putin is the aggressor. putin chose this war. and now he and his country will bear the consequences. the action betrays a sinister vix. one where nations take what they want by force. but it is a vision that the united states and freedom loving nations will oppose. >> we begin with nbc news senior international correspondent keir simmons live in moscow and cal perry in ukraine. cal, i believe that country's curfew has gone into effect. tell me what you have seen and been watching you all day. tell me the latest. >> reporter: the reason i'm coming to you live inside the hotel and the city in the last hour said at 11:00 pchl everybody to go to blackout conditions for security. no light to the street and instead of toning off lights we moved into the room. there are some street lights remaining but all the more indication that the government is unclear about the scale of this and how wide. this is supposed to be the safe place to retreat from the east move west to poland and the nato troops and a border to cross. you mentioned the l

theth way putin describes it. one more thing, in his speech, what a lot of people are not paying attention, what he said about crimea, calls them ca terrorists. he hass a very islamophobic mind-set against crimea tartars, and she's basically trying to rewrite history and make the history that ukrainians themselves don't fully exist because he doesn't think the countryca of ukraine ever exist which is very consistent with the attitudes of post-1991 leadership in russia and the douma. so this is a long time coming to the lack of respect and lack of agency that russian leadership has always held. and it's always actually preceded vladimir putin. >> terrell, every time i talk to you i get smarter about a history that i do not know enough of the history that should. thank you. host of the black diplomatics podcast, terrell jermaine starr in ukraine. joining us news, melissa slotkin, before becoming a member of congress, congresswoman slotkin did three tours in iraq. and held a senior post at the pentagon where she over

putin declares a big portion of the ukraine, of ukraine, putin declares it as independent. oh, that's wonderful. so putin is now saying it's independent, a large section of ukraine. i said, "how smart is that?" he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. that's the strongest peaceforce i've ever seen. there were more army tanks than i've ever seen. this is a guy that says, you know, "i'm going to declare a big portion of ukraine independent." he used the word "independent." "and we're going to go out and we're going to go in and we're going to help keep peace." you have to say, that's pretty savvy. >> perhaps, joe, not surprising from donald trump, given his relationship and his previous fawning over vladimir putin. i grew up in the 1980s during the cold war, watching ronald reagan and republicans talk about the soviet union and eventually win the cold war. this is disorienting to hear republicans and self-described conserv conservatives, though they're probably just trumpists now, praise russia, praise the dictatorial leader of russia as he invades a sovereign country. >> li

host: is vladimir putin dependent on the oligarchs or are the oligarchs dependent on vladimir putin? guest: the oligarchs are more dependent on vladimir putin. they do not challenge him politically and their wealth is largely dependent on their loyalties to vladimir putin. as you recall, there have been various attempts to go after oligarchs who are deemed disloyal to putin. the trial and conviction of -- is the best example of that. host: does vladimir putin care if an oligarchs loses a yacht? guest: no. host: what would going after them mean? what is the point? guest: it would be going after their finances that are sequestered abroad. going after the banks and the bank accounts and their exclusive lives that hate they have led in the west. for making sure that the oligarchs who are still in russia can travel -- cannot travel and roam around the world and visit their various bank accounts in the cayman islands. host: independent, good morning. caller: my question is given the current administration, do you think if we were still under the former one we would be in this? guest: hones

it their position of support on putin. , , ., putin. it is interesting. i do believe actually _ putin. it is interesting. i do believe actually there - putin. it is interesting. i do believe actually there were j believe actually there were 2000 the rest, so they were in dozens of cities or processes going out. i was listening to our programme, hardtalk, which goes out, that evil staff alexei navalny, and he talked about putin this time biting off more than he could chew. very briefly, do you think that is true? he very briefly, do you think that is true? . . , very briefly, do you think that is true? . ., , , very briefly, do you think that istrue? . ., , , is true? he certainly bit off more than _ is true? he certainly bit off more than he _ is true? he certainly bit off more than he could - is true? he certainly bit off more than he could chew l is true? he certainly bit off i more than he could chew with regard to his vision of saving the economy by bringing in billions of dollars of currency back into the country in december and thinking that that wo

