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Here. there are plenty of safe passageways. this country has got a very, very proud record of welcoming refugees and asylum—seekers, hundreds of years, in the last century we have had hungarians fleeing soviet union, we have syrians, afghans, so there is a way for people to come here if they are seeking refuge. we must tackle these criminal gangs. seeking refuge. we must tackle these criminal gangs-— criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank ou ve criminal gangs. nickie aiken, thank you very much....

Sanctions targeting vladimir putins wealthy cronies, banning more than 50 russian oligarchs, their families, closest associates from traveling to the u.s. in belarus after talks with the russian delegation, you have ukraine announcing theyve hit a tentative deal to set up safe passageways for civilians to be able to evacuate and humanitarian supplies to get where they need to go. even with resistance, russian enforces are intensifying attacks from the air and the ground. the mayor saying russian...

Route. a known path civilians were going and very soon after arriving there mortars lobbed at first they started about 200 meters from the position and then literally bracketing on to the path where civilians were walking so i watched it in realtime. >> and this is now obviously at the center of geopolitics today. right? that vladimir putin is targeting civilians and that there are no safe passageways. you did the journalism before this caught up and i wonder if you could say more about the real...

Just in, authorities in the ukrainian capitol of mariupol say the russians are right now bombing humanitarian corridors. these are supposed tore safe passageways designated to evacuate civilians. mariupol the site of the horrific bombing of the childrens hospital and maternity ward there. were joined by matea who fled mar mariupol. theres something were seeing and i wonder if this signifies something different in this war? >> right. as youve reported for the past two weeks, russia went from shel...

The -- the question that i answered for a reporter who asked why dont you go out and establish cordons and create safe passageways for our people just to -- just to move into the airport? at that point early on in -- in our deployment, we only had -- we had less than 4,000 or about 4,000 troops to secure and defend the airport, and our troop presence continued to grow as we flowed people in. we used a number of innovative approaches to go out and pick up and facilitate the entry of american citi...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...

Chicago seems to be -- i know like you said, theres violence in every city, but you look at new york and you look at a lot of other cities across the country. >> doesnt compare. >> things have gotten so much better since the early 1990s. but for chicago it seems to keep getting worse. >> i mean, chicago police right now are trying to do a lot of innovative stuff, using data and computing to deal with this. perhaps the one silver lining of this terrible story the fact it is getting people talking...