cindy mccain. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. to what you're seeing firsthand in eastern europe. i want to get your reaction that the red cross warehouse was hit by two strikes. i know you're not involved in military matters. how concerned are you about humanitarian facilities not being safe? >> i'm very concerned about it. this has been the issue with having a corridor that's safe to be able to move humanitarian goods and of course people through. it's something we have seen repeatedly coming out of putin and just these kinds of things. bombing buildings full of civilians, bombing the irc building that just occurred. it's tragic. the only way we can stop this and that it can be stopped is for putin to stop bombing and get out. >> you visited one of the refugee centers in poland. number one, i was astounded and my heart was lifted what the polish people are doing for the ukrainians. it's an amazing operation, as you know, and it's something they withstood a huge influx of people. they're doing it with great grace and dignity and

cindy mccain, u.n. ambassador, wrapped up a visit along poland's border with ukraine this morning.osh lederman. >> reporter: russia and ukraine make up about 30%. world's exports of wheat and huge amounts of other critical supplies, soy products and other needed food stuff, especially for countries in north africa, kenya, morocco and others. i asked ambassador mccain what effect this upcoming food shortage is going to have on people who live this those parts of the world. here's what she told me. >> we are now because of this crises not going to be able to feed others who are struggling, ethiopia, yemen, kenya, madagascar. we're already at half rations in many of these countries and now with this particular war, i mean, how do we take food from a hungry child and give it to a starving child? how do you make that kind of decision? so that's what we're up against. >> i also asked ambassador mcgain mccain what her late husband would be doing and she said he would be screaming at the top of his lungs. >> thank you for the privilege of your time. craig melvin whom i love and admire dear

barack obama and john mccain were running for president. we thought we are a bed and breakfast, we are not selling beds, maybe we can sell breakfast. we started selling collectible breakfast cereals, a barack obama themed cereal called obama o's and we learned about john mccain in the navy and we called it cap'n mccain and we ended up selling $30,000 worth of collectible breakfast cereal and that is originally how we funded the company. now, it is 2008, we are desperate, we have launched three times, no one is using it, i am piling up cereal boxes in my kitchen and i'm thinking to myself, i wonder if steve jobs ever had cereal boxes in their living room. the answer was no. this was a foreboding time. i am going out to dinner in san francisco with the accommodater and they stash my accommodaters and they said you should join, and i said it is too late, we already lost. paul graham allowed us to apply. we miss the deadline, but he allowed us to apply after the deadline. we got an interview and that is where paul graham said, people are actual

we learned about john mccain, the captain of the navy, we called it captain mccain's. and we ended up selling $30,000 worth of collectible breakfast cereal, and that was originally how we funded the company. now it is late 2008. we are desperate. we have launched three times. no one is using it. i'm thinking to myself, i wonder if mark zuckerberg or steve jobs ever had to hot glue store cereal boxes in their living room. the answer was no. this was a foreboding sign. i'm going out to dinner at a thai restaurant in san francisco, and they said we should join because you guys are dying, and i said it was too late because we already launched. paul graham allowed us to apply after the deadline, and we got an interview, and that is when paul graham said, you know, first question, people are actually doing this? i said yes, and he goes, what's wrong with them? the interview went downhill from there. he admitted he hated the idea at first, did not get it, but as we were leaving the interview, my roommate hands him a box of barack obama cereal that we made, and he looks at thi

ambassador cindy mccain visiting the ukrainian-polish border.at's happening there and the challenges facing people there, salma. >> reporter: absolutely. brianna. i'm at the train station right at the border here. it is through this train station that hundreds of families come lieu not knowing where to go next. that is why ambassador cindy mccain, food and agricultural agencies in rome came here. she wanted to see the crisis firsthand and understand what refugees needed. take a listen to what she told us yesterday. >> my role is as a huhumanitari. the things you see here are what we need to be worried about in the short-term, making sure we can feed the population that can't feed themselves and make sure we keep them safe and secure. >> tell me about america's contribution so far to wfp? >> as always, the american government is number one. it is wonderful to represent a country that is so generous in this. but more importantly, this could all be stopped if putin would simply pull out and stop bombing. >> are the people who need help getting the

