the u.s. would ban all imports of russian energy to make it clear that the american people would not be part of subsidizing putin's unjustified war. at the time, i noted that we were able to take the step when others could not because the u.s. is a net exporter of energy with a strong domestic industry and the u.s. welcomed the you's -- the eu's statements valid to decrease dependence on russian gas. today we are accelerating our progress towards a secure, clean energy future. this initiative focuses on two core issues, one, helping europe reduce its dependency on russian gas as quickly as possible. secondly, producing europe's demand for gas overall. the u.s. together with our international partners, we will work to ensure any additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas for europe this year. as the eu looks to disconnect from russian gas by 2030, it will look to secure additional market demand for 50 million cubic units by 2030. the european commission will work with member st

u.s. sanctions over russia's war. washington warns beijing not to support moscow the china tech selloff continues as the nasdaq 100 sets into bear market territory. below $100. traders break for a hawkish fed with the markets already pricing seven rate hikes 2022. dani, good morning. there's something very strange happening in the oil market with sub $100 is that angst about china growth, or is that perhaps the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of some kind of off-ramp in geo politics? dani: it seems oil encapsulates everything we see in markets. it's a risk going forward. manus: this is how the hedge funds quite literally rolled, ramped and then disappeared from the mark. this is one of the fastest liquid days since 2008 -- liquidation since 2008. this is what you call rinse and roll. dani: you're looking at oil and i'm looking at stocks, manus because it's not great news that despite the fact we had oil prices come down dramatically that stocks are take aback. a lot of it havin

the u.s. expresses skepticism as russia pledges to scale back military. . operation around kyiv plus the great blockchain robbery. hackers steal $600 billion in one of the biggest. crypto heists ever. . that recessionary signal briefly flashing with the two and 10 curve invert a. it is back this morning. but the debate rages on how strong a recessionary signal this is. pimco says it may not be the most reliable one. jeffrey gundlach says. i will leave this to the pros because there are lots of sides you can take. one thing i will point out is clear divergence is, dislocations, in this market, as we fear a recession. stocks are holding up, specifically if you look at the volatility markets, we have a chart for this. you are looking at a move index of bond volatility which continues to go even higher. the blue is the vix. the vix has been in decline. bank of america warns this is a bear market trap. that in the past when we have seen this level of dislocation which is near record, we have seen t

the u.s. military disappeared, the afghan economy predictably collapsed. 75% of the afghan government budget came from foreign donors and that was rightfully held back in august to prevent it from going to the taliban. no country can cope with the loss of 75% of public sector support overnight, especially one that was already in dire straits. in this moment of crisis, the organizations on the ground are racing to scale up the humanitarian response. the u.n. released an appeal to international donors for $4.4 billion to meet the q-tip -- emitted terry and need in afghanistan. this is the largest single u.n. -- single country u.n. appeal in history and that tells you something about the scale of the crisis. it's larger than what we see in syria or yemen or ethiopia. i support the decision to dedicate an additional $308 million to humanitarian aid in afghanistan. that money is going to save lives. congress should authorize more. the humanitarian cannot be expected to do it all. they will do every

the u.s. government has declared that members of the russian armed forces have committed war crimes in ukraine according to new statements from secretary of state blinken. now to alex at the state department. what more does the statement say, alex? >> well, don, this is hugely significant. we have heard president biden in the past few days call president putin a war criminal. we've heard some of president biden's top deputies here at the state department say they personally believe that russia was committing war crimes and now it is official. the u.s. government, the biden administration is saying that russian forces in ukraine are carrying out war crimes. this comes from a statement from secretary of state blinken who is on that flight with president biden about to land in brussels for that nato summit. and part of the statement reads that we have seen numerous credible reports of indiscriminate attacks and attacks deliberately targeting civilians as well as other atrocities. russia's forces

but i cannot see u.s. a warplanes flying over ukraine the confliction zone but with the various russian warplanes you cranium warplanes flying it is a pretty chaotic environment. i have not heard of any serious plans here at the pentagon to set up such a quarter but i do know the diplomats are trying to explore such an option for. >> alright jennifer griffin griffin at the pentagon thanks so much. >> more than ukraine refugees fleeing the country's russian forces shout major ukrainian cities with many of them flowing across poland's a border in search of safety. alex hogan is alive in poland with more details hello alex. >> hi mike this is poland where a makeshift refugee center has been made inside of a massive warehouse. people are bumped in and when they find out somewhere where they can go they bus dicey people are holding up their children think i want to get on this bus. there are no tickets at all for sale part every seat is free it is all hands on deck trying to get these people anywhere to safety

