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more refugees fled the country as other ukrainians continued to fight to protect their homes from the russian invaders. as the fighting continues there becomes a greater concern internationally about chemical and biological weapons coming into play, as well as questions over what the u.s. and nato should do if this drags on. of course, all of this affects our domestic situation here in the united states with sanctions, inflation, and rising gas prices affecting us all. with all of this our question to you this morning is for you to tell us what your concerns are about the russia-ukraine conflict. we open regular lines. that means democrats, you can call (202)-748-8000. republicans, your number is (202)-748-8001. independents, you can call (202)-748-8002. keep in mind you can always text us at (202)-748-8003.

and we are always reading on social media on facebook at facebook.com/c-span, on twitter @c-spanwj and you can follow us on instagram @c-spanwj. the battle between ukraine and russia has dragged on into the second week and internationally countries are trying to find some type of way to try to cease the conflict or punish russia for invading their ukrainian neighbors. in the united states, the president is working with sanctions to try to figure out a way to stop russia. we will look at what the u.s. is doing and a story from the washington post. the washington post has the story saying, biden and european allies are moving to strip

russia of one of its favorite trade sites. i will read a couple of paragraphs. they will strip russia trade benefits adding to pressures punishing vladimir putin for invading ukraine. the european union and other seven nations plan to implement similar measures, which would have a more dramatic impact. biden called the actions another crushing blow to russia's economy which has been pummeled by financial sanctions announced in the aftermath of moscow's invasion of its neighbor. the united states and europe have cut off russian banks from global financial channels, blocked access to advanced technologies and blacklisted wealthy executives. the world is coming together,

said president biden. that is the u.s. and allies working together to strip russia . here is president biden on friday talking about the united states and nato response to what is going on in ukraine. [video clip] >> we will make sure ukraine has weapons to defend. we will. we will send money and food and aid to save ukrainian people and we should welcome refugees here with open arms if they need access. we are going to provide more support for ukraine. we will stand together with our allies and send an unmistakable message, we will defend every inch of nato territory with the full might of galvanized nato. we will not fight a war against russia in ukraine.

direct confrontation between nato and russia is world war iii , something we must strive to prevent. host: we want to know what your concerns are about the russia-ukraine conflict. are you concerned about the possibility of chemical and biological weapons? are you worried about the consequences here in the united states with rising inflation and gas prices? are you worried about world war iii starting? let's start with robert calling from baltimore, maryland on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. yes, this would have never happened back in december. the free world is sending military equipment to ukraine. putin would have never invaded

because they would have had weapons on the border. all of this could've been avoided. thank you. have a nice day. host: joe calling from georgia on the republican line. good morning. caller: thank you very much. love c-span. been calling for over 30 years. we are working hard for a guy that believes in georgia. we started a project down here with all the ukrainians. we are lifting up and encouraging all great americans. we are worried about the ukraine war and i think we have to increase our defense spending. the main purpose of government is to protect the citizens. we need to have a strong national defense, but c-span is doing a great job. thank you for all you do. host: let's talk to perry

calling from annapolis, maryland on the independent line. good morning. caller: my concern is, you know, the morality. we are sitting and watching all of this happen and doing nothing. we are at war right now. the war is being fought, the european war, and the united states war is being fought on someone else's territory. that is where it is happening. so, we are at war right now with russia. host: do you think president biden is wrong by saying american soldiers will not be fighting in ukraine? caller: how can you stand by when there is a war going on and

we are providing the people with a few weapons and they are not working. do you understand? the russians are not going to stop. what we are doing is not coming close to happening but we are getting the advantage of fighting russia in somebody else's country in which we took away the right to nuclear power. it is unconscionable what is going on. we all ought to go to church and pray for them. host: we will talk about this later, but what do you think the united states and nato should do? should the united states and nato send troops into ukraine to directly fight russia? caller: i think they certainly have shown they are not willing to do anything by not taking these planes and giving the opportunity for them to fight a little better.

their worry about russia they might go to war with them. they are at war right now. what do you think this is? all these sanctions, he ignored them. none of them are working. and the idea that someday they may work, well, there will be no country left. host: kenny calling from wilson, north carolina on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning, jesse. i think the first thing is the war over here in america, how divided we are. even our leaders -- we are supposed to show unity in time of war. it is a shame.

