he thinks angela merkel, edward. _ solution to this problem. he thinks angela merkel, edward.m. he thinks i angela merkel, edward. i know you've just written a piece on the chinese and the role that the chinese may play. how do you think that will unfold? i play. how do you think that will unfold? ., , ,. , ., unfold? i would be sceptical about that. i unfold? i would be sceptical about that- ithink— unfold? i would be sceptical about that. i think angela _ unfold? i would be sceptical about that. i think angela merkel - unfold? i would be sceptical about that. i think angela merkel comes| that. i think angela merkel comes with some baggage because of her role in the 2008 nato summit in bucharest which gave ukraine a kind of half promise that it could join nato at some point but no idea of when that might be and how it might happen and i think that however this is going to involve painful confessions on both sides of my bet is that it would be the chinese and the chinese have a strong ability to exert pressure on china, and russia, because they have a show�*s only remaining fr

the former chancellor, angela merkel, have we heard anything? to what degree has her legacy been tarnished? >> what can she say at this point when you look at nord stream as well. what can angela merkel say that would bring and show germany has taken the right steps over the past 10 years. germany made a fundamental -- it could separate the trade from the politics. they could separate the security from defense. angela merkel stays quiet and takes a step back. jonathan: thank you. the president's wheels up. he goes from brussels to poland. with the book -- at the border to ukraine and then over to warsaw. you can't overstate the change we have seen in a single month on policy on several fronts. tom: i think this is something we have spent the last couple days talking to the younger crew about. seismic is the correct word. this is a seismic change. the headlines we saw yesterday, not only are these headline stunning but there are headlines that we never envisioned. i didn't ask maria because of the -- you wonder what mr. schroeder is doing. jonath

angela merkel was one of the important european figureheads. by the way, she had a for all intents and purposes maybe not friendly but she had a direct communication style with putin, not least because they could speak the same language. and let me ask you about volodymyr zelenskyy, the ukrainian president saying he would accept a non-nuclear status for his country. that was already the status of ukraine before. they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security guarantees. how would it change anything to say this overtly and explicitly at this stage? >> reporter: yeah, and it's been talking to independent russian journalists to try to reach that part of the russian audience that russian state media propaganda doesn't get to. that could be as many as a quarter of the population in russia, potentially even more. and what he is trying to do is undo the kremlin's propaganda. and part of the kremlin's propaganda over the past few months has been to say that ukraine wants to have nuclear weapons. so he seems to be targeting that. he's talking

angela merkel probably would not have acted as decisively.he surprising things, showing how deep this is, that all of these changes, the adjustment of the german army and the ancient energy partnership, happened under the leadership of a coalition of social democrats and greens were the leading parties. social are not known for liking to cut ties with russia. it is a sign of how deep this war has affected everything. francine: thank you so much. manus: let's check in on some of these yields, they are exploding. there are some key things to keep an eye on. the two year, the short end of the curve, max peterson says he wants it exposed by another 10 basis points this morning. 239 is where we are. the three month 10 year spread is now the widest since 2017. this is the propulsion of the short end of the curve. there is your spread. the other ones have inverted, haven't they, on the five sevens and slightly longer and. francine: the latest bloomberg headline, a treasury three month 10 year spread it reaches the widest since 2017, as you said. chi

you said no mike sent angela merkel a white flag of surrender? >> oh, yes, i did come i sent it to her, trying to send it in humor, at that point you can have humor because nobody said no mike believed it was possible that what i said was true. by the way, gasoline watch, said it is going to be $7, $8 -- >> sean: hang on a second. let me prove your point, because i have two cuts of you warning about gas prices. listen. >> we have so much oil. we have more oil than anybody, okay? it's an incredible thing. have over the last few years, and you are paying, what, $2 a gallon for your gasoline? you know what that is like? that is like a tax cut. that is bigger than a tax cut. if biden got in, you would be paying $7, $8, $9, then say get rid of your car. we are going to build some more windmills. >> and gas prices, you like that $2 gas, right? how about $5, $6? $7? darling, let's sell the car, too large, let's get a compact. biden's plan is an economic death sentence. >> sean: you were right, and now you are right -- i never thought i would see this co

