you brought up jimmy carter's national security council advisor zivin is a brzezinski. ringback and how his spirit kind of lives on in the biden administration, is a very interesting and inciteful read. but i want you to tell our viewers about it and kind of what's going on with russia in regards to the united states. well, i forget what was not reported in the media is provocations. i mean, it's as if, you know, thurs everything star and thursday. and when the invasion happened, nothing happened before. but you know, for years the united states was provoking russia in different ways. and my hypothesis is that this was really applying because big new brzezinski was our nurse a fob whose dream was. and he was a for paul, a polish, and of the polish nobility. and his dream was to bring down the soviet empire and he arm the mood you had been in afghanistan with the goal of inducing. and he said this and interview, the goal of inducing. so the invasion of afghanistan, that would be the soviet vietnam. and that would be the end of the soviet empire. and then years later in t

i think, you know, i have the same world view as brzezinski and they promote the, she seems like, you know, human beings don't matter. it's all about, you know, dancing us power. and they've had the vendetta against vladimir putin since, since he gave a speech in germany kind announcing us unipolar power and some of the excesses of u. s. foreign policy. busy that's the 2 guests were discussing. he became public enemy number one. and so the question is how can what kind of sheen can we develop to bring them down? and i think they developed this, they, they provoked him for years and they knew, eventually he would respond. and then they could drop into, i think their calculations that ukraine will be a quagmire like afghanistan. and they can make them look bad in the international media. and ratchet up the sanctions, which will cripple the rational economy and fuel affection with putin and ultimately rebellion. so i think that's her grand plants that it works. i don't, i don't know. probably not, but it's hard to predict. yeah, i saw you raise your hand, you wanna? yeah, i meant we, we

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brzezinski in the carter white house. he did believe in surrounding himself with people with differing views, so thank you so much. >> ambassador michael mcfaul, david rothkopf and ed luce, thank you for being with us. ahead on "morning joe," clint watts joins us to break down moves by the russian army amid reports that putin is shifting the focus of his forces. that is big news. >>> plus, while president biden is calling out autocrats former president trump is praising them again. whoa. hollywood's biggest night gets chaotic with a slap that stole the show. >> come on, man. >> with everything that's going on in the world? >> come on, man. >> good lord. >> so i saw highlights. will smith just wheels back and like -- >> yeah. >> -- pounds chris rock. afterwards everybody is going up to will smith going, you all all right, man? >> yeah, got the wrong person. we'll get into that later. you are watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. frank is a fan of fast. he's a fast talker. a fast walker. thanks, gary. and for unexpec

that concept goes back to late, cold war geo political strategist, the big new brzezinski. if the major cities say cargo se kia, were to resist in street fighting, became a necessity, it would be prolonged and costly. and the fact of the matter as, and this is where the timing of this whole crisis is important. russia has not yet ready to undertake that kind of an effort. brzezinski also made some interesting predictions about ukraine. you said they will never join nato bridge. and he also bragged about what he called the afghan trap. setting up a situation where the soviet union felt obligated to intervene in afghanistan and then bogging them down with a long term war. he bragged about giving the soviet union a quote, vietnam to weaken the country. so apparently us leaders claim to care about ukrainians while they're setting the country up for a long term war. caleb martin r t new york collector is now taking center stage in western f is to send more weapons to ukraine. ton of his foreign affairs minister, a, her country is bringing in the private sector to help kids force

martin a brzezinski, a senior adviser at the war. so security for him. thank you for your time. thank you. room. canadian prime minister just in today, when german chancellor, olaf schultz have held talks in berlin, the pair discussed the trans atlantic response to the russian invasion of ukraine. mister schultz said, hopes of a military solution to the conflict were senseless saying he hoped diplomacy would prevail. mister trudeau meanwhile announced millions of dollars more in weapons support for ukraine are following their meeting. the 2 leaders addressed the media where the german chancellor ruled out categorically, sending fighter jets to ukraine, tech a listen. we need to have a life. we've provided humanitarian assistance. we've also provided all kinds of equipment which includes some weapons as you know. apart from that however, we have to think very carefully about what we actually do. and the certainly does not include combat aircraft and phyllis kind of come from target. and the canadian prime minister just introduce, had this to say, canada and germany stand together