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putin's moves genius. here is more of his complementary tone. >> so putin is now saying it is independent, a large section of ukraine. i said how smart is that. he is going to go in and be a peacekeeper. that is the strongest peace force. we could use that on the southern border. more army tanks than i ever have seen. they are go to keep peace. i know him very well. very, very well. >> the former president's comments come as the house republican leadership call putin's actions reprehensible and taking a dig at the same time at the current commander in chief. sadly president biden consistently chose appeasement and his tough talk on russia was never followed by strong action. lethal aid was slow-walked, anti-air and anti-ship capabilities were never directly provided, pre-invasion sanctions were never imposed and sanctions on nord stream 2 were waived. political ramifications. john, can republicans really hit president biden for being too soft on putin? when you look at the comments from the former presiden

putin's head. there is a line of argument, and you have seen it as well as i, who has been increasingly isolated, not just by covid, surrounded by hardliners and to some degree he is out of touch with the implications and consecration's -- consequences. yesterday at one wondered on cnn of putin's rationality. as yesterday, one official wondered on cnn of putin's rationality. do you by this? dmitri: i buy the isolation argument because we all find ourselves more isolated than we have ever been probably in our lives. this certainly has a bearing on people who bear a lot of responsibility, in particular for their nations. i do not buy the argument of irrationality. i do not buy the argument of restlessness. i think mr. putin has been using this image that the western media has created of him with the image of reckless, incalculable irrational person. and using it quite definitely -- deaftly. aaron: doesn't this depart somewhat from his previous pattern of limited moves on georgia, crimea , actors that

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it is all about putin and we should recognize that putin is an existential threat not just for america or europe or ukraine, but to the very principle of the free world because he does not believe in self-determination and universal freedom. what he thinks should happen is division of the world between free and unfree and people like him are in their rights to exploit people they control and nobody should intervene with their criminal activities. host: you also wrote about what is going on. "sanctions must come now before putin invades again. if we do not call his bluff, it is not a bluff at all." talk about his approach to dealing with russia and ukraine and how effective that might be. guest: when we hear the word sanctions, people get confused. sanctions have been implement it eight years ago and they never worked. there are sanctions that have been imposed on russia and crimea. they never touched the foundation of putin's power. if we look at the number of russian billionaires, it keeps increasing all the time. no matter what angela merkel told us about europe's united position aga

vladimir putin knows that. and he has a black belt in judo, so he is going to use our strength against us, freedom of the press and democracy. essentially some additional throwaways to his propaganda. we do not have an option. that's what we do. i would not be the least bit surprised if he is going to follow the same playbook that he did in georgia and recognize them as independent of ukraine. that is exactly what he did with georgia. he believes that gives him veto power over georgia and now their ability to join nato. that is where the discussion started, not end, with any potential follow. or discussions at lower levels. >> sandra: very interesting analysis. if you could hang out with us, we could be hearing from vladimir putin any moment now. appreciate if you can stand by with their coverage. >> john: let's bring in general jack keane who joined us on the phone. we are told of vladimir couldn't told president macron and chancellor scholz that his intention is to announce tonight. does not necessarily mean

putin chose this war. president biden saying now he and his country will bear the consequences. all day today, the wrenching images of war. images circulating job line showing what appear to be russian helicopters sweeping in during an assault on a military base about 20 miles outside the capital of kyiv. another concern tonight, russian vehicles at chernobyl nuclear site. the russians are now in control of that nuclear plant. some 60 miles from kyiv. of course, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster back in 1986 and where there are still vast amounts of dangerous nuclear waste entombed there. missiles falling on this neighborhood near the capital. and in ukraine's second largest city tonight, ukrainians taking shelter in the subways in kharkiv. parents with their children huddling underground. some asking, what does putin want? still unclear why this is all happening. the desperate attempt to get to safety. and world leaders are already warning tonight of a refugee crisis now looming. president bi

