is, i was in moscow earlier this year and sanctions do not seem to do much. every time there are sanctions they build up the infrastructure internally. whereas they put embargoes from -- and ham from germany, they just start manufacturing their own in-house. they just became stronger and substituted one for the other. secondly, i have family in moscow. i am curious to know what you think of what this will do for diplomatic relations and people who have to travel back and forth. those of the two questions i have few. guest: i think probably much more difficult. we have already experienced difficulties in getting visas from the russian embassy. from the u.s. embassy and -- i think travel will simply become

more complicated in light of this action. the caller raises an important issue about sanctions. russia has introduced a policy of import substitution and indeed, one of the consequences of sanctions is that russia may try to increase their investments in the technology that is embargoed through sanctions. that is a risk in any introductory -- host: last call. line for democrats. caller: i had one question for several weeks. this has been building up. i wonder why the u.n. did not put up a force in ukraine. to prevent this. guest: the u.n. has been engaged

or -- in peacekeeping operations and monitoring the situation but there was not an incident such as what has occurred over the last 24 hours. i think that is why the u.n. has discussed ukraine but has not engaged in putting in troops on the ground. it is a busy day and we appreciate you joining us. we are at the wilson center. acting director there. we will talk again down the line. thank you. >> just one of the many headlines today from reuters. russia invades ukraine. here's what we know about the schedule today. president biden participating in

a virtual g7 leaders meeting this morning to discuss the ongoing situation in russia and ukraine. we are expecting a statement from prime minister of u.k. bores johnson around 12 noon -- prime minister boris johnson. president biden to address the nation later this afternoon. expected to be a press briefing around 2 p.m. today with press secretary -- a secretary. chad program, secretary -- chief of staff -- will brief all house members on ukraine this evening by phone. a similar briefing is expected to happen for all senators in the late afternoon today. we will try to keep you updated throughout the program. we want to hear from you this morning. on the wider invasion of ukraine

and the conflict between ukraine and russia. for democrats. -- we mentioned that the statements from russian president vladimir putin on that invasion coming as the u.s. security council was meeting last night to find a peaceful resolution in the wake of the actions and the statements from russian president vladimir putin. this is linda thomas-greenfield with her reaction. >> at the exact time as we are gathered in the counsel seeking peace, putin delivers a message of war in total disdain for the responsibility of this council. this is a grave emergency. the council will need to act and we will put a resolution on the

table tomorrow. as president biden said tonight, russia alone is responsible for the deaths -- the death and destruction this attack will bring. united states and our allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. the world will hold russia accountable. >> u.s. ambassador to the u.n.. about the same time that statement came out, ukraine president with his statement to his nation. this via reuters. >> -- do ukrainian citizens, this morning president putin announced -- russia carried out strikes against our military

infrastructure and our border guardsmen. many ukrainian cities, explosions were heard. we have introduced martial law across all territories in our country. one minute ago i had a phone call with president biden, the u.s. has already started to gather international support. today, calm is needed from each of you. if you can, we stay at home. the army is working. the whole sector is working. i will be in constant contact with you. -- and the camera -- i will talk to you soon. not panic. we are strong. we are ready for everything. we will win over everyone because we are ukraine. glory to ukraine. >> ukraine president last night. from the washington post today. 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 to intervene? i do not get it. what does happen after ukraine gets invaded? is it going to be like rwanda with the whole genocide thing? or is it going to be just like, i do not have a good example. >> there are a lot of question

about what happens next. president biden has been clear about not sending u.s. troops into ukraine. calling today and reiterating throughout the weekend and last night about the harshest possible economic sanctions against russia. that is what we are expecting to hear more about today from president biden when he speaks. those economic sanctions, what those punishing harsh economic sanctions will be. >> i understand. isn't russia really actually financially supported by china? yes, they have a market for u.s. products and import export, what really -- not to do -- yes, we have a firm foot in the financial aspect of the world but at the same time what people

want internationally from the u.s. is military aid. especially in times like this, i find it very hard to believe that with all the smart people at the heads of these tables they are going to say russia is going to invade and we have to deploy a knowing the possible outcome of world war iii or something catastrophic, a new financial thing. we are dealing with covid or we are not dealing with it anymore. i feel like there's too many smart people to understand the consequences of actually having some sort of real worldwide conflict. host: i take your point. lakeland, florida next. vicki, a republican, good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: my interest in all this