i remember in the gulf war you are with me or not with me. the democrats cannot seem to use this to force these guys to get on board. not force them but put them on call. this is patriotism. another thing that really gets me is trump divided the country. he thinks putin is a genius and he was ex-president. he knows a lot of information. it really scares me. i don't know if he is in contact with putin. he had all the secret phone calls with putin. i know he said obama was tapping his phone but this is the time they need to be tapping his phone. i do not know what information he can give putin. he is the one that promised putin ukraine, he tried to break up nato, that is what they

should be looking at. you know, i think you need to have a show on nuclear war. i am a military veteran and i worked and know quite a bit about the nuclear system. i am not going to put anything confidential on air but a nuclear war nobody wins. we got weapons to destroy the world over a thousand times and they need to let the people know that, because people are speaking of this like, let's start it. everybody within 15 minutes, they have hypersonic missiles. within 15 minutes we have no time to hide. this is a trying time and it is a time we need to come together as americans, jesse. host: let's go to derek calling from richmond, indiana on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning.

i wanted to say if this were to have occurred decades previously, i think there would have been willingness by people all over the world to confront it. unfortunately, the world we face today has seen decades of conflict, decades of hardship, decades of death and there is too much uncertainty for other states to engage russia in this conflict in ukraine. i am not saying i don't think we need to find some sort of better solution than just sanctions. i just believe there is an unwillingness by many around the world, not just the u.s., to engage russia because what are the costs? not just monetary but human life. again, if this were to have

occurred decades previously, i think the world would have immediately confronted putin in a much harsher manner to prevent him from doing this to ukraine. but given the history we have all experienced, the global history we have experienced with conflict, i think that is creating a lot of hesitancy by countries to really engage putin. host: let's go to nancy calling from st. charles, michigan on the republican line. good morning. caller: thank you and i am not really prepared. but my family -- i am 88 years old and my family came from poland. one of my aunts had to stay and serve the russian people. all she talked about was how

horrible they were compared to the germans. she had to feed them and then they would do horrible things to her. and we have a country that should be for people who are not devices. all they want is for us to think like communist people who are told what to do every day of their life. americans are not stupid people but we are being treated that way. host: nancy, what do you think president biden and nato should be doing right now in ukraine? caller: i have no idea except protecting us.

i would wish everyone to think about donald trump. he is the one that thought about america first and where we live we cannot be the donkey for the world. host: let's go to john calling from bonita springs, florida on the independent line. good morning. caller: yes, good morning. my concerns about the russia-ukraine conflict are we are the media in this country, including any outlet, fox, cbs, all of them. you have propaganda on the russian side, on the ukraine side, and as a veteran of two wars i'm going to tell the american people, don't believe anything you hear right now. you are getting lied to on both sides.

my concern is stay out of it. in 2015 when russia and vladimir putin were screaming at the eu and nato to stop bombing and we ignored them, the expansion of nato into these countries, i question, why do we need nato? after the fall of the soviet union when russia wanted to join with the west why did we expand nato into these baltic countries? nothing really makes sense about this war. you had the orange revolution of 2014 that victoria nuland was involved with and obama. we installed our own government in ukraine in 2014 and proceeded to put bioweapon labs all over and start taking over the

land. this is not the american's war. this is the war for the elites. george soros, davos crew, let them sort it out. at the american veterans and all the young kids go over there and die? thank you. host: some like the previous caller said americans should stay out of it. there is concerns biological and chemical weapons may soon come into play in the russia-ukraine conflict. there is a story in today's washington post that talks about the concerns of the use of biological weapons. i will read a couple of paragraphs. the united states and its allies have intelligence russia may be preparing to use chemical weapons against ukraine. u.s. and european officials said friday, as moscow saw to

invigorate its faltering offensive due to increasingly brutal assaults across multiple ukrainian cities. security officials and diplomats said the intelligence, which they declined to detail, pointed to possible preparations by russia for deploying chemical munitions, and warned the kremlin may seek to carry out a false flag attack that attempts to pin the blame on the ukrainians, or perhaps western governments. the officials, like others quoted in the story, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the matter. the accusations surfaced as russia repeated claims the united states and ukraine were operating secret biological weapons labs in eastern europe, an allegation the biden administration dismissed as total nonsense and outright lies. and use of poison gases and ukraine would violate a decades-old international treaty banning such weapons, and represent a dangerous turn in

