who ran washington? so with that i would like to invite you to have any closing remarks and then also for the audience so that you know for those who have not read the book as yet the book is available for purchase just outside and the authors will be signing as well. absolutely. thank you. thank you for the great questions. thank you kai you have been so kind with your praise of the book and believe me. he is a master class in biography. so for us, it's a great honor to be with you. thank you great conversation. thank you guys. thank you very much. appreciate it. c-span's new american president's website is your one stop guide to our nation's commanders in chief from george, washington to joe biden find short biographies video resources life facts and rich images that tell the story of their lives and presidencies all in one easy to browse c-span website visit c-span.org/presence to begin exploring this rich catalog of c-span resources today. here's a look at books being published this week former attor

who ran washington? so with that i would like to invite you to have any closing remarks and then also for the audience so that you know for those who have not read the book as yet the book is available for purchase just outside and the authors will be signing as well. absolutely. thank you. thank you for the great questions. thank you kai you have been so kind with your praise of the book and believe me. he is a master class in biography. so for us, it's a great honor to be with you. thank you great conversation. thank you guys. thank you very much. appreciate it. it are disappearing. >> host: well, it was in 2004 that victor davis hanson was first on this program. since that time he's written an additional seven books, so we invited him back to speak about those. his most recent book

jamie mcintyre with the "washington examiner." on twitter it's at jamie g mcintyre, easy enough to find. question for you first from twitter, this from the libertarian saying this proves the russian conventional military threat was a largest paper tiger in history and we can stop spending so much money on the military. on that your thoughts assessment. >> guest: well, i agree with the first part of that. the russian military did turn out to be a paper tiger, or as i wrote in my magazine article two weekss ago, putin's army look like it was very formidable but it wasn't. >> host: explained that term. >> guest: it is going to cause nato to reassess how it defends against a potential russian invasion into nato territory. something that was really the founding principle of the nato alliance was to stop the soviet union, , or to counter the sovit union if it had designs on things. a couple of years ago the rand corporation reviewed some of the wargames that the u.s. does to sort of game out how a conflict with russia might play out. in

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for some reason "the washington post" was unable to verify those emails. because if those emails are verified, the president of the united states is in serious trouble. cnn, who finally decided to cover hunter's federal probe today, brought in their hatchet man john harwood to parrot the same exact talking poi pushed by "the washington post" today. watch. >> until you make -- someone makes a nexus between what hunter biden has done and official activities of vice president biden or president biden, it's a not pretty picture but it's not really of much public import in terms of the policy of the united states or the administration of the government. but so far there is zero evidence that vice president biden or president biden has done anything wrong in connection with what hunter biden has done. >> jesse: no connection. cnn and "the washington post" are just catching up on the news from 2020. maybe we should point them to what hunter's former business associate tony bobulinski had to say. >> on may 2nd, 2017, the night before joe biden was to appear at the

they will cut deals with democrats in washington, with the media in washington, with rino republicans like donald trump, i will not. i am a fighter. the republican party bosses in columbus in washington criticize me and save josh mandel is too hard right, too america first. i don't think there is such a thing. think there is a fork in the road right now in the republican party. down one fork goes the rino establishment republicans, mitt romney, liz cheney. we need to eradicate them from the republican party. i'm taking a different path, i'm going to washington to be reinforcement for fighters like ted cruz, jim jordan and donald trump. i'm going to washington to fight for you and your family. no one will push me around. >> mr. givens, next question for you. last year, you said i am a trump supporter but not into the cult of personality. the question, what do you mean by that and do you believe donald trump supporters are an occult? -- in a cult? >> first of all, i supported donald trump in 2016 and 2020. i was his finance co-chair in 2016 and raised a good deal of money for him. betwe