is watching this whole thing unfold -- this and in watching this whole thing unfold as they have already put these sanctions against putin. it has not deterred him it also i feel like he's actually financing this war for himself because he wants -- i don't think you just wants ukraine. everybody realizes he wants them all. he wants all those countries back and i think he is sweeping through today because no one confronted him, stopped him. host: what should the u.s. have done? caller: i just listened to the gentleman on before me and i believe every country should put forth people and go in and make a point that the whole world is watching and so we will be in trouble if we don't do something and let them know that people like putin cannot just go do this to a country and it is just sanctions. it is not going to stop him. he has an agenda and he has for

a long time and he's an evil man and they need to help these people before they get killed. go in and do what you have to do to stop them. host: vicki in lakeland, florida. a statement from president biden. expecting to hear more from biden today but this is the statement the white house put out last night. president putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring catastrophic loss of life and human suffering. russia alone is responsible for the destruction and death of -- death this will bring. the world will hold russia accountable. today, the president saying he will meet with his g-7 counterparts in the morning, then speak to the american people to announce the further consequences the u.s. and our allies and partners will impose on russia for this needless act of aggression against ukraine. we will also coordinate with our nato allies to ensure a strong, united response that deters any

aggression against the alliance. one of the key members of the nato alliance, the u.k. prime minister johnson with this statement last night. "i am appalled by the horrific events in ukraine. i spoke with president zelensky. president putin has chosen the path of bloodshed and destruction by launching this unprovoked attack on ukraine. the u.k. and our allies will respond decisively." this is diane, st. paul, minnesota, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. first i would like to say i am appalled and also thinking about the people in ukraine and what they are going through now. what i would like to say is that i do give president biden -- hello? host: i am listening to you, diane. you give president biden what? caller: our united nations and

all those people we are not together -- people, we are not together, and one reason was that it is my understanding we were no longer in that, with our allies, so what needs to happen now if you ask me, i'm really dissatisfied that putin took this time because he felt we were weak, but now, if we can show strength to him, but he cannot go into poland -- because this is not going to stop with ukraine. he is setting his record for the next 30 years. he will do just like hitler's did when he went into poland -- like hitler's did when he went into poland in the 1930's and we did not do anything until pearl harbor. i am only 72 years old. we need to show strength now. all these countries have come together. show putin -- put our ships out

there. show them that they cannot come into our allies who are part of this united -- the free world. host: that is diane in minnesota. this is brian in michigan, independent, good morning. caller: hi. can you hear me? host: yes, sir. caller: ok. i have worked with nato since the 1970's. they have never stood up themselves. if you look at the nato charter, you will see the numbers there in the 1950's. what was it, 12 nations? you fast-forward to this time frame where you have now in naito. that was wrong. what did we do? we strategically got nations around the soviet union to be part of nato and what did we do, start slapping missiles in there

pointing right at moscow and their military installations for decades. that is a part of the world -- i do not blame them. we would not tolerate this in our part of the world. can you imagine living up to the munro doctrine after all these years? we did not allow this in cuba. if any u.s. politician really thinks they want to play tough, i want them to get their battle helmet on and i want them to fight. i am sick of wars, sick of the bs. also, i have asked you, you have to bring on this tony bub ilenski. find out all the ties here. there's a lot more going on than people realize. trump had it right. you have to have energy independence. that's your leverage. look out fine things were going. they would have been finer if we stuck with that attitude. host: your nato expansion

comments, a map here from the bbc. the dark purple on this map, the nato members who join before 1997, and then the lighter purple there, the more magenta color there, the nato members that have joined since 1997, speaking to your point. this is terry in blair's town, new jersey, a republican. good morning. caller: the one from florida spoke my mind completely. i agree with everything. and the woman who spoke after her. russia has been planning this for over two years. they have stocked up themselves so they can endure a war for a couple of years. they do not intend it to stop with ukraine. this is just the beginning. and we have to stand up and stand back against them immediately. the president should have said something immediately. putin is threatening nuclear --

he should have got up and kicked ass and told them right back where we would stand behind him in nuclear. we need a president with strength and we are not getting it. he was going to have a talk this morning, now this afternoon. he should be talking to the world and putting out a strong offense against putin. host: terri, does that strong response to including military response in your mind? caller: whatever it takes to stop food and we have to do. this is not just ukraine. this is the beginning. it is not even just poland and belarus and whatever -- albania, whatever -- people can go on and on. when you see russia, think china. host: this headline from the philadelphia inquirer. will bunch, one of their opinion writers. the question, who killed the

