reporter: are you taking part in the nsc meeting? i wanted to follow up on your meeting with zelensky yesterday. after the meeting he shared frustration with countries like the u.s., saying an attack is likely to happen but the administration has said retaining sanctions holds onto leverage. but if you believe pickton has already made up his mind, what leverage do you have, why not put sanctions in place? vice president harris: the purpose of sanctions is deterrence. let's recognize the unique nature of the sanctions we have outlined. these are the strongest we have ever issued. it is directed at financial institutions and individuals and will exact absolute harm for the russian economy. reporter: do you feel the looming threat will deter them? vice president harris: we strongly believe, and remember sanctions or product not just as the perspective of the united states, but a shared perspective of our allies and we have agreed the deterrence of the sanctions is still meaningful. we still sincerely believe there is a diplomatic path.

running point were the same lessons the folks at the state department, obama administration, dod and nscing the policy. >> you have to do as president of the united states, you have to do what you think is the right time at the moment given the challenge. this president has to know we're in mid-february in a midterm election year. the price of crude oil is going up. gas is up. consumer prices went up in the last year. he's in a midterm election year. if you impose heavy sanctions it's likely to drive those prices up further and who knows what other geopolitical fallout there would be. >> it comes with the job but it's the consequences are as plain as day. the consequences that you were talking about, economic consequences and something else, which is there's not a lot of evidence right now that the american people, the american voter really cares that much about what's going on in ukraine. now if and when they are presented by -- with the facts about why they should care and there are a lot of facts about why they should care, maybe that will change, but there's a lot going on at their k

the nsc has always been a crimean disrespect. it's come to address the risk of climate change, global health crises and new technologies as a matter of course. but for this broad understanding to emerge it is essential for the european union and nato to complement and reinforce one another, to prepare themselves to face new risks. ultimately a cyber tawic remains a cyber attack regardless of whether it is directed from st. petersburg. i think we fear, however, that taking new threats like these into account is something different than laying claim to globally active nato. indeed, the developments of -- >> we're listening in there to german chancellor olaf scholz speaking at the munich security conference. he warned any military action will have a high price for russia and that if diplomacy fails it won't be the fault of the western nations who are trying their best to achieve peace through diplomacy. alall right, we'll be right bac. kills 99.9% ofof bacteria detergent alone, can't. do you have a life insurance policy you no longe

reporter: are you taking part in the nsc meeting? i wanted to follow up on your meeting with zelensky yesterday. after the meeting he shared frustration with countries like the u.s., saying an attack is likely to happen but the administration has said retaining sanctions holds onto leverage. but if you believe pickton has already made up his mind, what leverage do you have, why not put sanctions in place? vice president harris: the purpose of sanctions is deterrence. let's recognize the unique nature of the sanctions we have outlined. these are the strongest we have ever issued. it is directed at financial institutions and individuals and will exact absolute harm for the russian economy. reporter: do you feel the looming threat will deter them? vice president harris: we strongly believe, and remember sanctions or product not just as the perspective of the united states, but a shared perspective of our allies and we have agreed the deterrence of the sanctions is still meaningful. we still sincerely believe there is a diplomatic path.

the nsc, the national security council and the white house was not seriously planning for an evacuation. >> yes. that's right. thank you for having me. this report was delivered to the "washington post" through freedom of information act on friday, the same day that the pentagon rolled out some of their findings on that awful bombing we had in august where we had 13 u.s. troops killed. this report focuses on the bombing itself. but is much wider than cast at the pentagon briefing on friday. it includes witness statements from the two top generals and the top admiral on the scene throughout the evacuation. and yes, a great deal of frustration there. >> and up the navy rear admiral, peter, the top u.s. commander on the ground. you told army investigators, military personnel would have been much better prepared to conduct a more orderly evacuation, quote, if policy makers had paid attention to the indicators of what was happening on the ground. who is he talking about? and i mean, i find this incredible. it is not like you and i hadn't been covering since february that this was going to ha

and talking to nsc officials, their overall assessment is this is a playbook we hope never to use, but we are deeply glad to have it, even in the process of building, it helping them prepare for other events relatives and scenarios that they might have participated in, where they wanted to table top exercises at the cabinet level. so that there when the issues pop up they can address. >> yamiche, you really brought up the complexities that this administration is facing. what happens -- with russia. but also, the white house is just juggling other key issues. inflation, the pandemic, of course, the supreme court vacancy. what is the mood like in the white house with all of these issues converging right now? >> the message that i hear from white house officials consistently is that this is what presidents have to deal with. part of the reason why joe biden ran, the message to me, is because he can juggle all these things at the same time. that being, said you have to understand, at least in theory, in talking to some of sources as well, there is this feeling that they are dealing with a