about this crisis is watching germany saying it for head the 2% nato target it refused to hit and angela merkel arms, ukraine has got days and i was potentially rich are critical, it has not got weeks and months. it is all very well for ben was to see these things but britain has to ukraine quickly. you have to fly them to poland and across by land and it is not easy.— fly them to poland and across by land and it is not easy. thank you, both. land and it is not easy. thank you, both- thank _ land and it is not easy. thank you, both. thank you _ land and it is not easy. thank you, both. thank you for _ land and it is not easy. thank you, both. thank you for watching - land and it is not easy. thank you, both. thank you for watching we i land and it is not easy. thank you, l both. thank you for watching we will be back in just over half. our weather is much quieter than it was at the end of february, but there are still plenty of other contrasts out there across the uk to talk about. most of the sunshine today in northern ireland and scotland. a much cloudier picture across eastern and southern p

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many remember the big deals between german and russian companies, angela merkel going to moscow to signn nord stream 2. this germany says we will not agree to the ruble payment, it is blackmail, we will not accept it. but the key question what if vladimir putin decides not to send any gas, and he will cut the flows and use that as a geopolitical weapon -- and he told me, we will find another solution. it is not clear what the solution is. these are huge numbers in terms of the relationship between russia and germany when it comes to the gas pipelines. it was striking to see he was not conciliatory in any way, and he was clear that germany as a precedent as the rotating g7 will not agree to this. if they pay in rubles, they will allow him to pay for this terrible war in ukraine. and they would be in breach of contract, so they will not do it. dani: other sea change from germany is the school spending, is germany changing its tune from its traditionally conservative approach? maria: i would say yes and no. he said when it comes to defense spending, the country had a major wake-up call. sp

. >> that's where the rubber hits the road, fred this is where angela merkel left office with over 70% approval rating, yet was response for germany's independence on natural gas here what should we look to europe to do, given the prices they're paying, to ensure they have energy security for the decade to come, if they are going to take a more muscular stance against russia >> the transition will take some time you've got a majority of the cold for germany coming from russia you've got 55% gas, and the majority of oil. italy gets 40% of its gas from russia this will not change overnight they have to under this is a geopolitical down side and they have to fix it over the short term, there's also the question of weapons there are migs, different bombers, that are in european union, but the eastern part of it, can that reach ukraine on time there's a great needs for javelins, drones, mainly coming from turkey, a great need for stingers, can that get to ukraine in time? the longer it's extended, the more at the time help ukraine, but russia is making slow, ugly process. we're all watching

france doesn't have a problem by the way, they have nuclear power, probably the worst decision angela merkel made was to eliminate germany's nuclear power program. [applause] that will be the tell, i think, as to whether people are really being mature and serious about confronting the problem russia represents, not just now but stretching into the future, and that is whether we will reevaluate our energy, focus more on natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and nuclear, and we will see. >> charlie? >> right before we did this panel i got a call from my two grandkids in france, they are nine and 12, they are absolutely terrified. and they wanted to know whether there would be a world war, a nuclear war. i spent half an hour on the phone with these two french kids who are terrified listening to the french media. i told them no, some bad things could happen, but i don't think so. and the thing to watch is whether the west has recovered its self-confidence. whether this alliance will hold together, whether nato will prove that it is not a hollow institution that some of us. it would be. i think thi

france doesn't have a problem by the way, they have nuclear power, probably the worst decision angela merkelade was to eliminate germany's nuclear power program. [applause] that will be the tell, i think, as to whether people are really being mature and serious about confronting the problem russia represents, not just now but stretching into the future, and that is whether we will reevaluate our energy, focus more on natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and nuclear, and we will see. >> charlie? >> right before we did this panel i got a call from my two grandkids in france, they are nine and 12, they are absolutely terrified. and they wanted to know whether there would be a world war, a nuclear war. i spent half an hour on the phone with these two french kids who are terrified listening to the french media. i told them no, some bad things could happen, but i don't think so. and the thing to watch is whether the west has recovered its self-confidence. whether this alliance will hold together, whether nato will prove that it is not a hollow institution that some of us. it would be. i think this