the u.s. did. banned all u.s. transactions by individuals, by businesses having anything to do with russia's central bank. remember, russia has a total of about 630 billion foreign reserves in central banks around the world. if they cannot get their hands on those, then how can they -- that is the problem. the treasury department made it very clear, they are doing it for a specific reason. as janet yellen said, they want to limit russia's ability to -- they want to immobilize any bank of russia assets held in the u.s. so this is clearly these -- clearly stepping dissensions up again. many are skeptical on how effective they will be in terms of stopping vladimir putin, they are certainly exacting pain. that is something the russian government is feeling pressure from. rishaad: the beijing administration is treading very carefully on this. a tight well for them. tell us -- a tightwalk for them. what are we hearing from the pboc if anything on this? kathleen: so far we are not hearing much. we know that everyone is l

the u.s. has been concerned given that there has been in the past xi jinping and vladimir putin having warm relations and president putin went to the olympics before the invasion. the u.s. is trying to suss out where china stands and at the same time, trying to push to get china to try to compel vladimir putin to leave ukraine or take steps to push back, to pull back on the war. we will see how significant that is. this comes as you mentioned the pentagon information agency has come out with a new 67 page threat assessment and basically it says president putin is likely to increase the rhetoric, to escalate this nuclear rhetoric if the war continues. if the ukrainian resistance continues, they say he is almost certain to use nuclear threats and to escalate the rhetoric around those threats. that is something that is somewhat chilling that comes as a backdrop to this key phone call that will be held tomorrow morning washington time. haidi: also key is the interest payment. we have been watching

>> what the u.s. should be doing is what we are doing, supplying ukrainians with as much as we possibly can, munitions like antitank javelin missiles, anti-air stinger missiles. i think we should also be trying to get them more of the planes that they know how to fly, migs from eastern europe, that could enable them to be much more effective in protecting the skies, but also going after this tank column. there's nothing more vulnerable than a tank column sitting there massed together. >> you're talking about this convoy. here it is. this is a 40-mile-long russian military convoy. here is the map of kyiv right here, and i guess the question is, here is this convoy, it's huge. what do you think they're going to do? are they going to surround kyiv? >> i think they're going to try to surround kyiv and create a siege of kyiv and to try to seize the government or capture and kill zelenskyy. this is very vulnerable. when it's stack tick here, i think the russians have been -- you've seen the inn yeahs be far

the u.s. this week down the lowest level since 1969. it looks like the economy is holding up even as inflation rises and the fed gets ready to hike rates. haidi: president biden is in brussels for high-level meetings over the war in ukraine. he is calling for russia to be removed from the g20. >> my answer is yes. it depends on the g20. that was raised today. i raised the possibility that if it can be done, if indonesia and others don't agree, then we should in my view have to have both ukraine be able to attend the meetings. haidi: let's bring in our white house correspondent who joins us now. what did we hear in these discussions particularly pertaining to our next round of actions against moscow and also some kind of protection for the eu against ramifications of these actions? >> first, we had more sanctions put in place on russia from the united states. this after individuals, most notably the head of russia's biggest bank. the entire state duma, this is russia's parliament, they are all

but what the u.s. navy is now doing and kayna whitworth is with them. >> reporter: we are heading to the front lines of what's been called a very cold war. here in the arctic, where temperatures hover around negative 20 degrees, the u.s. navy is conducting three weeks of drills, with a sharp eye on nearby russia. they've set up camp on an ice flow 160 miles away from land. but the real action is underwater. so here it is, the "uss pasadena" has just come up through the arctic ice. you can see sort of the front of it right there and this part is coming up all the way through the ice. that's our ride. the "pasadena" is one of two attack submarines in the region. it has a steel reinforced sail, allowing it to punch up through arctic ice as thick as five feet or more. >> welcome aboard! >> reporter: all right, let's go. below the surface, the navy trains to find and evade enemy subs. >> there's a lot of people who would like to hide from the u.s. submarine force. i just say, they're not very successful. >>

the u.s. and allies. they're also paying very close attention to the chinese appearing to endorse russian disinformation campaigns both online and in the media. the white house officials say while beijing has tried to appear neutral at least on the world stage, domestic media coverage is siding with russia, and beijing is seemingly endorsing russian claims that the u.s. has developed chemical weapons in ukraine which, of course, is not true. the u.s. says that is an indicator a that russia might be planning a chemical weapons attack. all of this is ratcheting up questions about what the u.s. and nato would do in the event of an attack of that nature, a chemical weapons attack. ukraine's foreign minister says ukrainians have already suffered attacks by internationally-prohibited weapons like cluster bombs and vacuum bombs. this country is not expecting direct help, boots on the ground, from the u.s. and nato. >> you're asking me whether nato will defend us, well, we do not expect that. what we