and when i was sitting in his office and he was interviewing me for the job, mondale walked in and brzezinski said we are thinking of hiring madeleine for this and she said one thing led to another. so we had to been very good friends when he was vice president and when he was running for president, i was one of his foreign policy advisers. when she had been elected to congress because i did do congressional relations, she was the chairman of the platform committee and i was the mondale representative to that. so then when the convention was in san francisco, what happened was they asked me to become the foreign policy advisory and i traveled with her through the whole campaign. >> not because of your advice didn't work out, but it turns out four years later we were the principal foreign policy adviser to the nominee of the party with michael dukakis. what was that like? >> it is very interesting to be with her because her crowds were huge and people were fascinated by a woman candidate in national office. she did break the glass ceiling. >> about neither of you thought you were going to win.

screen brzezinski, thank you for being with us. the u.s. citizen killed, we just got in, has been identified. james whitney hill. born in 1954 in minnesota. the name was provided to cnn by an adviser to ukraine's interior minister. hill was among several people killed when russian artillery opened fire on civilians in that city, according to city officials. again, james whitney hill. again, our thanks to ian brzezinski. >>> so the house just overwhelming passed a bill to suspend trade relations with russia and belarus. this to inflict economic pain on russia for its unprovoked invasion of ukraine. it will now head to the senate where they will most likely take it up next week. >>> the cdc is warning the omicron sub variant spreading in europe could become the predominant variant in the u.s. we'll talk about what that means next. realtor.com's draw a map feature helped us find what we wanted, where we wanted. so we could finally buy our first "big boi house." big boi house. biboi foyer! big boi marble. big boi quartz. word? realtor.com to ea

we sent you brzezinski as our ambassador, and i'm glad he's here as well. and, you know, as you and i have spoken before, mr. ambassador excuse me, mr. president the single-most important thing that we can do from the outset is keep the democracies united in our opposition and our effort to curtail the devastation that is occurring at the hands of a man who, quite frankly, i think is a war criminal. and i think it will meet the legal definition of that as well. but i want to thank everyone for and i think it's been a surprise about how we've all stayed together across the board. the most severe punishing sanctions in the history of the world economic sanctions have been imposed. and there's more that will come. but, you know, there's still an awful lot of suffering. i, like many of you, in the past have been through refugee camps all around the world, literally, and seen the devastation as a consequence of people who were abandoned and in war-ravaged regions of the world, whether it's in the middle east, or africa, or wherever. i mean, it's just devastating

says the hospital was used to set up firing positions, equations president condemned it as a war, cry brzezinski bumble ball in the car, new russian bombs landed on a children's and maternity hospital. you the building is destroyed. actually, we're still going through the rubble. what sort of threat did i posed to the russian federation? what's happening in ukraine is a genocide. people of europe, you can see what's happening again, you must put pressure on russia, so they stop this one straw city and the war. what is some of the news in india is ruling party, the b j p is set to retain control of the most popular state was a pradesh, but it's being counted in the total of 5 states results. put the b j p ahead in 4 of them results and seen as a crucial test ahead of national elections in 2024 and the conservative unit. so y'all has one south korea as election by a time margin. he takes over from the liberal president named j, and government have killed 19 security pass. now my jerry an attack in the northwest, and state of cabbie have happened late on tuesday in the village of con. you ok, comin

brzezinski keeps saying. if you keep the status quo on the global stage, russia is the looser because the united states will always dominate in that situation. so i'm wondering, knowing the soviets as you have known the soviets, seeing what vladimir putin has done over the past 20 years, is she -- is president zelenskyy correct, after ukraine he will be ready to go for latvia or estonia or another country after ukraine? >> first, is vladimir putin a break from history? absolutely not. we don't need to stop with the 1950s. go back to ivan the terrible and peter the great. look at the russian czars in the 18th and 19th century. russia has always sought to expand on this massive eurasian land mass. this is very consistent with russian behavior. what should we do about it knowing that there is this proclivity in the mind of russia, if you will? we need alliances. in particular, our european ally and friends are small individual powers but who when bound together in something called nato become an instrument of im

