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those that are foreign media outlets acting as foreign agents , i get that is some of the reporting coming from ukraine this morning. when it comes to their efforts over there, you can comment on that. including u.s. efforts as well, democrats line. you are next. caller: i know i am up early in the morning but i couldn't sleep. i am for biden 100%. it don't make any sense, why would poland people, you know, when there is a war going on and the man is trying to do everything he can to help ukraine get out of the situation and recovering about poland. i am for everything that joe biden is doing. host: particularly when it comes to ukraine, what do you think he has done well? caller: everything.

everything he is doing -- >> give me a specific example. caller: i don't have to give you a specific example. he is doing the best he can. you put people on the spot, we don't call in for you to ask us questions. host: i am trying to of operate with you are saying when you make comments. get out of you what you are trying to say. the go-ahead and finish your thought. caller: i agree with what the president is doing. would you rather have trump in there right now? host: let's go to ed nin raleigh, north carolina. good, you are next. caller: good morning, pedro. thank you for taking my call. first let me say i don't think putin invaded ukraine for hunter biden's laptop. i still on the air? host: yes you still are on the

air. caller: what i would like to suggest is every night in this country there are hockey league teams that play hockey. in washington, d.c. we have alex the greatest hockey player and the vault and he is chloe's -- making close to $9 million a year. that is the free capital of the united states. we need to start sending these people back to their country and to a message to the citizens of russia that if you are going to support putin, you are not welcome in our country. host: what do you think that accomplishes? caller: i think what it composite -- accomplishes those owners of those national hockey teams every team has five to six

russian players making millions of dollars in this country. they are here because of our free country. they are not going to me -- make $9 million standing on the ice and moscow. host: go ahead. caller: -- host: that is talking about another component. looking at analysis. they had some questions considering the remarks themselves including does the president angrily escalate is it worth confrontation. mr. biden -- so far strong leadership in bringing the nato alliance together and a united front against moscow with the notion that president biden hopes even if the u.s. says it's not true the resolve against

negotiations. further escalate and already merciless war against civilians for it again that is on cnn results. member of the foreign relations committee republican jim risch talked about the presidential world of form possible -- policy. discussions with russia and ukraine going on here are some of the comments from yesterday. i don't think people -- >> i don't think people realize though word would cause the of option they did but anytime you said just that the policy was regime change, it's going to cause a huge problem. this administration has done everything it can to stop escalating. there is not a whole lot more you can do to escalate than to call for a regime change. that is what the white house tried to walk back. tony blinken, secretary of state or.

i will walk it back right now, that is not the policy of the united states of america. please, mr. president, stay on script. >> you said those who are not familiar with foreign possibly, they don't understand how big of a deal it is. can you invite people? can you explain why you think it is so bad and what the ramifications could be? >> i don't need to do that as much as everybody who listened to it. you saw the stories that came up all over the world. that was the announcement of a change in policy. regime change is something that is existential. you just don't do that. the suggestion was made that we were changing policy and going to a regime change. that is not the policy of the united states. that is not in the speech as you know. that was an ad lib. of his at the end of what was a good

speech. and whoever wrote it did a good job and hit the right nets and then to add that at the end, the summer not at the end, it was unfortunate to say the least. host: the axios group put a map out today looking at occupied territory and ukraine. the russian occupied territory when it comes to cities that are surrounded by russian forces mariupol being highlighted. also park events well -- kharkiv as well. and the power plants being attacked. axios providing that map as well this morning. sending out a picture, you can find this on the website at c-span.org. or the opposite well. secretary of state blinken -- talking about ukraine as well. you can find that on the twitter

feed. let's hear from mary in maryland, democrats line. caller: good morning c-span, and was honors. president biden said the media is taking it on as a new thing or something. like both this is so wonderful, but secure yet on and on. he said something that he believes in. i believe in it too. putin shouldn't be in power. but that is going to have to be up to the russian people to take him down. i don't believe any dictator should be in power. but it is up to the people that have to dictate compared they have to take him down. the former president said so many lies on the ivanka, -- all day long it doesn't make any sense. host: do you think it helps or hinders the process when it comes to ukraine? caller: it doesn't help because

of what the media desk or they could have said ok he said that. that's what he means. it is not part of our policy and we know that host: do you think it is a caper presidents to say things like that? caller: i don't think it is the end of the overall because he said it. the media keeps applying it and using it for ratings. i think we should be talking about what clarence thomas's wife is doing right cap here on the republicans that are put, cut over there and support him. anybody who wants of work, so your kids up and go over there and support it. host: you said that, to highlight that, we don't take readings here at the network. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 from republicans. (202) 748-8002 four independents , if you want to comment on