john mccain and barack obama are running for office. we are a bed-and-breakfast and we are not selling beds so may be we can sell breakfast. we sold an obama cereal called "obama-o's" we learned john mccain was a captain in the navy so we called it captain medicane. we actually ended up selling $30,000 worth of collectible breakfast cereal. now it is '08. we launched three times. no one is using it. i'm thinking to myself " i wonder if mark zuckerberg ever had to hot glue cereal boxes in their living room?" the answer is no. i'm going out to dinner at a thai restaurant with the founder of just net tv. they say " you should join y combinator because you are diane --dying." paul graham eventually allowed us to apply. we missed the deadline by he allowed us to apply after the deadline. we got an interview and paul graham hated the idea of airbnb at first. he did not get it. my roommate john hands him a box of cereal he made. he says "this is how we funded the company." he says " if you convinced people to pay $40 for a $4 box of cereal may

cindy mccain is the u.s. ambassador to the u.n.distribution center along the polish ukrainian border. >> millions, millions of refugees. cnn reporter salma abdelaziz is there live now. i'm curious what cindy mccain said about her visit and any additional u.s. help that might be offered. >> absolutely. i'm just going to start by explaining where i am. i'm at the key train station here that is right on the border with ukraine. it is through this station that hundreds of families come through every single day, trying to figure up what they're going to do next. fleeing violence back home. and that's exactly why cindy mccain was in this area yesterday. she wanted to see firsthand what the need is, and, of course, the need is enormous. take a listen to what she told me. >> my role is as a humanitarian. the things you see here are what we need to be worried about in the short-term right now. and that is making sure that we can cfeed a population that cant feed themselves and we keep them safe and secure. >> and tell me about america's con

but it is times like this i miss senator mccain the most he would be appear leading the charge. so like many americans and people throughout the world it has been hard to sleep at night watching war crimes unfold on television and just feeling frustrated that you cannot do more. so i will take that frustration and channel that into action there are so many tools in the toolbox as a nation and our world to fight back against putin and his cronies and one is the rule of law. i went too live in a world where trumps the rule of good it is a defining moment i think for the rule of law and can make the world a better place. for the last 20 years plus, putin hasti maintained power by imprisoning his opponent, by assassinating people who disagree with him. the russian state has collapsed, the courts have been neutered the people are puppets and now it is time for him to pay. the world has let him get away with too much for too long he has stolen the russian people blind and had murdered russian citizens to maintain his iron grip on the country. to the russian people i doubt if you can h

it and regarding john mccain, god rest his soul , mccain is also a guy who wanted us mired in syria in never wanted us out of afghanistan. the comments don't ratchet down tension again, they stoke attention. the last thing we need is hooto even more paranoid than he already is. if he thinks he will die or rot in prison, putin may just say forget negotiations, let it rip. so pooh-poohing negotiations, that is the easy stuff, and it satisfying at the moment i get it, but it doesn't accomplish much no one should be cynically thinking that an extended conflict in ukraine is good for him or her politically. i hope they're not thinking that . has history shows that the longer a war at last, the more costly it is. to all involved. u.s. policymakers have to be very careful to make sure we do not end up in a worse position when this is all over. and, dismissing any chance of peace or downplaying it will only ensure a more innocent people are slaughtered. a lot of the same people who promised injured victory in ukraine if zelenskyy just gets those migs or surface-to-air missiles were the same

of course you have trump coming on and making fun of senator mccain for being a loser. so what you know, i i thought i thought john mccain should have said a little bit more about that, but but he didn't and either he didn't want to play on the fire on his own military service as a reason why you vote for which might have might have been. very good, but it was not just military service. he was a he was a seven years, right? but even even that i think he decided that he wouldn't do that. i don't know what he decided, but he wouldn't do that because it just wouldn't wouldn't be attractive. to what was it? you mean he was you think he said did that politically? yeah, he was afraid it was not going to be attractive politically. well, and he turns out he was right and what people voted for was this over stuffed loudmouth and essentially trump who didn't not only didn't water to deserve in the war of his time but lied about it couldn't remember which foot had the bone spurs. just makes it right and is still in a voting population of this country still has a great deal of supp

