caller: glad to hear your background you were a climate change global warming guy in the obama administration and you're trying to dance around that issue. here we have an example of the biden administration seemingly willing to sacrifice 20 million ukrainian lives by not hitting putin where it hurts in his oil production. and sales. so we've got the green new deal , insane policies of decarbonizing the world so to speak while at the same time it's pointed out that the production is needed to keep people functional. so how do you resolve the conflict of still advocating global warming policies that are any -- guest: well, i certainly would not and don't mean to dance around the fact that i played a role in the obama administration on climate change and now am working with people here at columbia university to build the first climate school in the country. i think climate change is and will remain an existential challenge and we need to walk and chew gum at the same time. we need to continue to make progress on climate change while we are also enshuring energy security. so you're right that i

administration that had to know much of what was going on. they play rope-a-dope as the scandal widens during the course of the obama-biden administration.ve never seen anything like this. pause because the media are so corrupt, they have no intention of drawing attention to this or countering it, because they participated in it. i want to spend part of the program with my buddy pete hegseth, 5 years ago almost to the day, on radio, march 3, 2017, right before i went on the air. i pulled articles program, and saying, something is going on. they are spying on trump world. they were so excited about articles they were spewing as a result of leaks from bureaucracy, i pulled them together, as a lawyer i gave them exhibit numbers, i said okay, then before i went on air, i talked about it, it was picked up by our friends at breitbart, they added to it and repeated what i said. pete invites me on fox and friends sunday a few days later, march 6, 2017, he allowed me to speak. and go through it we'll hit from the the clips to lay the foundation for the new information that has been determined, again. not by me. not by pete, but through a criminal

text message. >> the team says the dns information was collected as precaution during the obama administration after russians hacked the democratic national committee. they say it continued into the trump administration after dns queries after russia yoda phones were considered in proximity to the trump campaign and white house. >> dns data mining is very imprecise. in the context of this particular pleading, it's saying sussmann had no business pretending the data mining established ties to russia. sussmann's attorneys criticized durham writing in a late monday night filing the special counsel has again made a filing in case that unnecessarily includes prejudicial and false allegations. and are plainly intended to politicize this case, inflame media coverage and taint the jury pool. both the doj and durham's office are not commenting. michael sussmann's trial is scheduled to begin in may where we will hear more about this data collection at trump tower and the white house. bret? >> bret: more on this with the panel. david, thank you. you were next, why republicans are blocking president biden

>> well, if you go back to the obama administration. if you recall there was a big scare around a virus called zeka and produced birth defects for babies and pregnant women were very concerned about it. a number of companies developed tests and they were concerned that tests were not working well. fda stepped in and said you're not able to market those tests and node to come in to fda for preapproval even though those were laboratory developed tests that were previously not subject to fda regulation. fda said it's illegal to sell these whenever a public health emergency gets declared. when hhs declared a public health emergency for covid, it basically said all tests need to come in to fda for preapproval. and fda was too slow to relinquish that power and understand that it was really restricting supply. so, we should have been having doctors and physicians and researchers developing tests all around the country and developing different methods for identifying the virus. subsequently, you know, the trump administration pulled fda's autho

it's far different than what we saw from the obama administration where many of these same officials degree, it's very much a lessons learned. when you have dealt with vladimir putin, you've seen how he operates whether in misinformation, false flags, all of those types of issues, they made a clear calculation to be more forward with what they are seeing on the intelligence side of things to the degree they could without making clear who the sources or methods were than perhaps any u.s. administration has ever been. they're doing that because they have learned lessons. i think the interesting element right now and we're talking about this during the break is, how does this team work with one another? they work very well. they know one another very well. between blinken at state, they've known each other. deputy finer. lloyd austin. a little bit slower at the beginning to kind of become one of the team. now very much in that team. but how they interact with the president who has done this for 40 years and believes very clearly that he knows everything that there is to know. and i think

i think we made a mistake in the obama administration. i think we should have provided lethal assistance. tragic that he tried to tie it, to quid pro quo to get them to help with his election campaign. we should have done more. with the longer lead time, there are some weapons, anti-aircraft weapons that would be useful to ukraine but it is too late now. they moved american soldiers closer to the front line. in nato romania and poland. we want to make it crystal clear to putin, god forbid, that it does not blind over to our nato allies. and three, we don't know exactly what they are planning. president biden has said many times on the record if russia does invade. if putin does invade because the russian people aren't invading. there will be the most comprehensive sanctions against russian individuals and companies including nord stream ii. we have a lot of agreement with allies that were going to do this in unison and not negotiate during a period of weeks or months. that was one of the things that dragged on and hopefully it will be a l

