good morning. i m kristen fisher. i m jim sciutto. joe biden is meet virtually with g7 leaders and the ukrainian president as the world marks one year since russia s full-scale invasion of ukraine. the u.s. has pledged another $2 billion in aid to the country and announced new sanctions against russians, and the people who help them around the world, particularly procuring weapons for that invasion. defense secretary lloyd austin vows the u.s. will stand by ukraine, using a phrase we have heard frequently of late, for as long as it takes. as long as ukraine continues to conduct operations and continues to work to take back its sovereign territory, we will be there with them. you can expect that the international community will be with ukraine once the fighting stops. and just look at how the front lines of this war have evolved over the course of the past year. in that time, more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed, entire communities have been decim
was just an interesting person. he was a shrimper and he was born and raised in allendale county and he moved down to the coa coast. we don t need barrett s entire story, and i don t think it is responsive. but we don t need the background, your honor. well, go ahead. well, barrett and he could go out to find pieces of property and get them cheap and sell them and make some money. and well, we got into some of these deals, and we got in and barrett and some other people, and when the recession hit, one of the reasons these land deals cause med trouble is because the people that i was in the deals
clear communication and clear efforts and campaigns is going to be essential. i think worse than the people who are upset and racist are the people who are cynical about all of this, playing a political game. this is a headline from the washington post in 1980, reagan pledges he would name a woman to the supreme court. and he did, sandra day o connor. trump made the same pledge and elected emmy cohn need barrett. why is it such a big deal that biden makes the same pledge? is it because he s a democrat or because it s a black woman? listen, i think this is the right pick. i think it s a smart pick. it s maintaining a campaign pledge, it was a central part of his platform, as you just pointed out. i think the blow back so far is what we d expect. i don t think i think it s going to be at the end of the day, there will be a nominal fight over the over biden s pick. but i think joe manchin will be aboard, i think or sinema would
and the nominee hasn t even been named because the assumption that the supreme court is a reserve space for white or white adjacent people, particularly men, is what has been the guiding light up until, what, the 60s? so this is going to make a lot of people upset. and with that in mind, democrats need to figure out how they are going to protect this nominee because she is going to be in for world of hatred, racism, and misogyny directed all at her from all angles, and protecting her with clear communication and clear efforts and campaigns is going to be essential. i think worse than the people who are upset and racist are the people who are cynical about all of this, playing a political game. this is a headline from the washington post in 1980, reagan pledges he would name a woman to the supreme court. and he did, sandra day o connor. trump made the same pledge and elected emmy cohn need barrett. why is it such a big deal that biden makes the same pledge? is it because he s a democr