Feasible . The good news in this report today feasible . The good news in this report today is feasible . The good news in this report today is that feasible . The good news in this report today is that a feasible . The good news in this report today is that a lot feasible . The good news in this report today is that a lot of report today is that a lot of measures that are being put in place which i campaigned for over the last 15 years are working. For example, tax havens are now causing a third of the harm that they did and companies are paying more tax. But this report is right, the team that wrote it are correct, the wealthy are still getting away with paying much less tax than they should. Their claim is that that is because of the problems created by offshore. If im honest, im not completely convinced by that argument, they are arguing for this global minimum tax, and i see enormous problems in getting any form of agreement on it, and i was involved in negotiating that many of th
towns like bucha. the president himself has called it horrific and war crimes, and president zelenskyy has called it genocide. i wonder if there are people around the country and world asking themselves how much longer or how long do we watch this from the sidelines? is there a point where the russians might go too far? well, first i would dispute that we are watching from the sidelines. we have been doing everything we can to get the ukrainian armed forces and the ukrainian people the weapons they need to push back on russian aggression. we have seen a historic amount of security assistance that we have provided including anti-tan skpbg anti-air systems, and javelins, stingers and munitions. for every russian tank in ukraine, there are ten u.s.-provided tank systems, and we are doing everything in our power, and president biden is
very strong about the kind of response that will take place if they invade. the preparations at the moment, you mentioned the don t trust factor which is huge here. there s an arms transfer. both the united states and the united states also approved for nato allies to take u.s. arms they might have and transfer them into ukraine. allies sending anti-aircraft and tank systems. requesting the transfer of some high technology helicopters to ukraine. a, are those the right steps, and, b, what else would you be recommending to the president of the united states right now? well, i think it s very important that we move forward both with economic leverage and military leverage as well. the russians are going to pay attention a lot more to the military steps we take than almost anything else. they have been through the sanction game, but i think it s on the military side where you can send a very strong message, so i think any movement of our
secretary-general is going to offer additional air defense assets to ukraine, which is put to good use, the stingers that we gave them, which as you showed earlier, the bringing down of a russian aircraft. and it apparently brought down quite a few. and they ve used the man portable tank systems to good effect as well. put on your cia hat and let me ask you this. how did we have five straight presidents and i m going to go back to bill clinton, who all thought you could rationally deal with putin? i say this and maybe we should exhaust 23 years of this with him, but it feels as if a lot of presidents went down this road thinking putin will be a rational actor at some point and he seems to always prove those presidents wrong and has he done it again? well, i think we are by nature an optimistic people. hope sometimes triumphs over reality until it collides with
nato alliance. we have provided a billion dollars in military assistance. 350 billion announced two weeks ago, i believe the defense department has conveyed that, has been delivered. we have not held back on providing weapons, anti-missile systems, tank systems in this process. but there are important operational logistics concerns here and steps, conversations that should happen between military experts and that s exactly what s happening. the policy the white house would we are having discussions about it, operational and logistical questions that are important ones, we would leave to our defense important colleagues. another round of arrests in russia, estimated 5,000 over the weekend. protesting the war. what the assessment of the white house as far as how this has affected the regime s ability over there? well, i would say that i don t think we assessed that president putin thought there would such an outpouring of