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militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? >> yes. >> you are? >> that's the commitment we made. >> now, a white house official be the pentagon tried to walk back the president's comments, insisting the decades old policy of strategic ambiguity has not changed. but the defense secretary had a different explanation than the president when asked if biden's comments could mean putting troops on the ground. >> putting troops on the ground defend taiwan? >> our one china policy has not changed. we reiterated that policy in our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan stra...

And mo brooks. and this evening, alison, senator rand paul is going to host a telethon sort of town hall for mo breaks who says he's going to keep on campaigning. and he said he believes they can force it for nobody to hit the 50% number. i asked him today if he thought it meant something that he was doing better without president trump's endorsement. he wouldn't go there. didn't say anything about that. he said instead he felt like it was because people in alabama knew him and they had time to get to know the other two people running against him. >> you're right, diane, it is fascinating. tha...

They have spent years trying eradicate the church. now we're also seeing, as president biden alluded, the destruction of ukrainian cultural monuments, schools. there's something like 200 monuments that have been destroyed. that's in addition to all of the monuments that have had to be hidden away or shrouded. so it's a big, big blow to the ukrainian psyche because they're basically seeing history repeat itself. >> it is, but from where we sit, and ukrainian national spirit isn't going anywhere, so what does that mean for the end game, for the exist of vladimir putin? he can't erase ukraine's p...

>> horrible. this brings back memories of '32, '33. a blockade of the russian boats blocking the ports of ukraine. this is becoming a world war, because the impact of this war is not limited to ukraine anymore. the world food program can't scream loudly enough about the impact this is going to have, starvation in africa and elsewhere. the allies really need to act quickly on this. by the way, there's also work for poland to be done. when i left the cnn crew in ukraine, there was a lineup of 24 kilometer of trucks trying to leave ukraine into poland. why? because the polish have instituted cust...

Jerome powell is who we should be looking too. unfortunately they don't have daily briefings. the white house does. >> it's just as big in the u.s., as the imf director alluded to, there's a confluence of calamities them say russia's invasion of ukraine compounded the covid-19 pandemicing a crisis upon a crisis, devastating lives, dragging down growth, pushing up inflation. add to this the sharply increased volatility in financial markets and the threat of climate change, and we face a potential confluence of calamities. politically speaking as you were saying, poll suggest americans are holdi...