Page 180 - Split Screen News Today

Going to be much about foreign policy as all and all of a sudden world events take over. thats one of the things presidents deal w.during the entire time the president has been rock solid in telling us to stay focused and keep your head down and do the work because you cant be strong abroad if youre not strong at home so there will be a heavy dose talking about domestic policy, not the least of which is how to rebuild the country through rebuilding the roads and bridges and the airports and givi...

State -- how they are handling them? >> reporter: yeah, i mean there are many protests, thousands of protesters have been arrested. we know that russia -- russia clamps down on protests, on opposition except for the kinds of opposition that is sanctioned. there is a split screen here, joe, because if you are particularly of the older generation and you watch russian state television, you are getting a completely different message from others, for example. for example, we go out in the streets to...

Aggression against ukraine. to be clear, you think tonight that could happen? >> i cant put a date on exact time on it. but everything is in place for russia. >> its just this backdrop of alarms going on all around the world that led to a very startling split screen today. today in russia is whats called defender of the fatherland de. a tradition that dates back to soviets and world war i. but today sort of a mix of a celebration of man and a celebration of the military. president putin particip...

Was one of them and lisa murkowski said today jackson is an experienced federal judge, i will conduct a thorough judge of her nomination and look forward to her public hearing before the senate judiciary committee and to meeting with her in my office. so that is the early reaction. you can expect there is going to be a lot of focus on those three republicans, but, andrea, this is a process that is just getting under way. we understand that president biden called the judge to extend the offer to ...

Of ammunition. so, it looks very tentative, because they should have been there by now. >> retired brigadier general peter zwack, thank you so much. so, in just a few hours, president biden will deliver his first state of the union. russia, of course, will be a focus of it. and the white house is preparing for this split screen if the russians launch more attacks during that. we have much more on what to expect ahead. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you ...

Protests that arent sanctioned are against the law. i think just the protests are one sign. were seeing plenty of others. really a growing outcry i would say today here in russia, could give you some examples, a russian lawmaker that voted in favor, in favor of legislation that putin pushed through parliament earlier this week now saying i did not vote in favor of bombing kyiv. 200 russian journalists signing a petition against the war, one of them now thrown out of the government pool, the grou...

Specifically, did president zelenskyys speech in russian, do you have any evidence people heard it at all in moscow? >> reporter: i think people may be listening and ill tell you why. theres split screen between whats happen inside the kremlin and whats happening on the streets in russia. i just spoke to a mother and her daughter, and their father and grandfather is in ukraine, and theyre here in moscow. they havent seen each other for three years because of the coronavirus and now theyre divide...

>> that is the impossible thing. and it is -- your life is suddenly the life of a refugee. everything changes because your house is being child. no one wants to leave their life behind and flee. so, people wait until the last minute. the president here, president zelenskyy,, before the war started, was playing down the threat. washington was playing up the threat. it was washington that was laying out what would come true step-by-step. part of the information flow is starting with him. you know,...

To the president from some very prestigious -- there is a university thats allayed with the foreign ministry. a thousand people from that signed an open letter to the president saying please stop this war. so there is some criticism building. and it would appear that what the white house is trying to do is, you know, leverage that. and, again, economically, with all the sanctions and how its hitting russia and hitting average russian people and then militarily, as jim was just pointing out, its ...

This war, the question people are asking this question. what is he being told? is he being given too positive a picture? what is he being told is possible here? the russians are saying, president putin said in the speech they dont plan to occupy ukraine. one of the questions is what do they plan then? they want to overturn the government in kyiv and then what? because thats always the question. and then what when theres an invasion? and the second part of the split screen in terms of the people ...