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Even though we didn't choose it, this fight for ukraine is critical for the future of american foreign policy and what the biden administration says is a rules-based international order. many nations are on the sidelines. they have arrangements with russia, in some countries in african they're receiving illegal russian weapons, they're connected to russia on the energy business or in financial transactions and they doubt the ability of the united states to stick with it and help ukraine. if the united states stays with it, ukraine wins on the ground, the facts on the ground will determine a su...

Almost suicidal, so that's number one. number two, we have to mitigate for the worst-case scenario. the worst-case scenario is that we find ourselves in a shooting war. jake, it's not just us shooting another plane down. you have to realize that there are so many other platforms in ukraine and in the theater that are going to start targeting our u.s. planes once they enter ukraine. what happens when it's a navy ship, a russian navy ship that targets one of our planes and we have to respond in kind and defend it. we take down a massive russian navy ship, you're escalating to the point where we ...

Congressman, do you believe this attack on the maternity and children's hospital in mariupol was a war crime perpetrated by the russians? >> absolutely. look, i can't read into what the vice president was trying to say or why, but from my experience on the ground in iraq, i was specifically told you don't shoot at civilian targets, you don't shoot at hospitals, you don't shoot at mosques or religious institutions. that is a war crime and you will be held responsible for that. so the same goes for russia, for those that order those types of bombings and for the leaders that approved. >> it as a...

To defend themselves above it, we have periods of about 12 to 2a hours of calm, you might hear the odd air raid siren, it is like this, quite. then you will have a couple of hours of continuous rumbling of missiles or shells exploding, mostly from the north—western area. yesterday we saw a ground to air missile go up, an anti—aircraft missile and what we could hear was outgoing fire by defending ukrainian forces. it is not new for people knowing that there are a sizeable number of russian troops only a few kilometres from the outskirts of the city. there has been incredibly heavy fighting ...

Positions by the side of the road by what one would imagine like the javelins that the u.s. has been supplying them with. so they're definitely having a tough time in the sense the ukrainians are fighting hard and have an advantage because the russians are using the road so the ukrainians can lie in wait. however, they are now on the eastern side about 25 miles outside of the capital now on the western and northwestern side. it's closer to 10 to 15 miles. so there is a sense now that the picture is looking like an attempted encirclement and laying siege to the city. that's what we heard today,...