angela merkel says after meeting with him it is like he's in another world out of touch with reality.t doesn't -- when people thought he did not think he had a mental problem but a brutal dictator and george bush from 2008 said when arguing with him it is like with an eighth grader with his facts all wrong. >> yeahening both of those comments are in some ways reflective of the fact that vladimir putin has a very different world view than western leaders has a distorted view of russian history and russia relationship with ukraine, and he's got this mindset that he's in a semistate of war with the west and has been and that west has been out to get him for a very long time. but i don't think this is new. i think this is the way he's been for most of his presidency. i mean if we look back to 2004 he said that united states was helping islamic terrorist to weaken russia so this is a very old vladimir putin now that world is forced to reckon with. brian: hopely we can do stories about him in past tense and for now front and center. appreciate it. 23 minutes after hour and china has harshis

conference, every nato gathering, every nato summit i would move like a bee directly at chancellor angela merkel minister of defense, and trying get them to increase their defense spending. got it nowhere in two weeks. vladimir putin has gotten germans to hit the 2% goal and to add 100 billion euros to their budget this year bifrl the way, the russian defense budget, $70 billion. the germans are add go well above that this year in defense spending. that's the kind of response that putin is eliciting from the alliance. >> you were a nato supreme allied commander from 2009 to 2013. so right after the russians invaded georgia, and rate before the russians invaded crimea. what do you wish nato countries, the u.s. had done during that period that might have kept putin from doing what he's doing today? doing what did he in crimea the year after you left? >> well, first, i have to observe, as you correctly say, he invaded right before i got there and then he invaded right after i left. maybe the solution is putting an admiral in charge of nato command. actually, that i think had little to do with it. i

france has a problem by the way, they have the nuclear power, probably the worst decision angela merkel made was eliminate germany's nuclear power program and so, it's going to, you know, we will -- that will be the tell, i think, as to whether people are really being mature and serious about confronting the problem that russia represents, not just now, but stretching into the future. and that is whether we will reevaluate our energy, focus more on natural gas, liquefied natural gas and nuclear and we will see. >> charlie. >> well, right before we did this panel, i got a phone call from my two grandkids in france, nine and 12 and they're absolutely terrified, and they wanted to know whether there was going to be a world war, whether there would be a nuclear war, and so i spent about half an hour on the phone with these two french kids who are terrified listening to the french media and i told them no. some seriously bad things can happen and i don't think so. and the thing to watch is whether or not the west has recovered its self-confidence. whether or not this alliance is going to hol

ever since angela merkel left office and we have a new german government, the trade deals also have been called into question. as you know very well, there is now on the table the eu-china trade you'll, which has been frozen -- trade deal which has been frozen, and for many it is now completely dead. but when it comes to china playing moderator here, bringing the two sides for many europeans, that is not the role china is going to play here. lisa: what is the latest on germany given the fact that they are incredibly dependent on the gas from russia and there's been a lot of pressure to try to reduce that dependency much mark willie -- much more quickly than they are willing to do so? maria: what we know is that the nord stream 2 pipeline is politically dead. to bring it back from the dead is going to take a miracle. that is what one official told me. certainly we are not going to see the day of light when it comes to nord stream 2. there are other pipelines working, particularly the nord stream one, feeding through into germany. with the germans have said is that at this point, it is unr

it has been 100 days since angela merkel stepped down as germany's chancellor and a new coalition ledy social democrat olaf scholz took office. but after a short if any honeymoon, scholz's government is confronted by the biggest european crisis since the second world war. it has led to a stunning reversal of many new government policies. >> this modern germany of ours is strong. we do not have the slightest reason to fear the future. reporter: how it is going? >> reporter: february 24, 2022 marks of turn important in the history of our continent. reporter: olaf scholz became chancellor in december, leading a new kind of government, a pre-party coalition of social democrats, greens and free-market liberals. their slogan was, dare more progress, and they had big plans for climate change, transforming the economy and unleashing potential. how it started? >> germany must be climate neutral by 2025. reporter: how it is going. >> we will not rest until pieces security in europe. reporter: the climate minister of the greens launched an ambitious plan to boost renewable sources of energy. but

angela merkel is gone, so no more female head hes of state at all. mean, we have ursula von der leyen, which is not an actual head of state. she is obviously a leader within the eu. um, it's -- it's all men there among the big economies of nato, the nato alliance and the g7. thanks very much, nic robertson, in brussels. >>> the u.s., the united kingdom, and other countries are funneling millions of dollars in armaments into ukraine. ukraine's most recent request is for thousands more anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. but western allies are drawing the line on sending fighter jets. as ukraine's president addressed the nato summit on thursday, he pleaded for a small piece of nato's entire arsenal. >> translator: ukraine has asked for planes so that we don't lose so many people, and you have thousands of warplanes. but we haven't been given any. you have at least 20,000 tanks. ukraine asked for 1%. 1% of all your tanks. >> well, joining me now from brisbane, australia, is peter leighton. he is a visiting fellow at the griffith asia institute. thanks

