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a premeditated and unprovoked attack that unfolded across multiple fronts, from land, air, and sea. with his country under siege, ukrainian president zelenskyy today declared that a new iron curtain has closed russia off from the civilized world. joe biden this afternoon vowed that russia will bear the consequences of their war, announcing a second wave of what he called profound new sanctions. he categorically rejected putin's absurd justification for a clear violation of international law and a flagrant land grab. >> this was never about a genuine security concern on their part. it was always about naked aggression, about putin's desire for empire by any means necessary. by bullying russia's neighbors through corruption and coercion. by changing boarders by force, and ultimately by choosing a war

without a cause. putin's actions betray a sinister vision for a future of our world, one where nations take what they want by force. but it is a vision that the united states and freedom loving nations everywhere will oppose with every tool in our considerable power. >> the new u.s. sanction also prohibit financial transactions with more russian banks, restrict technology exports to russia, and target wealthy russian oligarchs. this comes as other western countries level their own. additionally, the united states expelled russia's second highest ranking diplomat. vladamir putin announced the attack just before dawn in a prerecorded speech which he tried to rewrite history to suit his deranged ambitions, thumbing his nose at the international community. he declared war at the moment the u.n. security council was holding an emergency meeting intended to ward off further

conflict. most chilling, however, putin reminded the world that russia is a nuclear power, threatening that if any country tries to intervene, they'll face "consequences that you have never experienced in your history." the russian offensive began during putin's speech, starting with missile strikes in and around major ukrainian cities. one of which reportedly sounded their air sirens for the first time since world war ii. the pentagon estimated that by the evening, russia had launched more than 160 missiles. russian troops attacked ukrainian border units and military installations with artillery, while the air force struck at airports and other targets, seeking to neutralize ukraine's resistance. panicked ukrainians encountered stand still traffic as they tried to flee, as well as long lines at gas stations and grocery storms. an apartment building in

residential neighborhoods sustained russian shelling. president zelenskyy called on all citizens to take up arms, saying the government would issue weapons to anyone who wanted them. by noon, ukraine time, the country's foreign minister was reporting a full-scale attack from multiple directions. and by 1:00 p.m., russian forces had reportedly broken through a defensive perimeter around the capital of kyiv. russian forces captured chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear meltdown, which remains radioactive to this day. the firefight there raised a dangerous prospect that radioactive fallout could be unleashed across the continent. according to the associated press, russian shelling hit a radioactive waste repository, and increase in radiation levels was reported. president zelenskyy says that 137 ukrainian soldiers were killed and 316 injured today.

all of this raises ominous questions about putin's end game, and what he might do, what he might try to do next. it was something joe biden addressed today. >> he has much larger ambitions than ukraine. he wants to, in fact, reestablish the former soviet union. that's what this is about. >> how concerned are you that putin wants to go beyond ukraine and other countries and the u.s. will have to get involved if he moves into nato countries? >> if he did move into nato countries, we will be involved. but if we don't move against him now, with these significant sanctions, he will be emboldened. >> joining me now live from kyiv is nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin, former cia director john brennan, and ann applebaum, staff writer at the atlantic. give us a sense of how it feels

in kyiv, erin, the level of panic, what do you see is happening around you? >> reporter: hey, joy, we just heard from the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, saying he's not going anywhere, calling on people to adhere to the curfew, which lasts until about 7:00 in the morning. right now, it's pretty quiet. not a single person can be seen on the streets. there is a calm here in the city of what was a chaotic day, full of the sounds of explosions that could be heard well into the overnight hours, as missiles were targeting a military installation hitting a number of military targets, as well as airfields, as thousands tried to evacuate the city. they were stuck in traffic jams. gas stations were running out of gas. there were long lines at atms. many people choosing to stay in

