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Biden is saying we can no longer do business with putin as in the past, its a clarion call to europe that theyve got to do more to reduce the leverage putin currently has on them. >> what about the mayor of lviv who called those missile strikes a "hello" from moscow to biden who at the very time was 200 miles or so away across the border in warsaw? russian military officials called it a high precision strike. as a diplomat, the timing, was that coincidence or intentional? >> i think it was inten...

Were just around the corner from being able to rely on energy and it meant they are still heavily reliant on oil and gas and thats part of the problem here, the leverage he has so its not as significant as the president talking about possible issues in chemical weapons and whatnot but he still talking about alternative energy, the green agenda as hes discussing ukraine issues and i think he has to be very clear now, not just for his own political and economic reasons but security reasons, we sho...

Understand president macron of france is also scheduled to have a call with president putin later. so the two are closely related. what happened you see happening on the battlefield is informing the diplomatic talks and some of the leverage issues as changed. ukraine is going in with a little more of an upper hand, having held off the russian advances. we heard from the ukrainian foreign minister going into this theyre not trading sovereignty. theyll go into the talks maintaining the need for uk...

Charnier got its first a permit to export american natural gas. i mean maybe this inspires some more movement, but it takes time to build this infrastructure time and political patience and the europeans have neither its going to take decades to build this . this is this is a lot more complicated. this is across national borders . theres environmental considerations, especially in europe and the european. we really have only about seven or eight months until the weather gets gets really cold in ...

To go on we are morally bound to -ive to go on we are morally bound to give them — to go on we are morally bound to give them everything we possibly can to help _ give them everything we possibly can to help them go on fighting. its very important to us that putin should — very important to us that putin should be _ very important to us that putin should be clearly seen to have lost and seen _ should be clearly seen to have lost and seen by his own people. but its no good _ and seen by his o...

Overextended themselves in the early weeks of this conflict, attacking on multiple lines of axes, north, south, east, trying to take the capital city, and theyve realized that theyre not going to do that so now, it looks like they will redouble their efforts in the donbas region which they have been fighting over for eight years, it is unclear whether this is a negotiating tactic, and mr. putin just wants to get more leverage at the table because hes got more ground in the eastern part of the co...

Talks, given putin isnt being told the whole story and is sort of making up stuff as he goes along? >> well, wolf, the value, i think, for vladimir putin is he can stall for time while his military forces try to regroup. we dont really know how much ability they have to come back, but we know that theyve been, you know, on land in terms of attacking kyiv again. but we know they have artillery and that they are in a position, as you said in your earlier segment, to frankly decimate odesa. its imp...

Fighting. we are in a quandry, we want ukraine to survive, we suggest if they negotiate, putin will see they are negotiating from a position of weakness. the only way that they will survive, if they choose negotiations is to have some type of leverage at the negotiating that means defeating and killing russians, which means more devastation for everyone. mark: russia has a fairly small economy. it has very powerful nuclear weapons, you have to wonder how long they can keep up with this,. the nex...

To conclude this quickly before we lose our leverage. we need to take the leverage away. >> there have been people acros that to praise or the president for this how far he goes, what other actions we take and u.s. troops in that area, but here i what the american people say because we touched on some of this last night spread their headline is biden job approval amid war and inflation. made europes largest since world war ii, seven and ten americans expect low confidence in president joe bidens...

>> right now diplomacy is picking up momentum foecusing o two countries who refuse to join international condemnation. india is talks just started. a few moments ago. meantime china facing blow back from the eu. cnn correspondents are closely following both of the meetings. live in hong kong. standing by in india. lets start with christy. this virtual meeting the question is how much pressure can the eu put on china? who needs it the most? >> china does rely heavily on trade with the european un...