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http://twitter.com/cspanwj. this is from the new york times. ukrainians have reinforced kyiv. after a day in which the military blew up a bridge and slowly advanced. the nation's leaders warned residents that russia wanted to bring the capital to its knees. the state department spokesman was asked by a reporter about talks between russia and ukraine. >> a secretary spoke, what is your thinking about the efficacy

of such talks? >> you have heard to say before leading up to the events happening in ukraine. moscow engaged in a pretense of diplomacy. that was before the invasion started. now we see russia suggesting moscow take place at the barrel of a gun. this is not real diplomacy. those are not the conditions of real diplomacy. we and our allies have called for a real, diplomatic solution from day one. president zelensky has repeatedly reached out to president putin with his outstretched hand was met not only by violence, but bombs.

he should immediately stop the bombing of civilians, ordered the withdrawal of his forces from ukraine and indicate very clearly to the world that moscow is prepared to de-escalate. we have not seen any indication that president putin is prepared to de-escalate. host: that was ned price at the state department. let us go to calls now. this is from the democrat line. caller: president putin is killing innocent people. he is a warm -- war criminal. a lot of innocent people are

going to die, we are talking about civilians. mothers, kids and he needs to be stopped at once. some other countries need to help ukraine. he is a madman. host: thank you for calling. next call is in illinois. caller: my name is freddie. can you hear me? joe biden needs to step putin in his tracks. i am a vietnam vet and we do not like it. host: what do you suggest?

caller: i think he should since him troops and their navy seals and wipeout president putin like they did the other person. host: you wouldn't mind seeing u.s. troops on the ground? caller: they need to get read -- rid of president putin. host: next on the democrats line. caller: i am calling in regards to my feelings about the president. i think he could be doing more. everything in general, i can't understand why he is not at the white house. this is so serious, people are

dying. he decides to go away. i am so distraught. i can't explain myself at this time. i really hope that things turn around. the thought of so many people being killed. i wish the president would do more. host: glenn is: guess from illinois. caller: good morning. president biden is doing everything he can do without getting us involved. what really perturbed to me as of these republicans that go to this conference they have and

they talk about russia and have the crowd fired up. they should be kicked out of the usa. goodbye. host: the wall street journal, ukrainian troops battle to save kyiv. russian forces close in on kyiv attacking by land and air while civilians defend the capital. ukrainian troops blew up several bridges leading into kyiv from the northwest to slow the progress. bill is calling us from new mexico. caller: since they seized the assets from putin we can use

those assets for humanitarian aid in ukraine. based on the second amendment, we have a registration for the draft of the militia based on the registration of the weapons for ak-47s. we have the right to use the regulated militia to go to war, since they are training in the woods for war. now it is time to go to war militia. host: we are going to continue to take your calls. but first, we are going to take

a quick pause and talk about the other story from washington which is the supreme court nomination of can todd g -- ketanji brown jackson. [video clip] cause you look for someone like justin briar, someone who understands that the constitution is a resilient charter. it protects certain unalienable rights. one that protects the most fundamental freedoms. one with extraordinary character who will bring to the supreme court and independent mind, and a strong moral compass and the

kurds to stand up for what she thinks is right. for too long, our government and courts have not looked like america. i believe it is time that we have a court that reflects the full talents and greatness of our nation with the nominee of extraordinary qualification. we can aspire all young people about they can serve our nation at its highest level. today, i am pleased to introduce to the american people a candidate who continues in this great tradition. host: joining me now to discuss this is reporter kimberly robinson. your reaction to the choice, were you surprised?