place, including a local mp that i met outside of a national police headquarters. he was there, they were handing out weapons. they have been encouraging people to take up arms to defend their country. he was there collecting ak-47s. he told me he had never shot a gun in his life before, but was there because he felt like he needed it to be able to protect himself and his wife, who were hunkering down in the suburbs. this ask the story of so many here in kyiv tonight. and there is real concern that the russian forces that crossed over the border from belarus, into ukraine, are closing closer and closer into the city. joy? >> thank you so much, erin. let me bring you in, john brennan. this is an interview with antony blinken. let's play a little bit of that. >> what action do you expect as a result of these sanctions? >> ultimately, the aggression

needs to stop and president putin needs to pull back. this is likely to take a long time. there's an immediate impact of these sanctions. >> if russia feels to become cornered or desperate, do you worry they could become more dangerous and threaten nato countries? >> we have some very powerful called article v, an attack on one is an attack on all. >> john brennan, what i've been thinking about is that the question increasingly in my mind is whether this man is rational. what vladamir putin is doing now feels so irrational and such a threat to not only the economy of his own country, the lives of ukrainians, many of whom have, you know, blood relatives in russia. and you have seen the demonstrations today. it doesn't look like a country that's united in this effort to

take over this country and attempt regime change or whatever he's doing. if you watch what he is doing, how do you assess and how would you assess if you were still in the agency, the rationality of this man and how we can anticipate what he would do and how far he might go? >> well, from our perspective, joy, it looks for very irrational, given the cost that he is likely to incur, as well as the ukrainian people. but as putin looks at the world, especially the region through his own personal prism, he sees it as a necessity from the standpoint of the putin doctrine. he wants to fundamentally alter the geostrategic balance between the east and west. and therefore, he sees this as something he's been planning to do over the past number of years as he built up russia's military capabilities. so there is this imbalance

between russia and the west, which is trying to address. and i think we were hoping that he's not going to go into ukraine with this multipronged offensive, which i think is going to -- he's going to incur some significant military costs. the economic and financial costs will take some time. i agree with joe biden that it will take time to feel the pinch of that. but the military cost inside of russia and ukraine, i think they're going to be cost. and i believe that putin thinks there's going to be broader acquiescence. he decided not to go forward with a cyber attack as a way not to totally alienate the ukrainian people. i think the west and nato is going to stay very united in opposition to his move. >> reading through his speech, whether it was recorded last night or before, a lot of it was

based on just heavy doses of grievance and anger. but also a sense that, in his mind at least, from what he was saying, he believes that any government that is not essentially a puppet government, he wants to restore the puppet government to force ukraine to stay in his influence, that doesn't seem rational. all the reporting shows ukrainians are either fleeing or hunkering down to fight. they're willing to fight him. so i wonder how you adecember -- assess where you think this might go? >> i think his misunderstanding is even deeper than that, in that very strange and twisted speech that he made on monday, he essentially said there is no such thing as ukraine. he had a very weird historical theory how it didn't exist until the 20th century, which mares no

relationship to reality or history. and he said essentially that the only country in the post soviet space that has the right to sovereignty is russia. and ukraine has no right to exist, implying ukrainians have no right to list. the source of the violence and the brutality that you're going to see over the next few days is that. you know, he thinks he's fighting a nonexistent place. people who aren't really human or citizens, they don't deserve to be there. and that's why you're going to see so much violence and destruction. of course, ukraine is a real place with a real history. it goes back quite far. they have a long tradition of fighting empires, how the national identity coalesced. they're national heroes, all partisans and heroes. they're all fighting and did fight today. of course, they're outnumbered

and they're out -- they don't have the same kind of weapons that the russians have. but i would remember always when you're looking at this and watching it, to remember that they are a player in this, too. people talk about biden and putin and the united states and russia. but the ukrainians are going to play an important role in shaping how this conflict comes out. >> indeed. it seems that they are steadfast in willing to fight for their country. let me play the ambassador, the ukrainian ambassador. here he is. >> call putin to stop aggression. and i welcome the decision of some members of this council to meet as soon as possible to consider the necessary decision, to condemn the aggression that you launch on my people. there is no purgatory for war

