he's also the ceo of the chicago council on foreign affairs.ew with ivo daalder. ivo, good to see you. thank you for being with us. i want to start with that last comment by volodymyr zelensky. it's shrewd. he has always been an advocate of ukraine joining nato. and i think the argument he's making is that you all are involved in our war right now. you're sending your stuff, material, expertise and money. if we become part of nato, the entire structure of how we defend ourselves changes. but help me understand what what volodymyr zelensky said to kristen welker there. well, he. >> said actually the same. >> what you. >> said about the origins of nato. nato was founded in order to prevent war, and it is much cheaper to prevent war, even. >> if. >> you have to prepare for fighting war than actually conducting a war. and what what president zelensky is saying is. >> true. >> that if ukraine. >> were a member of nato, russia would not dare to have attack ukraine or continue the war because it would be at war, not just with ukraine. >> it. >> would

fallon, director of the center for russia, europe, and asia studies, and a senior fellow at the chicago council in global affairs. a warm welcome to each and every one of you. peter, i have to start with you. you're in ukraine. how do ukrainians feel about all of this? well, this was obviously a shot, a shot, the feeling of a step in the back. uh 1st, let's start with the figures. i mean, the 1st you heard in the previous segment, $350000000000.00 cited by the american president. and it's an outright fabrication, exceeding the real figure by almost 3, the real figure being at, on a 20 and europeans having captivated more. as a matter of fact, they did get a bumped up to some news to go on a little bit ago. 500, and the question is why, what, what is why, why, why, why is it 500 to control 100 percent of the united states? then should ukraine, during the work of this, find the civilization font for ukraine, which you were asked, would probably, you know, administer and then use the funds as it sees it, whether it sees it. and then uh, if you great, it wants to continue buying weapons from the un

he's now the ceo of the chicago council on global affairs. today, he wrote about trump's call with putin on his substack. america abroad. and he joins me now. i want to talk about the ukraine specific part, but i want to just start at the sort of broader point here about territorial conquest and aggression, and it as a kind of articulated goal of trump's the way that he talks about russia having sort of fought for land and achieved it and what what that new framework does to the international order. >> well. >> it was no. accident that trump quoted. >> and. mentioned mckinley. as his goal to as the person he wanted to copy in his inaugural address. remember. >> mckinley was the. president that acquired territory. abroad in. >> the first instance. and it hadn't happened. >> of course, acquired territory within. >> the. >> continental, what is now the continental united states. but abroad, the philippines. >> guam. >> cuba and other places. and i think. >> the world. >> that trump would like to go back. >> to is a world in which. the big powers

the resolution does the same thing in chicago has been drawn up to be presented to the chicago city councilebruary 19th. bret? >> bret: mike tobin live in chicago. waiting for pick for budget director. there is a delay in the process for the nominee to lead the fbi. and the man behind the department of government efficiency as we have been talking about is getting an earful from capital hill. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has our update from the ill. >> a simultaneous multi level fight over fbi director nominee kash patel, budget director pick russ vought and elon musk. >> none of us went out in the elections and said if you elect me i will promise to cower before the first bully who shows up. >> democrats mounting a resistance of a blockade of kash patel. >> kash patel has a goal it's to wreck the fbi. >> democrats temporarily bottled up patel's nomination in committee. >> so this is going to be delayed for a week but no hearing. >> customary delay a week. >> that chokes off patel's nomination from the senate floor until at least next thursday. >> it means that about 168

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paul douglas sat on the city council in chicago. he was the one independent alderman and ran it for the primary to become u.s. senator. the day after he lost, he enlisted in the marine corps. he is the oldest recruit and a history of the marine corps. he was 50 years old. he went through training at parris island. he was gravely wounded in battle. he lost the use of his left arm. it was my first job in politics. 30 years later i was elected to a senate seas. there is a university of chicago story in my background. this afternoon, c-span covers the conservative polital action conference with remarks from florida conessman byron donalds, housing and urban affairs secretary scott turner and others live starting at 3:15 p.m. eastern on c-span two, our free mobile video app c-span is now an c-span.org. >> this week to watch c-span's new members of commerce -- congress series where we speak with both republicans and democrats about their early lives, previous careers, families, and why they decided to run for office. tonight at 9:30 p.m.

