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More than 2.5 million people, more than 2.5 million people have fled ukraine, you see the pathways there on the map. russias war has made more people refugees than there are residents in houston. americas fourth largest city. he joins us live, along, im told, miguel, with a ukrainian student. >> yeah, we are in a house of -- a romanian house that are taking in ukrainians, they have 31 here right now, three more coming in tonight, in all over the last two weeks, taken care of about 61 ukrainians,...

Run into as the day ensues. were watching closely as the ukrainian human rights lawyer ahead of the civil liberties in ukraine. alexandra, thank you for taking the time to join us. just getting aid humanitarian or otherwise, seems to be an uphill battle, that the russians dont keep their promise and safe pathways and corridor. so theres great risk on the part of ukrainians trying to get that to ukrainians and other countries trying to get that to the ukrainians, right? >> russia deliberately iso...

Remain in ukraine now face poverty and economic vulnerability. it could set that region back decades, and leave deep social and economic scars. meanwhile, the war is tearing families apart. "the new york times" reports that an estimated 11 million people in russia have ukrainian relatives. and many ukrainians are ethnic russians. russias disinformation campaign has some cross-border families arguing over whats true about the war. and here, in the united states, the white house is working to prov...

Is it doable? >> its a great question because it is doable, but it requires a commitment of resources and a plan right now. unfortunately, though, the president has made this commitment. its not clear whether its time bound, what specific pathways the u.s. will use, and the reality is this is similar to an announcement that was made with respect to refugee resettlement where the president said that we would resettle up to 125,000 refugees coming from all over the world. and were six months into ...

Pay a hefty price if they resort to chemical warfare in ukraine. >> it will be a blatant violation of international law . it will have wide spread consequences. are this as the humanitarian crisis in ukraine gets worse by the day two millions of people have fled overwhelming countries along natos eastern flank. the white house now says they will allow as many as 100,000 refugees fleeing ukraine to enter the u.s. and well explore a number of legal pathways to streamline that process. this is an i...

Speak to moscow. i want moscow to understand that i want that to be pathways for communication between us. he did come under heavy criticism before the questioning ukraine for being filled by moscow but he said i always need a window of opportunity was tiny, tiny, in this case. but it is better to take the chance that you ignore it and he continues in that vein now. lets keep trying to talk even while we work with international allies to pile on the sanctions, pile on the pressure and make the e...

Than half the countries estimated youth population. on thursday, president biden announced plans for the united states to accept 100,000 ukrainian refugees. administration officials said that they are still working out the details of how the refugees will be admitted. joining me now from romanias dan stewart, head of news for the save the children group. thank you for joining us tonight. let me ask you, mr. stewart, as mr. president biden said, the u.s. were taking 100,000 ukrainian refugees. i ...

All three agreed not to disclose further details from the meeting. how encouraging is this conversation? is this enough to compel putin to end this war against ukraine? >> look, rev, im not encouraged by that at all, especially based on the previous conversations putin and his representatives have had with ukrainian representatives, even about creating humanitarian pathways to escort civilians out. that has fallen through multiple times now. so when theres nothing else to read out from the conve...

Things to get moved way back because the meetings run late and we know the presidents schedule. he has been behind schedule, so well figure out why things moved up significantly, that is not something we ever see in biden world. but theres been a lot of news ahead of this press conference like the white house telling us they are going to accept, the u.s. is going to accept 100,000 of the 3.5 million ukrainian refugees displaced in the last month and that "to meet this commitment we are consideri...

Able to call america home? >> alicia, thank you for that question because i think thats precisely the point. an announcement is great, but a month after he who shall not be named caused this war, the details of how were going to resettle 100,000 is daunting. the reality is, what we heard from the white house, even the president today, was a commitment, but it wasnt time bound, we dont know the precise pathways that we will use. and it is important to acknowledge that we are six months into the s...