criminals. they go straight hell, ambassador. >> john brennan, there is also no place in the global community of nations for somebody who is isolating themselves the way putin is determined to do. if he and china are going to form some sort of access, this is what they're doing. it feels the consequences are going to be dire not just for ukraine, but for russians. i wonder what do you make of europe's ability to stand steadfast in this? how long do they hold out? how fad could this get? not of for the russians and ukrainians, but for europe if this drags on and on? >> first of all, i agree that ukrainian nationalism runs strong and deep. we'll see resistance continue. it's going to embolden the opposition to this intervention. inside of ukraine as well as in

europe. i just returned from london just an hour ago. when i was there, the past several days all they could talk about was russia, russia, ukraine. and they were hoping that russia was not going to go with a full-bore intervention in ukraine. those hopes were dashed. so now reality is setting in and there is strong consensus within nato that this is just the first stage of russian aggression, and that's why i think they are welcoming support on the military front and they will stay front on the financials front. if this war continues, i think they're going to agree with the united states that even more significant sanctions need to be implemented, possibly against putin, but against russian involvement in the swiss system. >> we'll get more into that throughout the show. that is considered the nuclear option. he might bring that upon himself. thank you all very much. up next on "the reidout," putin unhinged, a ridiculous

claim that he's trying to de-nazify ukraine, which has a youish president. after 9/11 most americans put aside their political differences. not this time. republicans are ramping up their vulgar attacks on the american president. plus, putin pretends he's not worried about sanctions is, but his rich oligarch pals probably are worried. and putin is going to hear about it. much more after the break. hear t it it much more after the break. crepe corrector lotion... only from gold bond. ♪ ♪ feel stuck with student loan debt? move to sofi and feel what it's like to get your money right.

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sharp rebuke of the kremlin's aggression, a rebuke that they know comes with serious risks. according to an independent russian human rights monitoing group, nearly 1400 have been arrested so far. they took to the street after vladamir putin declared war. he said the purpose was to denazify ukraine, claiming that russian citizens are being abused in two breakaway provinces and subjected to genocide. let's just be clear, there is currently no ongoing genocide in ukraine. and ukraine is not led by nazis. it is led by a jewish president, volodymyr zelenskyy, who speaks of his grandfather who fought the nazis in the soviet infantry. putin's speech was full of deception and grievances, revisionist history, peppered

with nostalgia for the old soviet union. as analysts have been explaining, it is clear that putin is determined to reverse the progress made by ukrainian citizens since an uprising ousted a russian-backed president eight years ago. he's aiming to end ukraine's status as an independent sovereign state and turn it back into a russian puppet state. joining me now is keer simmons, reporting from moscow. and malcolm nance, security analyst and former intelligence officer. that term "regime change," that reminds many people of a very unpopular war waged in this country. again, it was a war of choice. and it doesn't appear that vladamir putin can manufacture the consent that i guess he presumed he could in his own country.

because there were a lot of protests today. give us a sense of, i don't know how you can tell how public opinion is in russia, given it is an authoritarian state, but how much support do you think this invasion has? >> reporter: that's a great question, joy. just in terms of the support it has, the russian people, many didn't think it would happen, because many of them have close links to ukraine. we talked to one family where the woman's father is in ukraine, she's here in moscow. so i think russian people didn't want it to happen, didn't believe it could happen, didn't think it could happen. and now it's happening in a real sense of disbelief. and then in that rambling speech by president putin, i think raises some real questions about how he's thinking, how he's seeing this.