>> she had appeared as the front runners since justice breyer announced he would set down. i was not surprised. host: what do you think about her brought ground that set her apart from other candidates? >> it is the breath of her experience. she went to harvard, underground loss goal -- undergrad law school. she worked in a number of law schools. something that sets her apart and her resume is the fact that she was a public defender working on appeals for indigent

criminal defendants and that is something we have not seen before since thurgood marshall. she worked hard to remove the disparities between crack and cocaine. when you look across all of the justices on the bench, that is unique perspective. host: she clerked for justice breyer, how similar and any differences there? >> she has been on the bench for nearly a decade, mostly as a trial judge which is different from his work on the supreme court. she will have a pragmatic approach. someone who was not bound by

hardline rules. one thing i think is significant is that he has often been on his republican colleagues on criminal colleagues and that will be one area that will be changed. host: are there any significant rulings that matt -- might come up in the hearings? >> one thing that might come up is her highest profile case dealing with white house partner john mcgann who she ruled had to testify against donald trump. she had a line in there about how presidents were not kings. a lot of senators deployed that opinion.

i think we have a good idea from that confirmation hearing what kind of questions she will have and that will be one of them. host: what has been the reaction so far from capitol hill? >> she is widely praised. the first time having four women on the bench will be historic. some republicans, it has been a mixed bag. a lot of republicans have made connections with her who are praising her nomination. she has gotten support from the fraternal order of police. we do see some criticism, not so much of her but republicans were pushing for a different nominee. to keep one thing in the back of

our minds, this will not change the etiological balance of the courts. host: i want to read you a statement from senator mcconnell and get your reaction to it. he said i voted against confirming judge jackson, i understand that she has turned into opinions. one of them was reversed. judge jackson was the favored choice of far left dark money groups. with that said, i look forward to carefully reviewing her nomination during the thorough senate process the american people deserve.

>> yes it is a criticism that she has been on the senate court and has not produced a lot. but that is sometimes how the cases come out. whether or not you think it is helpful, when you look at jackson's overall record, she has a low reversal rate. republicans are trying to muster up the criticisms that they can whether or not that will misdirect her nomination i don't think so. we heard from senator schumer that he is looking at the timeline from amy coney

barrett's nomination which was very quick. that is the timeline they are looking at and they want to get it done before easter break. the democrats know they have a fragile 50-50 with the vice president as a tiebreaker. the senator out of new mexico had a health issue. that reinforce that democrats want to get this done as soon as possible. host: thank you so much for joining us this morning. just a reminder, we will have full coverage of the nomination hearing all the way through the final votes when it gets underway. we are continuing your calls on the russian invasion of ukraine. we will continue those calls to the top of the hour.

republicans (202) 748-8000, democrats (202) 748-8001 and independents (202) 748-8002. caller: good morning c-span. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. i want to say that vladimir putin is behaving like a bully and a tyrant in his invasion of ukraine. he has a larger country attacking the democratic country that has a democratically elected president and now they are attacking them, murdering them and killing their people. i think we should not support

this tyrant in this bully. i am very disappointed in the republican median that is supporting the tyrant and believe that vladimir putin is an everyone knows that the only way to stop a bully, it does not know if it -- it does not matter if it is in the schoolyard or the workplace, the only way to stop a bully is to stand up to him. you are almost always afraid, it can be bloody. you have to fight, it is easy for meetup or kremlin -- it is easy for me to proclaim this. i believe that the people who

supported the attack on the capital were wrong. i think supporting president putin is the biggest mistake they can make. host: how do you think republicans are supporting president putin? caller: are we going to put the soviet union back together? host: you feel that republicans are supporting putin? caller: the comments of donald trump. i believe that donald trump has displayed and shown tyrannical behavior before. kim jong-un and other tyrants.

the bullying behavior of trunk. he always attacks weaker people. he always attacks people when they are down. host: thank you for calling. matthew is from ohio. go ahead. caller: i just wanted to say good morning and i am not going to make any kind of dig. i don't support either side, just the american people. we the people, we as americans, we defend the defenseless. that is what we need to do.

i do agree with what the guy said about him being a bully. until you stand up to them, they will keep going. he is not going to stop. he is not going to just take over ukraine and collett today. -- and call it a day. host: let's take a look at the social media messages coming in. it says the world has let ukraine down. i have never seen such brave people fighting for freedom. how can the world just watch president putin? that is from joan in minnesota. this is from stephen, ukraine needs to keep fighting.