let's discuss this and a lot more, joining us now, ian brzezinski, former deputy assistant secretary of defense. i want to discuss energy in a moment. how critical is this visit by president biden here to poland, which is clearly rising to the challenge of the refugee crisis, while facing the potential threat of expanded russian aggression? >> it is a very important visit, wolf. think about it. poland today is playing the same operational role in the defense of western interests that germany did during the cold war. it in many ways is on the front lines of defending freedom and security in europe, the way germany did during the cold war. so president's visit there is underscoring that importance, underscoring u.s. commitment to poland and the alliance, and underscoring the centrality of poland's role in this conflict. >> poland borders ukraine. what do you make, ian, of president biden's announcement today on energy? how much of a security issue is energy dependence on russia for europe and advantage for all practical purposes for putin? the russians make hundreds of billions of doll

summit invest side to help coordinate a response to russia's invasion, ukraine's president of a lot of brzezinski expected to make a virtual address to the gathering this as the, as the path to peace remains elusive. talks between ukraine and russia. and in a new deal on a ceasefire, ukraine's foreign minister val, it's ukraine will never surrender.

i'm also especially pleased that ambassador brzezinski is now here in poland credentials last month. timing could not be better. it's vital that we have all of our confirmed ambassadors in place at this critical time. and we are, in fact meeting at one of the most urgent moments in the long history of friendship between our countries as allies and partners. pole in the united states has stood together through many, many challenges. now the very ideals that bind us freedom, democracy, peace, security are under threatened this reason as never before. certainly not since the 2nd world war the people of poland know how important it is to defend freedom soto americans. and we will stand together as we've been standing together in support of ukraine and against russia's unprovoked. unwarranted, premeditated invasion in nato at the european union. the o. s. e, where as big numbers the chair in office this year, poland is doing vital work to respond to this crisis is hosted increased nato presence is supported, the robust you sanctions against russia. and it is done a great deal to facilitat

timing of this whole crisis is important. russia has not yet ready to undertake that kind of an effort. brzezinski also made some interesting predictions about ukraine. you said they will never join nato. rodzinski also bragged about what he called the afghans, wrath setting up a situation where the soviet union felt obligated to intervene in afghanistan and then bogging them down with a long term war. he bragged about giving the soviet union a, quote, vietnam to weaken the country. so apparently us leaders claim to care about ukrainians while they're setting the country up for a long term war. caleb martin r t new york or canada is now taking center stage in western efforts to send more weapons to ukraine. kind of the foreign affairs minister safe, her country is bringing in the private sector to help on kiev forces. the canadian diplomat speed should have recent conference with interrupted by a political activist and writer who accused melanie julie of provoking a global conflict for and the war need. for the 3rd world war 3 shameless. you investigate a reporter, alex rubinstein, phase the west

brzezinski was saying in '83 -- is they have military might. really, when you strip that down all they have are nuclear weapons. so it is not just that their military might is being exposed. it is the core of russian power and what they've always seen as russian power being proven to be in absolute shambles. you said something fascinating about this being the second fall of the soviet union. explain. >> so as you were saying, joe, we sometimes describe russia as a gas station with nukes. you know, it is this huge energy power and it has a military machine and that's about it. and the military machine is being shown now not to be working, and it is especially damaging to putin because that was one of his projects. he knew that the russian army had just decayed, the discipline was lax, that the conditions for young soldiers were intolerable. it was hazing. these were not well-managed, well- pro visioned armies. it has been a project for a dozen years and i think that project is shown to have failed. these columns run out of gas. they run out of o