my name is john mccain and i'm a father of 2 and a husband too. i love the life. and i'm also philanthropist, i have a foundation back home in junior, where i grew up where i try to have the kids to get the opportunity to give them hope to but i live in so what you'd like to be one of the few african football major in europe, johanna amolla is one of 2006 african currently playing abroad. the kenya international left his home in 2007. but he hasn't forgotten where he came from. ah, he has the same urge to give something back to the community. is african superstar like did he drug that family echo. and sadie money, we became role models for every young african footballer. ah lou in it was never easy for joanna the place he grew up in still horn fit today than dora isn't eastern southern nairobi. it's known for being the biggest dumpsite in kenya. and for pretty difficult place. i live pretty close to, to the dump, walking distance 3 minutes. so it was really, really, really cool. and the thing she unbearable who cannot stand, ah, unfortunately i have poverty, you k

and regarding john mccain, god rest his soul. but mccain's also the guy who saved obamacare or wanted us mired in syria and never wanted us out of afghanistan. graham's comments don't ratchet down tension again. they stoke tension. the last thing we need is putin even more paranoid than he already is if he thinks he'll die or rot in prison. putin may just say forget negotiations, let it rip. so pooh poohing negotiations threatening putin. that's the easy stuff and it's satisfying at the moment. i get it, but it doesn't accomplish much. no one should be cynically thinking that an extended conflict in ukraine is good for him or her politically either. i hope they're not thinking that because history shows that the longer a war lasts, the more costly it is, by the way, to all involved, us policymakers have to be very careful to make sure we do not end up in a worse position when this is all over and prolonging this by dismissing any chance of peace or downplaying it will only ensure that more innocent people are slaughtered. a lot o

but it is times like this that i actually miss senator mccain the most. if he worked with us he would be up here leading the charge collapsed if you can hear my wor fight is not with you. you are a victim of putin has meant much as anyone and they beat most. i just want to let you know we understand the difference which in the russian people and putin. but we are going to need your help. in bringing justice to the table you are going to have to suffer. there is no way to bring this without tremendous economic sanctions, without arming our friends in the ukraine. but also, i want the russian people to understand that the world will now act. the ukrainian people are the poster child for freedom fighters the 21st century. the reason the world has rallied so much against putin is because of ukraine or than any american politician including me. the german people have met the moment. things are going on in the world i thought were really not possible just a few weeks ago. i think the real catalyst for the changes, the bravery of the ukrainian people and the out

my name's john mccain and i am a father of 2. and a husband too. i love the life and i'm also philanthropist. i have a foundation back home in junior we, i grew up where i tried to have the kids to be able to. we need to give them hope to, but i live in what's it like to be one of the few african football? a matrix in europe? 200 molar is one of 2006 african currently playing abroad. the canyon international left his home in 2007, but he hasn't forgotten where he came from. ah, he has the same urge to give something back to the community as african superstar. like did he drug that family echo. and sadie money who became role models for every young african footballer. ah me. it was never easy for janet. the place he grew up in still haunts him today than dora in eastern suburb of nairobi. it's known for being the biggest dumpsite in kenya. and the 4 pretty difficult place i live pretty close to, to the dump, walking distance 3 minutes. so it was really, really cool. and distinction unbearable who cannot stand? ah, unfortunately i have over to, you k

