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Will do everything we can to reduce gas prices. there's a whole mix of factors. there was growing worldwide demand as we beat this pandemic. puts happening in ukraine right now leads to upward prices in the market. we are going to have to face some short-term gain in order to send a message that putin cannot invade ukraine with impunity. we have to impose maximum economic sanctions on putin and his cronies and we also need to be -- the ukrainian persistence. a lot of minuses when people look back on this decision by putin, they see it as an epic miscalculation. that is what we have got to make...

Secretary state blinken made the right decision not meeting right after putin took the action that he did today, including sending forces into the newly recognized territories. recognized by putin and nobody else. >> did you ever think you would see a threat like this with putin attempting to redraw the map of europe by force? what do you think he could be doing next? >> it is our job to make sure it is seen in history as an epic miscalculation by raising the price to putin. what we can control is what we do next. that is why it was really important to work with our nato allies and other partn...

Foreign minister later this week. they were supposed to meet in geneva on thursday. that had been planned. was that the right decision? do you see any diplomatic path forward at this point? >> well, at this point it's very clear that putin has rejected the diplomatic path. so what antony blinken, secretary of state blinken made the right decision in not meeting with, you know, his counterparts and not going forward with that meeting right after putin had taken the action he did today, including, you know, sending forces into these newly recognized territories, recognized by putin and nobody el...

>> the time wasn't now. that dream crushed under the weight of iraqi forces. a political assault from turkey, iran and baghdad destroying the political legacy of masoud barzani himself. he'd been widely respected for doing something no one has ever done before, given the kurds a space in which to rule themselves and be largely left to it. kurdish business, life all booming there. decades of handshake, nods and schmoozing finally paying off. then a moment about like any other. the kurds key to crushing isis. so surely a country of their own would be their prize? also barzani, after years of hop...

He'd been widely respected for doing something no one has ever done before, given the kurds a space in which to rule themselves and be largely left to it. kurdish business, life all booming there. decades of handshake, nods and schmoozing finally paying off. then a moment about like any other. the kurds key to crushing isis. so surely a country of their own would be their prize? also barzani, after years of hope and work before these scenes. >> i congratulate iraq's leaders on the agreement reached yesterday in baghdad. >> reporter: such words from washington leading to barzani's epic miscalcu...