in this case, we haven't seen that yet >> you said this is nsc, like national security council rec receiptince to do this? >> i think so so. >> there is a huge lawsuit which has major implications for the industry. sarah palin against the "new york times". where are we against that? >> sarah palin is saying she was defamed by the "new york times". the "new york times" said, no, we made an innocent mistake. the idea is actual malice. if you knowingly write something that is false, then sarah palin can sue and potentially win. it will still be hard for her to win. the conservatives have been trying to challenge the rules of the road to write just about everything as long as we're not making it up on purpose. she said "the times" made it up on approximate upper to hurt me. the editorial manager saying this, saying i apologize. this was my fault. we weren't doing it on purpose. this is going to be a battle in the days to come. we will be hearing more about this case as it heads toward a verdict. there are -- what's at stake is that news outlets can report on public figures and sometimes make m

people at the nsc and the white house have been saying for weeks that this looks like a probability. cannot be and should not be rewarded in any way for his behavior. certainly if he invades, then every single legitimate means of discourse has been ended in the meantime until sanctions and other policies go into place. i mean, this would be, as we've said over and over, the largest land invasion since world war ii. even if he plans less than a complete invasion and he goes for the -- those two regions in eastern ukraine, even that would be an incredible violation of international norms and law and human rights. >> except, ambassador mcfaul, he's done that before, and the outrage of the world was not visited upon russia. he's done it more than two times before and he has signalled, vladimir putin has signalled very clearly to the world that there's an intention to do it again, and he does so in a manner that frames it as a reunification of greater russia. do you think it's clear to vladimir putin that the world is united and that the outrage of the world will be visited upon him? >> w

this was clearly an analysis paralysis issue going on at the nsc.c of how this same team worked in the obama administration as well. listen, the bottom line is, biden as ratcliffe just said before me, biden ignored the intelligence or didn't pay attention to it or maybe he didn't believe it. i don't know the answer. but they clearly played down the threat up until they with drew troops. they decided to close bases and take out american troops before making sure that every american was out of afghanistan. so they clearly did not plan for every contingency, martha. in fact, there's a lot of questions that need to be answered. i believe there will be a hearing on the hill about this. a lot of us, all of us, every american deserves to know how many americans that joe biden still has left behind in afghanistan. we deserve to know what the threats are. in november, the intelligence community assessed it could be six to 12 months before isis-k could conduct attacks outside of afghanistan. is that accurate? is that on pace? we're told that they would do ove

cnn is reporting that nsc middle east coordinator, brett mcgurk, and state department energy envoy amos hochstein are in riyadh today. are we asking the saudi's to pump more oil and is winning if you could confirm that? i can confirm they're on a trip. there are a range of range of topics to discuss, including yemen. and as you know, we engaging with our partners around the world about ensuring supply meets demand is part of our objective from here as well. reporter: and that's one of the objectives of the meeting as well? ms. psaki: i don't have more details on the meeting at this point in time. go ahead. reporter: thanks, jen. the secretary of state said today that they have not seen meaningful pullback by russia when it comes to the forces that they've put on ukraine's border. what would meaningful pullback look like to the united states? ms. psaki: well, i'm not going to define that by troop numbers. i think we will know it when we see it, which is a verifiable reduction of troops at the border of ukraine. reporter: but you're not looking at a certain metric or anything like that? m

minister and former foreign minister of poland and tom graham formerly the top russian official at the nscstill possible to deter the russians? >> president putin should be deterred by the deliveries of sophisticated anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. the ukrainians now have an anti-tank missile for every russian tank. you know, those stinger missiles were deployed in afghanistan back in the 1980s when i covered that war and they meant that the pilots had to go high. if you add to that u.s. tactical intelligence, this might be a very different war from what mr. putin expects. we should tell him in chance that we are ready to sustain a ukrainian gorilla par for ten years if need be and would increase our badges and create a gas union and thereby extract a much better gas price from him. those are the kinds of things a that would deter him. the nato issue is a red herring. i cannot unlarge nato against the will of germany and germany has said it's not happening. >> radek, what is your sense from munich and, of course, from the time when you were foreign minister, would the europeans go al

russians, there was an article about these tiger teams that are running table top exercises at the nsc. it's good to train your people and get them up to speed. the russians don't care about that. they're looking for concrete action. so if we move troops from germany, we have 30 to 50,000 troops there, we don't need them there. the germans have plenty of money to defend themselves. we have to move those troops to poland and romania. if they saw that, sending the abrams tanks that poland has ordered, if they saws getting those tanks to poland, those are the sorts of things that would -- they saw us pass a bipartisan sanctions bill from the congress, that would be a big message. the russians are looking for concrete actions. they want to see how they will be deferred if they go with their plan to invade ukraine. >> martha: we would all love to get inside putin's head. he's the one person in all of this that has put out a ton of scenarios and i would imagine that he watches this and he sees the gaming and all of the discussion about what he may or may not do. he probably likes it, ambassa