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and washington opposed. it seems unlikely that these jets will be joining the fight in the skies over ukraine any time soon. although on this i'm joined by d w. all of a solid in washington d. c. so oliver u. s. secretary of state anthony blinkin has said that he will consult with poland and nato allies on the potential of providing chats to ukraine. so is it that the united states isn't entirely closing the door on this idea? if the door is open, right? hello for sure. and there's the political will, of course, to deliver those jets. but it remains a tricky task and it's a fine line. they are work, they are walking on right now. so poland says, yes, ukraine can have those mixed. those russian made fighter jets. but they certainly don't want to be held accountable for mingling in the war between russia and ukraine. so their offer was to bring those fighter jets to you as air force base ramstein on german soil, which again would then imply to other natal members. so the u. s. of course saying no, we're not in

announcer: washington journal continues. host: we're back and we're in our open forium segment where you our viewers can call in and talk about whatever the most important political topic of the day to you is. we're going to open up our regular lines. that means the numbers are on your screen. keep in mind you can always text us and we're always reading on social media, on twitter and on facebook. before we get into your calls, let's go back and find out a little bit more about what's happening in ukraine today as reported by the hill newspaper. and the hill newspaper has a story this morning that's talking about ukraine and the attempts to find out about the ukraine aid moving in to -- moving out of -- into ukraine. sorry about that. let's get into the story from the hill newspaper. fears are growing on capitol hill that the window to deliver critically needed humanitarian aid is quickly closing. once again coming from the hill newspaper where lawmakers are fearing that time is running out to deliver ukraine aid. once again

. >> washington journal continues. journal" continues. host: we are back with the host and producer of 530 eight's politics podcast, and he is here with us this morning to discuss the podcast and public opinion as it relates the russia-you rain -- russia-ukraine conflict and president biden's stance. good morning. guest: good morning, thanks for having me. host: first of all, remind our audience why it is called 538? guest: our website and podcast is called 538 podcast, because that the number of electors there are in the electoral college. that's how we elect our presidents in the united dates, and 538 spends a lot of time covering elections and trying to map the probability that one candidate or another will win. our elections in the united states are complicated in part, precisely because we elect our presidents through the electoral college and not directly. host: tell us about the podcast. when did you start it and what does it focus on? we know it is a politics podcast, but do you focus on anything in particular? guest: absolutely.

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that's another thing that washington was very upset about in terms of china. it reacted very negatively when the u. s. called for russia to be excluded from the g 20 as it was with the g a. so let's take a listen to what both washington and beijing had to say about that. on the question of the g 20, i will just say this. we believe that it cannot be business as usual for russia in international institutions and in the international communities which if i share the g. 20 is a major platform for international economic cooperation with the participation of major economies in the world. russia is an important member and no member has the right to remove other countries as a member of asian also stood by russia when it tried to pass a un security council draft resolution that all of the other members of the security council actually abstained from. so another important point we have to talk about also is that the 2022 meeting of bricks countries is set to come up very soon. and it's widely expected to take place in china. so, while washington attempts to isolate ru

let me go to you in washington. i'm one of the things i find very disturbing is that all i hear from the west is escalation. i'm escalating the conflict in ukraine and no one in the west is talking about a peace settlement, how to end hostilities. there they want to continue. ukraine is already a failed state. or what else are they going to do to it? i said, for years, you know, when it was a came to afghanistan, iraq, you know, now it's ukraine. haven't they had enough of western help go ahead in washington? well, the thing they don't really, for all of the western politicians are talking about helping ukrainians. they don't really care what happens to the ukrainians they're, they're openly discussing using ukraine as another dreaming of making ukraine and other afghanistan for russia, which would be absolute disaster for people actually living there. so for all of there are, are sensible proclamations of wanting well to, to, to people of ukraine and wanting to save their lives and so forth. everything they're doin

in washington? rachel, blevins archie. tomorrow the races up they, she can check our website, r t dot com. but we're back in the top of the hours more. see them ah, in the united states a news and tax on other countries economic sanctions are, are often just the beginning. another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the country that you're talking about here. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country. we have a responsibility for the whole war and we need to make rules for the rest. because without out there we can do a oh i oh yes, matthew needed to look for a new come with the nice couple with that should be a new bull. the subway you. what the vine? not the cast ash net yet new z new gym. yet, the carpool, can you put a, shall i have? you may as see the same bus outcome. no sped bumper. daily padlock was saturday. i'm adrienne adrienne spectrum, a board game baker, across the country. i'm sick about 2nd doll, automatic sarah was senior diagnostic about a si

