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julia ioffe, again, what is the symbolism of this?it means something in the big picture. can you explain? >> yeah. you know, as the west is rolling out these extremely punishing sanctions against russia, i mean these are the nuclear options of sanctions, they're hitting russians, everyday russians really hard. there's already talk there might be food shortages soon, fuel shortages, et cetera. to see it is not just the russian people being hit but the actual people who are close to putin who have benefited from his rule including the chairman of rosneft who is a former kgb agent, who is close to putin. excuse me. >> bless you. >> who is seen as the kind of -- >> excuse me. who is seen as the kind of darth vader of russiaes that's kind of his nickname. that's the one that the french seized, alisher usmanov. he is a pretty scary guy. he did time in the soviet union for rape. these are big guys, big fish, and to seize their yachts has to hurt. it is symbolic because it is showing the russian people that's who they are going after. >> righ

then tires squeaking, wheels turning, nato again focused on russia. >> julia ioffe, thank you very much>> still ahead on "morning joe," a growing number of western companies have stopped operating in russia, but some well-known u.s. brands continue to do business there. we will tell you i didn't ones, why and what is being done about it. also ahead, my interview with former secretary of state hillary clinton as we mafd interns day during this turbulent time. as we go to break here is european parliament member marking international women's day ahead a deadly invasion of her country. >> hey. so it is already past midnight here in kyiv and it is officially international women's day. usually on this day kids are giving their mommies flowers and cards to say how special they are. this year our kids have been robbed of this opportunity. they are either at refugee camps or very far away from us to keep them safe. this year ukrainian women will receive flowers, but these are not only flowers that we will be carrying because we are also carrying guns to protect our country along with our men fr

joining me now with reporting and insights julia ioffe and david sanger of the "new york times." know putin more than anyone. going to negotiation tables to have talks about ending this conflict, but do you really think that that is in the cards for ukraine? >> not at this moment, i'm afraid. i think given that his people are going into the negotiations saying, we're happy to negotiate, but we won't budge on a single point is not a negotiation. i can see why, you know, in that crazy logic. i think poot canutin cannot be lose and wants total victory. take over ukraine a regime that is friendly keeping ukraine in russia's sphere of influence, as he calls it, and keeps it basically demilitarized and out of the west's sphere of influence. meaning ukraine giving up its sovereignty. whatever form that takes, we don't know yet, and i think the reason he's going after ukraine cities, basically doing the syrian strategy and chechen strategy on them i think is so that, to reduce morale of the population to force the government to basically capitulate. >> what the view inside the united sta

julia ioffe, what audience was she reaching there. >> i think she was trying to reach the people who0% owned by the kremlin. it is the first channel that vladimir putin went after when he became president, and the people who watch this channel for the most part trust kremlin tv and the government and government media as a source of information. for the most part those viewers support this war, or what they think is happening in the war in ukraine. so i think she was trying to speak to the people who watch and support the war and trying to tell them what you are seeing, what you are hearing on this channel is not true and you should not support this war. >> do you think that things are different enough in russia where she could have had an impact, and what do you think will be happening to her? >> i don't know how much of an impact she had because, you know, they quickly cut away to another scene. it wasn't picked up by other russian state media obviously, and when it was the sign was blurred out, she was blurred out. as we now know this morning, well, it sounds like there are reports

they certainly, i think, were in line with what you were saying, john avlon, thank you so much and julia ioffewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, march 8th. the breaking news, the next several hours, a humanitarian corridor is open for civilians to evacuate in the northeastern ukrainian city of sumy. at least it is supposed to be. overnight, the ukrainian government agreed to an offer from the kremlin to set up this escape route, sumy has seen heavy fighting in recent days, just last night ukraine says 21 civilians were killed by air strikes, including two children. now, the reason to be skeptical is that these corridors have not worked, not so far. moments ago, the ukrainians report that a humanitarian convoy headed for mariupol was shelled by russian forces. we're monitoring that situation. the defiant president zelenskyy has been seen in his office in kyiv for the first time since the invasion started. he said he will not hide and does not trust any offer from the kremlin. >> translator: there was an agreement on humanitarian corridors. did it work? russi