post 1945 dream of a world without global conflict? he writes, and this was yesterday, before the latest actions, "if you grew up on the east coast in the 1960's and went to a public high school, you probably remember your class field trip to the united nations headquarters, built on the east river of manhattan. the show of sharp dressed diplomats was meant to assure my generation of boomers that the people of earth had learned our lesson. indeed, as my cohort starts applying for medicare, there's been no world war since 1945 despite many awful smaller scale conflicts." he goes on to say at the end of the column's concerns about what happened to the global order. today, he said, we watched president biden, surely the last president board during will were to, trying desperately -- during

world war ii, trying desperately to rebuild the bilateral is him of what feels like a bygone era. 77 long years since the last world war to build the kind of planet where it could never happen again and it looks like we blew it. for the post war baby boomers of the world, how we let this happen is the questionable lifetime. maryland, independent, good morning. caller: the weakness we showed in afghanistan, basically a bunch of guys on horseback mopping the floor with us, certainly had to help this situation with mr. putin seeing how weak we are, but you have to remember history. ukraine is a warsaw pact country. they are not naito. us interjecting that -- we have been putting offensive weapons

into ukraine since last spring, subsidizing them, putting weapons, offensive weapons. if they put -- if the soviet union put those into mexico or canada, would we not have the same response? we would but nobody wants to say that. we are the aggressor country. that is the way it is. what are we going to do when taiwan goes down? when -- by then failing in afghanistan, they did not even have an army or an air force, and they are smart, going on tv, saying, we will go get russia. russia has cruise missiles that will blow up everything behind you. we are no match for them and they know it. host: that's robert in waldorf, maryland this morning. this from the page of the new york times, david singer writing about food and's embrace of the theory that key have -- about putin's embrace of the theory

that kyiv is on the brink of a nuclear pack. "he made a series of bizarre charges that ukraine intends to create its own nuclear weapons. he built a second case that the u.s. is converting its missile defenses into offensive weapons and plans to put nuclear weapons . ukraine gave up a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons in the 1990's and used the fuel from blended down warheads to drive power plants. today, they do not have the basic infrastructure to produce nuclear fuel, so mr. putin made the dubious claim they could pick that up. officials have said repeatedly they have no plans to place weapons in the country and never have, especially since ukraine is not a member of nato, but that does not stop mr. putin from building a hypothetical case those things could happen someday, theoretically putting moscow at risk."

from david sanger in today's new york times. an independent in illinois, good morning. caller: my first reaction is we need to use the military along with the other european nations and push putin back. tell him, you know, you cannot do this. it is like hitler's. you just try to stop him. i would like to learn more from listening to debates about if we actually did that, what would be some of the different consequences to follow, you know, hypothetically, if we did that? learn a lot more, the pros and cons, if we used our military along with other european nations military to push him back and tell him you cannot do this. host: gerald in greenville, south carolina, democrats, good morning. caller: the thing i don't understand about what these

showmen are talking about is this. america does not have to prove ourselves to anybody because we are the best, strongest, united country in the world. our soldiers they go to war that we lose in more, they -- in war, they are not realizing that. they are talking about we need to do this, go stop them, do everything for every country. we just came out of war. why don't we give our soldiers and country a break? rebuild our own country and rebuild all the homeless people. i mean, it is time to wake up. it really is. host: humboldt, texas next, bob. good morning. caller: president biden has the largest offensive weapon that he's not using and he needs to

use it and we need to understand why he's not using it, and at that weapon is he needs to turn on the oil. he needs to allow drilling again. and he needs to allow pipelines and so forth. once he institutes that and he can do that immediately today, the russian economy -- russia's economy will start to fall, and they will feel it. we don't have any politicians, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, we don't have any of the opposition party to the republicans to stand up and tell us why president biden will not do that. why won't president biden turn on the oil? host: eve, indiana, republican, good morning. caller: the only thing i have to say, this is what you get when you get rid of trump, when you put a weak knee in there like

biden, this is what you get. enjoy weakness. thank you. caller: coming up on 730 -- host: coming up on 7:30 on the east coast. getting your reaction. republicans, (202) 748-8001, democrats (202) 748-8000, independents (202) 748-8002. the announcement, the invasion coming as the u.s. security council was meeting in new york last night to try to find a diplomatic resolution. partway through the meeting, here is the ukrainian ambassador to the u.n. addressing the body last night about the attack. [video clip] >> i was intending to asked the russian ambassador to confirm on the record that the russian troops will not start firing on ukrainians today and go ahead with the offensive. it became useless 48 minutes