keep sending weapons. nobody wants to live under putin's rules. thoughts and prayers are useful but they need boots on the ground. these sanctions are a joke. let's take a call from virginia. caller: good morning. first off, biden is our president. he is not the person i want in charge when we go to war. we have to be very careful going to war. it is all good until you put

your child over there and they have to fight or something and they move -- they may lose their life. we have to be careful with this situation. host: robert is in florida. caller: everybody can go against that guy. going after him is ridiculous. i would like to get in the ring with that guy. host: what are you suggesting then? caller: everybody get together and go against this guy. he is a coward, he is a punk. everybody knows that.

he is a bully. it is people -- people - evil. i hope they beat him. that is the worst thing you could ever do. biden is going to delaware while this is going on. i was in the war, my father was in the war. this has got to stop. host: let's go next to new york. caller: the ukrainians are

incredibly brave. i thought the man from texas spoke eloquently. i am also distressed to see the republicans in congress, they have not condemned donald trump. thank god he is not the president. he would've turned ukraine over to putin. putin needs to be taken out. the republicans need to say they would not put donald trump in. they have been incredibly cowardly. if they do not speak up now, please vote them out. host: here is the new york times, russian fighters close in on three cities.

this tree fighting has flared in key. video shows a residential building being hit. president zelensky saying that he is here. we are not putting down arms. caller: good morning, i want to say a few things. president zelensky is an ukraine right now. he is not running, he is fighting for his country. and what is joe biden doing? he is in delaware. we are helping biden -- putin.

we can open up our pipeline. if donald trump was in office this would not have happened. you democrats need to wake up. host: thomas is calling us from ohio. caller: thank you for taking my call. the caller's need to understand who joe biden is. hunter took 3.5 million dollars from the mayor of moscow.

i warned people in 2020 if you vote for joe biden he will help china fulfill their mission statement. host: we are going to stay on the russian invasion of ukraine. let's go to don on the democrats line. caller: thank you for taking my call. nobody has talked about the nuclear arsenal or the atomic weapons that russia has an putin could use those weapons at any time. can you imagine what the radiation fallout would be? nobody talks about that possibility. host: we are going to talk about it. we have a guest coming on at 8:00 to talk about that.

anything else he wanted to say? caller: we have to look at what russia could possibly do and if we do not stop them now, we may open up a whole can of worms that nobody wants to see happen. host: take a look at the associated press about america's role in the russia and ukraine situation. most americans are paying attention between the tension between russia and ukraine. they believe that it should be a minor role rather than a major role. only four out of 10 approve of how biden is taking it. let's go back to the calls now. jerry on the republican line. caller: i adopted two kids out

of russia in 1995. my wife spent three months there getting the children out and she nearly started world war iii. host: how did she nearly start a war? caller: the red tape that was involved. host: so what do you think of the russian invasion? caller: i have not slept in three days because i feel so sorry for these people. we met so many kind, wonderful folks over there and we got to know them going through the process. we watched ukrainians line up on trucks to get milk and get a

loaf of bread. my children now, one graduated from auburn with a degree in engineering and mathematics. the oldest one is getting his phd at the university of georgia. host: thank you for calling. let's go to georgia on the republican line. caller: i wanted to say that none of this had to happen. if you look at the perspective of president putin and government. there are spaces -- speeches out

there and a documentary called ukraine on fire. nikita khrushchev gave crimea to the russians. when they took crimea back, it was already a russian territory. it does not really involve america. why does the united states have to be involved in that? host: you don't think that if putin takes ukraine he can continue on to other countries and they can spill over? caller: it will only spill over

because nato keeps encroaching. we would not want nuclear weapons pointed at us. they don't want missiles pointed at them. they have a right to defend themselves. rather than listening to fake news saying that president putin is crazy. they are trying to get people involved in a war that doesn't involve the american people. take a look at a map here from the west -- washington post. this is the russian the salt coming into belarus. here is russia and crimea.