u.s. economy can handle tighter policy, but a flatter yield curve suggests otherwise. and russia says a neutral ukraine with its own army is a possible compromise, while kyiv pushes for security guarantees. the u.s. promising more military aid. haidi: of course a positive lead when it comes to wall street's reaction to fed chair powell's carefully calibrated statement, really reinforcing his view that the u.s. economy is resilient. we're expecting to see maybe a little more turbulence, but certainly some upside pressures for equities. we are seeing .4% higher out of the gate when it comes to trading in australia. we have seen those moves following what we saw in treasuries overnight when it comes to australia and new zealand. bond yields across the shorter end and the longer end of that curve, as we have treasury yield flattening. that is still where we are seeing some recessionary concerns. kiwi stocks up by 1.5%, despite gdp numbers for the end of last year coming in softer than expected

the u.s. house of representatives, he was leading historic battle for the approval of the pipeline. he was honored in 1973 as freshman congressman of the year. kevin mccarthy, the republican leader of the house, said don young was a giant with a spirit as strong as the alaskan wild. his absence will leave congress less colorful and punctual, but his decades of service filled every room and touched every member. anne and his children have my deepest sympathies. finally, representative ruth westerman, saying i'm heartbroken to hear of his passing. he was an incredible public servant, brilliant legislator, a mentor and friend tall and will be dearly missed -- friend to all and will be dearly missed. the passing of representative don young happened yesterday. we are taking your calls about is the u.s. providing enough support for ukraine. we will start -- and here are the numbers on your screen. if you say yes, (202) 748-8000. if you say no, (202) 748-8001. texts can come in at (202) 748-8003. we

the u.s. says about 92% of the forces russia staged outside of ukraine before the invasion are now inside the country. and learning russia plans to deploy an additional 1,000 mercenaries. meanwhile we're getting an inside look at the ukrainian nuclear power plant. now occupied by russian forces. ukrainian authorities release a video of a warning sounding inside the control room. have a listen. >> you're endangering security of the entire world. attention. stop shooting at the nuclear facility. stop shooting. a at a nuclear hazardous facility. >> while the attack on the plant was a close call, no radio active material was released at in time. some good news. ukraine ambassador to the u.s. condemning the attack on cnn earlier. >> we are not safe. ukraine is not safe. europe is not safe. nuclear power plants are not supposed to be shot at. and not supposed to be run by war criminals. there should be responsible engineers to run them. it's another m.o. of russians doing in ukraine for the past nin

the u.s. for its part says it does not have any confirmation that he was killed. it does appear that ukraine may have heard about this from the open source investigative outlet belling cat which indicated that there were some open communications, some insecure communications where they have heard that he was killed. in terms of overall death toll, if he is part of that, the u.s. believes around 2,000 to 4,000 russian soldiers have been killed so far in this campaign and this war in ukraine. but the u.s. intelligence community saying that assessment is one that they make with low confidence. anderson. >> alex marquardt, appreciate the reporting, thank you. >>> tensions between the u.s. and russia may be skauyrocketin but there's a new report as it comes to their intentions with the united states. katie, what are we learning from this intelligence report? >> yeah, anderson, the u.s. intelligence community every year releases what it calls the worldwide threat assessment which is how the intellig

u.s. army command is hosting exercise arctic edge 22 hosted in alaska. this consists of 1000 u.s. military personnel and they are made up of units from the army, navy, air force, coast guard, and special operations. also included are elements from the royal canadian navy, royal canadian air force, and canadian army. the goal of the exercise is to provide effective training for participants using the premier training locations available throughout alaska. arctic edge 22 is linked to other exercises including the national guard's arctic eagle patriot, the army's joint pacific multinational readiness capability exercise, and the navy's icex, and those happened during february and march of this year. with that, we will take questions. >> can you give us more detail on the conflict with russia? do you know if it has been used at all? was it used specifically during the attack on the nuclear facility, one might think there might because for concern, and would it be general walters who would be in charge or on the other end of the phone? can you give us a sense of [indiscernible] if you