ago. because about 40 minutes ago, your president declare war on you -- on ukraine. i would like to now ask the ambassador of the russian federation to say on the record that at this very moment your troops do not shell and bomb ukrainian cities, that your troops do not move in to the territory of ukraine. you have a phone. you can call lavrov right now. we can make a pause to let you go out and call him. if you are not in a position to give an affirmative answer, the russian federation ought to

relinquish the responsibilities of the president of the security council, put these to a legitimate member of the security council, a member that is respectful of the charter, and i asked the members of the security council to convene an emergency meeting immediately and considered all necessary decisions to stop the war, because it is too late, my dear colleagues, to speak about the escalation, too -- about de escalation, too late. the president declared war. should i play video? m lassiter -- ambassador, you can play it right now, conferment.

do not interrupt me, please. anyway, you declared war. it is the responsibility of this body to stop the war. so i call on everyone of you to do everything possible to stop the war. or should i play the video, with your president declaring the war? thank you very much. >> i must say that i think the representative of ukraine for his statement and questions, i will be planning to answer them because i have already said all i know at this point. ringing mr. lavrov at this point is not something i plan to do. this is not called a war. it is called a special military operation in the donbass . host: that from the un security council meeting.

a few more clips from the meeting i want to show. this is the very end of the meeting yesterday, how the exchange between those two ambassadors ended the meeting. here's that segment. [video clip] >> call putin, call lavrov to stop aggression. i welcome the decision by some members of this council to meet as soon as possible to consider the necessary decision that would condemn the aggression that you launched on my people. there is no purgatory for war criminals. they go straight to hell, ambassador. >> i wanted to say in conclusion that we are not being aggressive against the ukrainian people but against the junta that is in power in kyiv. there are no more speakers on the list for this meeting.

it is adjourned. host: those scenes last night from the un security council meeting in new york. getting your reaction to the russian invasion of ukraine, this is joe in toledo, ohio, an independent. good morning. caller: good morning to her are you, sir -- good morning. how are you, sir? host: doing well. go ahead. caller: i'm disappointed in the planning that i see. i'm wondering why the army in the ukraine and their small air force or whatever, why they did not have some military knowledge to let them know what the russians would be doing first, you know, in terms of damaging their airfields, knocking out their communications and things like that? i am just shocked they didn't have any planning in that area, and the second point i would like to make, and i will get

off, is i think it is unfair for americans or anybody else to put this on the shoulders of president biden. president biden is president of the united states, not the world. they have the whole united nations organization. they also have nato. and i think what he is trying to do, of course, he cannot take over and be a bully. he is allowing the organizations that were created for this purpose to work. if they do not work, they all share in it, but no one man from this country can handle that. that is all i wanted to say. i am a retired military person so that's the reason why i made those comments. host: in baltimore, maryland, democrat, good morning. you are next. caller: i am so disappointed in the republican party and trump and mike pompeo, who cheered on

putin, talked about what a genius he is, how smart he is. second of all, this is like the 1930's. like, what do we care what hiller is doing to the jews over there? what do we care if putin puts the citizens of ukraine in camps? what do we care about that? it is like, they are blaming biden for afghanistan? the ukrainian people, they are going to fight for their country, not like the afghanistan people, who just ran when the taliban came. for people who think this has to do with oil, this has nothing to do with oil. just like the lady said, the previous caller, vladimir putin has been preparing this for years. he has billions of dollars. the economy of his country doesn't mean anything. also, the economy of russia has less of gdp than the state of

texas. it has nothing to do with oil. he's not concerned about the economy. he's not concerned about money. what he's concerned about of -- about is rebuilding the soviet union, which totally belonged to russia too. they owned russia. i will leave you with these words that were said in the 1950's, because everybody is scared of the missiles, you know? you want putin to treat the united states like he does russian? better off dead than red. host: stephen in baltimore, maryland. responses this morning from the members of congress, republicans and democrats. if you want to follow it, it is c-span's twitter list of members of congress. this is a sampling. rick scott -- freedom is under attack in ukraine. pray for the innocent lives in danger.

chris coons of delaware -- today, president putin launched an unprovoked all-out war against an independent democratic country that poses no threat to russia. as president biden said tonight, the world mustang -- must and will hold them accountable. a democratic congresswoman from ohio -- who'd's invasion is an unconscionable attack -- putin's invasion is an unconscionable attack on democracy. the free world must swiftly deploy full diplomatic, economic and defensive my for ukraine. a congressman saying that the president of russia is going down a path that can only lead for tragedy for russian -- lead to tragedy for russians and ukrainians. an independent in minnesota, good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to say it is -- first, the whole thing is unfortunate.