putin. he has raised the stakes, particularly by putting his deterrent nuclear forces on high alert. this shows a kind of state of mind that is under pressure. so the kremlin in many ways, has underestimated the fight that is now in his hands. >> betsy, there was a little bit, i don't know if confusion is the right word, but a lot of wondering about what this actually means. putin's decision to put his military's nuclear deterrent on alert. how does that change anything from an american perspective in the way that they're conducting their policy right now, and, you know, biden has obviously his red lines. no american troops in ukraine. but you've got to wonder if, again, this nuclear war threat from russia, or at least this nuclear deterrent threat from russia, changes the dynamics and the calculations from washington. >> there's no question that in a major es kalatory step from muten. in terms of what washington does next is very much to be seen. we know that they are in the process of roll

a putin ally took _ in the uk. what can russia do? a putin ally took to _ in the uk. what can russia do? a putin ally took to social _ in the uk. what can russia do? a putin ally took to social media - in the uk. what can russia do? a putin ally took to social media to | putin ally took to social media to warn germany about massive sustained increases in prices paid for russian gas. russia has upped its economic defences, building up a war chest of foreign exchange and a very low national debt. this could protect it from more significant sanctions. russia has a pillar of international reserves so that it can endure such negative shocks of of sanctions for some time. so what next? there are still plenty of weapons left in the economic armoury from targeting russia's energy companies to removing russia from the international financial system but the sanctions so far have seen punches horde. that could be to leave room for escalation should there be a wider invasion of ukraine. tonight in west london champions the match on the road to saint petersburg, planned host of fi

putin blamed me personally. you know, his propaganda said i was sent by barack obama to foment revolution against him. i was mr. revolutionary. there were a couple of times in meetings where he directly blamed me for fomenting revolution against him. he doesn't believe people would independently act to try to make their countries more democratic. he always sees the hidden hand of the cia or pentagon or deep state in the united states and that's where his paranoia comes from. >> you were later banned from russia. putin tried to convince the trump administration to submit you to questioning by russian authorities. what has this taught you about putin? >> i'd say a couple of things. great question. first of all, putin i met in '91, he's changed over time. his views of the world back then are very different today. in particular, he's become more paranoid about markets and independent economic facto and two, of course, he's become more paranoid about the west. he thinks the west is out 20 get him and he's gone on the

they're not giving concessions to putin -- putin undoubtedly thoughts all these troops, 100 -- 200,000 troops on the ukraine borders would rattle or intimidate presidents walensky. it has not. it hasn't rattled or intimidated president biden. they are standing tough. they did the right thing of going to the security council. to call out what's going on. a clear violation of international law, as general mccaffrey said. he doesn't care about that. when he cares about, and mike mcfaul said the same thing. he cares about his history. he cares about ukraine. we have to stand tough. we have to put those sanctions on. he has invaded. he has conducted an invasion already. the sanctions are ready. they should be put in place. >> if you are willing to share more that conversation you had tonight with the folks in ukraine, wet is it that they want from the united states or what is it that they want from nato, and what is their level of confidence based -- that putin is going to come after them and coming into kyiv? >> chris, what they want from the united states this continued support, backing,

putin is the aggressor. putin chose this war. and now he and his country will bear the consequences. putin will stand condemned in the eyes of the world - and of history. he will never be able to cleanse - the blood of ukraine from his hands. tonight, this country is under martial law and a curfew in the capital is in place. what now for ukraine as russia begins to tighten its grip? and in the sport: european football's governing body, uefa, will meet tomorrow, when a decision will be made to remove russia of the right to host this year's champions league final. good evening and welcome to a specially extended bbc news at ten from the ukrainian capital, kyiv — a country under attack, after a huge russian military offensive, by land, sea and air. fierce fighting is taking place, including in several areas close to here, with russian forces capturing the disused chernobyl nuclear power plant north of kyiv. many thousands of ukrainians are seeking shelter or trying to leave the major cities. the authorities here say more then 50 p

vladimir putin feared donald trump. here with reaction, former senator scott brown along with former white house chief of staff reince priebus. scott, i am listening to hillary pontificated, the one that paid for the dirty russian dossier. the bidens of course making millions of dollars for russian oligarchs, millions of dollars in china and of course, but reese -- and hunter. what's great about listening to all of this, was during the clinton administration from 1991 where ukraine seceded from russia. at the time, they had the third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. russia and ukraine could not make a deal on what to do with those nuclear weapons, and incomes the clinton administration in the u.s., and they push the ukraine to give up those nuclear weapons, hand them over to russia. russia was supposed to destroy them. after they destroyed them, they guaranteed that russia would leave ukraine alone and the united states and u.k. would always defend ukraine. the lesson we learned is if you possess nuclear weapons, d