solicitor general in the obama administration.ers during 10 of her cases. >> i was blown away by her ability to take withering criticism, pause, smile, and answer. she clearly had the respect of every justice on the supreme court. jeff: that poise under pressure was seen in one of the most high profile cases she argued for the government. at issue, religion and employment discrimination. the position she argued has become a red flag for conservatives who fear she could be hostile to religious liberty. a court decided against the obama administration. she was appointed to the state supreme court by jerry brown in california. her confirmation hearing lasted 35 minutes. >> i solemnly swear. jeff: when she took the bench in january 2015, she was 38 years old, one of the youngest justices in state history and the second black woman. >> it is the responsibility to -- jeff: she is seen as a derating voice. >> she writes unanimously so she is not always in disagreement but her reputation and addition to being brilliant and well accomplish

you had to deal with putin during the obama administration. has something shifted?d it's really alarming because it speaks certainly to his mental state and maybe raises questions about his physical state. but certainly if he does not have people around him informing him, giving him you know, the red team look, which is to say how it could go badly, then he's not taking those things into consideration. and putin's always been a risk taker. we were incredibly shocked and surprised when he went in and seized crimea in 2014 and annexed it illegally then started the other war in donbas. we understood it had its limits. what he's doing now does not represent any kind of economy of force. practically the entire russian military is on the borders of ukraine and it's highly risky. i wonder whether people can speak to him around him. whether he listens to anyone. because there's a lot of power concentrated in that presidency. >> general, to you. in addition to the warning from u.s. officials to ukrainians that a full scale russian invasion is imminent, there was specific emp

joining us now is a former deputy assistant secretary of state under the obama administration.ou for joining us. listening to president biden, it strikes me, the obama administration could n stop russia invading crimea or establishing itself in syria. why should ukraine be any different? is the hope of negotiation effectively dead? >> it is never dead. thank you for having me. what we are seeing with president biden is an approach that is in many ways demonstrating lessons learned of the past. in particular when it comes to sanctions, which are the powerful instrument that the team is organized with our european allies to tell russia that if you invade, there will be severe punishment to you, to your cronies, to your russian economy, to your fiscal condition directly and immediately. this powerful package and the unity with europe is significant and different from the past and hopefully put spas into vladimir putin's plans. anchor: but putin can still retaliate even against sanctions. you are effectively talking about an economic war and he holds energy as a major card and he a

during the obama administration.also served as white hous chief of staff during and served as a member of congress. and, angela stent was the on the state department's policy planning staff during the clinton administration. her latest book is "putin's world: russia against the west and with the rest." she's now a professor at georgetown university. welcome to both of you, to the "newshour". secretary panetta, to you first, the message that president biden delivered today, how should the american people read that? >> i think it's a very important message to send at this point in time. look, we're at a pivotal time here and a dangerous time with regards to the united states, with regards to the ukraine, with regards to our allies and russia, and what happens here will tell us a lot about the future. and, so, it was important for president biden to send a very tough, clear, concise and honest message to russia that the united states and our allies remain strong, remain unified, and if they decide to invade, that they w

well, obama's administration, his whole administration including biden while trump was in office, they everything they could to undermine his presidency and it's all coming out now. also, i would like to say that the whole time that president trump was in office we didn't have none of this. we did not have any. and so once again thank you for allowing me to call. thank you so much. host: yvonne in california. kentucky, democrat's line. caller: hello. all right. people talk about a peaceful transfer of power, how quickly we forget democrats what's going on television along with celebrities and doing these psas asking the electers to change their voted and vote for hillary. do you remember that? host: i don't remember that specifically. you're calling on our democrats line you're talking about your fellow party members? caller: yeah. host: are you a member of the democratic party? caller: that was a disgrace. they're saying that we shouldn't be doing. host: just to confirm you're a member of the democratic party? caller: absolutely. host: go ahead. caller: absolutely. host: you can go ah

well, obama's administration, his whole administration including biden while trump was in office, they everything they could to undermine his presidency and it's all coming out now. also, i would like to say that the whole time that president trump was in office we didn't have none of this. we did not have any. and so once again thank you for allowing me to call. thank you so much. host: yvonne in california. kentucky, democrat's line. caller: hello. all right. people talk about a peaceful transfer of power, how quickly we forget democrats what's going on television along with celebrities and doing these psas asking the electers to change their voted and vote for hillary. do you remember that? host: i don't remember that specifically. you're calling on our democrats line you're talking about your fellow party members? caller: yeah. host: are you a member of the democratic party? caller: that was a disgrace. they're saying that we shouldn't be doing. host: just to confirm you're a member of the democratic party? caller: absolutely. host: go ahead. caller: absolutely. host: you can go ah

