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William taylor, former ambassador to ukraine. i'll be picking general boykin's brain on a few minutes. big news in russia that their market reopened today after a mind. i say kind of. with all sort of stipulations and preventing foreigners from selling any stocks at all. then there were the issue of how many stocks were really open for trading. it was weird. but susan li followed this all. how did it go, susan? >> very limited reopen as you mentioned after being shut for almost a month. that's the longest closure for the stock market there since the fall of the soviet union. it was chaotic. a ...

>> ukrainians have united as never before perhaps. this makes me very happy. the russians made a big mistake that they went for our country, for our land. we will bite their throats. it's our homeland. >> martha: some new numbers from the u.n. saying that around 1,000 civilians have been confirmed to be killed in this war. but they believe that number will likely be much higher. neil? >> neil: jeff paul, be safe, my friend. thanks for that update. with us now, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, william taylor. ambassador, thanks for taking the time. i appreciate that. the president probabl...

Refugees that could be relocated to the united states. most likely there's just secret service agent giving him let's not say more about tomorrow on stage. >> neil: understood. he would meet them ostensively in poland. that was the understanding, or is it? >> yes. >> neil: got it. all right. i think i understand where he was coming from. peter, thank you. very good reporting. i appreciate that. i want to go to jeff paul in lviv, ukraine. the big development today that caught everybody -- no doubt vladimir putin, the sinking of a russian ship. the ukrainians did that. that is something that ver...

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>> neil: all eyes on the president of the united states right now. first press conference. he did tend to confuse some people wondering exactly how much he meant when it came to chemical weapons, russia. the willingness on the part of the u.s. to promise him except 100,000 refugees from ukraine. that's a tiny number compared to countries like poland that i've already taken and better than 2 million. john cornyn, texas republican senator, kind enough to join us. senator, on the refugee commitment the president has made for 100,000 ukrainians to come here. what did you think of that? >> well, am...