angela merkel for everything else she achieved while being german chancellor, turned away from nuclear a short-sighted decision on her part it has to be redressed those were wrong government decisions that have to be addressed with right government decisions. also in our hurry to go in a greener and more renewable way, which is the right way to go, we have to go in that direction, we've forgotten an energy transition is a transition and dhurg period of time, you need oil and gas, and so the disincentive, the disinvestment in oil and gas that we've undertaken over the last few years, we're paying for that >> what do you expect as everyone is gathering now? i assume they're going to talk about what will be done in response if russia uses chemical weapons or worse here as this continues? what kind of language should we expect on that front >> so underscoring all of president biden's -- his nato meeting, eu meeting, g7 meeting in brussels and then poland on friday, is are we going to get further with putin by confronting him, or are we going to get further with putin by not confronting him

angela merkel talked about putting up an lng operation in germany. she never got started on it. within an hour after the 2020 election was over, she pulled it back. now, this guy, scholz, seems to be more realistic. the bottom line is to get off of russia, you have to have lng exports from the united states and nuclear energy. in fact, i would say to you for this country -- i'm in all of the above guy. i'm not opposed to renewables. don't get me wrong. but renewables will not expand our energy base. they will not. the savior is clean-burning natural gas and nuclear. those are the two things. that is not in this. it's just a task force. by the way, ferk may have loosened up or postponed their draconian restrictions. maybe the energy department, too. but i believe it's only for the moment. it's not a permanent change in biden's energy policy. >> martha: i'm guessing some of those heads of state wished they listened to you on the lng purposes and that they had a -- now they have to rebuild the relationships and extract themselves from russia. thanks, larry. look forward to your sho

scholz, who had been portrayed as a very prudent, moderate leader, and the guys of his predecessor angela merkelry speech on sunday to the boondocks dog, saying that we have entered a new era. and this is a decisive battle between force and the law. and you may imagine how that resonates in germany. and he has said that the law has to prevail. and to that and, germany has agreed to send weapons to ukraine. and this is a remarkable turn about. taboo's are falling everywhere. sweden's neutrality, finland's neutrality switzerland's neutrality. all gone. all gone because president putin made this rash in my view, decision to invade his neighbor. alleging grotesquely that there was genocide quote unquote taking place there. and while if there is one, nobody has seen it. >> let me ask you about france, because it is obviously at the center of everything that is happening right now to some extent. the french president emmanuel macron he is up for reelection in the coming months. it is an election where the far-right authoritarian candidates have been getting a lot of attention. he is trying to engage w

contact and any access to president putin, so he's really out of touch as ex-german chancellor angela merkely believes that he's the most experienced politician in the world, and he can make it. yeah, that's a common tragedy, actually. the more tragedy of ukrainian people and russian people. >> mikhail zygar, thank you so much. and by the way, if you have an opportunity, it was six days or so ago now, mikhail had a brilliant op-ed in "the new york times," and he just referred to, talking about the inner circle of vladimir putin and his thinking. of course, referring to his research alongside his book. mikhail, thank you so much for joining us on this. it was brilliant and very interesting to read. >> thank you. >>> up next, everybody, biden's warning to china, what the white house is saying about the president's 110-minute call with xi jinping who has yet to denounce russia's actions. we'll be right back. et to denounce russia's actions. we'll be right back. so, quick wellness check, how are you these days? friendships an 8, but your knee is...barely a 2? and what about your cheerfulness? or

i knew chancellor angela merkel extremely well. in those days, alex, the minister of defense was the person who is now the head of the european union. when vladimir putin has russian tanks rolling west in europe, it rattles old ghosts. those elders in that society remember 1945, russian tanks and russian soldiers conquering and looting their way across germany at the end of world war ii. they remember those tanks going into hungary in 1956. they remember those tanks going into prague and crushing the prague spring. old ghosts are rattling, especially in the minds of germans who have been victims of the russian army many times. and therefore that defense spending is quite popular at this point in germany. >> that's a very sage assessment there. let's talk about the status update on russia/ukraine talks provided by turkey's foreign minister and his assertion that they are close to agreement on russia's key demands. are these legitimate issues that russia is first of all raising? and secondly, sir, do they sound like things that presi