>> noticias telemundo con julio vaqueiro desde washington dc >> hola, ¿qué tal?, desde la capital del país el presidente joe biden prepara su informe y nosotros tenemos cobertura en equipo desde polonia, ucrania y rumania con la misión de rescatar a los mexicanos atrapados en la guerra. >> las primeras negociaciones entre rusia y ucrania no quedó en nada acordado pero se mantienen las negociaciones, vamos con los detalles. >> así es hace poco se escuchaban alarmas antiaereas y el ejército d ucrania resiste como si nunca lo imaginó y vamos a ver lo que sucede cuál es la situación en este momento de todo el panorama en ucrania como diplomáticos y sobre el terreno. >> al mismo momento que el kremlin justificaba el compromiso de continuar el diálogo después de euchar ambas posicioners hay varios puntos que se pueden progresar, no dieron detalles y establecerán las fechas después. >> siguen reportando decenas de muertos y heridos, se entregaron imágenes del norte de ucrania donde se produjeron varias explosiones como en un supermercado que se incendió t

that's ri . ht. than we did from washington. that's riuht. china than we did from washington. that's right- china got _ than we did from washington. that's right. china got its _ than we did from washington. that's right. china got its view _ than we did from washington. that's right. china got its view of _ than we did from washington. triat�*s right. china got its view of things out before the white house did. just in the last few moments the white house has released their readout of the nearly two hour conversation. pretty short. i think what really jumps out is president biden here in the readout said that he described the readout said that he described the implications and consequences if china provides material support to russia and i quote "brutal attacks against ukrainian cities and civilians. that's the main point that the us once to make to china. a reminder of the background of this, russia has asked china for economic help and military help because it's been sanctioned right now. it's hugely impeding it. america claims that china is thinking about it, that china

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go ahead on you in washington. neither of i peter and of course the sensory of the r t, you tube channels on youtube, but the continued denial of service attacks every time i usually now try to open the rti web page, there's some problem accessing it in the united states. that was their 1st step, the us tech establishment and preventing us from accessing an alternative view as the conflict progresses. and now it's reached in new absurd phase where daytime hot talk show on the view, for example, are calling for tucker carlson. most popular television host in the history of this country to be jailed for treason mitt romney calling. as a senator and former presidential candidate also klein tucker carlson. actions of questioning the warren narrative on his show treasonous. calling the actions of a former member of congress totals he gathered treason, isn't for merely questioning the push to war. and you mentioned the lead up to the iraq war. we're dealing with many of the same people now in the administration who are r

i was calling my part of washington. i was calling the state department official washington, and this was all happening, you know around president trump and but not by, you know civil servants foreign service officers people like fiona hill. i mean when he called the deep state, yeah exactly, but you know, they had a deeper condition i would say and so they were i think the planning how to get dirt basically on joe biden and i think there was a sense that maybe i would not be helpful in that in that effort if i saw things that were going going wrong, but you didn't you knew about some of these issues but by the time it becomes public here in washington, and you have sean hannity talking about you laura ingraham the president's son don junior. that's when i really realized wow. there's some crazy thing happening. yeah, you know it it's a small community here in washington that pays attention to russia and and ukraine and you know, i like you have known these folks, you know here for many years since we served in in moscow