brzezinski, who said -- can stop the tide. there was work done with the pols and with lake walensa and the pope and stopped the soviet tide from getting worse. in a way there's a direct line, as you say, between that and 1989 when george h.w. bush in his inaugural said, "the day of the dictator is over." just a couple of weeks, i was remembering that, joe and mika, in fact that bush had said that, almost bitterly here we are in the day of putin attacking ukraine, and just a few weeks later because of the valiant performance of the ukrainians, led by a leader like our early founders in the revolution, in love with liberty, hates oppressive, enormously brave, we are seeing a situation where the zeitgeist has changed. i think both in the world, and maybe in the united states, too, the day of the dictator really is over. >> it does seem that way. ian brzezinski, i'm going to ask you a question that our intel community is asking themselves because vladimir putin obviously surprised by what is happening in ukraine, but he's not alon

timing of this whole crisis is important, russia is not yet ready to undertake that kind of an effort. brzezinski also made some interesting predictions about ukraine. you said they will never join nato rodzinski also bragged about what he called the afghan wrath. setting up a situation where the soviet union felt obligated to intervene and afghanistan, and then bogging them down with a long term war. he bragged about giving the soviet union a, quote, vietnam to weaken the country. so apparently us leaders claim to care about ukrainians while they're setting the country up for a long term war. caleb martin r t new york or canada is now taking center stage in western f as to send more weapons to ukraine, canada as foreign affairs ministers. these her country is bringing in the private sector to help on keith's forces. the canadian diplomat speech at a recent conference was interrupted by a political activist and writer. he were accused melanie's only of provoking a global conflicts for. and if she was i wanna, i want or we spoke with the protagonist of that incident at the east angler. he said tha

and i both know the big new brzezinski, the late pacific, big new present ski who, who sort of took credit for, ah, the soviet invasion in afghanistan saying he helped lead, lead them into afghanistan and into their own vietnam. the question, there is a ran study that was published a few years ago that basically said, perhaps the smart strategy was to find ways to impose costs on russia. and this, this study said that if you could unbalance, if you could do cost imposing options, it could unbalanced over extend russia. such cost imposing options could place new burdens on russia, ideally heavier burdens than would be imposed in the us for imposing his options. now, i don't believe that the study actually endorsed, taking this step in ukraine, but it's going to raise the question at some level on whether russia is now the one that stuck in it's quagmire, that it's a good distraction to have russian power. ah, and attention focused in something like this. is there any sense to that logic at all? well, i don't think so because in the cold war the soviet union was aligned against the united st

that's a firing positions equated to president, condemned it as a war crime, brzezinski bumble, bol, emily carter, new russian bombs landed on a children's and maternity hospital. the building is destroyed. actually, we're still going through the rubble. what sort of threat did i posed to the russian federation? what's happening in ukraine is a genocide. people of europe, you can see what's happening again, you must put pressure on russia. so they stop this one straw city and the war was ukraine's foreign minister arrived in turkey for the highest level talk since the war ukraine began 2 weeks ago to meet very cool about has previously said he doesn't have high expectations for the talks with his russian counterpart, they get liberal jamal l child is in antalya. turkey has, from the beginning, said that it was pushing to try and use the leverage house both with kiev and moscow to find a to provide a solution all the while trying to have this balancing act without appearing to take any one sided or be at the fact that turkey has insisted that it supports ukraine's right to its soverei

ian brzezinski, ed loos, anne applebaum, thank you very much for being on this morning. >>> still ahead on "morning joe" joined by nato's secretary-general to talk about the ongoing international response to the russian invasion of ukraine. >>> plus -- comedian chris rock returns to the stand-up stage in his first public appearance since the slap at the oscar stage by will smith. we'll tell you what he said about it, and bruce willis stepping away from the big screen. we'll talk to a health expert about the neurological condition, the legendary actor has been diagnosed with. >>> a lot ahead as our continuing coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine. we'll be right back. we're hoping things will pick up by q3. yeah...uhhh... [children laughing] doug? [ding] never settle with power e*trade. it has easy-to-use tools and some of the lowest prices. get e*trade and start trading today. this is the new world of work. each day looks different than the last. but whatever work becomes, the servicenow platform will make it just, flow. whether it's finding new ways to help you serve your custome