these things over the weekend. you can text us (202) 748-8003. when it comes to issues concerning nuclear programs, particularly russia's highlighted and the wall street journal today. prudence wiring amplified fear of nuclear use saying the talked of a nuclear strike at a conventional conflict. it is to change the role from the battlefield while shifting the burden onto your opponent. cofounder of the marathon initiative focused on great power competition. well, what has conventional forces are doing ukrainians may be the target but the real target politically would be the u.s. and the west. the u.s. on one hand is made it clear that they have no intention -- nuclear capable forces. before the invasion big u.s. had

b-52 strategic bombers to exercise with reddish and european air forces. the nuclear information project, there is already some kind of signaling gulping on in europe. the wall street journal is where you can pick up that story. let's hear from joseph in washington, d.c.. caller: hi, good morning. i have to just, i have to disagree with the previous caller. now is not the time to be selling doubt and mistrust in the media. when journalists are under attack it is a pretty good to -- you are supporting. my other point for people calling and saying biden needs

to be doing more, 56% of people are saying biden is not being tough enough in my question to you is what more do you want him to do? we are doing everything short of voting boots on the ground. if you, listen i have been listening to your coverage of this every morning. basically since the invasion and everyone who has called and is either active military, act -- past military they are we do not need to do that. i agree with the previous caller, we do not need to send our sons and daughters off to war to fight for this idea of democracy. it has to come from the top. enter the other callers it is a tragic misstep for biden to say what he said at the end of his speech. it was a great speech. host: some people would say it

was spoken out of emotion. caller: you know, flub is a flub. when you are an average everyday citizen ok. when the president doesn't there are consequences. i think it will be more propaganda for the russian war machine. host: from our independent line people here from john in north carolina. caller: good morning, sir. how are you? host: i'm good. caller: this problem with ukraine is very involved. everything we have done has been bad. it has not helped anything but the american people need to be aware that the russian military is not there to occupied ukraine. they are using a small force because they must keep themselves of where i've being attacked from other people.

america needs to be very thoughtful of it. hester retells how that works out. we won't be sitting in our comfortable homes. host: as far as what is being done, how far does it go? you think we had a stalemate when it comes to activities and ukraine? caller: i think we need to back out of it and let them work it out. stop using ukraine as a sort of attack russia. russia doesn't go on fox with most of the overall but they don't attack most of the world. if you do that, any country including the united states will have some method of getting you to see things their way. that is what russia is doing. putin is not going to stop. we do not need to be and to a military confrontation with russia. we like to talk about it and

they are more about doing it. i am an american who believes that americans should take care of americans and get along with everybody else but we don't do too good a job of that. we already suffered enough. host: ok. let's hear from ben in pennsylvania. caller: good morning. for the previous caller said about the media, the media is complicit. i wonder, why are our people talking about cease-fires or peace from peace -- previous wars. this one it is just about how many more weapons have we sent? if a weapon gets sent it is going to get used. people are going to get killed. this is not our war. host: do you think peace talks

are achievable at this point? caller: you have to try. is it our war? it is a proxy war. joe biden, you know, he is after president but he is being selfish. we deserve, we deserve better. we deserve a president who is going to do more than just read. we need congress to step in and slow this thing down. it feels really bad to me. we need to start talking about peace. host: ok. doug in south dakota. caller: good morning, pedro. we have a war going on. put has an air force.

he has two thirds as many submarines as we do. he has muscles i don't think we can shoot down. putin will probably start retaliating, killing americans from alaska. it is only 75 miles from of oscar to russia. -- from alaska to russia. he can send a missile 1000 miles away. and he could be using -- host: in light of what happens, for does that leave the united states? caller: bulges keep feeding it. and the ukraine people -- putin as insane. he continued to do the same thing over and over again with

the same results. afghanistan, but was first. then we do the same. now he is getting the same result out of ukraine. host: ok. that is doug. let's go to twitter when it comes to president biden, biden is doing a good job. keep it governing. in has the momentum because they are faithful. he also adds that he must be stopped or that is just one way you can reach out to us and let us know your thoughts. that is c-span wj. facebook is facebook.com/c-span and the lines are (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. and independents (202) 748-8002. you can post on the social media sites and follow on instagram. let's hear from frank in

indiana. caller: good morning. i had to clear my mind. first off, putin using nuclear weapons, first as trips are there. that means has on people right there have nuclear radiation. it would drift. if it drifts across europe, we are involved. he is killing his own people. if he is 30 -- is he suicidal? as people have suggested? i know he is a criminal. he is not a duly elected leader. he is not a president. he is an organized crime family boss. putin does not have any reservations about the execution of zelenskyy who is a duly elected president. he was of a did by the people of