i wanted to ask you first, are you going to take part in that nsc meeting?nd i wanted to follow up on your meeting with president zelensky yesterday. >> okay. >> when he spoke after your meeting, he shared his frustration with countries like the u.s., who say that an attack is likely to happen in ukraine, but that you won't put sanctions in place until that happens. the administration has continually said that retaining those sanctions holds on to some leverage. but if you believe putin has made up his mind, what leverage do you really have? why not put those sanctions in place now? >> the purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. but let's also recognize the unique nature of the sanctions that we have outlined. these are some of the greatest sanctions, if not the strongest, that we've ever issued. as i articulated yesterday, it is directed at institutions, in particular, financial institutions, and individuals, and it will exact absolute harm for the russian economy and their government. >> but if putin has made up his mind, d

that's according to leaked notes from a white house situation room meeting, as compiled by nsc officialshe americans watched the afghanistan situation unfold, but because these documents finally highlight that the biden administration was making these really crucial and, you know, numerous decisions, again, just hours before kabul fell. as you'll remember, just before the former afghani president fled the country in fear of what was going to happen there. >> certainly, though afghanistan has faded from the national headlines over the last few months, it is important to have all the reporting we've had in the last few days about the ongoing crisis there. thank you for bringing that to our attention. >>> switching gears, we know one of the loudest and most influential voices in the extended biden world belongs to jim clyburn. it was his endorsement that basically helped biden win the south carolina primary back in 2020, that started his comeback, that led to the nomination. clyburn strongly favors judge michelle childs to replace justice breyer on the supreme court. what is the case he is

as i just alluded to, you are the former nsc director for eastern europe, the caucuses and russia.moment, a lot to get to that. you're also a member of the remarkable an important book, here, right matters. an american story, a book that is particularly informative as we await a russian invasion of ukraine. first, let's talk about the stuff that you are talking about, the damage that you faced as a whistle blower. you heard donald trump make some sort of a deal, offer some sort of a deal to the president of ukraine. you admitted we went to your brother at the white house, whom you confided, and understood you had to do something to fix this. but you knew in that moment you would suffer for it. >> absolutely. frankly, you can set aside the facts of the first impeachment, the phone call, as the so-called perfect phone call, just the mere intimidation and retaliation against an official, for doing wrongdoing, from personal channels, both through classified channels, and behind the scenes, and one called to testify, while being subjected to intimidation is wrong. it is part of this who

they would've never gotten an nfc nsc official to come down in the parking lot. >> exactly in one ofthese instances, john ratcliffe who is again the director of national intelligence, the nation's top intelligence official, and meadows had given out his cell phone number to giuliani and powell and is getting calls from them and he was pushing this aside because he knew us crazy stuff. trump himself, trump himself asked john ratcliffe to investigate this wacky theory about michigan being controlled by foreign, i can't even begin to explain, but, and he said can you please ask the fbi to investigate this? .. that trunk blamed him for your guy and he's ranting and raving that he had recommended him. he thought he was a standout solid guy and obviously that's not what governor trump wanted in that job. tell us about another name that might not be familiar to readers but ought to be. john boehner and t, he's a college quarterback who was known throughout video. there are pretty impressive passes. john maccabee becomes one of the most powerful men in washington. how does that happen and wh

india's biggest ever initial public offering, the indian exchanges nsc and bsc have approved the flotationre in india, lic. just coming through. there were looking for a 5% sale of the company. that is the position of lic. with that in mind, we had markets in move by kick off the session about three minutes ago. let's look at the state of play and whether the regional trend is being followed to the upside. we do see modest gains of about .3%. that is the india open. more coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ haslinda: welcome back. china's 1.4 billion consumers are considered a gold mine for western brands, but are becoming a growing headache for hong kong and the beijing political agenda , as an investigation shows. this is apparent for sneaker makers like adidas and nike. sales have plummeted the past 12 months as chinese consumers increasingly show their patriotism by buying local brands instead. we have our consumer reporter with more. how is rising nationalism causing a shift in human behavior? reporter: the answer a year ago when we had the sneaker industry going through controversy and