because in that very speech, he criticizes the u.s. over iraq, and yet the same questions that the u.s. learned bitterly with iraq are going to be the questions that president putin is going to face over ukraine. so just think of a few of them. if you break it, you have to fix it. it's harder to fight in a place that is somebody else's turf. just those two questions. and then that one that we all remember, what is your exit strategy? and i don't think we're clear what president putin's exit strategy is on ukraine. okay, we're only at the beginning, but they are saying they want regime change. do they have a puppet government to install? do they have a plan how to sustain that government? this is quite clearly, many of the ukrainian people are against this and will fight against it, just as we have seen in other xamples in the past. this is a question that's

important. the reason why, we can talk about sanctions, but one of the potential ways that people in russia could turn against president putin is if this goes very badly wrong for him. i don't say that with any pleasure, because the potential is, if the russian people turn against them, there aren't many people who still support president putin. that's the kind of thing that i think really frightens people about this whole picture. another point too, just before i finish, joy, we talked about president putin inside the walls of the kremlin with a small team around him. we saw him earlier in the week humiliate his intelligence chief at the security council. when you treat people like that for 40 years, who are also in the kgb with you, are they giving you the right information and telling the truth to you?

a lot depends on the decisions president putin is making. >> there's a madness of king george feel, kier. it does appear he's hearing what he wants to hear, and you can't claim to call the u.s. a hegemon for iraq and unlearn everything we learned in iraq, you can't place yourself -- where do you think you are in this story line, if you are then occupying a country that doesn't want you there, are going to fight an insurgency that is going to happen, because you're not being greeted as liberators. on top of that, graining chernobyl and destabilizing something where there are nukes doesn't seem rational. i want you to comment on ukraine, because i'm old enough to remember when the former

president of this down tritried to bribe and blackmail president zelenskyy saying we will withhold military assistance from you. wrap all of that around for me and tell me where you think this stands, given zelenskyy's challenge and putin's seeming seeminger -- seeming irrationality. malcolm? >> oh, that is for you? i would have been fascinated to hear kier's view on that. well, certainly, let's go back to the fundamentals of donald trump's first impeachment. he was impeached because there were 1,000 javelin missiles in defense funds, which were going to be released to the government of ukraine, and donald trump extorted president zelenskyy, essentially said i will not give you these funds and resources to defend your nation for this day,

the day that has arrived, if you don't say your prosecutors are investigating joe biden. so we have come full circle on this story. of course, that didn't happen. donald trump was impeached. he was not convicted. but we have gotten to the point where those javelin missiles are flying today, destroying russian tanks and are critical to the defense of that country. look, i may look a little haggard. i just stepped off the airplane from kyiv. but i know that that army is fighting. they are fighting for their lives. they took back a critical airfield just northeast of the city. which was critical for the russians to take to carry out their assault on kyiv. they did that, because they sacrificed their lives. they went out and they fought. the russians are not going to have a cake walk. i hear many people say u.s. intelligence is telling us

they're going to be able to take that country in seven days. i've driven every inch of that country exception lieu hansuhan there is no way they'll take that country in seven days. i had people asking how do you make improvised explosive devices? i mean, they are forming an insurgency that is going to be backed up by whatever remains of the army. and russia, what are they going to do? they can't sit in their tanks in every cross road. they will be ambushed every day. there's a statue at the war memorial in patriot park of the partisans who fought the nazis for years in ukraine. so vladamir putin has bitten off way more than he can chew. as you said, again, i would be

interested in hearing kier's view, what is the endgame here? a neighborhood of moscow? >> we'll have to have you both back, but we are out of time. i have to go to a break. thank you both very much. appreciate you. coming up, joe biden is working overtime with our allies to show a united front, as the right wing media crowd continue to criticize him and praise putin. we'll be right back. putin. putin. we'll be right back. only from discover.

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as joe biden vows to make vladamir putin a pariah on the international stage for his aggression against ukraine, the loudest voices on the american right are carrying putin's water. as the assault began last night, tucker carlson was spouting pro-kremlin talking points, and laura ingraham ranted insults

about ukraine's president before giving trump a platform to fawn over the tyrant putin. if you have questions about the reason for the love affair with putin, look no forward than steve bannon. >> putin ain't woke. he's anti-woke. >> the russian people still know which bathroom to use. they know how many genders are there in russia? >> two. >> okay. that's not -- that's not -- they don't have the flags, they don't have the pride flags outside -- >> they don't have boys swimming in girl's college swim meets. >> how embarrassing. how savage. how medieval. that's why this whole thing is a scam. >> joining me now, charlie sykes, and the former fbi double agent. i like it when they are just honest and tell us, because that way we're not just saying it.