it is disheartening to hear all of this right now, especially for american citizens. especially certain parties saying putin is genius.

imagine, if we had tanks on the mexico border, it is disheartening. i hope everybody in ukraine stays safe. that is all, thanks. host: james, democrat in missouri, good morning. caller: i put putin in the same category as hitler's. what he is doing is wrong. the republican party, different members, some are not against what he is doing and it is wrong. history has shown us. that is all i have to say. host: tyson, california. republican. good morning. caller: good morning, good afternoon to listeners around the world. it is a sad day and thank you for c-span. my father was ukraine born, in

believe -- in kyiv. he traveled to poland and the war after his uncles and all of the men were shot by the nazis. and he traveled to canada and married my grandmother and had my father into they moved to the united states, so i am they had my father and moved to the u.s. so i am ukrainian. lip--- if he is listening, can lift his sword and realize this is the wrong decision, whether it be the g7, whether it be -- you know, let's get him back into talks, because he's surrounded by nato countries -- and i hope you keep me on -- surrounded by nato countries.

and it is the former ussr, yes. we can all see the old man, you know -- old map, you know, going back to gorbachev and everything else. it is kind of mind-boggling line, at this point, he would do this. there was a great american president named john f. kennedy that said "the only thing you have to fear is fear itself" and i think he is really -- he has kind of cringed into a ball, you know? there was a news reporter -- not sure which network, but said putin was, in his early days, very naive, very, you know, coercive, and then he turned, but i think, if i could ask the president, please, president putin, raise your sword, pull

back your troops, because these people are former ussr, your countrymen and countrywomen. host: was your grandfather alive in 1991, the fall of the soviet union, the birth of an independent ukraine? did you ever talk to him about that? caller: yes. thank you for asking. my mother and father actually brought his sister back from the ukraine and it took, like, five years to get him back -- her back, sorry, and she was eight years old and he was 12 when he left, and when they saw each other, they cried because she said "we are sold," and when she went to the grocery market, she cried because there was so much food, and she was from ukraine. that was back in, yeah, 1991,

like you said. and, you know, what has happened? there no -- there is no reason. he should get back into the g7 and there should be some leeway here. there should be some leeway just, you know, because they are russia, they have not been, you know, like syria, we had some problems. everybody has calmed down. this doesn't make sense. host: that is tyson out of california this morning. the associated press with their wire service, a special section on the russian and ukraine conflict, putting out various reports this morning. here's a couple. world markets falling. world stock markets have plunged. oil prices surged nearly six dollars per barrel after russia launched the military action in ukraine, benchmarks dropping in

several continents, bring crude over $100 a barrel thursday, the ruble sank 7.5 percent, to more than $87 to the u.s. dollar -- more than $.87 to the u.s. dollar, the s&p at an eight month low after the kremlin said rebels in eastern ukraine asked for military assistance. and china's customs agency thursday approved imports of wheat from all regions of russia, which could help reduce the impact of possible western sanctions on russia. the governments announced an agreement on february 8 to import russian wheat and barley after putin became the highest profile foreign guests to attend the beijing winter lipids. the story noting that china's populace market is a growth area for other farm goods suppliers but beijing had barred imports until now from russia's main

wheat growing areas due to concern about possible fungus and other contaminations. some of the associated press reporting this morning. we will keep you updated on the latest. this is mark, hempstead, maryland, a republican. good morning. caller: good morning. i think we are about to get into the biggest mess of our lifetime right now. as to our involvement in ukraine, i have to say, at age 53, for the first time in my life, i don't trust our own government and the information we are getting from them. even in previous years, 20 years ago, whether we had a republican or democrat in the white house, we -- we seem to have a certain level of trust in the administration. the problem right now is, as much as democrats talk about trump being a putin puppet,

notice that putin was not doing any of this when trump was in office. he knows we have a very weak man in the white house right now. the bike administration has been gas lighting -- the fighting administration has been gaslighting us since the day biden took office. we shut up our own oil drilling, we shut down our own pipelines, making us dependent on these countries that do not like us. that is who we are now getting our oil from. we are in a weakened position. for the first time in my lifetime, i don't trust our own military. host: that is mark in hamps tead, maryland. congressman scott perry saying as we pray for the ukrainian people, make no mistake that this is what happens when america's enemy perceive a weak and