"the washington post" hosted the discussion of about 25 minutes. >> good morning and welcome to washington post live. i am michael duffey, opinions editor at the washington post. our guest is a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, former national security adviser a top official in both the department of justice and the department of state. welcome back to washington post live, and messinger bolton. amb. bolton: thanks for having me. michael: we would like to hear from you, your thoughts and questions. it has been almost two weeks since russia launched its invasion into ukraine. what surprised you the most? amb. bolton: i thing we can all admire that here, the bravery of the ukraine defense forces. they have done a terrific job under enormous pressure. second, it is really remarkable the failures of russian strategy. we can debate the reasons, but i think they went after too many targets and did not concentrate their forces. i think that accounts for a good part of the gridlock we have seen. and the logistical support certainly has fallen well below the standards we would have expe

an idea floated by washington earlier in the month. but the pentagon categorically rejected the plan. we believed that provision of additional fighter aircraft provides little increased capabilities at high risk intelligence community has assessed transfer. mig 29th to ukraine may be mistaken as escalate tory and could result in significant russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with nato. speaking off to talks on the wall with canadas prime minister justin trudeau, german chancellor, earl of schultz was quick to rule out the idea as well. yeah, mm hm. we need to release, 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 this certainly does not include combat aircraft and see hillis kindly come through target with poland. unwilling to act unilaterally and washington opposed, it seems unlikely that these jets will be joining the fight in th

apparently no more in washington. thank you. your watching date of the news has a recap of our mind story. on the one month anniversary of russia's full scale invasion of youth crime, president ballade may zalinski has urged people around the world to protest and rally for pace. meanwhile, russia is continuing its bombardment of narrative. paul, for at least 100000 people, remain trapped with little food old u. s. president joe biden is in europe for emergency talks with nato allies on the war and ukraine. earlier wednesday, the blocks chase pledged more support from ukraine to protect itself against the threat of chemical warfare by russia. continues on thank this alice say to now for our doc film about mattie the world 1st sick model with down syndrome. and i'm rebecca with his. thanks for joining us. ah ah ah ah, a man with the memories of a woman ah, ali from syria is born in a female body. forced into marriage. great. far from home, folly can finally become the person he's always wanted to be. i was born in berlin starts ma

caroline eci moine, washington. thank you. you're watching day w. news is a recap of our main story on the one month anniversary of russia's full scale invasion of ukraine president for lot of miss zalinski has urged people around the world to protest and rally for pace may well, russia is continuing its bombardment of mary paul for at least a 100000 people remain tracked with little food in water. and u. s. president joe biden is in europe for emergency talks with nato allies on the war and ukraine. earlier wednesday, the blogs chase pledged more support for ukraine to protect itself against the threat of chemical warfare by russia. antonio, the update this alan stage here now for the business, it's coming up in just a moment. time rebecca versus in berlin. thanks very much for joining us. ah ah, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner check. hot spot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel. all we go is the end of the pandemic in site. we show what it could look like.

that friday cool was american counterpart washington. it also warned not to provide material support to russia and american lawmakers, and now seeking to sanction chinese financial institutions, helping russia conduct to transactions of there was bought from the international swift financial payment system with the plaza and general gregory clock say the west is using the ukraine 5 to provoke china and disrupt pits of warm relations with china with russia. china is china. we'll put it in the interests 1st, but it's entrenched at the moment. lie, i think, in cooperation with russia because it's quite clear that it will not get much cooperation from america. the west is trying very hard to use the ukraine issue to actually say, provoke china or to find some something guilty in the chinese response. but so far they have not had much success. and i didn't think that her magic's success in the future was an actual building and care was hit by fragments from an allegedly downed russian missile on friday. according to kinsman, one person was ki

haven't they had enough of western help go ahead in washington? well, the thing they don't really, for all of the western politicians are talking about helping ukrainians. they don't really care what happens to the ukrainians, and they're, they're openly discussing using ukraine as another dreaming of making ukraine and other afghanistan for russia, which would be absolute disaster for, for actual living there. so for all of there are sensible proclamations of wanting well to, to the people of ukraine and wanting to save their lives and so forth. everything they're doing is actually helping those lives and very quickly or in great pain. i mean, if there was any interest in wanting peace and prosperity in ukraine, they would have backed some sort of settlement with russia years ago and what they would have given those security guarantees that was asked for. but no, the plan was always use ukraine as a weapon that to it. and that's why right? and that's why i agree agreeing with you. i mean, there was min squatting too, but no, but, and i, i really