i said this last night on the show that the reason the american right or this faction of the american right loves putin and loves putin's russia is that in their mind, it's the white christian ethno state of their creams. hard on muslims and lbgtq people, no elections new york democracy, perfect, right? they're saying it now. i like that they're admitting it. your thoughts? >> yeah, no, i agree. except for one thing, joy. what they believe russia is not actually what it is. it's not a christian ethno state. chechnya is a muslim state. it was part of the soviet union. so this idea that they fabricated about russia doesn't hold true. of course, there is putin himself that is anti-lbgtq. but beyond that, this idea of this christian state, it doesn't exist. we know that russians don't go to church at the same levels of americans. yet they built this caricature that seems to justify what they

want to -- the united states to be, they're ascribing that to russia. frankly, it's not that. all i can draw the conclusion in closing, i think the russians are manipulating them. they're letting them run with russia's water. i hope they're getting something in return, because i know russia is giving up nothing for what they're saying. it's absurd. >> russia has a long history of trying to sell various parts of the american body politic that they're a friend, right? they've done this in africa, as well. in africa itself, it hasn't worked as much as they tried to cultivate relationships there. i don't have it now, but the ambassador from kenya leveled them and said this is colonialism, what you're doing. so it isn't working everywhere. let me bring you into this, charlie. tucker carlson, let me show this for a second. not only is what he's doing vulgar in that he's siding with

a foreign dictator, it's helping russia. let's play that. >> what is this really about? why do i hate putin so much? has putin ever called me a race sniss that he threatened to get me fired? has he shipped every middle class job in my town to russia? >> but it's not just him, it's tulsi gabbard, even though she's a member of the united states military, which is problematic. and it's j.d. vance who said i don't give a damn about ukraine, until he realized maybe there were some ukrainian american voters in ohio. your thoughts? >> well, first of all, it doesn't matter whether their view of russia is real or not. again, it is their posture. and i don't think that russia is inducing them to do it. i think they are talking themselves into this, into being useful idiots for the russians. and that's what tucker carlson

is. the most valuable useful idiot, of course, is donald trump. this is the important thing to understand. a lot of republicans are issuing rather solid statements today, saying we need to push back against this aggression, be strong and support nato. but the id of the republican party is what you have just played. the entertainment wing of the republican party is going in a very different direction than the elected officials in the republican party. and again, what the important point is, the entertainment wing of the republican party is dominant, and they have sided with donald trump. so i think that this is actually worth watching. i don't think that people should be under any illusions that somehow there's going to be a break in the republican party or a moment of sanity. look, if january 6th did not break donald trump's hold on the republican party, then his fawning, slavish praise of

vladamir putin, while he is raping ukraine, is certainly not going to do it, as well. but it is interesting the degree to which you have these right wing voices, these heirs of the party of ronald reagan, giving aid and comfort to the kremlin right now. that tucker carlson clip you just played, that was a clip from russian state tv. he has made himself a propaganda mouthpiece for the kremlin. and this is an extraordinary moment to watch this, but also to understand how deep this is, and you made the point, joe -- joy, that in part this fascination is they like the strong man, the authoritarian. it goes deep. donald trump's long history with vladamir putin. so this is not a one off, and my guess is the republican party will fall into line behind the entertainment wing of the party sooner or later. >> and that's the danger here,

that republicans are starting off -- even ted cruz said the right thing today. but it won't be long before donald trump, who makes a lot of money selling overpriced real estate to russian oligarchs, right? he's in bed with them financially. so he has good reason to be for russia. whereas these guys, you know, it's hard to believe they will stand strong and stand with the position of the west if he starts haranging in the other direction. >> i would agree. there's one thing that these people, including tulsi gabbard, love more than this idea of a strongman, and that's money. so i would urge you that i don't doubt for a second that if tucker carlson's point of view was not making him a dollar, he would not be saying this. but let's talk about russia. look, we have had this moment where -- the ability of the russians to get into these circles is bar none.