russia's military offensive against its neighbor. russia, which possesses vast chemical weapons during the cold war, has outlawed nerve agents in two assassination attempts against political foes of vladimir putin the last three years, including at least once outside its borders, western intelligence concluded. intelligence in the united states and other allies say russia may soon be considering using chemical attacks in ukraine. we want to know what your concerns are about the russia-ukraine conflict. let's go to john calling from pennsylvania on the democrat line. pronounce the name of your town for us? aliquippa? caller: yes, it is an indian name. host: go ahead. caller: my concern is where does

china sit in all of this? russia is a communist country and so is china. we have put all the sanctions on putin but he is a crazy guy. he is sick. not only in mind but physically. what are the ads of him dying -- odds of him dying and starting world war iii? you have the hypersonic missile. we have the power to protect us from the hypersonic missile but we could be gone in minutes. is china in the background? are they supporting russia in a different way? that is my concern. i am sure there is some type of involvement. host: let's go to sean calling from sailors berg, pennsylvania

on the republican line. caller: good morning. how are you? host: just fine. go ahead. caller: i would like to say with this whole russia-ukraine aspect people want to blame putin for the fuel crisis that is going on in the united states. that goes back to our president. when you look at the stopping of all fossil fuels in our country and purchasing it from a foreign country when we had our own fuel supply and now prices are skyhigh. diesel is $6.19 a gallon here and regular fuel is over four dollars. we had plenty of stock and supply and when you look at elites running this country head has gone down. i am a disabled veteran.

i served my country honorably and i look at this country and the way it is being ran that our office and government is not doing what it is supposed to do for the country. what did i bleed for? what did other veterans bleed for in other countries? everybody wants to push the blame to somebody else. the past two years we have had nothing but pandemic after pandemic after pandemic regardless of whether it is covid, something else, and now this. when you look at it, what is the deep state hiding? you had other presidential elites and other people like hillary clinton that have never been prosecuted for the issues they had. everything was washed underneath from the democrat side. i think our government needs to get their head out of their backside and stop looking at their own pockets. host: linda calling from orange, connecticut on the democrat line.

good morning. caller: good morning. tough call to follow. i genuinely respect john's service but everything he said was incorrect and it makes me feel bad. but as for ukraine, i think it is scary and we should be concerned. in our hearts we want to go in and stop the russians and we know militarily we could but every general past and present said that is the wrong thing to do when that is what we want to do. we want to save them. i am concerned it is going to further divide our nation. i really love my fellow americans. i think we should sit back and do all we can and listen to the military experts and don't be afraid of our media. they are not causing a war, putin is causing a war.

it is not deep state, it is not george soros, it is vladimir putin. we need to take a deep breath and look at each other as a nation and do what we can to help and trust the military experts around the world to get us out of this without world war iii. host: earlier this week president biden's intelligence chiefs were asked in congress about the potential of russia using biological or chemical weapons in ukraine. here is the exchange between gop senator susan collins of maine in cia director william burns that happened earlier this week. [video clip] >> i read about the russian defense ministry publicly accusing ukraine of possibly planning a false flag chemical weapon attack.

what do you make of that? does that signal putin intends to launch a chemical or biological weapon attack on the ukraine? >> thanks very much, senator. i think it underscores the concern all of us need to focus on those kind of issues whether it is the potential for use of chemical weapons either as a false flag operation or against ukrainians. this is something, as all of you know, is something of russia's playbook. they have used them against their own citizens. they have at least encouraged the use in syria and elsewhere. it is something we take seriously and it is one of the reasons as director haynes said earlier i am convinced declassification to preempt those false flag efforts and the creation of false narratives have been so important. in all the years i spent as a

career diplomat i saw too many instances in which we lost information wars with the russians. in this case, i think we have had a great deal of affect in disrupting their tactics and calculations and demonstrating to the entire world that this is a premeditated and unprovoked aggression built on a body of lies and false narratives. this is one information war i think putin is losing. host: let's see what our social media followers are saying about their concerns about the russia-ukraine conflict. here is one from facebook that says, that part of the world has been, currently is, and will continue to be way too complex for bumper sticker and hashtag sloganeering and for moral absolution. if you are doing this, then please stop, please. a tweet that says, president

