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♪ ♪ good morning. i'm kristen fisher. >> i'm jim sciutto. joe biden is meet virtually with g7 leaders and the ukrainian president as the world marks one year since russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine. the u.s. has pledged another $2 billion in aid to the country and announced new sanctions against russians, and the people who help them around the world, particularly procuring weapons for that invasion. defense secretary lloyd austin vows the u.s. will stand by ukraine, using a phrase we have heard frequently of late, "for as long as it takes." >> as long as ukraine continue...

Ended as quickly as possible, because putin doesn't care. he seems to send his people as cannon fodder. it's a different story for the west. >> secretary lloyd austin said the war on cnn this morning, that the war will most likely end with negotiations. china says it has a peace plan. do you consider china a credible mediator to this war? >> not a mediator, but they can play an important role, but which china are we talking about? the china that seems to want to normalize relationships with the u.s., where the president is meeting secretary blinken meeting with his counterpart? or the china th...

It's very much looking -- looking like the sort of germany under the nazis before world war ii. remember what we heard from the nazis -- i was just following the rules, i was just following the rules. putin is creating the rules, and there is a system and a law enforcement body and people that will follow those rules. and that's what's happening. so you end up being arrested today, you really don't know when you're going to come out the end of that, that legal chain. >> you've been doing amazing reporting for us, not just now but all of these years, going back 30 years together. we did the fir...

Have the majority on all gochts. hillary is not runningia enmore, barack obama is gone, so the press it seems to be a kind of stand-in, the opponent they can point to, have you ever seen anything quite like this before? >> no. i was about to mention that it got really bad in the nixon white house, if you read tim krouse's terrific "boys on the bus." of course, reporters being reporters, that never happened, but it seems to me now that we're descending into something close to asymmetric warfare. the white house has declared war on cnn right now. if cnn doesn't know this and doesn't get itself d...

But it seems to me now that we're descending into something close to asymmetric warfare. the white house has declared war on cnn right now. if cnn doesn't know this and doesn't get itself d'd up, it would be in a lot of trouble. the media, including people like me, if we're not going to defend ourselves, nobody else is. >> yeah, that is i think the key point here, is that part of the problem is that the white house can asymmetrically engage in media outlets in a way that sends a signal to a certain percentage of the country, 35% of the country, maybe less, that that outlet is the enemy, the ou...