and they're not willing to jeopardize that relationship out washington's command. for example, the anom relies heavily on russia for its coal supply, which served as the largest product in the $1780000000.00 worth of goods at the in ordered from russia and 2020. on the other hand, indonesia relies on russia to buy its resources with over $1000000000.00 worth of goods exported or russia in 2020. but it's not just about the economic impact. it's also a question of the overall gravity. the u. s. has is, indicates the rules for both policy and condemnation. in fact, just last week, the u. s. declared a genocide of the people in me, him are a key member of the southeast asian alliance with some even calling for military intervention. the u. s. government should couple, it's condemnations of mine. mars military with action for too long. the u. s. and other countries have allowed my mars generals to commit atrocities with few real consequences. there have also been tensions with cambodia, which is the chair of the alliance after the u. s and allison arms embargo back in d

he says, washington wants to prevent russia from establishing deep ties with mexico because the u. s. wants to control its southern neighbor. on top of that just is the fact that the united states is, is talking out of 2 sides of their mouths, that they want to control canada, mexico, the entire western hemisphere through the monroe doctrine. look at what happened back in the early 1960 s during the cuban missile crisis. the united states did, you know, threatened to invade cuba, it sent an anti castro cubans, right. wingers to go and try to overthrow the government of cuba at the time. because cuba was too close to what was then the soviet union. but you know, they, they, they don't understand why a country like russia might not want an enemy allied military alliance right on their border. despite attempts to silence the russian media in the e. u. a recent poland, france has revealed that more than half of respondents agree with some of russia's reasons for entering the ukraine. conflict r t show davinsky has more twin ot, and other channels described as being propaganda. tools of

carolyn eci more in washington. thank you. in watching data, but the news has a recap of our mind story on the one month anniversary of russia's full scale invasion of ukraine. president, val, autumn is lensky has urged people around the world to protest and rally for pace. meanwhile, russia is continuing its bombardment of matter, you pulp for at least 800000 people remain trapped. we have little food and water in us. president joe biden is in europe for emergency talks with nato allies on the war in ukraine earlier wednesday that blocks chafe, pledge mall support the ukraine to protect itself against the threat of chemical warfare by russia. and i cindy's update this, asked i to now the world stories the weekend reports that's coming up in just a moment. i'm back to where it is from me and the entire team here in berlin. thanks very much for joining us. ah ah ah imagine how many portion of lunch us heard out in the world climate change could be very often stored. this is my plastic way from just one week. how much we can rea

c-span now, your front row seat to washington. any time, anywhere. host: joinins congressman jim himes of connecticut, a member of the financial services committee. we have been talking to viewers this first 30 minutes about mr. zelensky's address to all of you coming up at 9:00 a.m. eastern. what do you want to hear from him? guest: i imagine we will hear a version of what we heard a week ago. i think we will hear remarkable defiance. the reality is here we are in week three of the conflict and putin has failed to achieve any of the aims he hopes to get done , so we will hear defiance, pride in his people's stand against the russians, and he will continue asking for more aid. i anticipate they will ask for a no-fly zone, for antiaircraft weaponry. he has been a remarkable leader since ukraine was attacked by russia. >> where are you on a no-fly zone? guest: i answer this question a lot. a no-fly zone as far as i'm concerned is a nonstarter. the reason -- people think of no-fly zones the way we impose no-fly zones on saddam hussein in iraq. people ne

they are pumping fentanyl right into washington state. just couple of weeks ago, his son's friend took one little pill and is dead. that is happening right here in washington state and the senator is doing nothing about it. it is time that we had real servant leadership and who are ready to fight for the future of our children. >> tucker: if you could be patty murray in washington state, that will be a political revolution. i hope you can. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> there is a new mom in town, talker. >> tucker: we need one, thank you. so in los angeles, george soros funded george has gone and stopped enforcing laws against theft. what you think happened then? well, theft went out. people were stealing everywhere. a few days ago, a thief stole $3 million from a single shop in beverly hills. but instead of stopping these criminals, they are telling residents, just don't wear jewelry. here's the police chief of l.a. >> there's been a marked increase involving victims of wherein expensive jewelry. what we are asking the pub