zelensky says when putin finishes with ukraine he will get around to other european states of the former soviet union. believe it. this thought has lost it. the time to stop him is now. another tweet that says, send the volunteers don't draft our kids for ukraine's freedom. another tweet that says, i thought america was a global source for good but under this administration we are hiding from a bully. if biden was any kind of leader, he would have given the ok to send the polish migs to ukraine. a text says, protests being planned by americans march against war. it will dwarf vietnam movement. one final text that says, just keep pushing putin and the worst will happen for america. we are already in a huge mess with problems here. stay out of the ukraine mass. we want to know what your concerns are about the russia-ukraine conflict. let's go back to phone lines and

talk to stephen calling from ohio on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: we can. go ahead. caller: i am a 33-year-old disabled air force vet. after reading the tweet i am in the camp biden should take unmanned combat drones to the ukraine army. turkey and nato allies are already sending lethal tb2's to great effect. ukraine operators of the drones could be brought up to speed on how to operate u.s.-made reaper drones. on another point, i think c-span viewers ought to check out the subreddit to augment the geopolitical discourse in mainstream media, especially concerning ukraine versus russia. host: are you concerned about if

the united states sends united states build weapons to ukraine russia may consider that an act of war? caller: turkey is already producing loitering munitions in ukraine for the use against russia. turkey is a nato ally. if they are doing it, i think the u.s. can do it, too with our own combat drones sent to ukraine. also, these drones are unmanned. if they shoot down the drone, no good guys get killed. we could just keep sending drones to kill them but they can't kill us. i really do think we should send combat drones to ukraine. host: catherine calling from new york on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. i was listening to russia speak

at the u.n. and they said they had info about the labs in with biological weapons and that the u.s. is involved in these labs. of course, i feel like that is a set up for exploding -- for the russians to explode a weapon like that. but they also said this was the world's problem. i don't understand why the world does not agree with russia and say, yes, give us this information. as it is the world's problem the world will go and find the lab. but russia has to withdraw and stop pushing ukraine into the corner because if there is some kind of lab, whether ukraine did it or russia pushed them into doing it, the world should say, we hold you responsible, russia. and if russia does not want to

share its info and allow the world to take care of the problem, i think we have the answer that there will be some sort of release of a dirty bomb and we need to step it up. i don't think at this point doing anything with sanctions is really penetrating to putin. host: lanko calling from cincinnati, ohio on the independent line. good morning. are you there? let's go to jerry calling from overton, nebraska on the republican line. good morning. caller: i just wanted to remind people before the 2012 election obama sat with the russian foreign minister. he did not know he was on a hot mic and said, tell vladimir i

will have more flexibility after the election. it was 2014 that russia went into ukraine and when they did that obama sent blanket mres. i hate these people saying trump tried to destroy nato. that is a lie. he wanted nato to pay their own way. the germans are starting to do that. they are just lying when they say trump wanted to destroy nato. thank you. host: mike calling from new york on the democrat line. good morning. caller: this is mike from new york. host: go ahead. caller: hello?

yeah, i am sick and tired of hearing people talk about trump the wrong way. i am an ex navy seal. once a.c.l. always a.c.l.. i work for -- once a seal always a seal. i work for the government now. the ukrainian people are dying quicker than we know about. they are outnumbered, out armed, it is sick. it is like giving someone a stick to fight a war against a 50 caliber machine gun. it is terrible. we don't have to put feet on the ground. we got drones, we got submarines all around russia, we can just ballistic eight the hell out of them with clean bombs, not dirty bombs. subs hold over 150 of them.

we can shoot them all day long and hit all of their tanks from above. we don't need to go feet on the ground. we don't need to put american lives at stake. trump was right about this all the way. they say he kept putin in his pocket. no. putin is another hitler in disguise. he is not going to stop just with ukraine. he is going to go for poland. who knows? france might be after them. he is not going to stop with just ukrainians. host: john calling from dalton, pennsylvania on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning, sir. first off i would like to say thank you to all of our veterans that have served. i appreciate what they have done.

we do need to get together and we need to thank them and i am afraid of starting world war iii. i agree we should not put any soldiers in ukraine and we cannot go bombing them like the people are saying. but i do agree with may be giving them drones to help. i also agree with we got wells here in north dakota that we need to uncap and bring down the gas prices and even help with transportation. make things cheaper for the tractor-trailers so groceries are cheaper and everything else. it would help a little bit in our economy as well. host: let's go to ashley calling from greenwich, ohio on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning.