james, lincoln, illinois. you are next. caller: the republican party has let the american people down. to hear these people talk and side with putin is very discouraging. i believe that vladimir putin

had a puppet in america, president trump. to let that stand on american soldiers unconscionable. that's all i got to say. host: ray, brock wood, democrat, good morning. caller: i would like to know why we are worried about people in ukraine when we wasn't worried about the people in afghanistan, iraq, libya, or syria. they cut me off, cut me off. host: did not, anything else you want to add? caller: thank you. host: market, pompano beach, independent, good morning. caller: the cadet honor code at west point is simple, the cadet

will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. obviously, he does. his graduation certificate should be revoked. host: did you go to west point, mark? caller: no. i'm a great admirer of those who were fortunate enough to do it. except for vermin like him. host:4 -- host: all right. lamont, mansfield, good morning. caller: good morning. i only have a little thing to say. the problem i have, why do republicans have such this glitch in their matrix when it comes to how to attack, disick plan, or go after any aggressor that looks like them? if it was an african country or an arab country? fox news commentators wouldn't

be sitting there talking about wanting to interview the presidents of those countries getting into ukraine, they would condemn them all and be on the side of ukraine. like the one gentleman said, when they put the bounties out, if it was an african country putting bounties on american soldiers, we know what trump would've did. when it comes to european face that looks like them, it's so confusing to find out what to do against in a great -- aggressor that looks like them. the conversation is weird to me. everything they saying, it's like they don't know what to do. if it was a country of color, trust and believe there wouldn't be no dilemma or anything on how to attack or deal with the problem. host: dale is next. deer park, maryland. caller: mi on? host: yes, sir.

* caller: i am retired military. i think we should listen to the generals and do what they say. my own opinion, i'm retired military, but i think that putin is a terrorist and we should be treating him as one. i would put a price on his head and let the chips fall where they may. take that for what it's worth. thank you. host: melvin, mount pleasant. good morning. caller: good morning. it starts with our own parties. joe manchin, west virginia. one thing i admire about republican, boy, them boys stick together. this guy mentioned that he's not the president. his mouth was shut was -- up when trump was in office but now he has so much to say? this is how these countries are swarming on how to get us. how could we go to try to help

somebody else in these people say well americans, they don't like their own selves. so, that's why all this stuff is coming up in my opinion. my son got kids, his kids kids, we all in the military, see? that's where it starts right there, trader joe manchin. need to get him out and like, for example, we give too much information. you know? they showed the map on how they literally gave putin the right-of-way to attack ukraine. they going to be over here, over there. missiles are here. geewhiz, you have to plan a strategy. host: melvin in south carolina. 10 minutes left in this segment today, we will be talking about the russian invasion of ukraine through all three hours of our program. wanted to note this from "the wall street journal" today,

speaking to a question that a viewer brought up yesterday about promises made to ukraine back in the early 90's in exchange for giving up their nuclear weapons. ukraine one of the few countries in history to voluntarily give up nuclear weapons. yesterday's caller asked what was promised to ukraine back then. from the editorial board of "the wall street journal," they speak to that question this morning talking about the budapest memorandum of 1994 in which great britain, the united states, and russia offered secure rents -- security to ukraine, confirming a half-dozen commitments in the memorandum and the most important, they write, reaffirmation of the obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against territorial integrity or political independence of ukraine and also pledged to refrain from economic coercion

against ukraine and to seek immediate united nations security council action to provide assistance to ukraine in the event of an act of an aggression against the country. ukraine returned all its nuclear weapons to russia by 1996. vladimir putin made the memorandum a dead letter with his first invasion in 2014, but the betrayal of budapest isn't forgotten in kyiv, as they wrote. budapest again shows the folly of trusting parchment promises in a world where autocrats think that might makes right and that more damaging is that they give up arsenals at their own peril. iran is following their same playbook as they connive to build a bomb even as they promise not to do so. that is the "wall street journal" editorial board.

debbie, roz well, good morning. caller: mi on? host: yes, debbie. caller: it's about the water. i'm shocked nobody has mentioned this. they cut off the water to crime era. it's arid now, they have no water there at all. this is the same reason yemen -- president biden: sorry to keep you waiting. good afternoon. the russian military has begun a brutal assault on the people of ukraine without provocation, justification, necessity. this is a premeditated attack. vladimir putin has been planning this for months. as we have been saying all along . he moved more than