he sent a white flag, he told me, on thursday night, to angela merkel saying you might as well surrender're giving -- are basically over your destiny to vladimir putin by doing these multibillion-dollar deals. how big a factor is that in all of this? because i think it weakens all of nato, all of our western european allies, and there's no america or american president that's strong enough to lead right now. >> my father has always had great intuition. he was 100% right with this. listen, that $40 oil, russia is not a great economic force. they are actually a very small economic force. oil and gas make up the majority of their economy. it's awfully strong when oil is at $130 a barrel, sean. it was at 40 under my father, it was at $40, so you're weakening russia by doing that, you're also strengthening america by having low oil and gas because it's effectively like attacks. it's like getting rid of attacks in this country and my father realized that. it's one of the reasons he wanted this country to be energy independent, it's one of the reasons he was so insistent on taking oil and gas f

it's worth noting, despite all the backlash, germany's then chancellor angela merkel accepted 1 million refugees, most of them from syria. the russian involvement in syria was the kind of battle brings flapping that led to this populist moment, this buildup nationalists populists -- of regimes and governments. perhaps unintentionally created a new flood of right-wing politicians, either explicitly or implicitly aligned with putin in the kremlin themselves. from forest to orban, to trump. so we find ourselves here again though with the situation quite different in certain respects, and an interesting contrast. for many reasons, including, frankly, racism, anti-muslim bigotry, the paranoia of post 9/11 war on terror. many of those same countries which quite explicitly refused to accept refugees that russia created in syria are, to their credit, opening their borders and opening their arms to the refugees rushes creating in ukraine. just, today poland's right-wing paul prime minister along with sauvignon and the czech republic and met with zelenskyy in kyiv, traveling into the war zone. th

the leader of peace, whereas being the leader of the world during the trump years meant being angela merkelhter ] second gentleman doug emhoff tested positive yesterday for covid-19 you guessed it -- phish concert. [ laughter ] former president trump said in a new interview that he was surprised when russian president vladimir putin invaded ukraine really 'cause he invaded ukraine in 2014. when you're surprised by a thing that's already happened, that's a symptom. [ laughter ] "well, you finally came to see your old grandpa." "i was here yesterday. "you're as rude as the fella from yesterday." [ laughter ] ohio governor mike dewine signed a bill into law this week that allows gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a special permit well, what could possibly go off [ laughter ] president biden signed a funding bill yesterday to keep the federal government running through september. it was either that or take a summer job [ laughter ] he would love that the senate passed a bill yesterday that would make daylight saving time permanent across the u.s finally, a rare victory for your oven

chancellor in germany and emanuel macron of france being the bigger leader of france now that angela merkel is no longer on the world stage that is sort of the de facto leader of europe. so there have been changes in the sort of international order of who is the leading influencer among nations and president duda and president biden view things differently on certainly some of the ideological and political views. when it comes to sovereignty and security here they're aligned and certainly on the issue of trying to protect ukraine, there's a lot where they can work together and with that, they can forge some stronger ties and have some common goals and that is a good thing for the two countries at this time and they can at least for now set aside some of the other issues that are not as dominant. also for president duda, he did talk about the economic interactions between poland and the united states. although war is prominent, there are other issues of the ongoing needs between countries that always come up in these kinds of sessions because time between two presidents is always precious. i

a second idea, we haven't seen ex-german chancellor angela merkel in public for a month, but we knowputin. i don't think it's coincidence he wait for her to retire in launching his invasion in retrospect, she got germany hooked on russian natural gas, not even pulling back when putin illegally took crimea in 2014. all go to kyiv in a definitive show of support. now it's merkel's turn can you imagine if she showed up in kyiv and endured the bombing as winston churchill did nightly during the battle of britain merkel can speak fluent russian, and she's got a good relationship with putin. so she can make a direct appeal to end the war while helping with humanitarian efforts. last idea. we know that the russian invasion is bogged down. their tanks are stalled and vulnerable to javelin muscles. but the biggest problem is artillery. ukraine doesn't have much to hit back what would happen if we let them have some through poland some of our unmanned drones, say a couple thousand of them that can be used to find and root out artillery problems as long as the hail of artillery fire continues,