we don't have to worry about all of this. i'm telling you, russia is not there to hurt anybody that should not be hurt. there is people inside ukraine right now, big-time people, and they are harming children. that is what this is all about. they are there to help the children being harmed. that's it. they are not harming any innocent people in ukraine. they are taking out the deep state. that is what they are doing. they are there to get the children out to protect them. this is all a lie. host: the daily mail had a story in its newspaper yesterday i wanted to bring to you where the russian forces are being accused of kidnapping the mayor of one

of ukraine's major cities. i will bring that story to you. shocking video footage reports to show a mayor being kidnapped by russian troops after he refused to cooperate with the enemy. ukrainian officials and president zelensky claimed on friday russian soldiers kidnapped ivan fedorov from the crisis center. cctv footage posted on telegram by the deputy head of ukraine's presidential office, appears to show a group of men escorting him out of the building and across a square. ukraine's parliament claimed he was kidnapped by 10 armed men who placed a plastic bag over his head. russia has not commented on the fate of mr. fedorov. the clip which has been shown widely was believed to have been filmed in victory square in

southeastern ukraine. this comes from the daily mail with the mayor of a major ukraine city "being abducted" by russian troops and led away with a bag over his head. now, the united states ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas greenville, came out yesterday and talked about what russia said during the security council meeting. here is what the american ambassador to the u.n. had to say. [video clip] >> last month, secretary blinken laid out with tragic accuracy what russia was about to do. he specifically warned russia would manufacture a pretext for attack and even cautioned that russia would fabricate allegations about chemical or biological weapons to justify its own violent attacks against the ukrainian people. today, the world is watching

russia do exactly what we warned it would. russia is attempting to use the security council to legitimize disinformation and deceive people to justify president putin's war of choice against the ukrainian people. and china too has been spreading disinformation in support of russia's claims. i will say this once, ukraine does not have a biological weapons program. there are no ukrainian biological weapons laboratories supported by the united states. not near russia's border or anywhere. here are the facts. ukraine owns and operates its own public health laboratory infrastructure. these facilities make it possible to detect and diagnose diseases like covid-19, which benefit us all. the united states has assisted

ukraine to do this safely and securely. this is work that has been done proudly, clearly, and out in the open. this work has everything to do with protecting the health of people. it has absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing to do with biological weapons. in fact, it is russia that has long maintained a biological weapon program in violation of international law. it is russia that has a well documented history of using chemical weapons. it is russia who is the aggressor here. host: let's see what some of our social media followers are saying about their concerns about the russia-ukraine conflict. here is one text that says, the nuclear power plants are a threat to the world. putin's own people need to stop him from within. a tweet that says, the average

russian has no idea what is happening. stores and restaurants are shuttered. it must be almost as terrifying for them too. putin is destroying two countries with his war. another tweet that says, will cause great famine, may maybe worldwide, because ukraine is a breadbasket. one final tweet that says, what are biden implicit waiting for? more kids to be killed? more nuclear power plants to be attacked? i am a furious democrat. sanctions only hurt the russian people, not putin. we must attack putin in ukraine now. hit his tanks and his artillery today. before we get back to our phone calls i want to bring up a couple of programming notes. on monday live at 10:00 a.m. the united nations security council will receive a briefing from poland's foreign minister and

discussions will likely be focused on russia's invasion of ukraine. you can watch that live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or watch full coverage on c-span now, our free radio app. also coming up, cyber attacks by russia in the ukraine invasions will be discussed with senate intelligence chair mark warner and others at an event hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. you can watch that live monday morning at 11:00 eastern on c-span2, online at c-span.org, or you can watch full coverage on our free video app, c-span now. we want to know what your concerns are about the russia-ukraine conflict. let's start with sherry calling from dublin, ohio on the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. what i want people to understand

-- the ones who say we need to stay out of this -- go back to world war ii with hitler and the nazis. everyone kept saying, nothing is going on, they are not killing jews, they are not doing this, that and the next thing. people did not believe it. hitler had his camps. they had them looking good when people went in there visiting. it did not look let things were bad but look at history. there is a reason it is called history. we are supposed to learn from it. all we keep doing is turning around and repeating history and that is exactly what is happening right now with putin and russia. they have no business being in the ukraine. it is all part of it. if the world does not help ukraine out, it will be another

world war iii but it will be another repeat of world war ii and hitler and the nazis. host: raymond calling from arizona on the republican line. good morning. caller: she is right. host: good morning. caller: hi. host: go ahead. caller: she is right. if we ignore this, it is going to get worse. russia has always been our enemy . china is just as bad. people want to dismiss it and everyone is wrong. trump never did anything. all the sanctions were in congress. it was voted on, it was not him. every president has messed up with putin input and's career -- and putin's career.