putin is the - aggressor, putin chose this war. and now he and his country will bear the consequences. today i'm authorising additional strong sanctions and new limitations on what can be exported to russia. this is going to impose severe cause on the russian economy both immediately and over time. after consulting g7 partners the us impose sanctions on five big russian banks. including the state back spar bag. it made it harderfor russian to do business in foreign currencies and occurred russia's ability to import vital technology. this evening the french president spoke to mr putin from the palace and demanded an immediate halt to moscow's offensive that he said marked a turning point in european history. marked a turning point in european histo . ~ ,, �* marked a turning point in european histo . ~ ,, ~ , , history. translation: president putin does not _ history. translation: president putin does not only _ history. translation: president putin does not only attacked - history. translation: president i putin does not only att

, , ., ., , putin? this is a really important _ putin? this is a really important question. | putin? this is a really| important question. it putin? this is a really i important question. it is putin? this is a really - important question. it is so difficult to understand what president putin's objectives are, whether they have reached them according to the campaign plan that they have laid out. if there is, indeed, a siege on kyiv tonight, one of the important aspects of that is will they encircle the city and sort of weight in a ring formation, orwill sort of weight in a ring formation, or will they make a push to try to capture all kill president zelenskyy. there are a lot of things that can happen inbetweeners two scenarios. there is so much that has not played out on the ground. but also every day that goes by and russian troops continue to push in that puts them at risk as well, they are taking losses as well, they are taking losses as well this is something that will go back and forth for the next several days or weeks. you mention

putin is the aggressor. putin chose this war. and now he and his country will bear the consequences. today i'm authorizing additional strong sanctions and new limitations on what can be exported to russia. this is going to impose severe costs on the russian economy both immediately and over time. we have purposely designed these sanctions to maximize a long-term impact on russia and to minimize the impact on the united states and our allies. i want to be clear, the united states is not doing this alone. for months we've been building a coalition of partners representing well more than half the global economy, 27 members of the european union, including france, germany, italy, as well as the united kingdom, canada, japan, australia, new zealand, and many others, to amplify the joint impact of our response. i just spoke with the g-7 leaders this morning, and we're in full and total agreement. we will limit russia's ability to do business in dollars, euros, pounds, and yen to be part of the global economy. we'll limit their ability

can this bell be un-rung or has putin done it again? >> putin has crossed his rubicon. he will not be able to un-ring the bell and he doesn't want to un-ring the bell at this point, this is an accountability process. he should be made to feel the pain economically from the ukrainians bravely fighting, from resistance forces in ukraine if necessary, and we should do all we can to support ukraine short of sending troops there to fight the battle themselves >> but if he succeeds and occupies ukraine suddenly you have russian satellites on the border with nato countries. how much concern does that bring you >> nato is well prepared we already have russia on many of our borders. we know how to defend ourselves. nato outspends russia 10 to 1. we have a 3 to 1 advantage in troops. we have many more combat aircraft, many more warships. vladimir putin will not cross a nato border the way he has gone across the ukrainian border. >> admiral stavridis, thank you for being with us. >> you bet, lester. >>> up next, al roker with the latest track on that dangerous winter storm >>> and

do you think putin cares? >> you know, i think we got an answer to this, certainly, if not earlier in the weekend, then today. emanuel macron said in this last-minute diplomacy to try to find a way out of getting putin to stop before he started taking these initial moves of recognizing these separatists in donbas. and the french prime minister said, well, essentially, macron didn't really achieve much of what he set out to achieve. let's go back to the weekend. what did putin say? macron called me and said you should take a minute with president biden. so what will he give me? and putin answered the question by saying, macron could not tell me. he said, you know, maybe this was something that could be worked out between sergey lavrov and secretary of state antony blinken. but what we're seeing is anything that could have been put on the table in those last-ditch conversations over the weekend was not even there. there is nothing really that would seem to be available to build a narrative, a diplomatic narrativ

