fair treatment if you will and a stark reminder the folks in the kremlin, russia are pretty much cut off from western media and what s happening on the outside and understand they re being encouraged to have a war-like mentality and the ideas of being under attack from the west. what about turkey which was has offered to acted to be a mediator? reporter: doesn t seem to be progressing. it s interests that the turks that the israelis say they want to make a difference. same thing in turkey. the next day the nato secretary-general was here. for president erdogan, turkey is at the whim of its geography. east and west. they have a strong relationship with the kremlin and ukraine.
rest of the world doesn t quite see that? that once he s done in ukraine, that he could rollover the border into estonia, and try to sweep through estonia, latvia, lithuania and just keep going? we ve done very well with maintaining unity over the past few weekends now since this aggression started. i think we ve surprised putin with, first of all, the level of unity. and secondly with the resolve. i mean, the sanctions that we have been able to implement are significant. i don t think he expected anything like this. but we cannot rest on the laurels and congratulate ourselves for the things we ve done well over the past four weeks. we need to prepare for the long-term era in european security. this war is not over yet and we should not expect easy solutions. how concerned are you that putin could actually use chemical or biological weapons in ukraine?
that this level doesn t give them quite enough granularity. paul: all right. let s turn to the tax bill. looks like the president says that the corporate tax rate increase that he has wanted may be dead because of democratic and republican opposition. the global tax treaty, which i know you follow closely, a global minimum tax that treasury secretary yellen is working on, that s still part of the mix. and the secretary has said she wants to put that into the reconciliation bill. but is that the way to handle a tax treaty? so this is very problematic at multiple levels, paul. you know, the administration has implicitly admitted that this global tax the that they want to impose on american multi-nationals puts us at a competitive disadvantage if, at a minimum, the rest of the world doesn t follow suit. well, the rest of the world hasn t followed suit yet, they want to go ahead with it, but it
country to avoid a can at the trophy, but he didn t listen. and then, he claimed it didn t happen. i recommended that we maintained 2005 level troops in afghanistan. my assessment back in the fall of 20 that we should keep a steady state of 2500 maybe bouncing up to 35 you recollects will, something like that. the input was received by the president and considered by the president. nobody told you your military advisors didn t say, no, you should keep 2500 troops, it s been stable for the last several year, we can continue to do that. no, no said that to me that i can recall. jesse: while president bide season calling how he left afghanistan a, quote, extraordinary success, general milley said the rest of the world doesn t see it that way. our credibility with allies around the world and with adversaries is being reviewed to see which way this is going to
about. he was transferred a few years later to gitmo, and i realize the rest of the world doesn t enjoy our constitution but we could have gladly exported to guantanamo bay the right to a speedy and public trial and tried him within 12 months of taking custody of him. we knew enough about him and his involvement with 9/11 at that time and who could have publicly tried him and publicly executed him at least 15 years ago. the fact that we have not done that we have done nothing to fix the border, and again, that includes the visa process. the fact that we have done those things should shake everyone s faith that the federal government is ever able to solve any of these problems and until people start electing people, people like donald trump who are serious about fixing these