the only one that didn't was donald trump. he was an unwitting russian agent. host: let's go to joann calling from new hampshire on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. i like with the previous two callers said. my opinion is it is easy for us to sit in our warm homes behind a computer and play a fun game of risk. but, as you know, when you are playing with someone who does not like to lose they can explode. that is kind of what i feel that we really have to look at putin. you might cut me off but i think we have to do a rasputin solution which is what happened with the czar in world war i

when they had a crazy man that was going to take their country down. they had to find a way to do something with him. now he uses people as protection. nobody mentioned north korea. they are also a very strong nuclear threat to us. we have threats on our west coast that a lot of people are thinking about. we are thinking about going over into europe and i feel bad for the ukrainians. i hope we can help them but what happens if we go over there and they start talking like, hey, we could hit the west coast really easy. i just think putin is not mentally stable. kim jong-un sure likes to show off his muscles. i think we have to watch what we say because they can tap into our media and use our words

against us. host: james calling from hot springs national park, arkansas on the democrat line. good morning. caller: how are you doing? good morning. host: i'm fine. go ahead. caller: i just want to say this, all of this crap, the problem we have got going on is all these republicans calling in -- biden is doing nothing but try to help this country. that is all biden is trying to do. and all these republicans -- i mean, i am appalled at these republicans. they are calling in claiming this crap with biden. trump was over in helsinki telling the world the united states was wrong.

what is wrong with these republican people? host: let's go to byron calling from tampa, florida on the democrat line. good morning. caller: hi. as a high school history teacher here in florida i would like to tell you a historical fact. putin is trying to enter the history books, the russian history books. every leader of russia going back to ivan the terrible was a murderous dictator. that includes the czars, stalin. only gorbachev was the one that was not a murderous dictator. when putin is a leader of russia the example he follows is that of a murderous dictator. he is willing to kill his own people. the soviets killed 5 million to 6 million ukrainians in a fabricated starvation during the soviet union's period.

that shows you how crazy the dictators have been of this country. also, i would like to say every time -- if you look at napoleon, hitler, putin, and you look at kim jong-un they have one thing in common, they are all really short and they're trying to compensate for something. thank you very much. host: let's go to george calling from ellicott city, maryland on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. after the soviet union disintegrated the west, notably the u.s., and nato and the eu, told ukraine to demolish their nuclear weapons which they did in exchange for protection. hello? host: you are still on.

go ahead. caller: in exchange for protection so they gave up their nuclear weapons. nuclear weapons is a deterrent. at this point they are entitled to protection by any means necessary. they need to be defended by any means necessary. and also, with the sanctions, these sanctions should include china. if china provide any aid to russia, china should be sanctioned. if you look at world war ii, after world war ii those people sacrificed everything for this generation. gas prices going up so the whole world need to tighten up their belt and be prepared for economic depression.

host: speaking of sanctions, president joe biden came out on friday to announce new sanctions against russia and explain what he thinks those sanctions will do. here is what president joe biden had to say. [video clip] >> most favored nation status means they trade under the best possible terms. few barriers of trade and the highest possible imports allowed. in the united states we call this permanent normal trade relations, pntr. revoking pntr for russia will make it harder for them to do business with the united states and doing it in unison with other nations who make up half the global economy will be another crushing blow to the russian economy who is already suffering bradley. -- badly. i want to thank leader pelosi,

leader mcconnell, and others for their bipartisan leadership on this in congress. i would like to offer special thanks to speaker pelosi who has been a strong advocate for revoking pntr and agreed to hold off on that in the house until i could line of all key allies to keep us incomplete unison. unity among our allies is critically important as you all know, from my perspective at least. standing for democracy in ukraine, pushing russia's aggression, should not be one of those issues. the free world is coming together to confront putin. our two parties at home are leading the way. with that bipartisan cooperation i am looking forward to signing into law the bill revoking pntr, most favored nation status. we are taking a further step of banning imports of goods from several sectors of the russian

economy, including seafood, vodka and diamonds. we will continue to squeeze putin. the g-7 will deny russia the ability to borrow from leading institutions such as the international monetary fund and the world bank. putin is an aggressor. he is the aggressor and putin must pay the price. host: let's see what our social media followers are saying about their concerns in the russia-ukraine conflict. here is one tweet that says, sanctions hurt the russian people. sanctions do not affect putin. his wealth is protected. he is a wealthy man that hides his assets out of russia. putin does not care about russia and will do whatever he wants. body needs to intervene today or europe could be lost. another tweet that says, it is a conflict. people are dying. there is going to be a massive refugee crisis. putin wants to erase ukraine off the map as a sovereign country. those are my concerns.