brzezinski said, biologically. he's committing war crimes. so, yeah, i think most americans and most freedom-loving people across the world, they want their president to see the pain and agony that ukrainians are going through and voice it for them on a world stage. that's exactly what he did. let's bring in right now the host of "way too early," jonathan lemire. there were a lot of people criticizing the state department for cleaning up those words. that's what the state department does. all of the world is a stage. all right. everybody is a player, everybody has their own roles. we expect the state department to say, oh, no, everything is fine, round -- smooth off the rough edges. but in this case, biden doesn't seem apologetic at all. i mean talk about what went into him saying that and why he just simply refuses to back down. >> yeah, there are a few things at play here, joe. first of all, to your point just a minute ago, the administration already believes that vladimir putin, of course, has committed war crimes. we have heard that. they

brzezinski would still bring it up. it is still a part of their identity, what the soviets did to them. they won't forget it. orban may forget it. they will never forget it and never align with russia. >> mika, i was in poland a few weeks ago and i just heard the intensity, the passion of the polish feeling of nationalism, of the roots of their culture, of their anger at what putin is doing with russia, and of their solidarity with ukraine. that's the most important lifeline that ukraine will have going forward. a very dark heard is about to begin, as we've been saying. it is wonderful to hear zelenskyy give his speech this morning, but just over the next day or two we are going to see some nightmare scenes of a country being crushed and its best friend will be its closest friend, poland. we will be trying to help in every way we can, but we've said we're not going to provide troops. the pols said we will provide a corridor to help your partisans, your resistance struggles in these days ahead. so poland is crucial. i ca

brzezinski once said, a junior partner to the united states. all they can do it disrupt the international order. talk about how that puts them directly at odd with the chinese who have spent the last 40 years trying to dominate the world order. >> well, i mean, it's interesting watching the relationship between china and russia because they gave a sort of phenomenal statement a few weeks ago saying how they're going to coordinate much more and how they have a shared riggs and the values america is meant to stand for in the world but whether they enjoy working together is very unclear. if anything, putin has showed how america and the west do have some sort of -- when it comes to retaliating at least in economic warfare essentially. so i don't know if the chinese have enjoyed, you know, the consequences of certainly china will be much more stealthy and slow while putin's is very rasp. and maybe for the first time china steps up and plays an active role in solving an international conflict. at what point does china dump russia or does putin say a

brzezinski called the soviet union a one-dimensional power. he said they had no economic capacity, that they had failed, the soviets had failed to build adequate economic capacity, they had failed to build technological advances, they had failed to create a political dogma that was popular and could be exported. he said they were just a one-dimensional military power and that was it, so they could disrupt and do very little else. i'm curious your thoughts about even that one dimension of russian power and how much, how much putin has been hurt, how much the military's reputation has been damaged over these past 20 days. >> well, i think it is a factor, there's no question. you know, putin put 20 years of work into trying to modernize and change the nature of the russian armed forces. they did extremely poorly in both chechnya where they essentially fought for two years to take this little republic down and destroy the city of grozny. they did extremely poorly in georgia. they lost control of their logistics, command and control there. putin ha

>> yeah, mark brzezinski so mariupol, for example, everything in the east there requesting all protective kits, but you know, the really really in urgent need of medical kits, to stop this bleeding. so that is mariupol, and also give,. from odessa to kyiv, to the north in chernihiv two sumy. there are borders on the ground. we are in the headquarters of the defense ministry of the house of ukraine and they're just asking us what to do. you know, it's everything from the u.s. to israel to central european countries. it's available to ship now because it's tiny. and then we're establishing medium to longer term contracts with suppliers who are ramping up production, but are willing to give us much better prices. >> i want to ask you about the broader medical condition right now the country finds itself in, because there is still a public health crisis that is unfolding. and obviously, not just the war with all the challenges that it's bringing. you're still dealing with a global pandemic. and although people may not be as afraid of the pandemic, there are still very much afraid of the war.