and there's this belief, this refusal to accept that russia targets people, that they can direct people, they can get funds from the united states. that those funds can change your perception and get you to be a direct agent. not unwitting or useful idiot. the russians tried to do that with me for three years. it happened. we have to get past this idea that russian intelligence is not playing in the united states, that russian intelligence does not see the divisiveness in the united states and that it is beneficial to russia. the more there is chaos in this country, it is better for russia. for them to spend $120 million, that's nothing for them. we've got to take this moment that biden, who unveiled intelligence that showed russia was going to invade. we have to look at that in the same prism of what's happening here in the united states. i promise you the russian intelligence is active here and they're attempting to recruit and target people.

and in some cases, they have been successful. that's a reality. it's like, i don't know why we have trouble admitting that, and trouble having the fbi investigate it honestly. >> yeah. it is a wild and strange world. it doesn't change a lot. it just keeps going in cycles. thank you both very much. coming up next, america and allies slapped sanctions on russia. but what more needs to be done to curb putin's aggression? stay with us. curb putin's aggrn curb putin's aggrn stay with us they make me feel like i've got it all under control. voya. be confident to and through retirement.

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the impact of international sanctions came into focus last night. russia's stock market lost nearly 50% of its value, making it one of the biggest single day market collapses in history. today, the united states, the united kingdom, the european union, and canada, working in coordination, continue to pummel russia with a wrath of new sanctions. roughly 100 or so individuals, including putin's own former

son-in-law, will be blacklisted with assets frozen. so why should i care about russian oligarchs? here's why. they don't just live and play in russia, but they reach deep into france, the united kingdom, monaco, and the united states. they answer only to vladamir putin. laundering billions of dollars in wealth stolen from the russian people, into british soccer teams and castles in france, and you guessed it, overpriced condos in southern florida and new york. according to a 2020 report, russia has the world's largest volume of dark money hidden abroad. about $1 trillion, both in absolute in terms, and as a percentage of its national gdp. an estimated one quarter of this amount is controlled by russian president vladamir putin, and his close associates. back in 2010, alexei navalny,

who had been exposing putin for years, was poisoned and imprisoned for it. he warned the world that the only way to hurt putin and his friends is to finally set limits, confiscate their assets and no longer allow them to travel. has that time come? joining me now is congresswoman sheila jackson-lee of texas, who is in eastern europe, meeting with u.s. allies. congresswoman, thank you very much. i know you have been meeting with members -- with allies about this. i wonder what you're hearing about what it is europe would like to see next after these crippling sanctions? >> joy, thank you for having me. can i first offer my deepest concern to the ukrainian americans, as well as the people in ukraine, and the people who obviously in ukraine who are losing their life. they want help literally they're asking for as forceful an effort

by the nato allies and other freedom loving nations as can possibly be. you know, frankly, joy, i'm very concerned about president zelenskyy and his cabinet who are in kyiv and i believe targets of potential violence. they want their democracy to be heard. and they want to be able to ensure that their friends will not leave them, as they are battling against this desperate, terrorist, this person who indicated that he would have an operational war, an operational effort and not kill women and children. >> but congresswoman, let me ask you, because one of the things that kept coming up in president biden's press conference today, was whether or not the swift system would be brought to bear, the nuclear option, it's considered. as many have pointed out, swift is not a banking system. it's not even control by the united states. it's a neutral, global cooperative and any decisions

about what happens to it rest with the various government bodies, right? it rests with the central bank of the u.s., i think the royal bank of belgium and from the eu as well. so, we don't decide what happens with swift. but you do have some members of congress, including some members of the united states senate, who are saying that we should have some legislation to impact russia's access to swift. can that be done and will that be done? >> i think we can do it. and frankly, the economy in russia is none to be proud of. i think that is one of the reasons why putin has nothing else to do but to show the russian people he can be a bully. and that is what he is doing. their economy is not strong, the basis of their economy's oil and energy. and young people are not seeing russia for the future, they're seeing it for the past. putin is only doing this to restore the old soviet union, to give his own personal ego and legacy something to stand