another tweet that says, if and when putin begins to use chemical or biological weapons against the ukrainian populace, it means he is becoming desperate and running out of conventional munitions. another tweet that says, putin was evil enough to invade ukraine so him using biological -chemical weapons as possible. one less post on facebook says, the chief concern has to be humanitarian concerns. russia's war on ukraine will continue to displace, mame, and kill ukrainians caught needlessly in this conflict and countries around the world need to be ready to address the human cost of this conflict. the sympathies with the kremlin's justifications for its invasion of ukraine and its war crimes expressed by apologists in the united states is also concerning. we want to know what your concerns are. dan is calling from poughkeepsie, new york on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning.

i love everybody's input by the way. i remember growing up with how things were worth russia and we would do military exercises with our allies. i just member the russians being able to observe us while major nichols went into eastern russia to take pictures that he was shot dead. the russians could shoot down a civilian airline over korea, do with they want. i think this is very sad but i think it is a good thing for people of this generation to learn of how it really is. we kind of need a bit of a -- i did not like reagan but i like the way him and the pope dealt with russia. as for donald trump, i think he graduated from century 21 real

estate and that is what we got. thank you very much. host: jimmy: from westbrook, maine -- calling from westbrook, maine on the democrat line. caller: the last thing about donald trump, he tried to bring nato together and pay their fair share. everybody laughed at him. i remember him talking to the germans about the oil pipeline and he said, why are you buying oil from them? you are going to end up being bought and sold by them and they're going to control you. this is what happened. you might call him a century 21 real estate guy but he sort of had this country's back. i did not vote for joe biden. i want them to be successful but he scares me as our leader. he reads good. he just talked about the trade deficit. between us and china it is the largest deficit we have had this year. this is not fixing anything.

i bought a little truck that will cost me $1600 more a month. he will put me out of business. it is not just in russia this hardship. they need to put warp speed on getting oil out of the ground, clean oil in america, and go green then. do not put the cart in front of the horse. this is not hard to figure out. i am a simple milkman. i don't need these hardware people telling. . me what i got to do let's fix america. i love america. democrats, republicans, all of us, let's fix it. thank you. host: art calling from austin, texas on the democrat line. caller: good morning. do you know what is so sad? we have never allowed russian dignitaries, russian secretary of state, to talk with the

president. president trump was a traitor. everybody saying he did good, he did not did good. he did for himself to make money out of russia. he shook hands with putin, kissed him on the cheek. we have never been accustomed to doing something like that with the russians and now you trump followers saying, he was doing good with russia. no, he made it easy for putin to do what he is doing now. host: let's talk to richard calling from little rock, arkansas on the republican line. good morning. caller: thanks a lot. one note from an earlier color. in 1987, ukraine did turn over nuclear weapons and we were going to protect them.

since president obama took office the russians took what they wanted from ukraine. my question today is, it was not but a couple of years ago ukraine -- joe biden was getting a prosecutor kicked out. russia's military is so outdated they are having trouble coming across ukraine. why this exact thing happened right now i think it is a test of the waters. once putin cut the gas and oil deal couple of years ago i think they are trying to see how much everybody can stand up. you need to look at to ukraine and what has been going on the past 20 years before you suddenly think they are just the blameless country. i don't want anyone getting hurt or killed.

comments about hitler and all that, we are nowhere near that. i appreciate you letting me call. host: we would like to thank all of our callers who called in for the first segment. coming up next, rand corporation senior policy researcher daniel gerstein will be here to discuss chemical and biological threats and russia's invasion of ukraine. coming up later in our spotlight on podcasts segment, we talk about public opinion of the conflict in ukraine with galen druke, host and producer of fivethirtyeight's fivethirtyeight's politics podcast. stick with us. we will be right back. >> this week on c-span networks, both chambers of congress are in session. the houseboats to revoke russia's normal trade relations in response to its ongoing invasion of ukraine. it will also take up the $15.6

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