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If we escalate our intervention, will he lash out with nukes? i can't help but think how different this all might look had ukraine not given up their part of the soviet union's old nuclear weapons stockpile 30 years ago in return for now pointless security assurances from moscow. but how do we deal today with our nuke-filled world? earlier i spoke to beatrice finn, the executive director of the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, which won the nobel peace prize in 2017. beatrice, thank you for joining us on the show this evening. how worried are you that given the conflict in uk...

They call the budapest memorandum. making those security assurances to ukraine. but this is not an official treaty. nothing about this memos binding. it was simply a promise. vladimir putin broke that promise. he violated the budapest memorandum for the first time in 2014 when he annexed crimea. and of course, for the second time last month when he launched a full scale unprovoked invasion of the entire country. but this little nonbinding historical footnote is kind of a nagging reminder not just of vladimir putin's brutality but also about the commitment that the united states once made to su...

That i see, the incredible humanitarian losses and critical infrastructure being destroyed, the greater my -- my heart says let's do more for theishes koreans. and i think -- for the ukrainians. and i think providing them with an aircraft they can fly on their own, create their own no-fly zone, would be best. >> i remember in december, 1994, i was cnn's white house correspondent during the bill clinton administration. the u.s., the uk, russia, signed what was called the budapest memorandum that ukraine was given security assurances in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons arsenal. as you ...

Blue here to budapest an essentially brokered a deal with russia and ukraine along with the united kingdom. ukraine would agree to destroy its newfound nuclear arsenal in exchange for assurances from both the united states and russia than either country would ever use its own weaponry against ukraine. he was president putin in budapest talking about ukraine flag over his shoulder talking about the importance of uniting around ukraine sovereignty. >> creating security in the post cold war era requires that we unite, not divide. pledges on security assurances that president and i gave these thre...

Ukraine, demands 300 votes, constitutional majority in the parliament of ukraine. i do not see those parliamentarians been suicidal to actually vote for that. because, ukrainian society would not accept it. >> it's a good point, of course, we shouldn't forget the 1994 budapest memorandum, where the russians gave security assurances, and they violated those. so lucky about congress this morning, the first leader to do that from a city under attack. how is a speech mean received back home, do you think your colleagues and parliament pushed the right point? >> we do support with the ukrainian aut...