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Aid to the ukrainians. the longer the ukrainians fight, the more likely that putin will lose. >> and when we talk about the leverage with china, that conversation with president xi today. it will take a while before we better understand what they are in fact doing. they could really bail russia out if they helped counteract the freeze on the central bank. we don't expect they would help with weapons. they could certainly provide a constructive role by pressuring putin. from your experience and watching president xi, what would you expect to come out of this? and how much leverage do we have to...

Have completely different standards when it comes to respect for human life. that should come as no surprise to anyone who has seen russia operate in places like aleppo and syria, according to the office and high commissioner for human rights it is recorded at least 331 recorded civilian mortalities so far with 700 wounded, throse mortalities caused by the tactics this senior intelligence official is warning about. then again, as we saw last night, the war continues. these forces risk poisoning a chunk of the continent by assaulting europe's largest nuclear power station in southern ukraine. t...

In fact, we saw secretary of state antony blinken say that they expect putin to conduct a chemical weapons attack on ukraine and framing it on the ukrainians, conducting a false flag attack there. so, clearly, the united states is not convinced that putin is going to step away from the conflict. they are urging him to have meaningful peace talks with the ukrainians but putin and zl zelenskyy have not yet met. they're urged to meet face-to-face, of course, putin is the main decisionmaker and his opinions are the only ones that matter. a senior intelligence official tells us, their assessment, d...

Does the vice president's visit to poland effectively address any concerns about that? >> well, we'll see. you know, i remember speaking to an intelligence official recently about that issue, and he said it was largely symbolic because really our most effective way of going after the russian air force has been using stingers, using anti-aircraft weapons. there are some very sophisticated weapons that are available that are laser driven, that are very effectively. if obviously the migs would be helpful, but the way that poland approached it kind of trying to make it very public that they would ...

Asking them to open an investigation. there is certainly the possibility, hopefully the reality of accountability for those who have committed war crimes and other violations of international law. in terms of international criminaljustice we also know that states like germany and others have started to open up structural investigations, to gather information about the crimes that are being committed and the individuals themselves so that they can exercise what is known as universaljurisdiction so that means that if people pass through their territory who have committed war crimes they are able...