i talked to nsc and most of the ukrainian requests are economic in nature.r air defense capabilities from the u.s. including missiles because we are warning about the looming air strike and we need arms and they didn't want to delve into what exactly the requests were from the ukraineance. i think they are doing a dance in terms of revealing, you know, as much as they need to but not too much. griff: you're getting the straight skit from the woman at the white house asking those questions, jacqui heinrich and we are also following the freedom convoy, our political panel will weigh in on the trucker protest and what the school board members of liberal san francisco means for the midterms next. ♪ ♪ ♪ jacqui: all eyes on ukraine and possible russian invasion after president biden said yesterday he's convinced that russian president vladimir putin has decided that he's going to move forward with an invasion and we have seen nuclear drills happening this morning under the guides of exercise, increase shelling and our reporters on the ground there talking about te

the nsc is not confirming russia is blocked despite putting germany lifted its opposition to it and ukrainiant would happen. she will have an update on it. thank you very much. john: the president of ukraine, vladimir zelenskyy is busy putting out messages. a video we are trying to get out, in which he welcomes proposals by turkey to hold p stocks with russia. his country is lacking oil, and oil product. we have to look at these pronouncements from zelenskyy with caution but he did say earlier today the turkish president agreed to shut a transit of russian warships, some of this may be more of a wish list. we will clearly see as the hours go on. the latest headlines, radiation levels spiking near the site of the chernobyl nuclear disaster after russian troops seized control. the regulatory inspector saying gamma radiation exceeded the agency said the condition of chernobyl's nuclear facility remains unchanged. the rising radiation is believed to be due to heavy military machinery stirring contaminated soil. on the nuclear front, and advisor to the interior minister says russian troops are app

former nsc staffer, richard higgins, who was let go even in the trump white house, which i think is prettyt military lawyer, along with michael del rosso, a former congressional candidate in virginia. >> so, ben, this week, we have learned that trump had his hands on a plan to corrupt d.o.d., doj, and dhs for the explicit purpose of seizing voting machines. what we're learning here is that among trump's allies, it is still unclear if this got into trump's hands, but that his allies sought to corrupt the nsa for the purposes of overturning the election. what do we do now? >> well, you know, nicole, this is precisely the scenario that we in the obama years had to spend years trying to assure people could not take place after the snowden disclosure. people know that the nsa collects a vast amount of data, including text messages, phone numbers, metadata, and we really had to drive home to people that you cannot access that without probable cause and a court order and that's only done in cases of terrorism investigations, but the point is that this is kind of the holy grail of the potential ab

the nsc program is an amazing program ebut it's a very competitive inone and fewer than half of us can sites are rewarded nationally last year and fiscal year 2021. we did receive a grant in 2020. red tape has caused delays despite the award we have not been able to implement the grant yet . and i agree with many of the statements that rabbi cytron-walker mentioned about ways to cut down the time in order to implement the grant and ways to perhaps advance monies to allow the process to begin. although its mention in the program, perhaps something can be done immediately in order to protect the sites. and i can hardly emphasize how time sensitive this matter is in addressing it. i also feel that perhaps we need more funds in order to allow for everyone that needs to be protected to be protected perhaps 500 million should be appropriated to protect these sites and ensure security. i appreciate that our representatives in washington , they maintain close contact with officials at the department of homeland security . conference of presidents and others with strong support for the elements

i'm told european journalists get a call at least once a week for the nsc, with some senior officialsant new alliance mechanisms, the quad that combines india, japan, australia, the united states, rising india, strongest force for check in china going forward. the alliance giving military power to the pacific because of the one weapons system the chinese can't deal with. our quiet, very stealthy submarines. there have been a series of moves to take the one asset the united states indisputably has, good alliances, and make it a centerpiece of the policy going forward. the biden team, whatever they've done wrong, and there is a long list, they've done that really right. i think everybody is beginning to get that, including republican-leaning editorialists at the "wall street journal." >> david ignatius, thank you very much for coming on this morning. >>> up next, we'll ask reverend al about his meeting with nfl commissioner roger goodell over the league's hiring practices. >>> plus, an investigation in germany says retired pope benedict could have done more to stop abuse by priests. we'

let's bring in the editor of "the new yorker" david remnick and former nsc director for european affairsrenewed democracy initiative, retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. elise jordan and david ignatius are still with us as well. >> david remnick, you spent your life studying russia. give us your insights on what has happened over the past week. >> it is a horrendous tragedy for ukraine above all, a horrendous tragedy for ukraine. in the coming days i expect it to get worse. i think vladimir putin from the start has made very clear what he has intended to do and what he is going to do. it looks like he is going to take kyiv and take the ukrainian government, and the rhetoric in moscow is so ugly as to embarrass orwell. that he this are somehow the salvation of ukraine, that they are saving ukraine. this is the language of some orwellian novel. so i don't expect anything remotely good. they're taking their time. they're moving in on the capital. they're subduing other cities, and your excellent report showed a young guy with an ak-47 and he didn't know the first thing a