. >> ian brzezinski, and mark, thank you for your conversation and down the road. >>> meeting in brussels about the war in ukraine. another major development unfolding around the world. north korea fires a long range missile that potentially could be capable of actually reaching the united states. we have details, a live report when we come back. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fueuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. did i tell you i bought our car from carvana? yeah, ma. it was so easy! i found the perfect car, under budget too! and i get seven days to love it or my money back... i love it! i thought online meant n, but susan from carvana had all e answers. she didn't try to upsell me. not once, because they're not salespeople! what are you...? guess who just checked in on me? mom... susan from carvana! [laughs] we'll drive you happy at carvana. (johnny cash) ♪ i've traveled every road in this here land! ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ crossed the desert's

pentagon worked and i didn't but i got introduced to all sorts of people his best friend hoops was zignap brzezinski and so i would go over for dinner with brazinsky and chief halibee and you know, we would, you know, talk about world affairs and all it was really like a tutorial and i think got a job and taught for year at the us naval academy in annapolis. talk for a year five five. i had to do 10 classes and i did western civilization five. just five ten total class. yeah. and in teaching early morning, they just used me as young you know to help but that was hard because i had to then learn zola and and you know proust and things to put into these classes that i was doing on western said and let me go back though that you do teach every day, or did you just teach a total of 10 classes? oh, no. no, i would teach all week long regular. i think now i'm down to two with classes this semester, but this would be five classes that well they missed some days. yeah, but five semester go back to your habits of writing the atmosphere and what you were writing. where do you write? i've written i am unusual

pentagon worked and i didn't but i got introduced to all sorts of people his best friend hoops was zignap brzezinski and so i would go over for dinner with brazinsky and chief halibee and you know, we would, you know, talk about world affairs and all it was really like a tutorial and i think got a job and taught for year at the us naval academy in annapolis. talk for a year five five. i had to do 10 classes and i did western civilization five. just five ten total class. yeah. and in teaching early morning, they just used me as young you know to help but that was hard because i had to then learn zola and and you know proust and things to put into these classes that i was doing on western said and let me go back though that you do teach every day, or did you just teach a total of 10 classes? oh, no. no, i would teach all week long regular. i think now i'm down to two with classes this semester, but this would be five classes that well they missed some days. yeah, but five semester go back to your habits of writing the atmosphere and what you were writing. where do you write? i've written i am unusual

brzezinski always talked about when he came on the show is countries surprisingly enough always act in their own self interest. it is inchem bent on us to figure out what kind of deal will they take to get xi to pick up the phone, call putin and tell him to stop. as richard said, that is the very essence of diplomacy. you do things you are uncomfortable with sometimes. you move out of that zone of comfort and you strike deals with different -- we did it after 9/11. what did we hear after 9/11? we're going to have to make alliances with countries we may not have made alliances with before we were attacked by al qaeda, and that's what we did. guess what. the iranians gave us a lot of intel. we worked with iran post-9/11. we worked with other countries we would have never imagined working with before 9/11. >> right. >> we have to start thinking that way now. it would help, it would help if republicans and democrats on capitol hill gave the signal to the white house that they understand we were at war, we want to save ukraine, we want to back away from a possible nuclear confrontation and

mark brzezinski's point of view is that was exactly the message all these countrcountries, coun that border ukraine and may soon be bordering the russian federation if vladimir putin takes over ukraine over the course of the coming weeks and months, they need to hear that. i think, you know, in poland, mika knows, you know, and mark confirmed today, there's trepidation here. people are nervous. they're not panicked though. the difference between people who are nervous and panicked is a huge gulf. the reason is people feel the full embrace of nato. they think that, joe, your point last night, this is, you know, if putin ever decides to push into poland, russia will be incinerated, evaporated by the 82nd airborne and other forces. it doesn't feel that -- that level of confidence is absent in some of the smaller countries. it is absent because a lot of them feel as though they've been telling us, the larger countries in the west, that this is what putin was going to do. they've been telling it to us for 15 years, and we've been ignoring them. you see their defense ministers and prime mi

