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Cut off supply lines. but the ukrainians have had two weeks to prepare for that . and keep in mind also that all of this is playing out on tv and on twitter and other social media platforms. and even if reporters get cut off from getting good footage of whats happening in kyiv, we have thousands of citizen journalists inside kyiv who are able to broadcast out what is happening. so were going to see images of this . were going to follow and the condemnation from the world is going to only increas...

Pav pavement. >> ned, how is that not a war crime? >> well, erin, we have all seen these same images, these shocking images. as i said before, as a human it is hard to walk away from these images, from these videos without coming to that conclusion. there is a formal process here at the department under international humanitarian law to document war crimes. were involved in that. look, i think you heard from the president the same way many of us feel. what is happening should not be happening. w...

The frustration, in addition to the constant lies coming out of russia, is that no one who were talking to has any power. putin is the only one who makes decisions here. how can all these conversations lead to any kind of diplomatic solution, lead to a cessation of violence, ned? >> weve experienced that ourselves. there were meetings with lavrov prior to the aggression and understand the concerns, one individual in the russian system, and thats vladimir putin, who can do anything to halt the vi...

Gladly welcome them. 100,000 is the number being talked about and clearing the bureaucratic hurdles that exist to make that easier. now, there will be some probably political issues with that at home because we know there have been issues with other refugee communities from around the world that also want to seek a place in the united states. bup this is a big statement from president biden who had said in recent days that he wanted to welcome ukrainians and now the mechanics of government are s...

Security adviser wasnt mincing words when he met with officials. the state department isnt corn e concerning they are confirming china has fprovided any support already. they are saying this is space they are watching closely. the state department, as you were saying, did send a cable to allies and europe and asia citing the united states has reason to believe that china has expressed a willingness to provide this economic and military support to russia during this time. clearly, theres a lot of...

When they are investing continuously in the war machine in ukraine. they are escalating day by day. so we are trying to do two things to change the calculus. were continuing to support our ukrainian partners, massive amounts of security assistance, just as we continue to escalate our own measures to bring additional significant costs on president putins economy, president putins financial system, and ultimately his strategic positioning in the world. and with his strategic positioning, regardles...

And partners around the world. were an energy producer. we have energy infrastructure, energy production, in this country, that most other countries dont have. so not all countries can do precisely what we did. our goal whether it is in europe or elsewhere in the world is to reduce reliance on russian energy, to increase energy resilience around the world. and we have done that, were going to continue to do that. i think you will hear announcements, youll hear words from the president, from our ...

Will that hold if chemical weapons are used, do you think? >> i think so, jonathan. look, i think the important -- vice-president harris did a number of things on her trip. i saw you with ned price where he talked about the work secretary blinken has also been doing traveling around speaking with our allies, jake sullivan, the national security adviser to the president is traveling to rome to have a meeting with his chinese counterparts later on this week. the reason the world has rallied around...

Ned price, thank you for the news on that front. we appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you, poppy. next, new video shows the scale of the destruction in mariupol as russians relentlessly bomb that area. look at this aerial footage. and launch cruise missiles now from the sea. well break down the combat tactics with our military experts ahead and speak live to a member of the ukrainian army ahead. plus, the final round of questions for supreme court nominee judge ketanji brown jackson ...

For it. >> he lacks the money to do it. he lacks the economic band width and power to recreate the old soviet union. but united states allowing that, weve allowed him to have enough resources to do this in ukraine. it all goes back to he lacks the economic capability to recreate the soviet union. at the same time, lets stop giving him this energy revenue to do what hes doing in ukraine. i dont see an easy solution. this is building for years. so im very actually fascinated to see how we come to ...