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To people in romania and they all say the same things. theyre afraid. theyre afraid of the bombs, of the sirens, of military action. so the message is this is exposing a human tragedy. everybody rightly is focusing on security, on geopolitics, on this macro aspect. lets not forget that these are women, children, elderly people, disabled people fleeing for their life. this is the human cost of what is happening in ukraine. >> commissioner, i know youre in poland. theres been a criticism of countr...

>> we havent. they have gotten worse. our trade deficit have increased. dont you like the fact that at least that this president made changing that dynamic a priority? >> listen, the trade deficit is a poor measure for evaluating the health of an economy. the united states is doing great. the administration lowered taxes and regulations. tariffs are going to increase costs. we have seen this in the past. in 2002 president bushte imposea tariff on steel and the united states lost 200,000 jobs in ...

Micro aspect of this entire conflict and theres a macro aspect to it as well. and looking at the use of chemical weapons is a small detail in a larger landscape of whats going on in syria. and again, our fear from the beginning the weapons would get in the hands of these rebels, that the chemical weapons as well would get into the hands, that they could be transferred, passing along scenario of the chemical weapons, that you could have the asad regime weakened by the attacks as limited as they m...