the u.s. announces it will welcome up to 100,000 ukrainian refugees fleeing the russian invasion, immigration officials say they are preparing for a surge of migrants and increasing detentiont the u.s.-mexico border. we will speak with guerline jozef of the haitian bridge alliance about how haitian refugees are treated and what award-winning journalist maria hinojosa about the haitians she met in a migrant caravan. >> there pretrade like their forcing their way into the united states were trying to intimidate americans. but in fact, what i see is a very different narrative of a caravan. this is a caravan of love, safety, and security. amy: we will also look at how the western world has turned its back on the horrific conditions african migrants face in among other places, inside libya detention centers, documented in a new book by sally hayden called "my fourth time, we drowned, seeking refuge on the world's deadliest migration route." all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, d

if u.s. estimate whether there is a diplomatic solution, sure, we already for a diplomatic solution. theres were three rounds of negotiation on the level of delegations. tomorrow our minister of foreign affairs, will meet with the turkish minister of foreign affairs as well as foreign minister lavrov. our president is ready to have direct negotiations with president putin. we are ready to talk about a large spectrum of topics, but unfortunately, for the time being, we don't see that willingness from president putting himself. so we ask the world community to assist us in these negotiations, to sit down with putin at the negotiation table. >> so you make it clear that for this to be a solution, for there to be a solution, president zelensky will have to sit down with vladimir putin? you still believe that meeting needs to happen? >> it needs to happen in order to bring an end to this awful war. but under no circumstances will it be under putin's rules for his ultimatums. first and foremost, ou

the u.s. to step up its military aid to the besieged country. being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace. >> the american people are answering president zelenskyy's call for more help. more weapons to ukraine and more tools to fight russian aggression. that's what we are doing. >> bret: also tonight ukraine and russia talk again in another round of peace negotiations and for the first time, there are some reports of progress. but the war rages on. in and around kyiv, specifically. other major cities as well. as russia tries to crush the resistance that has frustrated the kremlin's hopes for a lightning victory. we will speak with delaware democratic senator chris coons of the foreign relations committee in just a few minutes. first we have fox team coverage jennifer griffin at the pentagon. the details on the new u.s. assistance to ukraine. jacqui heinrich at the white house with president biden's bold new characterization of putin but we begin with correspondent trey yingst

the u.s. economy. maria: you've got a numerous amount of money under management got a great vantage point to see what investors are doing in the face of all of this. year-to-date the markets are down, nasdaq down what 13% or so? but you've got four and a quarter trillion dollars in asset fund management clinic merrill lynch, the private bank, business edge, the wealth management bank of america has been doing so well. what can you tell us about that population and whether or not they are sellers in this market? >> well, our clients have taken a very balanced approach. i think will prove to be the correct approach over the medium and long-term. clients have not been bailing out of equities. they have been strategic. and so, as markets have moved many clients who spent time with their advisors revisiting financial plans. making short medium and long-term asset allocations makes sense. that's opportunistic they have seen areas of the marketplace for prices have come down and up there chance to pu

the u.s. house yesterday approved a $1.5 trillion spending plan to fund the government through september 30. the u.s. senate is taking about legislation, including $730 billion in domestic spending and $782 billion in military spending. it includes $13 billion for emergency aid to ukraine. visiting poland to meet with that country's president, vice president quality harris said the u.s. delivered two patriot missile systems. the u.s. is also providing poland with $50 million in humanitarian aid. >> welcome to this opportunity. i would like to give the floor to the president of poland. >> distinguished vice president of united states of america. distinguished ladies and gentlemen. this is a very important moment. in our relations and under these circumstances we are facing right now in europe. behind our eastern border. in ukraine, the russian troops are murdering innocent people, murdering civilians, bombing maternity hospitals. wounded women right before labor are being carried out. none of u

it would affect anyone buying a cup of coffee. >>> and is the u.s. about to stop changing our clocks twice a year? what happened today. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. and we begin tonight with the war in ukraine and this evening, the capital city of kyiv, where the mayor there has imposed a mandatory 35-hour curfew, saying families should only leave their homes if they are racing to a bomb shelter. tonight, russia increasing its assault on ukraine, hitting civilian targets. ukraine's president zelenskyy will address the u.s. congress tomorrow. but tonight, he has already addressed canadian parliament, and what he asked for. the white house now responding. tonight, verified video showing new images of deadly attacks. this massive explosion there rocking the second largest city of kharkiv. the city hit dozens of times in just the last 24 hours. attacks intensifying in and around kyiv. deadly russian air strikes pounding civilian areas in the capital. apartment buildings up in flames. tonight, the humanitari