putin is not hitler. i don't think he has the same ambitions and want to be careful about that. >> yeah. >> but there are some very striking parallels of annexation, protecting ethnic russians and germans and the fundamental one. the versailles treaty in 1918 considered unjust by german leaders not just hitler. putin thinks that the post-cold war order is unjust to russia. with respect to your question, i don't know. i think it's a very important one. i think andrea rightly reacted to what you said with some unease because right now we're in this and strakt moment. right? right now it's war, sanctions, war, sanctions. we haven't seen war and the atrocities. if any of the scale of the war happens, when tens of thousands of people are dying and god forbid if the lists mentioned here starts to happen -- i want to make this personal. i have friends in ukraine. i'm sure they are on the list. if that happens sanctions as a response feels tepid and a reaction that president biden is facing. i hope there's not a

zelensky gave a speech in russia saying he called putin but putin refused to take the call. let's look at a map of ukraine. the invasion will be justified by putin claiming he is protecting ethnic russians. north of crimea and west from the separatists areas that putin sent troops to calling them peacekeepers. close to the russia sea. massive amounts of tanks and missile and medical units arrived there in recent days. the u.n. security council is supposed to hold a emergency session tonight. >> sean: lucas. thank you. tonight a vast majority of americans disapprove of biden's handling of ukraine but according to jen psaki her boss joe biden is doing great. >> the president said that putin his days of trying to intimidate the united states and those in eastern europe. he is doing that. >> i would hardly put it that way. president biden rallied the world. rallied europe to stand up against the efforts and actions of president putin. we laid out clearly -- >> $5 gas. >> you asked me if we were intimidated by president putin. the evidence of that doesn't exist. >> sean: i am the

this from vladimir putin. part of his statement ahead of those attacks were that were launched. -- the goal -- -- he added that moscow would not occupy ukraine and that it had to end eight years of conflict in eastern ukraine where they kid forces have been fighting pro moscow -- in those regions. >> we will take you through reactions drought the program today. this topic for the three hours of our program. and your reactions. mark in rock fill -- rockville, maryland. >> it is really heartbreaking to hill all of this stuff. it reminds me of being back in middle school with things like world war ii stories -- but i find it disheartening. the question i have is what happens after russia invades ukraine? i do not know too much about the situation. what happens afterwards? do we actually have to stop russia from invading ukraine? isn't that big of a deal? ukraine used to be part of ussr. at what point do we say as the united states military -- we have to just let eastern europe be eastern europe. do we always have

because putin went crazy. me as a patriot of ukraine i will sign up for duty. >> lines formed at banks with a run on the ukraine money changing in value by the minute. the national police are handing out weapons to retired military enabelling people to fight in streets and they can take shots at russian vehicles and encouraged them to use fire bombs. >> martha: bill hemmer, you listen to what mike said there. you think about the courage it takes to leave your home and take a weapon handed to you by the local police and use it against russian soldiers. i say a video of a ukrainian woman yelling at a russian soldier in the middle of her treat. the personal side of this story is not lost. >> there are videos we have seen that shows military contact in civilian areas. this is something that we have not seen in real time. maybe even perhaps in our entire lives. what mike talked about, i want to talk about a few things. at 1:30 eastern time the russian military hit ukraine from everywhere. north, south, east and wes

putin. putin. we'll be right back. only from discover. do you struggle with occasional nerve aches in your hands or feet? try nervivenerve relief from the world's #1 selling nerve care company. nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. >>> as joe biden vows to make vladamir putin a pariah on the international stage for his aggression against ukraine, the loudest voices on the american right are carrying putin's water. as the assault began last night, tucker carlson was spouting pro-kremlin talking points, and laura ingraham ranted insults about ukraine's president before giving trump a platform to fawn over the tyrant putin. if you have questions about the reason for the love affair with putin, look no forward than steve bannon. >> putin ain't woke. he's anti-woke. >> the russian people still know which bathroom to use. they know how many genders are there in russia? >> two. >> okay. that's not -- that's not -- they don't have the flags, they don't have the prid