military leaders including trial for us, presidents and most recently a judge ginsberg or senator mccain, for example, and former secretary of state colin powell. so the funeral of miss albright will probably take place at the washington cathedral and then the flat draft casket will line state at the u. s. capital rotunda. we've already heard also some of the reactions from a political washington, for example. yes and better, thomas greenfield, to united nations, she or north albright as a trade laser and a luminary in her remarks on the general assembly at the un is albright. she was once on that position as an ambassador to the un and also net prices. folks, man of the say department, he said that the impact that albright has had on the state department is failed every in every single corner at the state department in every single corridor. and all right, was a secretary of state from 97 to 2001 extraordinary, how would you be remembered in the us just briefly caroline and what will her legacy be there? well, she was a woman who lived the american dream. she came to the united states,

sorry mccain america, you sexy -- now i got to know more about that. i really do. as a stand-up comedian michael regularly tours the country and he has released several comedy albums his podcasts include mike and tom eat snacks. with tom cavanagh topics with michael showalter how to be amazing and obscure now, which please help me. welcome michael ian black this is my first time behind a pulpit. i like it. thank you for that warm introduction. so nice to be here in at the beautiful trinity church here in savannah. i am not just a visitor to savannah i moved here. about six months ago from the wilds of connecticut where i was residing for the previous 20 years. but my children who you will hear more about we're getting older. showbiz had shut down because of covid. i wasn't making any money. and we thought maybe it's a good time to sell our house. so we sold and and googled what's the best small city in america and wouldn't you know, it's savannah, georgia came up on that list. and i looked we looked at a house down here. and then i think within a week we had made a

military leaders including trial for us, presidents and most recently a judge ginsberg or senator mccain, for example, and former secretary of state colin powell. so the funeral of miss albright will probably take place at the washington cathedral and then the flag dropped casket with line state at the u. s. capital rotunda. we've already heard also some of the reactions from a political washington, for example, years in basrah, thomas greenfield, to the united nations. she are north albright as a trade laser and a luminary in her remarks on the general assembly at the un. and before all brides, the inner circle of u. s. foreign policy making had been almost exclusively dominated by man. so her role in the foreign policy establishment was also an inspiration for many women. with her ambition and her strength, she quickly became a key person, an exit example to them. your up to date business is coming up next. i minute const mckennan. thanks for watching. ah ah. ah. a man with the memories of a woman ah ali from syria is born in a female body forced into marriage. great in his escape will

security conference which for a great number of reasons, all well deserved, is still called codel mccain. it is the only codel that is named for a senator who is no longer with us and it is in respect for senator mccain's long tradition of support for that conference, nato, and the atlantic alliance more generally. this year obviously things are very different. the russians are on the border of ukraine and two things came out of this conference that i thought were important. one was an early flicker of hope within the delegation that the ukranians might actually pull this off. that was supported by none of our briefings. the entire national security establishment has presumed that it was only a matter of time until ukraine fell. but senator graham and i and others were questioning each other during that trip is there really no chance? and the other thing was going after the kleptocrats and oligarchs around putin and making their lives miserable. and there was just a wonderful explosion of bipartisan support for that that has now manifested in funds, in laws, in pending bills, in lots of

this is a bridge too far, trump is never coming back from this, was in 2015 or 16 when-- >> john mccain. >> john mccain, yeah, so when he made that comment about, you know, i like soldiers who don't get captured. i thought, okay, well, he's over. he's done. stick a fork in him, right. so i am definitely not making predictions about, you know, what is a bridge too far. and certainly after january 6th, i thought, well, now. so, yeah, i think definitely he's already trying to backtrack from his praise for putin and i think we're going to see a lot of spin about how, oh, you know, he never meant to praise putin and the comments he made the other day about how, you know, smart and savvy and absolute genius he is, that certainly isn't the first time that he's lavished this praise on putin. let's not forget that this is a guy who when asked about putin murdering political journalists, his response, you don't think that we kill people? and journalists go into overdrive, this is outrageous moral equivalency and they're right. when the left was doing this kind of thing. you know, and now this is,