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since then, u.s. forces have been conducting periodic engagements to train and advise somali partners. however, as you note in your testimony, general townsend, u.s. and partner efforts to disrupt and degrade the most dangerous violent extremist organizations have not achieved the success we need. the biden administration is taking a comprehensive look at our strategy in somalia. i hope you will share your views on the current security situation as well as the status of our engagement with somali partners. the security situation in west africa is also increasingly fragile. over the past two years extremist operations have expanded across the sahel, including pushing down into the littoral states in the gulf of guinea. political unrest in chad has led to the departure of all nonessential u.s. personnel, and high-profile attacks against civilian and military targets it mali, burkina faso, and niger have increased. these extremist groups are not currently capable of carrying out attacks outside the regio

u.s. and nato instructors had been teaching ukrainian soldiers -- i have to stress there were no nato u.s. personnel there at the time. it was also a place used as an evacuation point to get people out of the country at the very beginning of the conflict. but what's also scared people is it was such a major attack in the west of the country, which has been relatively safe. and of course, as you know, this place has had a flood of displaced people come here seeking safety. obviously that attack maybe 30 miles outside of the center of lviv has made folks here in lviv pretty anxious. >> as always, thank you so much for bringing us that reporting from on the ground in ukraine. >>> white house officials are responding to that missile attack today at a ukrainian base near poland. joining me now from washington, nbc news correspondent leigh ann caldwell. this missile strike near the polish border, are there talks happening inside the white house about what would happened in that scenario? >> repo

the u.s. is determining, and i quote now, capabilities we could provide to backfill poland if it decided to transfer planes to ukraine. the spokesperson adds that sending fighter jets into ukraine is a sovereign decision for any country to make, and that there are a number of logistics to work through. that word comes after zelenskyy urged his nation tonight to keep up the resistance praising what he calls a special kind of of heroism. >> translator: ukraine, which we know, love, protect, and will not give up to any enemy. when you don't have a firearm but they respond with gunshots and you don't run. this is the reason why occupation is temporary. our people, ukrainians, don't back down. >> and this is just one example of that. watch as the camera pans over from russian soldiers and a military vehicle to a street filled with pro ukraine demonstrators. that is an occupied city where they are standing firm. and the the defiance can be seen where ukrainians took to the captured streets today lou

and when you look at the numbers though, the u.s. only gets about 3% of its oil from russia so does the u.s. produce enough to make up for that shortfall with us now is francisco blanch from bank of america global research i want to go through several questions very quickly i know right now, you are in madrid i know that gasoline is not priced in dpagallons there, but what would a gallon of gas cost in madrid right now? >> getting close to $8 per gallon >> $8 per gallon >> i want to do a little fact checking over president biden's remarks earlier today attended to this ban of russian oil imports. he said and i'm going to play a bite in a minute, he said it is simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production i wonder whether you think that's true. let me play a sound bite and get your reaction. >> united states produces far more oil domestically than all the european countries combined. in fact, we are a net exporter of energy. we're approaching record levels of oil and gas production in t

guy: the lesson learned too many is that the u.s. holds considerable financial clout still, and the assets you hold abroad are not necessarily yours in times of conflict. how will the chinese be thinking over than a few years about economic plans, and how will they be changing those plans as a result of what is happening to russia right now? anna: it is interesting. i was listening to a conversation about this this morning, and i think somebody pointed out that swift has the ability to tie up and complicate all sorts of transactions for any country in the world, pretty much, and china does not have a system that is equivalently large. it does not have the ability to separate from swift and not take a pretty big hit. furthermore, i think we have to consider the fact that china's economy is not like russia's economy. russia's economy is primarily an oil and gas economy. china's economy relies on trade in a much more all pervasive way. i can't really imagine a scenario where china can truly decouple itself from the rest of the world and

u.s. software firms microsoft and oracle and s.a.p. to halt operations on sunday zelenskyy urged them to stop supporting the russian products and roll back business in russia as half decisions. >>> volkswagon doubled the profit last year to 19.3 billion euro the german carmaker warned the russian invasion of ukraine could weigh on supply changes. the group added it was sourcing supplies on venders in europe. the pandemic continues to impact production in other key areas. production suspended in china due to covid outbreaks volkswagen reacting well 6.6% up from the german automaker. >>> edf slashes the profit outlook after the potential impact on energy supply. the french utility group has about 10.2 billion euro compared to the previous estimate of 8 billion. the company added the french government's ability to cap electricity prices will weigh on the performance >>> in the oil and gas space, activist investor capital has urged totalenergies to halt in russia total refused to leave russia