putin declares a big portion of the ukraine, of ukraine. putin declares it as independent. oh, that's wonderful. so putin is now saying it's independent. a large section of ukraine. i said how smart is that? here's a guy who is very savvy. i know him very well. very, very well. >> the white house choosing to ignore those comments from biden's predecessor. >> as a matter of policy, we try not to take advice from anyone who praises president putin and his military strategy. >> reporter: now, in terms of the timing of a potential full-scale attack, white house press secretary jen psaki just that that she is not going to broadcast the potential hour, the day, the moment that this might happen but she did say, the u.s. now believes vladimir putin has been improvising, has been adapting his plans based on the u.s. broadcasting his war plans, and he has been caught off guard by the sheer amount of information the u.s. has been sharing. of course, all of this so far has not deterred vladimir putin from the beginning of an invasion. >> thank you very much. let's discuss with the for

putin. ukraine today agreed to talks with russia to take place in neighboring belarus. no word on when or if russia will accept. and the european union has taken an unprecedented stand, barring russian jets from its airspace and russian state media in its airwaves and financing the purchase and delivery of weapons to ukraine, a first in its nearly 30 years of existence. >>> meanwhile, here at home, the political response to the ukraine crisis has been complicated by the right wing's tepid condemnations of putin and forceful attacks on president biden. the strongest of both coming last night from his predecessor. >> yesterday reporters asked me if i thought president putin was smart. i said, of course he's smart. putin is saying they're going to sanction me. they sanctioned me for the last 25 years. you mean i can take over a whole country and they're going to sanction me. the problem is not that putin is smart. the real problem is that our leaders are dumb. >> and later major developments in

— president putin? there is a sense of shock. president putin? there is a sense of shock- the — president putin? there is a sense of shock. the financial _ president putin? there is a sense of shock. the financial markets - president putin? there is a sense of shock. the financial markets are i shock. the financial markets are shocked and we saw shares tumbling and the russian rouble tumbling. watching that televised address by president putin, quite extraordinary. the story that vladimir putin told the russian people, the narrative he spun was he is acting like he is not only to protect russian speakers in the separatist republics in eastern ukraine but to defend russia itself. he claims ukraine has become a threat to russia's national security and accuses the west of turning ukraine into an anti—russia, hostile, pumping it with modern weapons. that is what he is saying and why he has launched what he is calling a special military operation but looks like a full on assault on ukraine and its sovereignty. what struck me most by that address w

like putin leave office. they want transparency, and they want accountability. that's the only danger ukraine presents to the corrupt kleptocrats and oigarchs in the kremlin. they certainly don't pose a military threat. let's not forget that putin has been waging war on ukraine and crimea in the donbass since 2014, the year of the revolution oaf dignity when the ukrainians took to the street over a submission to moscow. a heroic period of time where people risked their lives for democracy, many of whom lost their lives. they knew they wanted to be free, and they put it on the line, and they succeeded. russia's illegal occupation of ukraine's crimean peninsula is a nightmare for those who speak out against russia's illegal presence there and many ukrainians continue to be persecuted for speaking out, particularly the indigenous crimean taters. thousands of ukrainians have lost their lives defending their country against hostile russian actions. we should not forget their sacrifices. the kremlin has time and ag

putin is the aggressor, putin chose _ west. putin is the aggressor, putin chose this _ west. putin is the aggressor, putin chose this war - west. putin is the aggressor, putin chose this war and - west. putin is the aggressor, putin chose this war and now west. putin is the aggressor, i putin chose this war and now he and his country will bear the consequences. it's eight in the morning in singapore, and two am across ukraine — where russian military forces have been carrying out an offensive by land, sea and air. there have been casualties on both sides — ukraine says 137 lives have been lost — and many thousands of ukrainians are seeking shelter. the first confirmation of the invasion came at around six in the morning in moscow when president putin announced a special military operation was under way in ukraine's eastern donbas region. its purpose, he said — the demilitarisation and denazification of ukraine. as he spoke, missile strikes were reported across ukraine — including in the capital kyiv. russia said it had destroyed more than 70 military targets. that i

