As we come on the air, the eyes of the world are upon us. With our allies around the Globe Waiting and watching to see how and when the United States will respond to two of the most Urgent International questions of our time. The murder of Vladimir Putins most powerful political opponent and the twoyear anniversary of russias anniversary of ukraine just days away. The Open Question of will the United States send ukraine the aid it needs to hold the line against russia. A common denominator here, one man. Russian president Vladimir Putin. The dictator who our expresident still has yet to condemn for the murder Alexei Navalny. The white house says they will impose new sanctions to hold poout skpn russia accountable for the murder. But on ukraine, aid that ukraine so urgently needs that our International Allies are waiting to see if the United States delivers, that the Biden Administration is willing to give that aid is being ham strung by mike johnson. Who it is worth noting spent his long weekend marking president s day at maralago with donald trump. Make no mistake while johnson was kissing the proverbial ring, called an early and undeserved vacation, the situation on the ground in ukraine is deteriorating fast. Over the weekend, ukraine suffered a blistering defeat with Russian Forces capturing a key city. And now we are getting word about what the dwindling ammunitions are doing to soldiers on the front lines. Heres Nbcs Richard Engel from Eastern Ukraine. Reporter i was just talking to soldiers out here in Eastern Ukraine a few minutes ago. And they were telling me that the shortages of ammunition are so extreme that they are counting bullets. They are rationing their artillery rounds, they are rationing their regular ammunition that they put into their rifles. They are not in a position right now to launch any new offensive. They are not in a position to hold the line. Rationing bullets. You might think that kind of stark reporting might snap Speaker Johnson out of his studenter, so far theres no sign of that. But make no mistake, the world is watching and it is judging. Cnn is rt reporting that Speaker Mike Johnson is facing International Criticism over his lack of swift action on ukraine aid, which is ratcheting up pressure to make a decision that will not only have massive implications for his speakership, but for ukraines War Effort Against russia. Worth remembering that johnson was only on the job four months and lacks experience on the international stage. So far, job son has resisted calls to bring an Aid Package Up for a quick vote, a move that would require democratic support and almost certainly spark a revolt from his right flank. To say nothing of donald trump, who injected himself into the debate, urging republicans to oppose funding. Privately, johnson told republicans during a closeddoor meeting theres, quote, no rush to address the issue. With congress having left town for a twoweek recession sets. No rush. I think our neighbors and allies around the world would beg to differ. And thats where we start this hour with charlie psychs. Also with us is host of The Deep State Radio podcast david, and with me at the table is former Campaign Manager for Barack ObamasReelection Campaign jim masina. Heres the polish Foreign Minister at the conference. Its much cheap tore help ukraine now than it will be if Putin Conquers Ukraine and then has to be deterred. We appeal to the House Of Representatives to mike johnson personally. The speaker of the house. To please let it go to a vote. Do you believe its damaging u. S. Credibility . Well, if ukraine having been encouraged to resist, the president of the United States having put his standard on the ground in kyiv, the famous, historic visit and then doesnt deliver on assistance, that would send a message around the globe that you have to be careful because the United States for regrettable reasons might not be able to congresswoman through. Be careful trusting the United States in the future. Had that would have important implications. Not only in eastern europe, but around the globe. The world is watching. This really is not only about ukraine. This is much bigger than ukraine. What do you think of when you hear that . That we are walking into an international disaster. Its easy to get distracted by the dysfunctional buffoon ri of this speaker of the Republican Party, but there are real world consequences that are measured in lost lives and the possibility of an international disaster. Unfortunately, theres no known ant antidote for. Stooper that members find themselves in. As long as donald trump is issuing his orders to Mike Johnson Johnson knows his speakership hangs by a thread, it seems knee yooef to expect any courage or any sort of leadership, despite the acuteness of the crisis. The news from ukraine, it is bleak. You have the house on recess. Speaker johnson has papted himself into a political corner here. House republicans are on vacation while their inaction does escalating damage to the national security. Rush ja just saw its significant gains in nearly a year because ukraine is running low on supplies and congress has failed to pass critically needed support. House republicans must act. Time is of the essence. In other words, when we talk about this being bigger than ukraine, its also about our national the security. Its very much about our national security. The reality is this didnt just happen. The white house asked for this aid four months ago. The white house then said that at the end of the year, if it was not provided, it would begin to do damage. We have now seen the damage. We may talk about the stooper of mike johnson and his inexperience, but we know mike johnson has sat in briefings in which he was told that if this money was not provided, these things would happen to ukraine. And the context for all of this is last week donald trump said that he would not defend nato. He didnt care what happened to nato. He invited russia to do, in his words, whatever it wants with nato. And so big damage to ukraine. Hopefully not irreversible damage, but also enormous damage to americas most Important Alliance and our standing in the world. And if we dont stop russia and if they move forward against nato, whats the consequence . Well, we will have to under the terms of the nato agreement send our troops there to defend europe against putin. In a much more costly war than the one were seeing right now in ukraine. Given those stakes, why is that not breaking through to republicans . Because donald trump has control of that party. Because donald trump is the only leader in the Republican Party right now and everyone else spends their time kissing his ring. And the political consequences continue to lose election after election following this guy down a rabbit hole in a variety of things. Abortion, foreign poll circumstances the environment, immigration, et cetera, but they dont seem to care because the only thing they are worried about is their own primaries. So donald trump continues to run his party into the ground. Can we pull up that picture of mike johnson . Folks had quite a bit of fun with this. The fact that hes under an exit sign as though that is an omen. The Biden Campaign posting the speaker of the house meets with mike job son. That gets to it right there. Mike johnson is not really calling the shots here. Hes not. Hes the Fifth Speaker we have had this year. A month ago, you and i had never heard of him. Members of congress had never heard of him. Now he has the smallest