u.s. secretary of state antony blinken saying he personally agreed with president biden who called putin a war criminal. our ian pannell in kyiv with the babies born to surrogate mothers, families waflting all over the world, including the u.s. ian standing by from the capital again tonight. >>> also tonight, the urgent warning from secretary blinken about russia potentially unleashing a chemical attack. what he said today. and our martha raddatz in ukraine tonight. she has new reporting here. how concerned are american authorities about this? also tonight, putin's state of mind and how safe is ukraine's president zelenskyy? what martha has learned. >>> president biden, meanwhile, at the white house, tomorrow this crucial call with china's president xi. how concerned is the administration that china may help russia with military equipment or otherwise? mary bruce live at the white house. >>> here at home tonight, the pandemic. and u.s. authorities urging not alarm but caution amild these r

u.s. warning if there's an attack on nato territory. >>> homeless targeted. police are searching for a suspect linked to multiple murders and attacks in different cities. >>> tom brady is back. just weeks after retiring, the buccaneers quarterback says he is returning for his 23rd nfl season. >>> good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm elise preston in for anne-marie green. there will be a new round of talks today as the war intensifies between russia and ukraine. officials from both countries will hold a video conference in hopes of brokering some type of peace deal. national security adviser jake sullivan will meet with his chinese counterpart in rome. he's warned china not to help russia get around sanctions leveled by the u.s. and other countries. this after a deadly russian air strike on a military training base that has hosted nato drills. it happened yesterday morning in western ukraine, roughly 15 we have more from bradley blackburn. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there

i guess in the u.s. what we have seen his people were expecting the fed to raise, the short end went up but the long did not go up as much and there was planning. in europe we have not seen that yet and maybe that has to do with different expectations for the ecb. kailey: clearly, karen, when we came into this year we got the picture was going to look different. a consensus call was europe over u.s., value trade overgrowth. does this situation potentially present the reverse of that? karen: right now, but i do think we need to be careful about getting whipsawed here. if there is some degree of resolution or a moderate de-escalation, we are going to be in a position where many of those early narratives could be accelerated. with more inflationary pressure into the system. we have the central banks having to tighten and then the recovery gets going and it is not a recession and a growth risk. it was really the rates story that was driving that rotation. with the prospect of higher interest rates, financial

what does the u.s. see at this time for optimism for a cease-fire litigation in which caret and stick do you think both respond? ms. psaki: sure. as has been set in the past, long as they choose to put dissipate in them, of course. we tried to boost them by providing not just economic and humanitarian assistance, but military assistance. we believe it strengthens their position in these talks. our view continues to be that despite words that are 70 stocks coming out of the stocks, diplomacy requires engaging in good faith to de-escalate, and what we are really looking for is evidence of that. we are not seeing any evidence at this point that president putin is doing anything to stop the onslaught for de-escalate. that is really what we would be looking for. >> what are the consequences for china if they do aid russia? ms. psaki: i am not going to get into specific consequences, i think what we have conveyed and what was conveyed by our national security this meeting is that should they provide military

so, u.s. agencies are watching very closely to see if they are drummed out, publicly berated, that kind of thing. that may not happen in the midst of the military or the peak of the military conflict, but it's something they're watching very closely. >> jim sciutto, appreciate it. fascinating. >>> i want to get to james clapper, retired air force lieutenant general and former director of national intelligence. do you see any vulnerabilities in the leadership structure that putin has assembled around him? >> well, in terms of their job security, i don't. although knew risch kin was the one who was publicly humiliated not too long ago, dressed down in public by putin. but jim gave a really good description of the inner circle. and the fact that bortnikov and pe true shef have been with putin for at least -- in their positions at least for 2008. so, they have long-entrenched. and the other comment i would make is that the intelligence officials who were singled out for house arrest were subordina

official tells nbc news declassified u.s. intelligence shows president putin's senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth. late today, this from the white house. >> we believe that putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the russian military is performing. >> reporter: in moscow, insiders have told us president putin relies on written briefings from his advisers. >> he is living on the papers, what was brought to him sometimes this information was not enough, it's not very objective. >> reporter: for years his shrinking inner circle has increasingly consisted of former intelligence officers this is where president putin first walked through the doors of the kgb in st. petersburg, many of the people who worked in the kgb with the president still work in his government but covid seems to have isolated putin from many of them. on stark display at this recent security council, the president alone, his advisers across the room, rubber stamping his ukraine plans. for years defense minister sergei shoigu