ukraine. if he of the to kill his wife and kids. host: in light of all that what do we do? caller: i think president biden had it right, except he probably put the wrong way. if you couched it the language of putin is not a duly elected president of the country of russia and he's calling -- calling him a criminal. host: that's frank giving his thoughts. as early as today we are expected see the budget request for 2023 from president biden. the requests made to congress when it comes to national security issues, picking up a story reporting the president plans to request $813 billion in

national security spending that would approve $773 billion for the pentagon. it marks an increase of $31 billion or 4% from approved spending in the fiscal year at about $43 billion more than the white house budget office projected last year and also fall short of a request from a group of 40 republican lawmakers led by mike rogers of alabama who sent a letter requesting the president increase military spending by 5% saying threats or national security grown exponentially in the past year. this is from alex in st. louis, missouri. caller: to the boomers with the eyes on the screen, your viewpoint on this is completely wrong. russia has been aligned with china for a very long time and

these sanctions are not hurting the russian government nor is it helping the ukrainian people. in our reality you cut them up from google pay and all these other things to the citizens so they can ride the train or by all these things in their market , all that did was allow china to come in to expand the technological arm of the ccp. while we're trying to spread our values their, whether you support that are not, our viewpoints on this are completely wrong. putin is not dumb. part of the commonest manifesto says what is 100 million people to the march of progress. these people are saying he won't nuke his own people, i highly doubt nukes will ever get launched again. this is the western perspective of things. you're talking to a person who was not born in america.

you're looking at this from a western perspective. he's not going to nuke anyone and a set of fighting this war on the ground, we need to fight this economically. host: let's hear from brent, a line for democrats in maryland. caller: good morning. i want to act on what frank said. i think the tenor of what's going on here is based on putin's pace, not joe biden's. and i think we can all ask a question what do we do or what should joe biden do or what would anyone do. and i think europe is acting and i think biden was right there in poland right beside ukraine and i think that very -- the very symbolic's of our leadership and what we are trying to do, also i think we are making too much of those last nine words because the reality is putin has already

escalated this and already gotten troops, all his arms, he's already killed however many ukrainians and russians who have died as a result of this invasion, so the thought that putin was going to hear these parts of the speech and all of a sudden back down until joe biden said he should remain in power, putin already knows how everyone feels about whether or not he should remain in power. i heard you ask someone else what should we do. i hope that the people running our country are smart and can help us in the rest of the world find a peaceful way to conclude this. host: usa today reporting when it comes to the major city on the map, the 85% destroyed according to some reporting describing that it doesn't even exist anymore. that was one of the points made

by david petraeus talking about that conflict, he described it as ukraine's alamo. >> it's fighting to the last defender and pinning down multiple russian battalions in so doing very heroically but ultimately it looks as if it will have to collapse, it's going to be taken. when it does, that's a moment of some peril for ukraine because now that port can be used by the russians. they're using that just to the west. they'll now have quite a good port out to the black sea and then it will free up a number of battalions that were the ones who had been closing the circle on the city who can then push further north and perhaps enable russia to achieve what it has now said as redefined its

objective to taking control of all of the two provinces and then solidifying on a land corridor from those all the way to crimea. this will be a very tenuous period in the next few days as we see what happens, the russians are able to do as a result of it and then healthy ukrainians can respond because it's a long distance from anywhere they might have forces they could possibly spare. >> this is from the new york times this morning, describing it teetering amid sign -- signs russia is shifting focus. again that's just some of the reporting from the paper when it comes to activity in ukraine. matt in williamsburg, maryland. caller: i just wanted to say the

ukraine issue is great entertainment for people, these armchair warriors but we have treason occurring in our country and three branches of government and we need to start paying attention to what happened to clarence thomas and what happened at the capital. as an c-span care that our country is going to fall apart. let's focus on something that matters here. host: why does ukraine not matter? i think he's gone. let's hear from alex in arizona. caller: how are you. host: i'm well thanks, go ahead. caller: i think biden needs to let's a lenski keep that war to himself. right now biden said 40% and his

rating on approval is just dropping. he just needs a change of things up there. the slip-up was about putin. the real question is he does need to be removed. host: what do you mean by change some things up? caller: you have nato, all these members. it feels at these nato countries are all against boudin, what he's doing is absolutely wrong but it just feels like all these nato members are going to bully up and get together. there's money involved behind this. are we so involved with ukraine? i understand their suffering, but there's all the stories about the laptop of hunter biden , about president biden, -- host: how does