and one said of abusers it became such a successful toll for diplomacy that working with senator mccain the two of us worked on making it a global bill so that it would apply beyond just russia and that we could use this to advance american foreign policy. and we worked quite frankly we didn't have the enthusiasm and support of the administration because the senator is right administrations don't like congress to intercede and we can make recommendations as to who should be considered for sanctions. so it's a major step forward and we were able to pass. in the meantime, the president worked with us on this. he was a supporter of using this tool provisions that we asked him to se we include in the executive order we recognized corruption was the fuel for mr. putin and russia and authoritarian regimes. so we wanted to make sure that we could include corruption. we wanted to make sure that we could include the enablers, those who enabled the human rights abusers to do what they do and that would include the executive order and we worked with the trump administration. they passed global. wh

this week cindy mccain here in to ifland, the u.s.y for food and agriculture toured this massive wear hoist in -- warehouse in poland. mccain tells us the crisis has evolved into a global food security situation, putting the blaum directly on russian president -- blame directly on russian president p vladimir putin. >> putin can stop this. he can stop bombing. he can pull out of ukraine so that the ukrainian can go back home. as far as what we can do as the united states of america our u.n. agencies, we're going to work with our partners and encourage more partners to come in and help us and work together as a world to not only take care of the ukrainian people, but also stop what's going on. >> reporter: now, as the u.n. focuses on supplying more humanitarian aid to refugees, this is a mission out of florida that's been on the ground since day two of the attacks in ukraine. they are based here in poland right now. now, that organization has two warehouses in poland alone and has collected $85 million worth of supplies serving about 3

you mentioned the famous mccain, as well as dividing what putin lives on, this threat most countriespact where it feels like if you pay attention, we're living through a weird contrast where everyone is saying go get them and get the yachts but then not touching the thing that everyone knows finances the whole edifice. take a listen to what chase said. >> russia is the ideal red state and i mean red as in republican not exactly red as in communist. russia is a fossil fuel economy, russia, john said is a gas station masquerading as a country. >> bill, your response and how soon could the u.s. and europe realistically bear the brunt of this, how long do people have to pay higher prices which as i mentioned middle and working class people would be hit by. >> the good news if we move towards renewable energy fast, this is the cheaper way to generate energy, sun, wind and the batteries to store them are now cheaper than gas and oil and more so with each passing year. and the principle extends pond putin, think of the other autocrats who depend on oil and gas revenues why do we listen to t

our friend john mccain used to joke that russia was a gas station masquerading as a country. to makean the point that oil and gas sector yet so far the united states government has left it relatively untouched and unscathed. in addition to economic penalties we must provide additional serial support for ukrainian forces to sustain their heroic and inspirational fight against russian aggression. a fewea weeks ago i began workig with a bipartisan group of colleagues on a c far-reaching bill to counter this aggression. this package included legislation that i introduced called theoc ukraine democracy defense lend lease act. reminiscent of what united states did when britain was hanging by a thread under nazi aggression and world war ii. just as we did in world war ii for allies and britain. bill would ensure ukrainian forces and the ukrainian citizenry have the defensive weapons, the airpower, the ships, whatever they needed in order to defend their sovereignty. it also included securityit assistance as well as sanctions on russia. even though we agreed on a bipartisan base of t

john mccain and barack obama are running for office. we are a bed-and-breakfast and we are not selling beds so we think let's sell breakfast. we sold an obama cereal called "obama-o's" we sold $50 million of collectible breakfast cereal. we launched three times. no one is using it. i'm thinking to myself " i wonder if mark zuckerberg ever had to hot glue cereal boxes in their living room?" the answer is no. i'm going out to dinner at a thai restaurant with the founder of another company. paul graham eventually allowed us to apply. we missed the deadline by he allowed us to apply after the deadline. we got an interview and paul graham asked us in our first question -- he hated the idea of airbnb at first. he did not get it. my roommate johanne tim box of barack obama cereal he made. he says "this -- roommate john hands him a box of barack obama cereal he made. he says "this is how we funded the company." we barely got in. a lot of people started turning to airbnb to save their homes by renting them out. at the same time we have a great r