u.s. have a military response if putin does launch a chemical weapons attack? >> i'm not going to speak about the intelligence. but russia would pay a severe price if they used chemicals. >> the u.s. has said russia has a chemical weapons program in violation of international law. meanwhile, russia is unleashing new attacks in the western part of ukraine for the first time. this fire ball is over the town of lutsk. that's about 70 miles from the border with poland. a regional governor says a russian bomber fired four missiles on the airport there, killing two people. and on the outskirts of dnipro, a school, a shoe factory, an apartment building, at least one civilian killed. this new satellite imagery showing that 40 mile long russian convoy in kyiv has largely dispersed. and the tanks, the armored vehicles, the -- it appears to be regrouping. >> the damage closer to the capital, in kyiv's northwest -- a warehouse, a supermarket, an apartment building destroyed. russia has been using bela

the u.s. thought the russians having built up their military and gotten better equipment were much, much moreth formidable foe than they have turned out to be. they've got serious problems, the russian military, and again the price is being paid by the ukrainian people. >> host: you talk about the strategic importance from the russian perspective creating that land bridge to crimea. but is the symbolic importance outweighing it?ei is it worth it at this point for the russians? you just made a comparison to the alamo and the symbolic importance of that. why does rush have to have this city? >> guest: well, they need that city. they also need the port city, the major port of odessa that is further to the west to secure the coastline and cut off ukraine. that was their plan and they thought they would execute that quickly in the matter of a couple of days. the symbolic value is the longer ukraine can holdal out, the lonr they can inflict heavy casualties on the russians. we have gotten somer new

u.s. and u.k. bart russian crude, moscow retaliates against sanctions ordering restrictions on raw material experts. the lme won't resume demonstrating before friday. mcdonald's and coca-cola and an imminent default. we are in an turbocharged moment of fear. the equity markets don't tell the story but the oil market does, accelerating into a new level of sanction ability. dani: extreme stress is the phrase that stuck out to me from j.p. morgan, the market feels treacherous at this moment. manus: to the euro, if russia cuts europe off from gas, what will it do to the euro? the positioning on the euro is now askew. the most extreme since 2011. herein lies the point, if we are heading toward recession in europe, what does it do to the ecb, to the euro, and does it make parity a larger call from the fx clack? dani: if the euro is the shot, had the chaser, and that's gold. you've seen investors fleeing toward goal, hitting high of only five dollars away from an all-time high. the concern in eur

that report initially caught u.s. officials off guard. in fact, you had a u.s. official on the hill saying they were caught by surprise. cnn's jeremy diamond joining us now. all of this happening, we might add, as the vice president heads to poland. she's going to have to take a position. she doesn't have a choice. poland forced the issue. >> it was already being discussed. there have been conversations for days about how to potentially make this work. now that trip by vice president harris taking on new importance. it's remarkable to see that these discussions have been happening behind the scenes and then suddenly this statement announcing that they were ready to give these migs, soviet jets to the united states presumably. victoria nuland yesterday testifying in the senate foreign relations committee. she said i saw that announcement as i was driving here today. completely caught off guard by that. the issue here is, look, the u.s. still wants to try and make this happen but logistically it's how to do it without becoming a direct participant in the conflict,

u.s. officials tell me that the latest u.s. intelligence assessments have found that russia more and more is resorting to using heavier firepower, more devastating weapons. this after recent setbacks in their invasion strategy. u.s. intelligence believes that russian forces will be more and more willing to cause collateral damage. what does that mean? that means civilian casualties, including direct targeting of nonmilitary targets, just as what we saw in kharkiv this morning. and that expected to lead to more civilian deaths. again, that is more of a siren here, we heard it times in lviv. we'll keep you up to date on this. all of this as new satellite images show just a massive convoy of russian forces closing in on the capital city of kyiv. officials say it is 40 miles long, it includes hundreds of armored vehicles, tanks, towed artillery. u.s. officials warn the intention here to surround and take over the capital kyiv, the intent as well to topple what has been ukraine's formidable res

both the u.s. and russia have developed theories where we combine all of our instruments, economic sanctions, conventional war, cyber war, nuclear war, all designed to be working together and we exercise that way. putin exercises his nuclear weapons when he is doing conventional exercises. that's supposed to strengthen deterrence. unfortunately, when deterrence fails and putin starts a conventional war, the risk of that were escalating becomes much quicker. we have to get back to declaring that no country will ever use nuclear weapons first. there's no legitimate military reason. if i understand you, you want to keep the weapons but use them only for deterrence or to prevent a nuclear attack. i am with you on that, at least as a way station, then we will see if we can work towards elimination. host: what is the strength of the u.s. against a nuclear strike? guest: none. there is a new report from a premier organization of physicists in the country, you can find it, that looked at the $350 billion o