it's evident that something is off with putin. he's always been a killer, but it's been a mistake to think that putin radio react the same way he would five years ago. what do our intelligence folks tell you? >> chuck, as a member of the intelligence committee, i'm not going to comment on the specific intelligence. but what we do know is that over the last couple years, putin has been more and more isolated. he's not been in the kremlin for the most part, he's been down in his place in sochi or his dock outside of moscow. when you are an authoritarian leader and you have less and less inputs and you only want to say to the boss, you're right, i think that leads to miscalculation. i think that is what has happened in the invasion in ukraine. >> senator portman, he went into ukraine. he did not go into latvia lithuania correspond -- or estonia. should we have brought them into the nato alliance? >> even now, chuck, we should be offering ukraine and other countries who want to come forward. jordan is one. i'm told sweden and two othe

explain. >> well, i think, you know, what vladamir putin wants may not be what vladamir putin gets. he's made a number of big miscalculations here. so far i can count five. one, he thought this was going to be reacted to much as his invasion of georgia and crimea was. that's not the case. he thought nato would be divided. they're not, they're unified. he thought the u.s. would be weakened and not a good leader. the u.s. has been an excellent leader in all of this. i think he thinks that the ukrainians are going to be a pushover, and that is also not apparently the case. they took back an airport today. they're fighting tough. his desire is to take kyiv. if he takes kyiv, even if he puts in a new government, i don't think the people of ukraine are going to go quietly. and the final thing he thought, he could do this bad thing and resume his lifestyle. get on his yacht, have the life he wanted. but the world has changed its views of vladamir putin in the last 24 hours. they recognize that he can't be dealt with as he was dealt with before. i think that's going to make stronger nato, s

president putin and president putin alone bears responsibility for these horrific acts. and it is he and his kremlin cabal who must pay a massive price for their actions. it is important to say to the russian people that we know that putin is not acting in their name. he is a dictator. he is an imperialist. he is a tyrant. he is as much a threat to his own people as he is to all of us. mr. speaker, this is the moment for unity. and it is especially a moment for european unity. all of the economics engines that are now being implement it are one clear objective, the complete economic isolation of the russian state. can the prime minister confirm that this is the objective and he has agreed that with his international allies? that economic isolation must include sanctions on putin and his network of oligarchs and agents, that expulsion around the world, his ability to borrow and function, and sanctions on his energy and mineral companies. as i said yesterday, it must finally be clearing up the russian money running through the city of london for years. i know all the compl

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we must now hit putin where it hurts. a5 of this money, bp'5 website proclaims proudly it is one of the biggest foreign investors in russia, only nearly 20% of russia's oil giant company. that company also has a secondary holding in london. will the prime minister commit to imposing legally mandated investment by uk firms in russia and if not now when? by uk firms in russia and if not now when? we by uk firms in russia and if not now when? ~ ., . ., , when? we need to recognise the lesson from _ when? we need to recognise the lesson from 2014 _ when? we need to recognise the lesson from 2014 and _ when? we need to recognise the lesson from 2014 and move i when? we need to recognise thej lesson from 2014 and move away when? we need to recognise the i lesson from 2014 and move away from the reliance on russian hydrocarbon and we will be pursuing policies to that end. i and we will be pursuing policies to that end. _, ., ., and we will be pursuing policies to that end. .., ., ., , that end. i congratulate my honourable _ tha

putin's end game. we hear president biden saying he's going 10 shore up nato forces in nato countries. what is the concern this is going to bleed over ukraine and perhaps threaten a nato aligned country? >> yes, i think we should be clear there are immediate risks. i think as you're suggesting there are certainly risks that if russia does escalate militarily that some of the conflict could spill some of the conflicts could spill over into nato states. so that is a clear and present risk. there's also a risk if the united states does continue to implement increasingly harsh and costly sanctions on russia, that president putin would choose to respond and escalate the situation, including cyber attacks and other things that could affect the united states. so, i think in the immediate term, there are risks. but longer term, if he does, indeed, take all or part of ukraine, we should expect is that now he will have russian troops that are pushed right up on nato's border. we also know that the troops, the ru

i said, this is genius putin declares a big portion of the ukraine -- of ukraine, putin declares it as independent. oh, that's wonderful this never would have happened with us had i been in office, not even thinkable. >> reporter: meanwhile, the president is touting germany's announcement that it will suspend approval o nord stream 2, the controversial gas pipeline between russia and germany in the u.s., gas prices already at an eight-year high are spiking. california hitting all-time record, nearly $5 a gallon >> i want to limit the pain the american people are feeling at the gas pump >> peter, where does this leave the likelihood of a summit between president biden and president putin? >> reporter: lester, the white house says a summit between those two leaders is not in their plans and russia would need to de-escalate the crisis for that meeting to happen also as you noted the secretary of state antony blinken just called off his meeting with russia's foreign minister scheduled for thursday. >> peter alexander at the white house. thanks. >>> in ukraine, growing fears over whether pu