the population of warsaw according to mark brzezinski grown 10 percent. think about that. 10% increase. a humanitarian effort that really should unite the world. >> let's talk about joe biden's leadership. both of you saying he needs to lead. he needs to -- needs to -- he's organized, and -- both of you say done a good job. >> he is, yeah. >> organized it. needs to lead it. obviously, i know you understand better than most. there is is a balancing act. you can't get too far ahead of the germans or too far ahead of the french. it is a constant balancing act. is it not? because, you know. we've gotten ahead of our allies before over the past 20 years, and it hasn't always worked out very well for them a. balance, but they're ahead of us on some things you know. seize, freeze assets of oligarchs and providing that funding for refugee crisis is absolutely essential. gone ahead of us in terms of trade. said no longer get most favored nation status trading with europe. yet we've get to legislation here in the congress that's still kicking around in part initial

brzezinski, madeleine albright and others who were chased out of europe, dedicated their entire lives to freedom. freedom. these ukrainians remind us once again what that battle was for and that freedom is not a cheap throw away punch line to use at a political debate to appeal to the lowest common denominator. >> coming up next, former secretary of state hillary clinton. next, former secretary of state hillary clinton. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ throw away punch line to use at throw away punch line to use at can you be free of hair breakage worries? we invited mahault to see for herself that dove breakage remedy gives damaged hair the strength it needs. even with repeated combing hair treated with dove shows 97% less breakage. strong hair with new dove breakage remedy. number one beauty brand not tested on animals. for investors who can navigate this landscape, strong hair with new dove leveraging gold, a strategic and sustainable asset... the path is gilded with the potential for rich returns. nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice li

ian brzezinski. >> also with us david ignatius joins us. >> david ignatius, you look -- you look at all the newspapers, "new york times," russian -- russian shells blankets ukrainian capital and port city, the "wall street journal" talks about russia pressing a grinding attack, again, more death and more destruction here. >> and the worst of it is mariupol. >> and then, of course, here. ukrainian -- ukraine refuses to surrender mariupol. their response reminds me of the general in world war ii whose one world answer to surrendering to the germans was nuts, wasn't going to do that. we hear this morning of ukrainians taking back a suburb of kyiv, taking over a highway, and yet as john kirby said, we don't really want to call this a stalemate because of all the death and destruction coming from the skies. what have you heard in the past 24 hours? what are you hearing on the ground in ukraine? >> so, joe, i think describing this as a bloody just horrifying stalemate is right, the newspaper headlines, the photographs we see, the imagery just tells us how vicious this war is. i think u.s. off

brzezinski, the cold warrior of all cold warriors, said the most you can help for with ukraine is the finlandization of ukraine. we can't bring them into nato. yet, here we are. putin feels he's been pushed into a corner. how do we get him out? >> he may be giving us glimmers of that already by offering, yesterday, possible terms of resolution that are far less draconian than the kinds of things he was saying before he went in and it went so badly wrong. so he is no longer mentioning the de-nazification of ukraine. he is still talking about the eastern regions and crimea. what he was putting on the table yesterday seems something that, actually, is the status quo that ukraine was living with anyway. >> right. >> the question now is, he has committed so many atrocities and killed so many ukrainians. >> that is a problem, isn't it? >> stirred up so much hatred in the country. will they take something that was on the table before that might have been acceptable? >> another problem is, the very regions that he has pulled into russia -- >> no longer want him there. >> -- are the regions th

and also to enable us to meet with senior members of the polish government, our own ambassador, mark brzezinski who is doing such a great job there, along with his team at the embassy, the brave men and women of the 82nd 82nd airborne division, and heart breakingly the women and children who are fleeing ukraine with nothing more than what they could carry on their backs. i want to thank as well senator schumer for bringing to the floor this resolution, and senator graham for his leadership. this resolution is a very powerful and compelling message to the world that the united states will stand strongly with the people of ukraine against this brutal, insidious invasion by vladimir putin and russia. and tomorrow, we will hear from president zelenskyy, who's passionate and powerful -- whose passionate and powerful plea for action will, no doubt, illicit more words of support. but we need more than words now. we need more than declarations of support. we need action, action that will make a difference on the battlefield. it and let me just say very bluntly and simply, the ukrainian resistance has p