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What could these meetings potentially change or influence the situation here in ukraine? >> talk of further sanctions, really, as well as talk of more american troops on the ground and deployments right up against russias borders. there is a big debate. the polish government, the baltic states, would like to see an end to russia energy export into europe now. the europeans are trying to get away from russian energy as quickly as possible, but they are not there yet. and, you know, the pressure i...

Live from ukraine, thank you very much. please stay safe. joining me, state department spokesperson ned price. ned, thank you very much for coming to "the sunday show." >> good morning, jonathan. >> so, ned, i would love the u.s. reaction to the russian attack on that ukrainian military base outside of lviv. >> well, jonathan, over the course of the past 18 days now, we have seen russia escalate its attacks against ukraine. we have always said this would be a war really on three axes. one, a w...

Right now? >> well, you may have seen earlier today the national security adviser had a discussion with the russian counterpart. the tenor of that conversation was really an opportunity for the national security adviser to underscore the profound concerns we have with the russian conduct and senseless war and our concerns that the russian federation may be preparing or planning to use chemical weapons or biological agents. so we do have lines of communication open. we have always said that we ar...

Years. you are profiting off of arms deals that you sign off on and the military industrial come pleasure and then its the other thing to just start trading into these stocks right before putin invades when you have access to intelligence and sanctions packages. is this ever going to change, ned? >> first of all, jesse, this is insider trading for congress and still three which is a shame. they are privy to information that the public is not that allows them to buy these stocks in very advantage...

The way, mosaic stock has gone up 40% in the last three weeks. at a certain point, jesse we would go to jail or get significant fines for insider trading. at some point we have to actually demand of our elected officials and quite frankly anybody involved in government, you have to put any investment into a blind trust. your members cant have insider information. you cant have insider information. but we are basically -- we are asking the fox who is guarding the hen house to actually behave them...

One, our goal is to bring this conflict to an end. our goal is to put an end to this aggression. we do not want to see this conflict expand. we do not want to see more bloodshed. we do not want to see more countries and more entities dragged into what is already a dech stating conflict. the concern, and weve heard this from the intelligence community, is that if planes are provided to ukraine in this manner, it could be seen as escalatory. so we are going to remain focused on doing everything we...

Effort to prevent capital flight. companies are fleeing moscow by the second. and so president putin is under significant pressure. that pressure will continue to increase, both on the battlefield in ukraine but also on his economy and ultimately his strategic positioning. regardless of what happens. in the coming days, if russia manages a tactual victory, takes a city or town, russia will have -- will be in a strategically weaker position when this is all said and done. we see elements of this ...

Just opening up on a limited basis later this week. inflation is sky high. we have seen dozens of international companies fleeing by the day and that will continue. thats just one element of our strategy. there are two other elements of our strategy that i think youll hear more about from the president in brussels. the first is a fact that the president is going to find a nato alliance when he lands that is more united, more determined, more purposeful than at any time since the end of the cold ...

With "children" written out in the russian language. were continuing to document, but just as importantly, we are sharing all of that information with our partners and contributing to a number of accountability mechanisms because its our goal not only to shine a spotlight on what the russians are doing, the intentional targeting of the ukrainian people, but also to hold accountable those who are responsible for these murderous acts. >> ned, i do want to delve into the announcement yesterday that...

>> ned, how will the united states respond if, indeed, russia goes through with the reported false flag operation and uses chemical weapons on the ukrainian people? >> well, let me say, jonathan, were concerned about this. and youve heard of our concern over recent days and there are really two elements that under gird that concern. first, we know the track record. we know that the russian federation and president putin has employed these weapons, chemical weapons against others in the past. hes...