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Really weakens the hand of this administration. which i have to say makes the accomplishment and the unity that we are seeing transatlantic lee all the more remarkable right now. and i think you have to take your hat off both to the folks in the biden administration but also the people who said, no, this is so important but were going to step up and we are going to work with the americans. and we will do everything we can to limits and and putins ability frankly to invade and -- like were seeing...

Was smart. i said, of course he smart. putin is saying, oh theyre gonna sanction, native sanctioned before the last 25 years. you mean i can take over a whole country and theyre going to sanction me? the problem is not that putin is smart, the real problem is that our leaders are dumb. >> heather, it gives me no joy to have to play or to listen to that montage but i play it because i want to ask you the extent to which you think it undermines the international communities efforts at this moment ...

Funeral service, for family and loved. once they lit candles and said prayers. the honor guard then took him to his final resting place, the cemetery in the nations capital. let soldiers name was anton cedar off. he was a 35 year old captive, intelligence offering the ukrainian army. he was the first soldier killed in weeks in eastern ukraine, in a conflict with pro russian separatists, thats been raging since 2014. his death, though, his funeral service, today, took on a heightened sense of sym...

Nbc news foreign correspondent, ralph sanchez. ralph, on a start first with a push to limit rushes access to swift banking system. how is the move already impacting lives in moscow? and how do these sanctions impact the kremlin? >> alicia, this news has sent shockwaves through moscow. people here are really concerned that the economy is having for free fall, that we might see runs on banks and the next couple of days. ill give you run real world illustration. i was at my oh tell here in moscow e...

In paris, several hundreds of people gathered in support of ukraine. in berlin, germany, protests in brand of the brandenburg gate. more than 200 outside the russian embassy in tel aviv and hundreds of ukrainians gathered outside the streets of downing street in london. in the u.s., rallies in new york, massachusetts, in north carolina and in colorado, ukrainians and ukrainian americans feel helpless and worried. >> this is horrible. our families are there. little kids are there. like last night...

Incredible -- you basically, your back to using passive digits to do it. so there is already predictions that there will be a massive catastrophe in russian markets on monday morning, which is really going to bring home -- what a disaster this war is for them. >> heather, you, know ive talked a lot about the other big news which is germany reversing course announcing it is going to send weapons into ukraine. and ive talked about that in the context of military. i want to ask you a slightly diffe...

The wreckage of u.s. european relations after four years of president trump, plus germanys economic dependency on moscow, meant that this would never happen and that putin could threaten and do anything he wanted and he could in fact drive u.s. and europe further apart. and we see the reverse has happened. so this really sends both the strong message that we have a whole new quality of u.s. european partnership, and we are seeing that play out today in russia. we may well see it play out in othe...

>> some songs you dont decide to write, they write themselves. how can you not be inspired by president zelenskyy, the ukrainian people, their fortitude and example. from the day he turned down our plane ticket he said im going to fight and probably die for my country, you have seen people step up. just this week you saw the prime ministers of poland, czechoslovakia go to kyiv. i dont think anybody could imagine that. russian reporters openly protesting putin, and arnolds speech. courage is cont...

That his son, and the people of ukraine, were being attacked by russian forces, in ukraine. protesting putins war was dangerous enough, even before russias new law making it illegal to use the word war, or invasion. we learned from our next guest, molly schwartz reporting, in mother jones, that russian jail cells are so overcrowded now, people need to stand all through the night. they never had so many people to arrest. so, they do not have space. joining us in a moment, julia davis, whos report...

This effort. and i think every day it is becoming clear that president putin gravely miss calculated. now three weeks in, we have seen russian forces in many areas stalled. weve seen convoys unable to make significant progress. now, clearly they continue to pose a threat to major urban centers, including the 2.9 million people in the city of kyiv. but if vladimir putin thought that his forces could go into ukraine and would not find and confront stiff resistance from the people of ukraine, he wa...