fiona hill, a supreme court council adviser on russia and former u.s.assador to russia john sullivan, who is a cbs news contributor. good morning. good to have you both here. fiona hill i would love to talk to you first. secretary blinken admitted russia is not isolated. it's getting support from china, getting support from iran. does that mean the west's main tool sanctions are failing? >> i tnlane h wh hmblken t fs been at the munich conference, we have to up our diplomatic game. as you'rege a lot of other countries don't buy that as big an issue as we see it with russia's invasion of ukraine. they're always making comparison with the great power competition among the u.s. and russia and china as part of that. i think what secretary blinken and other members of the administration have been striving to get across it's not part of us. the united states isn't fighting over ukraine for any kind of competition with china and with russia. they're trying to help ukraine liberate itself. that's the message we have to get across. if russia gets away with a lan

you know, and i read the article by fiona hill, this is a wonderful article. the most stupid girl who writes not the most stupid articles, but if you read it carefully. well, then it began, by the way, completely contrary to its form, its completion begins with the fact that one must stand to die. and that we have already defeated putin. and just a little more and we will defeat him, and in the end it says, in general, something is needed come up with to persuade putin not to escalate yet. they don’t have an answer now , what answer they don’t have, they don’t have a political answer, there isn’t one, he has already formulated it. they have no military-technical readiness to respond. and this is our opportunity to use the relative military-technical weakness of the west, which has already become involved in this conflict, it has become deeply involved, while it burns on others at other sites, they are late in the construction of the aukus. well, i think that they are already a year late, yes, three at least. well, at least, well, you know, here's an optimist,

you know, and i read the article by fiona hill, this is a wonderful article.ot the most stupid girl who writes not the most stupid articles, but if you read it carefully. hmm , then her beginning of the article completely contradicts forne. fest its completion begins with that we must fight to the death, and that we have already defeated putin. and just a little bit more and we will defeat him. and in the end, they say, in general, we need to come up with something to persuade putin not to escalate yet. they don't have an answer right now. what answer is this? they don't have, they don't have the political here, it's already formulated. they have no military-technical readiness to respond. and this is our opportunity , we need to use the relative military-technical weakness of the west, which has already become involved in this conflict, it has become deeply involved, and it burns on others on others venues, they are late in the construction of the aucus. well, i think they are already a year late. yes, three, at least danger. here is an optimist, and i am a p

and he also this reports by fiona hill and her colleague in a foreign affairs. these are people who are talking to intelligence networking to us and also democratic leaders about the high up in the democratic party. they also wrote to foreign affairs. yeah, they were close in agreement and what russia most important for it wanted only for you to commit the self and not to taking more nato and us weapons on the russian borders. that's what russia wanted. your grand wanted its territory back so they were very close to deal. and then what happened them here then and read the steps in and offer all the weapons in the world. if their fists and older men to the front, that's what mitch mcconnell said as well. it's all nice and well and down to this idea of you know, how brave ukrainians are. but this is ultimately about american interest. we have to knock out the thrush. that's our goal. lindsa graham saying the same thing. this is a great deal for us to. we've promised lensky would probably all the weapons in the world, and he just has to send all his men the fight t

defeated russia, so we have achieved everything wonderfully in our goal, of course, ideally really fiona hillbout it correctly, or rather, he read it between the lines. ideally. i would like to achieve some kind of childish political stabilization within russia from the palace coup and so on, what could be sold to the voter as a big victory is different the thing is, probably still. this will not happen, so they will sell. as a victory , it was possible to partially weaken russia to impose rather serious sanctions, and not give the opportunity, yes, but in russia to liberate the main part of the territory of ukraine, and so on. that is why the biden administration is striving for this. i think that will be emphasized. but this is again such an element of political technology, which, of course, is preserved. here is the cold war. it won't end though. even if some kind of truce comes, freezing the conflict on ukraine and i liked the publication very much. and with him ferguson. this is a scottish historian and professor at stanford at the end of last year, but in fact mail he had a publication.

fiona hill, thanks for your time this morning.o capitol hill to give your testimony. >>> still ahead, an update from ukraine where soldiers are facing a major challenge now in holding off a russian offensive. >>> plus, incredible survival stories continue to come out of turkey. rescue crews are still finding people alive under the rubble. >>> donald trump officially has a challenger in the 2024 presidential race. we will look at some of the other names that could soon join the field. "morning joe" is coming right back. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. with the money we saved, we tried electric unicycles. i think i've got it! doggy-paddle! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> the death toll from last week's earthquake in turkey and syria surpassed 35,000 people now, and people are still being pulled from the rubble. >> reporter: this morning, clinging to hope this 42-year-old woman carried to safety almost ten days after the deadly earthquake. searche

doctor fiona hill is a senior fellow senator the brookings institution, doctor hill served as a top advisor for european and russian policy on national security council an expert on issues related to a restaurant, central, energy and strategic competition. as a director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation institute. is it expert on u.s. defense strategy having served as a professional staff member of the house armed services committee and other national security positions pretty currently serves 2022 national defense strategy commission. our objective today is to examine national security issues that this committee should consider as we prepare for the fiscal year 2024 authorization act. the biden administration national defense strategy makes clear, china is our primary contender for is the only nation with both the intent and capability to have a sustained district challenge and security interest of the united states and its allies and partners around the world. at the same time russia remains violent destabilizing force assault on ukraine has inflicted horrific suffering of inno