we have -- we have clarification, he was actually reaching out to angela merkel, and i just found this>> come on -- >> this is disappointing. he has me saved in his phone as steve erkle. he accidentally dialed steve erkle instill of angela merckle. >> i want to know why he's face timing my husband. >> he thoughts of angela merkel. it's afternoon over there. let's bring him in here. president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book "the world, a brief introduction," richard haas. richard, thank you so much for being with us and, you know, i'm sorry we had that misunderstanding about the phone. how are you doing this morning? >> i think my next book will be "face time, a brief introduction." what do you think? >> yeah. >> as long as it comes with -- >> for the old folk. >> old folks. as long as it comes with barbecuing tips. that's what was missing from your last book. i'm curious, you've been obviously listening to some of what's going on this morning and i thought that mark, our former cia agent, put it brilliantly, that this is just classic ops, warfare that the uni

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no wonder trump and angela merkel did not get along but trump was right. go over there to sure up the nato alliance, that trump tried to revitalize. he must sure up the sanctions already imposed on russia, and maybe extend them, and above all he must support ukraine and its president zelenskyy, politically and militarily. he can't back down. he can't appease. he's on the world stage. he must lead. kayleigh mcenany joins me right now, what do you see from biden at nato? >> you know, i hope what we see is a deliverable. kamala harris, of course the vice president, went over to europe, and she was widely- criticized, roundly so, because she didn't bring a deliverable. she said we'll give you more in humanitarian aid but there was no actual concrete meaningful difference like we'll give you the migs, ukraine, that you've been asking for , or that list of six items that zelenskyy has requested of course we don't want to no fly zone in my opinion because we don't want to be shutting down russian war planes but there's a lot we can do, the vice president didn't b

angela merkel: letting go of the old, is part of the new beginning.

so many feared the departure of angela merkel, but -- but both he and the german people have completelywould have thought just a few days ago even that the leaders of poland, the czech republic and slovakia would be taking a train to kyiv, and given the history of bad relations between poland and the rest of the eu, that they would be going with the unanimous backing, good wishes and support to kyiv to see zelenskyy on behalf of all of europe. this is, you know, a really dramatic sort of gesture on their part and they're doing so on behalf of all of europe and the uk, i should add. talk of brexit and all of that stuff has kind of fallen by the wayside because the uk and the eu are cooperating very, very closely. >> ian, i want to ask you if you would speak a little further about your comments amplifying joe's article this morning in the "washington post." you said two things that really struck me, one was the use of anti-ship missiles, russians have been enormous success coming from the south, anti-ship missiles would change that equation. talk a little bit about that and about the pote

angela merkel band fracking years ago and canceled plans for a terminal to take american natural gasald trump lost the election. result in germany natural gas cost the equivalent of $30 per million btus, just over $5 in america. the germans are paying of a price, so painful they changed course going back to call and nuclear. the greens killed fracking and pipelines, pressured banks to stop lending to oil and gas companies, pile on the writ redtape, delayed permits, ran the show when biden was elected and now we've got $4 gas, one hundred dollar oil and we can't get the energy that is under our own soil. and like germany we have not changed course. i am not ignoring the impact of russia's invasion. is clearly a big factor but before the war started the supply of fossil fuel energy was not enough to meet demand, the wars two months old, energy prices have been rising for a year, you are paying for the climate crowd's green dreams. second hour of varney just getting started. our next guest has been a fierce critic of president biden for many years. in a new op-ed, president biden's reck

olaf scholz changed the law in germany that angela merkel had held to for more than ten years. seth, thank you. we'll speak again very soon. sandra. >> take care. >> sandra: fears grown at home that russian hackers could outsmart america's most trusted security systems. the alarming new details. plus, progressives calling for an alternative approach to surging gas prices. banned fossil fuel exports to fight climate change. >> bill: the fbi issues of cybersecurity alert after legend russian hackers are back at it. that report identified the flaw in a popular and a very secure login system. casey stegall has got the story live in dallas. casey, hello. >> hey, bill. good morning. russia is certainly capable of an attack, it would take some time. >> i think there are a lot of areas that would be hit first. critical infrastructure the main one, our financial sector be in other peered we talk about the word side are warm what would constitute an actual crossing the line, it has never happened before. >> reports from security firms reveal that cyberattacks on ukraine skyrocketed a few