majority since world war ii they are losing seats almost every month here. They may be out of the majority before the election if it continues like this. And so the only Person Making Decisions is donald trump. He just has terrible political the judgment on all of these things. We dont have a deal at the border because of donald trump. We dont have funding for ukraine because of donald trump. Yet mike johnson does whatever hes told to do. I want to read to you something conservative Congressmen Tauters had had to say. Russia is gang on ukraine, which is running out of crucial weaponry and having to pull back from areas that have controlled and faces losing the war russia started. Is that okay with everyone . Kraip cain is a small country without the capacity for a Large Industrial economy in which it can build the needed weapons. This is not theoretical. This is reality. Nato countries border ukraine. If putin moves on any of them, then what . Hes eyeing poland, romania and the ball kin states. When you have a conservative commentator like mark levin sounding the alarm, im reminded of the fact that these gop members of congress are not even listening to people in the old echo chamber. They are not listening almost exclusively to one man. Yes. And mark levin, although hes right there, has been a dependable ally of donald trump. Only now to discover, this is grave to go along with Vladimir Putins leading cheerleader within the Republican Party. This is a grave situation. The International Consequences are immense, but jim is right. You have a House Of Representatives led by an inexperienced leaderer with an almost invisible margin of error who is not able to stand up to donald trump. And even though this is bad political judgment, what is really alarming the rest of the world is the prospect that this man might be the president of the United States. It is hard for americans and our allies to get our heads around the possibility that the United States may elect one of Vladimir Putins defenders and rationalizers. This would be the leader of the Republican Party. I think we need to step back to emphasize how mind bending this is, but also how grave the consequences are for the future of europe and for nato. This man could get back into Office HandingVladimir Putin a victory beyond his Wildest Expectations or dreams. Just to underscore that point. You had senator chris coons saying that we are, quote, Scaring The Daylights out of our allies. We are left in a very precarious place. Donald trump is not just a defender of putin. Hes actively worked to Support Putin for the past four or five years. Whether it was inviting putins Foreign Minister into the oval office and handing over classified information at that time, whether it was saying he believed putin, a head of the u. S. Intelligence community, whether it was his decision toward the end of his the presidency to try to get u. S. Troops to pull out of germany only stopped by his then secretary of defense, who then said take him out of jemplny and put them in poland. Now trump has plans to put around him a group of loyalists and that group of loyalists will allow him to do whatever he. S and rest assured, the first thing on the International Agenda is going to be pulling out of nato, shutting it down, weakening the u. S. , putting our allies at risk, putting the world at risk of world war iii. This is not trivial stuff. It is shocking. This is a guy who stole u. S. Nuclear secrets. And yet the Republican Party is cowering like little bubny rabbits in the corner afraid of this guy who is such a threat. If they would stand up to anything, anything at all, it would be a guy like this who puts the United States at risk and who really threatens to end what we have known as the american century. When we talk about i object stalling loyalists, we often focus on doj, but as we were just reminded, that can also happen at dod. As we have this conversation about the stakes, about democracy, about the ways in which our allies are looking to america for leadership, why it does not seem as though that is breaking through with american voters. Is it because were not close enough to the election . Thats part of it. Its focused on what it means for them. They want to understand what these decisions mean. How would you articulate that . I think charlie had it right. You want to spend a little money here or billions and billions and trillions of dollars fighting all over europe. Vladimir putin has said hes going to go to other places. Well be in war in europe if hes allowed to move through ukraine. Thats just clear whats going to happen. And so i would make that case directly. I have over a president s and Prime Ministers as my clients. They say exactly what chris coons was saying they say all the time, what is America Stand for right now when you have one major party who seems to do whatever Vladimir Putin wants. Whose side are you really on . That mixed message saying and doing what he promised he would do, but he cant finish it because he has the House Of Representatives run by donald trump. There was a new ad out from the Biden Campaign talking about trumps comments on nato. Take a look. For 75 years nee has been the most important Military Alliance in the world. Its been the cornerstone of americas security. Its how we won the cold war and defeated the soviet union. The only time nato has invoked the sacred commitment of article 5 was to stand with america after 9 11. Every president since truman has been a rock solid supporter of nato, except for donald trump. Trump wants to walk away from nato. Hes even given putin and russia the green light to attack americas allies. I would encourage them to do whatever they want. No president has said anything like it. Its shameful. Its weak. Its dangerous. Its unamerican. I wonder if you think that breaks through with republican voters. I do. Donald trump lost 8 of republicans in 2020. That number gets 12 . The math gets really hard for him. And theres some old reagan republicans who watched the cold war and remember that and may not be able to stomach voting for this guy in this election because of issues like this. Russia is just the one thing that we used to all agree on here. And the Republican Party is just walked away. I wonder who you think through it . I hope it breaks through. I dont know. I hope it does. Exactly for the reasons that jim mentioned. There are republicans who are old enough to remember when republicans actually stood behind europe. And who would have seen america as the leader of the free world and would have been shocked to watch america walk away from its allies and watch a democracy like ukraine be crushed by russia. So thats what its aimed at. One hopes in the swing states that there are enough republicans willing to say i am not willing to sign on to that. Charlie, david, thank you both so much for starting us off. Jim is sticking with me. When we come back, nikki haley calling on donald trump as an unhinged and unstable candidate. But the question will it matter . Plus the former fbi informant at the heart of the gops efforts to impeach President Biden will be at a Detention Hearing later this afternoon. As the republican leading that charge acknowledges, he might never be able to have that vote. And later in the show, the federal Election Interference case against the expresident , his appeal to the United StatesSupreme Court over claims of president ial immunity has put the case on pause. 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