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What will be happening in the days and weeks ahead in ukraine. >> i'm curious what the reaction is, when russian leaders keep talking about nuclear war, threatening nuclear war. we've heard frit vladimir putin. we heard it from people on russian tv about reducing enemies to ashes. we've heard it from russian diplomats. an hour ago, "reuters" reporting sergey lavrov starts talking about nuclear weapons and world war iii. certainly, russians understand if a nuclear war begins at russia's hand, it'll be russia that will be obliterated from the face of the earth. russian leaders are talking about ...

Time of war? >> that was discussed. i thought the president might say more in the speech, but clearly there was a split in the administration. we should go after russian energy. it should be sanctioned. we should rethink the balance between energy, security, and climate change policies. the good news is you can have energy security and responsible climate change policies. more broadly, joe, i think that was missed. i think we also missed the idea, perhaps, of telling the american people they would have to deal with higher energy prices for a while, if this is so important. that's a sacrifice t...

When the history of this era is written, putin's war will have left russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger. [ applause ] while it shouldn't have taken something so terrible for people around the world to see what's at stake, now everyone sees it clearly. we see the unity among leaders of nations, a more unified europe, a more unified west. we see unity among the people who are gathering in cities and large crowds around the world, even in russia, to demonstrate their support for the people of ukraine. in the battle between democracy and autocracies, democracies are rising to the mome...

Committee. also, national affairs analyst john heilemann. he is in poland this morning. richard haass, what do you know? what have you heard about weapons getting from western powers into ukraine? all the pledges are there. all the commitments are there. we've heard about the eu fighters that are going over there. again, every ukrainian saying, we need weapons. we need ammunition. have you had any reports about how the progress is going there? >> joe, one of the ironies of this war is both sides underestimated what it would take to prevail. on the russian side, they thought it would be easy. t...

Despite the fact that we actually are not getting the energy out of the ground, all the energy out of the ground that we can get. temporarily, because of this war. wouldn't it strategically make a lot of sense for the united states to ramp up oil production so they can cut off the dependence on russian oil? we have the ability in this country to produce enough oil nor country and energy for this country that we can depend a hell of a lot less on russia. can we not at least do this temporarily, in the cause of freedom? if democrats want to go back to current positions later, they can do that. b...