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good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 25th. i'm amara walker. >> good morning, amara, i'm boris sanchez. we're grateful you are starting your weekend with us. you are live in the cnn newsroom and despite the vicious lies you may be reading on social media, amara and i didn't plan to coordinate our outfits, it happened naturally because great minds think alike. >> i think we're ready to welcome spring when it has ppen ukraine enters the second year of war with russia with a message to the world. >> [ speaking non-english ] [ cheers ] >> ukrainian president volodymyr zelen...

while the number of those vaccinated keeps going up. but u.s. health policy leaders warn that was a -- that scenario was for several european countries. who are now suffering a surge in cases amid the variants, and easing restrictions too soon. they are now returning to tighter mandates including in some cases a lockdown. now, the cdc director and other health officials urge that restrictions remain in place but at least 16 states now have no mask mandate and the tsa says its screeners just broke a pandemic record with more than 1.4 million people traveling through airports nationwid...

Their sanctions against russia given the amount of energy that they get from russia in the form of crude oil and natural gas. do you suspect there would be some push back from european allies about punishing china for providing lethal aid if it gets there? >> well, the allies would probably impose tariffs on chinese goods and that would cut down on the production, the sell, the manufacturing of chinese goods entering into the rest of the world but then again, if all the countries of the world have no alternate suppliers, if all the shoes people buy only come from china and the western countrie...

Strongman. they cannot actually have fair and free elections and fair press, because they would not last very long. >> ambassador lock in his first press conference as president last year said that joe biden, and she jinping sees the future of a test of what autocracy's can achieve. is that how you think the chinese see the world? do you think they will be inspired to do to taiwan where russia has done ukraine? >> certainly they are going to be watching to see how the west reacts and continues to react to russia and putin for the invasion of ukraine. whether or not the west has real resolve to...

Which is a regional come comprehensive partnership. many people say tpp was designed to keep china in check. as obama would say, it allowed the u.s. to write the trade rules of the 21st century. without that, the fear is that it will be china writing those rules, which means that environmental and labor standards could suffer. and president xi is pushing very hard to get his vision, which is this regional comprehensive economic partnership into operations. so that's why he's down there in peru, pushing that hard. >> ambassador lock, with the perspective that you have serving as ambassador to c...