in chicago people are screaming at council meetings they immediate help. elderly man murdered by two illegal immigrants last week. in boston, they're protecting rapists and child pleasers from deportation. i mean, this depravity is absolutely disgusting and must stop. i'll tell you, if these mayors don't want to turn them over to ice, let them stay at your house and put them up in an extra bedroom. liz: joe, you too put your life on the line to help protect america and wonder what george washington, ben franklin, founding fathers, john adams would say to this. like what are you doing, democrats? you're absolutely out of your mind. so now we've got -- what do you think of this, ag bondi launched joint task forces between doj and homeland security to wipe out ms13, wipe out the venezuelan criminal gang tren de aragua and wants to completely eliminate cartels and transnational criminal organizations. she's going to make prosecutors seek the death pent. she's going after fentanyl trafficking too. so she's resetting the doj toward fighting crime. what do you ma

you have seen presidents in chicago -- residents show up at the city council meetings furious because they are working hard to provide for their families. they want public safety and law and order and officials have abandoned those basic american principle the cities -- in the cities. it's an overwhelmingly popular policy to deport illegal criminals and the administration will continue to affect that goal. sure. reporter: a question on columbia. we interviewed the colombian president and he insisted he is not going to take any colombian refugees from the u.s. if they arrive in south america. how does the administration respond to that? karoline: when did he make those remarks? reporter: two days ago. karoline: i will get with the president and get back with his response. reporter: there are more than 150,000 disabled americans were working today. the president talked a lot yesterday about hiring the best and brightest to work in the federal government. safety aside, does he believe disabled people have a place to work in the federal government? does he also support the current protect

. >> and you know, we did see last year, we saw the people in chicago, showing up to city council meetingsnd better livelihoods you guys are not paying attention you're focusing on their own things. obviously that were not listening as of this is what will that was striking. so we are also counting down to time to speaking. [laughter] todd: and she's going to dance, just to try to throw me off and i am ready for it kansas city chiefs and philadelphia eagles will battle for the coveted on barney trophy next sunday, the iconic award being legendary green bay packers had catchments party who won the first two super bowl split earlier this week of the sky former new england patriots held head coach floated the idea of renaming the famous price watched enough clears when games and he can't gave without a good player, i don't care who the coaches and it's impossible we cannot win without a good player in his brady mcginnis are bruschi or corey dillon, or troy brown time law, rodney harrison, those of the guys that when and then i didn't make any things kicks you have to have good players and as

the chicago city alterman has drawn up a resolution that reads anyone who wanted to overthrow a government should not be eligible to serve government. it goes before city councildra: thank you. >> dana: let's bring in former chicago police superintendent garry mccarthy. one of our favorite guests. so good to have you here. pritzker said illinois will defend our laws. instead of working with us to support law enforcement the trump administration is making it more difficult to protect the public. what's the word on the street there, gary? >> i think that they are disassociated from their community. all i hear people talking about is why is all this money and effort going into people who are not citizens of this country? especially the african-american community in the city. they want to know why those resources weren't put into those communities instead of putting it into harboring people who are not citizens of this country. i personally believe that we should be a welcoming country but there is a process. you can't just walk into the country. we know what it has done with fentanyl. >> dana: bring up chicago alderman lopez seems to get it. watch here. >> i thin

riots, chicago city altman has drummed up a resolution reading anyone who wanted to overthrow the government should not be eligible to serve government. that resolution goes before city council police officers in nassau county in new york city suburbs, they will assist federal agents with immigration enforcement. joining me now is nassau county executive bruce blakeman, what are police officers doing to help ice? >> reporter: isis asked the we will cross designate, to make sure we get all criminals off the streets who are here illegally and when i say that i mean not just that they are here illegally, we are not doing raids, we are not asking people for their immigration status, we are going after individuals who have committed crimes, who are here illegally, whether his burglary, stealing cars, shoplifting, whatever it is. if they are here illegally, our police officers work with ice to make sure they are apprehended, detained and deported. in addition, our sheriff's department is holding 50 cells in our jail to detain these criminals on a temporary basis until ice can permanently detain them or deport them. we are grateful that donald trump is now letting us the tools to k

that means chicago, denver, boston, new york, mayor adams has said that he wants to get rid of some of them but he has a city councilhey are not going to be getting any fundinged from the federal government. >> ainsley: we talked about this last week how james comer on house oversight he sent letters to all those liberal mayors with those four cities. he said you need to come to congress. we need to have a hearing. that has been set up. it's the first week of march. so in a few more weeks. well, here is the mayor of chicago. you have been to chicago so many times, covering the crime there this is what the mayor brandon johnson said. >> i'm standing with the full force of government today, to demonstrate that chicago is a welcoming city. regardless of who is in the white house, chicago is a city that opens its arms to people from around the globe. >> lawrence: something got to be done. >> brian: president obama pam bondi is on thejob for an ha sanctuary city which i got the list in front of me, you are going to be denied federal funding. they are going to sue back because we have been down this road before. hopefully