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Money buys china a lot of political cover in congress. he knows all of this because hes watched it unfold over the past twenty five years. which brings us back to the current nightmare in ukraine now i could demand that john kerry go out and say that the administration is puttings climate change goals on hold at least as longre as china remainsma a destabilizing force on the world. he could also sayco that as lonu as the ccp is trying to by proxy overthrows zelenskyy in ukraine, were not going t...

The second one is a self perception, a self limitation that putin might consider that aircraft somehow cross a threshold in bringing nato and the united states into the conflict in direct contact with russian forces. here i think we are being far too timid. and were not understanding putins position. he is not doing well this ukraine, and the last thing he wants is to draw nato or western forces into the conflict on ukraines side. hes going to be very careful. i think we have a lot more leverage...

Anything specifically so i mean i think the upshot of what is happening is what you said at the end there, jesse. which is that the world is probably fracturing and they are definitely big down sides. im sure the chinese are lived at the russians more for screwing up the invasion than for any moral abominations that they have certainly committed but look, there is upside to the chinese here. this makes the russians a lot more pliable for them. they have a lot less leverage. think we are seeing t...

Reactor, to say nothing of reports of drones that crashed outside ukraine, one in poland, one in romania. it doesnt take much to make this thing blow way out of proportion. no pun intended. what do you think? >> as a military leader, that would be my concern. the russian military has not shown itself to be particularly good, not well-led and definitely their planning and intelligence seems to be way off. you would think that they would have better intelligence about that part of the world since ...

Beyond ukraine. here in the united states. certainly were susceptible given the sanctions that we have taken against the russian government. its really been a global effort in a global in many ways public private partnership. between private industry and governments across the world. sharing intelligence and improving defenses. that certainly one reason is theres a possibility that we have been better globally at defense. and the other potential reason that we havent seen the impact ts that we e...

Relationship would be looked at as a sign of weakness. thats not going to happen. hes going to have a public face that this relationship matters and he will continue to support it. i think we pinned the rails on him. hopefully the president does it. you going to be supporting a war criminal who is committing more crimes. the international community will hold you accountable as an international pariah yourself. by providing the means for putin to commit these war crimes. , the e.u. the european u...

They are able to offensive weapon whereas other things are defensive. well, look, if you are fighting over your own skies to protect your country, you are fighting on defense. and i think the distinction doesnt really make any sense. we will see how this plays out. >> bret: meantime president biden heads to europe, is heading to poland, heading to nato headquarters. the "wall street journal" has this russia is failing to achieve early victory in ukraine is seen as shifting to plan b. senior u.s....

Israel is warning the united states against making concessions to iran in order to obtain reworked nuclear deal , specifically the possibility of removing one iranian military unit from a terror watch list. senior national correspondent richard cohen has the details tonight from the state department. israeli prime minister naftali bennett and foreign minister yair epeat are warning the united states to keep irans islamic revolutionary guard caught listed as a foreign terrorist organization. they...

Leverage against us as we negotiate to me what looks like a pretty bad deal. reporter: the last time missiles were fired from iran into iraq was january of 2020. iran fired over a dozen missiles at the al-asad airbase which caused traumatic brain injuries with 100 u.s. troops. it was in response to a u.s. drone strike killing iranian general soleimani. guys? rachel: that is so interesting. i heard dan hoffman say this. this was a way to get leverage in the iran deal. how would that help them get...

The previous ambassador he haded indicated here in the united states at johns hopkins he was a diplomat. these guys are not. both the foreign minister and chin gong have carried a message after the two hour meeting between president biden and president xi to try to resolve the crisis and you just said what he said dont be naive. >> brian: we know as the ally of russia you could stop this in a second as soon as you dont back stop and buy their oil, continued supply whatever they need, this would ...