just to give you some perspective. let's go to doug from south dakota. caller: good morning. president putin is a big boy. he is trying to accomplish what he has had an this mind a long time ago. we need to send along the weapons that can knock him out of the air. if we don't do it soon there will no longer be a president of the ukraine much longer. any free world country should be hitting them as long as they can. we need to --

host: you mentioned cyber attacks, there has been talk that we have been attacked by cyber attacks? caller: the whole world should be doing it to them and make it so bad for russia that they go against putin. everyone have a good day. host: robert in connecticut. caller: what i am still trying to get my arms around is why this is happening. the gentleman earlier explained the possibility of nato, ukraine joining nato.

if i was a russian, of getting surrounded. i saw perspective from a polish farmer and he was asked what do you think about the russian invasion of ukraine? and he said i don't care, the ukrainians are worse than the russians. we just need to stay out of it. host: we will go now to mark on the republican line. caller: elections have consequences. we in america are dealing with the ramifications of the 2020 election. we have never seen anything like

this. he has done nothing but damage our country and it is bleeding into ukraine. there is no way putin would invaded ukraine with trump in office. for every body who voted for joe biden, this is on you. i know you don't want to hear it. this is on you. ukraine, all of the economic problems we are having. if you voted for joe biden, look at yourself in the mirror. we have three more years of this disaster. host: this is from axios the u.s. joins the eu in u.k. to impose sanctions.

putin, sergey lavrov are sanctioned. this is a defective severing of relations between the u.s. and russia. host: -- caller: putin looks like satan right now and satan never wins. the world is sanctioning russia right now. they will go after putin and they need to add this was. and for the republican support

ing, you are called traders. i can't stand to see another war. we don't need to go over there and put boots on the ground. you need to look at the real news. the russians are protesting. to protest like they are now, putin will have to answer to his own people. republicans right now are rooting for putin. host: jimmy from new york. caller: when hillary did the reset, she built a silicone valley for russia.

they also sold high-powered weapons down in mexico. khrushchev was not a president, he was the dictator of the soviet union and participated in the murder of millions of people. he starved people in ukraine. just like antifa and the democrats call people fashions. -- fascists. putin is a nationalist.

there are a lot of people in russia who do not approve of it. we have to hope there are people like that all over the place. and for republicans saying they have never seen people join together like this. they need to go to a trump rally. the american people, the ukrainian people have to unite. they need to stop this war. and anyone who think president putin is a victim? putin is helping build nuclear weapons for iran. people have to wake up, whether you are a liberal, conservative, democrat.

america is like a ship. our ship is vulnerable. if we do not have the people in ukraine, it will spread. hopefully, the ukrainian people in the russian people can solve their long history of animosity, various countries can work together. host: by the way, former secretary of state mike pompeo reference the russian invasion. [video clip] collects the russian tanks moving across ukraine. i was a no border unit and that was the last time we had american troops standing

face-to-face with russia. how did we prevail? for four years in the trump administration we put america first and we told people around the world, you cannot shred on us. -- tread on us. host: donald trump will be on cpac tonight. as this is day three of cpac, ohio congressman will be on at 3:15 eastern and former president donald trump. caller: good morning. i wanted to say that it is not a

republican or democrat thing. what it comes down to is the base of human beings in general and being so focused on their party or their race or whatever it is -- the simple thing is, with this war it makes no sense. there is no reason why the ukrainians need to fight back because what putin is looking to do is he is looking to reunite the soviet union. he is not looking to take over the world. he is not looking to do anything

that what we do here in the united states. host: you are saying there is no reason for the ukrainians to fight back? caller: yes. host: you suggest that they let putin take over their country? caller: it would be much better for them to let putin take over their country and become part of russia or part of the old ussr. and let's focus more on the continent of america. everybody is talking about the people trying to come in and

people trying to breach our borders. we are not working with south america, mexico. host: take a look at this. you say that ukrainians should not put up a fight but they are putting up a fight. ukrainian forces desperately put up a fight on friday. they fought u.s. missiles as russian missiles rain down on population centers including key as moscow's vastly superior troops ran down. as moscow's vastly superior air, novel and ground forces dug deeper into the country.