on. so, i think the financial sanctions, defensive and financial sanctions, as harsh as they can be, will possibly bring putin to his knees. and i tell you, the eu cranium people that i have had a chance to speak to, they are frightened, they are resolved and going to fight, but they see themselves in a very difficult circumstance. because of the even of the military, though it's not the best, it's because of the equipment and size that they have. so, i do believe that we must find a way that will cause putin to think. and i think also the oligarchs are in essence closing their bank accounts. put them out of the country. keep them from the fancy schools that their children are in the united states, the comfort that they have here. they may be calling up. because this is not a communist government. this is a government of billionaires and oligarchs. and so i basically believe that the financial aspect of what we

can do can help bring a cease-fire so that we can find a resolution. i still believe in peace. i still believe in diplomacy. i know that there are many who have given up on this. but i know that the ukrainian people just want to be free. and they need to go back to their business as a sovereign, democratic nation. we cannot leave them alone. >> by the way, just for our audience, swift is basically that little code you put in if you want to send money overseas. it's like the code that you put in. that's what's swift's, it is not a bank. just to be clear. the president today admonished and warned u.s. oil companies not to price gouge. because we know that oil prices will probably go up. the price of oil is going to go up because of the conflict. russia is a major oil supplier. is there anything that congress can do to ensure that we don't have for the price gouging, which i have to say, has been a big part of what we have been calling inflation? there has been a lot of price pushing by u.s. companies,

including oil companies. so, how can congress weigh in to prevent oil companies from taking advantage of this situation to artificially raise prices on american consumers? >> well, we can do it together with the executive. first of all, we already know that the price of oil per barrel is now at $100 and it will probably go up, so americans will feel the basic impact. but the president can use his bully pulpit. and yes, we can actually write legislation to penalize those who would gouge. that has happened in times of hurricanes. it was happening in the pandemic, we realize it. and we did bring it to a swift close, if i may use that terminology. and i would just say that that would be a dastardly thing to do. and we would spend with the president. i would hope we would move this legislation very, very quickly. because on top of the president inflation it would be enormously burdensome to the american people. i want the american people to know that if this war continues there will be an impact --

>> yeah. >> but we need to be able to protect them as well. >> yeah, indeed. congresswoman sheila jackson lee, thank you very much, appreciate you being here this evening. up next, global reaction to putin's war. how citizens around the world are showing their solidarity with the people of ukraine, we will be right back. will be right ckba we need to reduce plastic waste in the environment. that's why at america's beverage companies, our bottles are made to be remade. not all plastic is the same. we're carefully designing our bottles to be 100% recyclable, including the caps. they're collected and separated from other plastics, so they can be turned back into material that we use to make new bottles. that completes the circle and reduces plastic waste. please help us get every bottle back.

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literally fight for their lives against the russian invasion people around the world are standing in solidarity with them. in berlin, the brandenburg gate was lift up in the blue and yellow colors of ukraine's flag as hundreds gathered to protest against russia. those colors shown bright on the city halls of paris and helsinki. the same was true for ten downing street in london as well as on the flinders train station in melbourne, australia. --

and from the coliseum in rome to the lookout tower in prague, the message to the ukrainian people is clear, you are not alone. and that is tonight's "the reidout", a special two hour edition of the rachel maddow show starts right now. ition of the rachel maddow show>> thanks for being with us here tonight, my friends chris hayes is away and i hope you don't mind me sitting in for him in his anchor chair. i will be here tonight with you until 10 pm eastern, at least that is the plan. of course, the news these days have has away at laughing at even the best laid plans. if you take the earth as a whole, if you look at all the land on earth, it is worth remembering that more than 10% of all the land on earth is russia. russia's enormous. it is physically enormous, physically the largest nation on earth.