it became such a successful tool for diplomacy that working with senator mccain, the two of us worked on making it a global bill, so that it would apply beyond just russia. and that we could use this to advance american foreign policy and we worked, and quite frankly, we didn't have the enthusiastic support of the administration, because, the senator from kentucky is right, administration's like to have their own authority, they don't like to have congress intercede. on magnitsky, we can make recommendations who should be considered for sanctions. so it was a major step forward. and we did -- we were able to pass global magnitsky. in the meantime, president trump worked with us on this. he was a supporter of using this tool, and he passed an executive order, signed an executive order that included provisions that we asked him to include in the executive order, because we recognized that corruption was the fuel for mr. putin and russia and author taish regimes -- authoritarian regimes. we wanted to make sure we could include corruption. we wanted to make sure we could include the enabl

please understand, if john mccain were here he would be saying the same thing, i think. it is time for her to go. he's a war criminal. i wish that somebody had taken hickner out in the 30's. yes, vladimir putin is not a legitimate leader. he's a war criminal who needs to be dealt with by the russian people. i'm not asking to invade russia. i'm not asking to send american ground forces in ukraine to fight the russian army. i'm asking to end of this reign of terror for you in the world at large. if you follow, you will have zero future. host: grundy, millville, we are asking all of you how you would rate the support to ukraine. you say too much? good morning, go ahead. caller: by grandparents are from ukraine, going back about 120 years. at all used to be russia. has anyone stopped to consider that if they had just capitulated, no one would be dead right now. i will give you the reason why. when the soviet union fell, 30 years ago there was talk that they could come back. they have been planning this year's. especially the last 10. they took crimea. you've got the oil fiel

of course, i also asked her about her late husband senator john mccain, who was revered in ukraine forunch defense of its sovereignty and one of the most outspoken critics for decades of president putin and russian au tock skrasy, i wanted to know what she thought her husband would be saying about this war if he were alive right now. this is what she said. >> your husband was revered in ukraine and an outspoken voice against president putin and russian autocracy. now we have a russian war spiraling out of control. what do you think he would be saying about this? >> he would be screaming at the top of his lungs, are you kidding? he was such a good friend to ukraine and had so much empathy and also so much understanding for the fledgling democracy the way it was, and he called putin for what he was early on. i mean, we all remember him saying, you know, what he thought of vladimir putin. he was right. so, you know, i'm -- for many reasons i wish he were here and this is one of them. >> yeah. >> we could use his voice right now. >> i also asked ambassador mccain about what the solutions a

it is usually the case with highly recognized politicians like it was the case with senator john mccain or called empower after there did really how will she be remembered in the united states? what will her legacy be there? well right was a woman who list the american dream. she came to the united states when she was 11 years old as a refugee escaping from that. so you rub them 1st to the u. k. and then from a communist repression with her family to the united states. and then she became of course, after many years, she became the 1st female, a u. s. secretary of state in this country, before albright, the inner circle of u. s. foreign policy making had been almost exclusively dominated by men. so her role on the foreign policy establishment also reflects the traditional roles of women in the fifties and sixties. and with her ambition and her strength. she was definitely an, an inspiration who encouraged women to pursue professional careers and on the policy level. albright will be remembered as an international is that she will be remembered for strengthening what she called an assert

orchestrate the qu in 2014, to think that things would be much, much more different numbers john mccain. i mean, they may die in kiev. people like chris murphy, even john katy. victoria knew that who is now the political director at this state department is engaging in and many open intervention in internal affairs of another country. and she said that obviously, you know, does not support wars was generally end up in 70. and that's, that's not something that you don't support, but you don't realize is who is that as a default? and it's the united states that this started this, this problem. what are your thoughts on the supply of weapons to ukraine coming from the west? do you think this is going to shift the conflict? you know, generally the americans engaging this type of activities in the past in different countries. the want to fight the enemies using other people's soldiers. and this is actually one of the things that you don't need to talk about today that is relying on the west and sort of accepting less than many promises is a big mistake. and i think the ukraine realizes the f