let's talk about this with julia ioffe, washington correspondent of puck and cnn global affairs analystting would signify, assuming it moves forward, but it appears to be in the works. what would this signify to you? >> we're gone from the heavily scripted days of preplanned nato summits years in advance. this is the signal here is that this is a massive european and international emergency that is going to just rewrite what security looks like in europe. not just in the short-term of this war, but in the long-term. we're at a fundamentally different moment and i think there is no script yet for nato in how to prepare for a longer term confrontation with russia. >> what is the message that vladimir putin absorbs watching a hastily called nato meeting? >> that everybody is ganging up against him, which is the exact thing he was trying to avoid, right? going into this war, all he kept talking about was the indivisibility, he gets a say alongside nato. now the absolute opposite is happening. nato is unified against him, shutting him out, punishing him. >> does it change anything to him, th

julia julia ioffe is a founding partner in washington correspondent at putt. thank you for your time tonight. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow from lviv. it's time now for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. president biden says, he will not apologize for his outrage over putin, and power. the january six committee, voting tonight, holding two trump insiders in contempt, and meeting behind closed doors despite justice clarence thomas, and the controversial text to the white house. plus, a federal judge, says former president, trump may well have broken the law in attempts to stay in power, as the 11th hour gets underway, on this monday night. good evening once again. i'm stephanie ruhle. vladimir putin's brutal war on ukraine's entering day 34 as president biden responds to the uproar over his comments this weekend. >> for god's sake, this man cannot remain in power. >> today, the president said he was not backing down from that statement. >> i'm not walking back. and expressing the moral outrage towards the way putin is dealing w

julia julia ioffe is a founding partner in washington correspondent at putt. thank you for your time tonight. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow from lviv. it's time now for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, my friend. st wor >> good evening, ali. we hope we don't hear any more of those air raid science -- sirens in lviv. it's getting much more tense there, obviously. >> yes, it is. i will tell you why. it is interesting to watch how they go about their lives, generally speaking. obviously it's nighttime. there's nobody out here because there is a curfew. but after this weekend, shelling, so we know this now, when they happened, more people go into the shelters and clear off the streets. this is becoming serious and closer to home for people here in lviv, lawrence. >> thank you once again for your coverage, ali. >> have a good show. >> thank you. today, a federal judge said it is likely that donald trump committed crimes in his illegal attempts to block the recording of the electoral votes in congress on january 6th.

julia julia ioffe is a founding partner in washington correspondent at putt.it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow from lviv. it's time now for the last

julia ioffe is back with us. , i know that some folks put putin at a weak point, but if his people aren't hearing the truth of what's happening, how does he get weaker among the people that, before this, supported him? >> i don't know that he does, but i also don't know that it matters. i think we're projecting this american political logic on to a place that doesn't have it. you know, i've spoken to several pollsters and looked at some polls and something like two-thirds of russians support this war, but they support the war they're being told about in the press, which is that press, very generously speaking. they're being told that russian soldiers are being greeted as liberators, that they're freeing ukraine from nazis, that they're not bombing civilian areas, that there are not really any refugees and that people who are fleeing are fleeing into the arms of the russians rather than 2 million people fleeing away from them. so, you know, if it's a war of liberation against naziism, sure, a lot of people support

tonight with the context, russia expert and washington correspondent for puck news, julia ioffe, andormer labour mp caroline flint. welcome to the programme. vladimir putin has told the russian people tonight everything is going to plan. but if the russian supporters of the president were looking hard enough, they might see the obvious flaws in that argument. were his war really going to plan, then why only a week into the conflict did the russian president suddenly feel it necessary to offer compensation to the grieving mothers of young russian soldiers? if russia was truly liberating ukraine, then why have a million refugees fled east to west? and not towards the russian soldiers that purpotedly come to save them? and if the russians were truly precision bombing, then how would he explain this? the town of borodyanka, northwest of kyiv, where entire residential areas have been shelled and reduced to rubble. or this. taken from a dash cam this afternoon on the route into the northern city of chernihiv, where more cluster munitions were launched into a residential area. hitting homes

joining us now to talk about this, we have the former ambassador to ukraine, william taylor, and julia ioffe ." this just in, let's try to figure out what we can about this. we heard from kirby, he said evidence that russian troops stopped advancing on kyiv. the russian ministry of defense put out a telegram they're going to reduce military activity in chernihiv and certain units are withdrawing from battle fronts in kyiv and chernihiv. what is going on here? >> what we know is the russians had a really hard time. that is the ukrainians have done very well. ukrainian military has outperformed any expectations and as admiral kirby said, they pushed back, they counterattacked and pushed the russians away from kyiv. so that is a very good sign. and if the russians are now saying that they're going to reduce their activity around these two cities, chernihiv and kyiv, that's a good signal. we will believe it when that actually happens. >> what do you think? >> well, we're seeing evidence of this on the -- some evidence of this on the ground yesterday. we heard that the ukrainian army pushed russi