i think overall, war has not gone as putin suggested. a lot of these, this powerful imagery, in the digital age, it is rallying public support in europe for these tougher financial sanctions, and these images of civilians, zelenskyy sort of out dueling putin in terms of the messaging war. but this will continue. he is not likely to give up, ukrainians are going to die, tragically i believe, in large numbers. >> so colonel, based on what david is saying, even though there are these sanctions, kicking off, what do you make of the unity shown so far from the u.s. and our allies, in levying these sanctions? >> a little late, i think. you know, our allies in western europe, are already strenuously against economic restrictions on russia. even after the invasion started. and that is principally because, they are heavily dependent on russian trade, particularly germany and italy, dependent on russian energy. and they employed us not to make it difficult for the russian economy, because it would be difficult for them as well. i think the images

putin? who is in charge? guest: the oligarchs are more dependent on vladimir putin. they do not challenge him politically and their wealth is largely dependent on their loyalty to vladimir putin. as you recall, there have been various attempts to go after oligarchs who are deemed disloyal to putin, the trial and conviction of for -- poro kofsky is the best example. host: this putin care if they lose a megayacht? guest: no. host: so what is the point? guest: to go after the bank accounts and their exclusive lives that they have led in the west, or making sure that the oligarchs who are still in russia, and there are several oligarchs who are still in russia, can't travel and roam around the world and visit their various bank accounts in the cayman islands and so forth. host: spring, texas. mike, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. my question is, given the current administration, do you think if, under the former one, we would be in this? guest: honestly, former president trump h

putin. putin is now treading on the principles at the heart of the commission's work that was agreed to by mr. putin's predecessors in moscow. my colleagues as you know i traveled to ukraine with a bipartisan group for democrats and three republicans. based on what i heard there i have no doubt the ukrainians will fight fiercely to suspend their sovereignty and their boundaries. i would say to my colleagues i do not see panic in the voices and the demeanor of a ukrainian friends. i did see resolved but not panic. our response ability here is clear. we must do everything we can to ensure that the tatar putin by making plain to him the cost of the assault on an osce member country. ronald reagan called the soviet union the evil empire and he was advised by diplomats not to say this. it is aal resumption of that evl empire that vladimir putin longs for and strives for and it's the reason he had done what he done and the reason he has done what he has done in the two provinces he is invaded in t

maybe putin is right. and that if he came in here, there would be more jobs, cheap gas, and people would be back to their remembered past of the soviet union. because some people here remember the great famine of the soviet union and remember the chernobyl and repression and others remember a time of a full albeit simple employment. >> richard we are going to stick close to you this morning as it starts. as we get any information, can always wait in front of the camera, we will go right back to kyiv now. we've heard a large explosion in kyiv, i want to go right back to air mclaughlin there, and what do you got? >> yet a now they're large boom. another indication that this capital is under attack. again, we heard from an advisor to the ministry of interior. cruz and ballistic missiles are being fired at kyiv. targeting military installations as well as airfields. another boom, just heard to my right. we are hearing reports that residents here in the capital are fleeing in the distance. and i can hear lines

that was important to vladimir putin. the new administration gave a new extension without any concessions from the russians. i don't like criticizing the others. i was a lot smarter on these issues before i was national security advisor and i am smarter afterward but when you are in the thick of it, there are things that you know that the folks on the outside don't know. we felt it was very important to make sure the russians, there were concessions from the russians and not just paper agreements. that is something vladimir putin is concerned about and we need to make sure it is handled property. to be credible the negotiating table, we have to get back in the game with modernizing the triad and increasing our ability as necessary. >> one of the things that is purportedly and we don't have the full text on the table from the united states to the russians would be some arms control measures in your. -- europe. why not have deconfliction in and around the black seat? why not have more transparent ability to inspect -- that