winston churchill, nelson mandela, angela merkel, and queen elizabeth have all addressed congress.he most frequent speakers to congress have been from france and the united kingdom. leaders of mexico and israel have spoken seven times each. today's meeting will take place in the visitor center, not one of the chambers. the joint meeting of the house and senate lawmakers, 9:00 a.m. eastern time on c-span. robert in new jersey, republican. caller: we need a no-fly zone in ukraine. putin is a coward. if he does something, we can just drop a bomb on putin's house like ronald reagan did when gadhafi shot down a commercial flight and he bragged about it. ronald reagan dropped a bomb directly on gadhafi's house come it killing one of his children, and we never heard from gadhafi again. host: enrico, independent. your thoughts on the ukrainian president's address to congress today? caller: i think that zelensky is feeling out for some help and he is tired of flowery speeches and empty promises. if he comes into the deep water and heads toward russia and away from nato, we may have to think

but angela merkel gets no criticism, but the fact is that the speed with which they went green is one of the reasons why it's so difficult to challenge the russians we don't talk about that enough. a lot we say is, well, they've got nukes. but the fact is, if you shut down the pipes they have to germany, they might run out of money in this quarter. otherwise i think there's a lot of people who are starting to say, you know, the whole notion that zelenskyy may be winning or whatever is not coming true. because in the end, the russians are perfectly -- missiles day and night. and a certain point, you can get a situation where in chechnya where putin destroyed the whole city then declared victory. you don't want that. i think there's a lot of people who are starting to worry if nato doesn't step up more weapons, this thing could get really, really ugly. >> we did get more weapon supply yesterday from the uk. from sweden. right. we're a long way -- it was a month ago tomorrow or i think it's today, really, in which we thought kyiv was 72 hours away from being run over. >> that's true bide

i saw some speculation today that angela merkel being gone was something that may have emboldened himrainians have been magnificent, and nobody could have counted on that, and let's hope that continues to be the case. >> they are extraordinary, extraordinary humans. >> well, and nicole, i want to be clear. one last thing. i don't know how long putin will go on, right? but i'm -- political scientists, we're not very good at making predictions about the future. >> neither are reporters. >> neither is the cia, by the way, but here is something i'm absolutely certain about, having studied subjugation of countries in this part of the world for most of my adult life, the ukrainians will never give up, so maybe he'll win the initial war, take over kyiv, maybe the government will be overthrown, but the ukrainians will fight forever, sometimes with guns, sometimes with nonviolent acts of civic resistance. they will fight forever until putin's soldiers go home. that, you can rest assured, ukraine one day will be free. i'm 100% certain about that. >> well, perfect place to stop. ambassador micha

this reminds me of the migrant army that marched across europe in 2015, germany's angela merkel let theme face a similar migrant army marching hear from central america and mexico. the word is out, they are lining up already, they are coming about who is in charge? alejandro mayorkas has failed control the border. xavier becerra runs health and human services, university it. vice president harris is supposed to tackle the root causes of migration and that has not happened. here comes another crisis of the administration's own making. does anyone really believe we would be in this migration mess if trump were still president? second hour of varney just getting started. ♪♪ stuart: congressman mark green joins us, republican from the state of tennessee. this wouldn't have happened under donald trump, what say you? >> i absolutely agree, donald trump made these deals with the central american countries, mexico, remain in mexico stuff. that shut down the flow of migrants. he is the one responsible for title 42, the thing they want to kill. this crisis would not have happened if donald trump w

ellen sirleaf of liberia, angela merkel of germany and many others. i know there are millions of women that we've left out, but today we come to celebrate under the leadership of lois frankel and as well the democratic women's caucus, to be able to once and for all put a mark in this congressional record to say that we pause, to say thank you to women, that we pause to say thank you to the new and many members of the united states house of representatives who have grown and grown, members who happen to be women. the few women that were here when i came in 1995, we have ex exponentially grown in excellence and we have brought a new face, a new perspective. i remember those days, sitting, lonely on the judiciary committee, with pat schroeder, as day after day our friends on the other side of the aisle brought up partial birth abortion. and over and over again patted myself -- patty and myself tried to explain that these are decisions that are health decisions that should be left to the mother, her faith leader and her doctor. it's sad that the state of

