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Economically, eventually hell come around and see things more our way. we learned in the last three weeks, long before the last three weeks, but especially in the last three weeks that is not true. i want you to listen to jake sullivan here, the presidents national security, saying he sees in these russian attacks expanding to other parts of the country is vladimir putin back on his heels. >> what it shows is putvladimir putin is frustrated by the fact his forces are not making the progress he t...

Happens they will pay a heavy price. what is a heavy price? >> well, you know, again i dont want to speculate about whether or not, you know, what the price would be. i would say if he used chemical weapons, there would be, you know, a negative reaction from the international community, don. in terms of what kind of responses that would come about as a result of that from the international community, left to be seen. but again we certainly would hope that he would choose not to do that. putin co...

And say, well, you know, what is the point of these conversations? what else went on in those 75 minutes? a manual background has held about ten of these calls already since russia invaded ukraine. he is been criticised by some at home and abroad as being naive, arrogant, played by moscow, and i put that to him a couple of days ago and he said, you know, these calls arent a win of his committee are coordinated with all of the western allies. he in france, like in germany, imposing sanctions on r...

What direction he goes. will he double down? or will he look for an off-ramp. i deeply hope its the latter, and the valiant fight of the ukrainians will force him, i hope, that hes made a tragic mistake and find a way to get out and save face. >> thank you very much, an ominous threat, for sure. thank you. >> thank you. and back to washington, judge ketanji brown jackson faces another day of questions. this is a special edition of

Aleppo, 2015, and we spee the consequences of it. boris johnson, so far the primary western leader to come out and say he is convinced there have been war crimes. obviously the white house doesnt want to say that, but with every atrocity that we see, an off ramp for vladimir putin gets harder. >> right. >> right. >> because how does he roback row back from what he is now doing. >> yeah, civilians, nuclear power plants. the labor party correctly going after boris johnson, who you talk about a ver...

>> well, i will say the bite in the administration bent over backwards as they are want to do to try to offer vladimir putin and off-ramp. there was a negotiating document leaked to a spanish newspaper that americans offer to the russians that we would not put offensive weapons into ukraine and he also offered expection summer missile defenses to verify for the russians that those are not offensive, but just defensive systems, so i think the united states has done what it can to meet the russian...

Him with some kind of a dignity? is that possible or the only way it ends with a russian people over throwing their dictatorial leader? >> that is a great question, i think that discussion of an off-ramp at the moment seems to be a little premature, president putin has not changed his goals, he does not seem to be willing to negotiate, we should be creating increased costs to mr. putin. i think that president biden has been everything he can to signal to vladimir putin that he can do whatever he...

It has been going on for the last decades and he will continue to do that as long as the western world does not put limits on it. >> sorry to interrupt. one of the things we just heard from our pentagon spokesperson, he said clearly the occupation of ukraine is what putin has in mind. how would that be possible? weve already seen the bravery, the resistance, the tenacity of the ukrainian people? how could he have enough forces to occupy ukraine? >> you know, he will not. we will not be defeated ...

Point you make right here, where, how, is there an off ramp for vladimir putin? >> the way this conflict will end is when putin realizes that this adventure has put his own leadership standing at risk with his own military, with his own people, and he will have to change course or the russian people take matters into their own hands. >> is that not the putin paradox, if you will, and things are going horribly for him. he is isolated globally from an economic standpoint. he has the opposite of wh...

To find an off ramp with vladimir putin. then, colonel alexander him may -- how helped lead to this moment. what really happens if russia america cutoff russian oil? the legendary kareem abdul-jabbar on the influence of sports on war and peace. all in, starts right now. >> good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. today a senior u.s. defense defense official says russian forces have not moved closer to the capital city of kyiv, they are basically where they were yesterday. ukraine forces hav...