new video from president zelensky in front of the presidential residence's saying that there is new saying that we should put down arms, here's how it is i am not saying to put down any arms. was going to republican line. caller: i am of ukrainian descent. it is hard for me to see what is going on. it was down to who has nuclear weapons and who does not. budapest gave up all of their

weapons for sovereign borders and russia did not. everyone stayed quiet. my father fought in world war ii and president putin had a fight on his hands. there will be bloodshed everywhere. the feeling of the ukrainians is that it is better to fight standing up the live on your knees. host: that was walter from florida. jen psaki was asked about new sanctions on president putin and other sages being considered. [video clip] what change from yesterday to today? >> it is been on the table for some time and as i just

conveyed, the president's strong view from the beginning of the conflict has been to take actions and step in alignment with our partners. >> what does sanctioning putin to during this. ? >> i know you are not asking me about financial aspect. this step that we are doing in alignment and in coordination with europeans to send a clear message of the strength to putin of his actions. >> the italian said they would

not veto a removal from the sanctions, would you believe that would be another productive tool or an important measure? >> again, the presidents principal is taking steps in alignment. we are stronger together as we stand in the face of the russians military action. there will be ongoing discussions about that and this is a messaging service that connects 11,000 banks and there are ways that the russian leadership could get around that over the course of time but it

remains an option on the table. host: that is jen psaki at the white house. the washington post has said the computer chip industry began halting deliveries to russia among sanctions. tsmc is suspending sales to russia. let's take a call from california. caller: you are a wonderful addition to the washington journal. i have a visceral hatred for both political parties. pool ocn mcconnell should have retired years ago. -- i can only think that putin

is a criminal that runs a gas station and not a nation. he has killed other people on foreign soil, like england. let's not who we are dealing with. i have a profound respect for the protesting russians and the ukrainian people, they have earned my respect. i wish to remind all of the colors -- callers. blaming joe biden for the behavior of putin is like blaming fdr for the behavior of hitler's.

. putin has set himself up for the world to take retribution upon him. what we need to focus on right now is getting as much assistance to the ukrainian people. as the ukrainian president said, i do not need a ride, i need bullets. that is a call that he needs money and support. what happens in ukraine will influence what china doesn't taiwan. host: don from indiana. caller: these people that keep calling in with revisionist history.

you have trunk calling him a genius. mike pompeo saying the same thing. it is just ridiculous. for president putin to do what he is doing, this is the reason. it is not biden's fault. the reason why he wants to do something is that his fellow russians want their freedoms. they want to do that. the ukrainian people are having a good time. they have democracy they can go where they want.

which is great. now the russian people want the same thing. now what does putin do? he is going in there. it is just make-believe. he wanted to do this to keep his people in line. now these other people are calling in. there are all kind of people to support putin. they have already said it. if you read the comments section, it is either a troll farm. you have four or five people that don't know what they are talking about. host: here is the headline from politico.

the first time the treaty response has been used for collective security. let's go to steve in florida. caller: good morning. a lot of people are calling in and not seem to be privy that this is a dangerous situation that is going on. we need to give the ukrainian people with what they need. if you hurt all of his money sources, the tanks and airplanes. they could have wargames off the coast of alaska and tried to

defend themselves because this is just ridiculous. if you think joe biden has anything to do with this then you are totally controlled by donald's colt. host: that was steve from florida. tim is our last caller. caller: good morning. i have heard some strange things about people's response to what is going on in ukraine. one person called about hunter biden from ukraine. i remember when donald trump junior said we get all of our money from russia. some people are trying to blame joe biden for what is happening in ukraine. let me were vines and people --

remind some people. donald trump had oligarchs in his office and had private meetings with them. donald trump had private meetings with president putin a number of times when nobody was around from his administration and he did not even have an interpreter. what was going on at these private meetings? my guess is what now in ukraine. and, one last thing. this was going on in ukraine and it will go on throughout the biden administration and will probably be talked about in 2024 when you run for the next president, thank you for taking my call. host: that is it for the calls for this segment on "washington journal."

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