held a meeting here pretty sympathetic putin and he has been the one front and centre, along with angela merkel understand that i want that to be pathways for communication between us. he did come under heavy criticism before the questioning ukraine for being filled by moscow but he said i always need a window of opportunity was tiny, tiny, in this case. but it is better to take the chance that you ignore it and he continues in that vein now. let's keep trying to talk even while we work with international allies to pile on the sanctions, pile on the pressure and make the eu more independent from russia. figs pressure and make the eu more independent from russia. as always, reall aood independent from russia. as always, really good to — independent from russia. as always, really good to get — independent from russia. as always, really good to get your _ independent from russia. as always, really good to get your thoughts. - really good to get your thoughts. thank you. the foreign ministers of russia and ukraine met in the turkish coastal city in the highest level of diplomatic contact between the

donald trump has been toward vladimir putin from the very beginning, we do remember him giving angela merkell about that pipeline and giving her hell about germany's dependence on russian oil. as my mom used to say, even a squirrel can find a nut every once in a while. that was the nut he found. he got one thing right. remember him just poking the germans? >> he said in europe, you need to spend more in defense. he was right about that, too. >> so the blind squirrel found two nuts. >> thank you for your reporting this morning. of course, we'll be following your coverage, breaking news coverage on this story at 5:00 a.m. eastern every day on "way too early." >>> still to come on "morning joe," a growing number of u.s. companies are cutting ties with russia in response to the country's invasion of ukraine. we'll tell you which ones. >>> plus, russia appears to have a new strategy for attacking ukraine's capital. national security analyst clint watts joins us at the maps for a closer look at putin's plans. we'll be right back. hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and it's easy to get a quote at libertymutua

it was one of the differing points between various administrations and angela merkel.hat this is a vulnerability, a strategic vulnerability they can't have and get less dependent. poland has done a good job of doing that. part is nuclear, part is l & g that you can get gas from other places. look, there are things we have to do to deal with the ukraine problem and then there are other things we need to do and we need to start it now. >> i want to show you what is going on in russia. thousands of brave russians were in the streets yesterday protesting the war in ukraine despite the threat of lengthy prison sentences. russian police say more than 3,000 people were arrested across the country. that's the most since the war started. an activist group in russia says there were arrests in nearly50 cities. meanwhile, the russian government has cut off internet access to independent and western media. it has always blocked facebook and twitter. on friday putin signed a so-called fake news law for reporting in russia about the war. it carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years

angela merkel why make germany dependent on russia natural gas, 17 years later the pain against this to say, we want to get to a greener energy future that is going to take time, we want to reward innovation see if we can get new technology, to get into place to do that meantime, we must reverse the policy that i had on keystone pipeline oil and gas leases i know doesn't mean prices come down next week but saying you need to go own a diet if you start eating vegetable taxables fruits you still might have a heart attack what is the point. president trump said same to leadership of germany in 2017 as well about presidency breaking news this morning jay powell says federal reserve is on track to raise interest rates in two weeks, we will see if that hurts already weakened economy, dagen mcdowell jump in here. dagen: dana that would certainly help begin fighting inflation, but i want to go back to the question of oil, and natural gas. our energy economy and shoring up production, is prosperity would help fight inflation. and also stop and starve putin at the same time. instead last night

[laughter] >> so i remember donald trump going to a meeting of european leaders, pointing at angela merkeln't he awful. i tell you what, he was absolutely right. and so europe's in a mess because they cannot put effective sanctions on putin because germany and italy, to some degree, literally the lights would go out if putin turns off those taps. so the european response is a mess. the american response has been slow, but it's now happening with much larger numbers of american soldiers going into poland, hence bind's visit. and actually -- and it's rarely i say this -- but for once, boris johnson has been very, very decisive. you know, even the month leading up to this we provided training to ukrainians, we provided phenomenal new anti-tank weapons which are proving very effective. but i the european union can't agree on thinking because it's so split on energy. will: nigel, you can see the approval if rating of joe biden here at home, it's down to 34%, disapproval up to 52% for joe biden. you spoke earlier in the program about some of the calculated decisions of this administration, when