. >> cspan now every mobile app featuring your unfiltered view what is happening washington live and on-demand, keep up the nice biggest events were live stream of proceedings and hearings from u.s. congress white house events and the courts and campaign events and more of the world of politics and all it to her fingertips and his secret with the latest episodes of washington general and find scheduling information for c-span tv networks c-span radio, plus a variety of compelling podcasts cspan now is available at the apple store, google play download it for free today, cspan now your front row seat to washington it, anytime anywhere. >> and opposition leader in belarus spoke with the washington post saying hundreds of allergens are in ukraine to fight against the russian army as she warded the belarusian army not to pick up arms against the people of ukraine. >> hello and welcome to washington post life, my name is missy rise national security reporter with the washington post we continue to hear from actors in the region around ukraine in today, leader of the democratic opposition

the march on washington is about to take place. and she's not very pleased with the way it's proceeding. so she writes to one of the organizers. can you read what she say to him? >> by the way, randolph and his march on washington movement from the 1940s hired her. he was her first real employer. and this is what she said to him when rosa parks, daizy bates, all the prominent women of the civil right ts movement were given seconds on the podium at the march on washington. movemen seconds on the podium at the march on washington.movement we seconds on the podium at the march on washington.s movement n seconds on the podium at the march on washington. >> the time has come to say to you quite candidly, mr. reince fofl, that tokenism is as offensive when applied to women as when applied to negros. that's the word she always used. and that i have not devoted the greater part of my adult life to the implementation of human rights to now condone any policy, which is not inclusive. >> any consequences? >> no. in fact, the day before the ma

what else could washington do? what else could zelinski ask for? well, he probably will ask for this no fly zone, which is sir, not gonna happen. i mean, there is nothing he really can say today to convince biden and administer his administration to support that he once more weapons. and we also hear in the background that he just once more military support, and there are obviously a negotiations going on that that joe biden probably will announce right after the speech more aids his, the talks are about another $800000000.00 to cure ukraine. but the big question really is, or how far joe biden really can go. and there is this one red line, which is not negotiate negotiable, even so. so lensky is go, is probably urging again for his european and american friends to allow ukraine to join. not nato, but this is something which we won't see today and probably not in the coming months. now zalinski speech, it takes place after president biden has already signaled a massive span spending bill into law that medicaid's many billions to ukraine at how unit

"the washington post," are you paying a attention? joe even met with bobulinski twice in 2017 to vet him. do you hear that "the washington post"? the facts are out in the open. joe was always involved. look at the family for decades. it's how it's been run. and now he is compromised. >> joe biden and the biden family are compromised and i just don't see given the history here and the facts how joe can't be influenced in some manner based on the history that they have where here with cefc. >> jesse: this might only be a small piece of a much larger pie. we know hunter cut off his paper trail from his overseas trips and we know chinese businessmen were granting -- were giving access to the white house vice president. what we don't know is this. what went on behind those closed doors? we know china knows what went down. and if they have a copy of hunter's laptop, they definitely won't lose it like our fbi did. and that means they would have all the dirt they need to twist joe's arm, laptop, no laptop, doesn't matter. they know what went

reporting in washington. i'm basil, john. >> state of the union address is seldom have major lasting impacts on approval numbers. you know that some polls indicate that last night's speech may have boosted viewers opinions of the president. as for reaction from a local republican strategist kron four's. catherine keenan joins us with that part of the story. jonathan madison. you know, jonathan, it calls some of what he heard last night. very interesting. the republican strategists as the president was not only reaching out to his base, but clearly also talking to republicans. madison talked abogt what resonated with him and what he sees as the issues that biden glossed over. >> very, very interesting he's a lot of republican talking points which i think shows just how right republicans are a lot of these common sense issues. talk about funding the police, which is a sharp contrast with a lot of the people on left to the left of him. and i just think is really interesting. also talked about getting tough on ru