russia now blames the u.s. for the stalemate. >> the americans perceive it is not convenient this process ends quickly. >> nato all claimed that 10% of russia hardware has been destroyed in this war. but there is a lot more there. as joseph stalin said, quantity has a quality all its own. >> bret: greg, thank you. new fox polls released tonight about the war on ukraine. 63% of those surveyed believe the u.s. should do more to help ukrainians fight russia. 32% do not. 82% are concerned about the russian invasion and only 17% are not. 78% approve of president zelenskyy's sponse to the war and 85% say what happens in the russia and ukraine conflict matters to the u.s. up 9 points from a month ago. president biden is in belgium to announce a new wave of sanctions against russia and come up with a plan with nato countries about the way forward. peter doocy joins us. >> when president biden put what he called profound sanctions on vladimir putin he said let's have another conversation in a month to see if they were w

while the u.s. isn't far behind, no other country, not even israel or north korea, has anywhere near this type of capability. now, most of russia's war heads are not currently on missile bases. just over 1,400 are deployable at the moment. these are intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines and bombers. but what russia's president would really use them? he thinks putin is bluffing. >> he reminded everyone he's got nuclear weapons, which starts people off being worried. >> reporter: it is designed to change the dynamics of the war. >> somebody like that does become more dangerous when he's in a corner. it is most unlikely. i don't want to learn people necessarily. the probability is low but not zero. >> reporter: more than 100,000 died in nagasaki. could a disarmament express gr grave. >> they are fully aware of catastrophic catastrophes of the use of nuclear weapons. we stress once again such tragedy must never be used again. >> reporter: while they are purely defensive, they say, it brings to

u.s. officials confirm that four marines were killed -- excuse me, were involved in a crash in norway. they wouldn't elaborate on their status or identities. earlier, norway's prime minister said four u.s. service members died after a u.s. nato aircraft crashed during training yesterday. >> let's get to natasha, obviously, this investigation is ongoing, details are being gathered as we speak. walk us through what has been confirmed so far? >> reporter: yeah, boris, very little is known so far about this accident but what we saw from the norwegian prime minister who tweeted this morning is he is saying four u.s. soldiers have been killed in an osprey accident in this training mission that the u.s. is holding north of norway. they were in an aircraft, flying north of the arctic circle when their aircraft went down and they have been unable to -- the rescue teams did actually get to the site. and of course, the conditions were very harsh. the weather has been very bad. and they did confirm, a

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you know, for the u.s. military, getting out of a crisis often as we all know over the last several decades, proves very difficult. so the commitment is there now and it may be quite a long-term commitment. we simply don't know. because there's no indication putin is about to change his views anytime soon, wolf. >> we're showing our viewers of barbara and kaitlan, live pictures of president biden now. he is now walking into the room with the 82nd airborne division. let's listen in. >> mr. president, nice to meet you. how you doing, mr. president? >> doing well. >> good to see you. >> you guys looked like you just got a haircut. you getting it again? i don't have that much hair to take off. how you doing, pal? thanks. where you from? >> the president greeting troops from the 82nd airborne division. defense secretary lloyd austin is there and secretary of state. he got off the plane together with the president, tony blinken. they're all there, the president's national security adviser jake sullivan. this is a

the u.s. has consistently warned the icc not to take up cases involving israel. given neither ukraine and russia -- nor russia is a member of the icc and for the icc to take up a case involving a nonmember would require the u.n. security council vote which is doomed, since the russians will veto it. where exactly do you think that justice will come from here? >> not only is neither russia nor ukraine a state party to the statue. neither are we. as you know, the concerns we have over the icc, uncertain jurisdiction in certain circumstances, those remain. those have not gone away. but at the same time -- >> you have those concerns only if the u.s. is being investigated or israel? >> the united states has the capability and wherewithal to conduct thorough investigations. our concerns over the icc's assertion of jurisdiction in some areas, those do remain. but we recognize the meaningful role that the icc can play in promoting accountability for atrocities. we have supported and will continue to s

. >> the u.s. president will meet with u.s. troops before traveling to warsaw where he will continue discussions with poland's president. >>> joining us now white house reporter for bloomberg news, josh in warsaw, in brussels yesterday had, a question to the president, in that news conference, and briefly blocked the camera because he is just so tall. thanks for joining us. the president is expected to speak in the next few minutes and we will dip in to take him when that happens and come back to you and give us though while we wait your main take-aways from the emergency nato summit yesterday and preview what we will hear about european dependence on russian energy. >> good morning, from warsaw, john and thank you for the invitation to block your camera here for a few moments. you know, the big announcement was essentially a show of unity, biden wanted to show a united front not just with nato but eu and the g-7 really everyone on the same page. now, you know, they did have some announcements in particular around ratcheting up