.s. officials have not detailed exactly what those would be. its worth remembering, though, that china has a lot more economic leverage over the united states and europe than russia did, and we already saw the u.s. and europe having some jitters about taking certain steps because there would be blowback on the economies in t...

Of accommodation. it is not one built on real alignment of values and approach. it is with the u.s. dominance. >> it also sounds like youre setting the stage there that china might be refraining from using the leverage that it may have over russia. >> well -- >> do you want to comment only quickly? and i want to ask you -- >> no, thank you. and i dont want to take time away from that, but just to say i think china does not want a disruptive role. in the european conflict, i think china, the seni...

Warning, these do contain flashing images from the start. >> joe biden stepped onto european soil at a moments of alarming uncertainty for this continent. given the stakes, given the bloodshed in ukraine. perhaps its a surprise that the american president has taken this long to travel here to face the russian threat. ahead of him now or three summits, nato, the eu, and the g7. back to back in one day. it is an unprecedented reflection on the current state of peace and security and europe. and he...

Germany? not cutting off his oil? not ground to air missiles? come on folks, this is the problem. we get this word, escalation. it would be viewed as an escalation, the same damn general in u.s. deputy of the doctors, same joint chiefs of staff, statement president of united states. same vice president of united states, same secretary of defense, who surrendered in afghanistan. the same secretary of state, who surrendered all leverage we had with the president of the united states, with putin, p...

European soil at a moments of alarming uncertainty for this continent. given the stakes, the bloodshed in ukraine, perhaps its a surprise that the american president has taken this on. to travel here, to face the russian threat. ahead of him now are three summit, nato, the eu, and the g7 back to back in one day. it is an unprecedented reflection on the current state of peace and security in europe. and here it is, sells out by propagandists, palm debts, connected to the kremlin on russian state ...

Room, and in a summit put together in days, not months like typically you see this, wolf. it is extraordinary. of course, one leader who is not here but did address the other leaders in the room this morning was ukrainian president zelenskyy who made at peel for more assistance to the leaders in the room who have their own plans to unveil assistance to talk about that they have doan so far and talk about other news for punish putin. thats something president biden will announce later on today, i...

Tomorrows talks here are the highest level of contact between both sides since the invasion. the fact they are taking place suggests both sides think they have got something to talk about. but expectations are not high. some wonder if china could make a difference. president xi and putin said theirfriendship had no limits but russia now depends on china buying its oil and gas and mr xi could use that leverage on russia. he is already calling for restraint and offering aid. the one outcome most f...

Security services were almost for certain providing information to help the russians in terms of their campaign inside ukraine, but also in dealing with the united states and the eu. even though as you said, theyre trying to distance themselves from the atrocities happening in ukraine, their number one priority still is to keep u.s. busy, to knock the u.s. off of the leadership role of the world. and so, in that, theyre still aligned with the russians and with putin. >> so, lets talk about the h...

His tireless campaigning. we feel privileged to have played a small part in helping him with that. he has been amazing, hasnt he? from all the interviews he has done, the lobbying, the hunger strike, when he looked really unwell towards the end of that hunger strike, so what is nextin of that hunger strike, so what is next in terms of what redress does with regards to this case?- next in terms of what redress does with regards to this case? there are iuestions with regards to this case? there ar...