i wonder, looking in hindsight about your time in the obama administration. d obama reacted more strongly to the annexation of crimea, with the situation that we're in right now, could it have been avoided? >> look, katie, it's great to be with you. what is happening right now, is an outrage. what vladimir putin is doing is such a gross violation of international law, threatening nuclear weapons, which he did in a statement. speaking about the de-nazify vacation, i'm so appreciative of -- using that argument against jewish leader, and elected leader of ukraine. it's hard to imagine what would've worked at this a moment. in the obama administration, the sanctions that were put in place, were calibrated to start putin in his tracks. and it did, but it didn't roll him back, obviously. that's the challenge we're in, that we have a leader in vladimir putin, hell-bent on aggression. and we have -- military support to our allies, putting the sanctions are happening now, and attempting to roll them back through international unity. but again, he is not listening to re

the obama administration did not push them back. is there a way to resist what will the president and others are telling us could be going all the way to kyiv, targeting kyiv itself? >> well, andrea, good to see you again, and thank you. there's a slight chance that a diplomatic solution can alert a disastrous war, and i say disastrous, because it will be if this occurs. and i hope and i don't know, i'm not privy to all of the intelligence, but i hope that there is some way that we can off ramp mr. putin and the games that he's playing, i think you have to remember that he was shaped and formed by the kgb. he is a kgb man through and through. he's smart. he's a master at disinformation, misinformation, lies. so it's obvious what we're seeing, and your reporters, especially richard engel brought this up in a couple of things. it's obvious what's going on in that area. 190,000 troops and he's in belarus, but i'm not -- i'm not quite sure absolutely that he's going to do this, and one reason, andrea, i say it, i think he's underestimat

keep abilities now with michael daniel, the former white house cybersecurity for nader in the obama administration, current president of cb -- of the cyber threat alliance. explain about the cyber threat alliance. guest: the cyber threat alliance is a group of cybersecurity companies that have come together to share threat intelligence with each other to do so in an automated fashion and human fashion. we have 34 members from 11 different countries around the world. we are a membership association. that is how we work. host: explain what you and your members are seeing on the cyber battlefield during the lead up and now invasion of ukraine. the attacks on the cyber front fall into certain types of categories? guest: you have seen the reporting of our members of a new kind of malware that is referred to as a wiper. it is designed to destroy computers ability to operate. that has been deployed across a number of different systems inside ukraine. we are mostly seeing the same kind of malicious activity that you see almost every day. phishing campaigns, ransomware attack's, that sort of thing. host: w

1973, the successful administrations have dangerously expanded these legal authorities the obama administrationok tentative steps of lethal force but the trump administration issued its own weaker standards. through it all 20 years and for administrations the department of justice legal analysis permitting the lethal strikes has remained shrouded in secrecy. the biden administration is also rightfully sought to restore american leadership. the new show to do so with the lethal foreign policies. executive branch must address the senate problems for two decades have led to erroneous targeting of innocent civilians. in addition, to doing more to prevent these mistakes in the first place we must ensure erroneous strikes are followed by appropriate investigations and accountability. including redress the victims and families. following a series of new york times investigations revealing systemic flaws and department of defense of the department of defense mitigates and tracks the civilian casualties, secretary austin issued a memorandum directed department to develop a hard action plan within 90 day

shannon petty piece joins us and evelyn for russia, ukraine and eurasia in the obama administration.come to both of you. thank you for being with us. shannon, we are waiting to hear from the president, second time this week to hear from the president ahead or part of the security conference in munich with western leaders trying to avoid a russian invasion of ukraine. do you know what we're likely to hear? >> so the white house says this is going to be an update. not going to be a major announcement or posture changes from the u.s. and update on the diplomatic and deterrence efforts by the administration. a lot has changed since we last heard from the president on tuesday and we have been getting increasingly grim assessments from the white house and the administration to the point where it is now more in the when category versus the if category based on the comments we have been hearing and the discouraging signals the administration is sending about the prospect of diplomacy and they say the door is open to that. the white house is encouraged and the president to speak to the americ

bush and obama administrations. he was also u,s, ambassador to nato during the obama administration. andrew weiss served in the george h.w. bush and clinton administrations on the national security council staff and in the state department. he's now with the carnegie endowment for international peace. and adam smith is a former u.s. treasury official and served on the national security council staff during the obama administration. he's now a partner with gibson, dunn and crutcher, an international law firm. >> woodruff: welcome a three of you to the newshour. doug lute, lt me start with you and the military situation. we had been hearing that the russians were having a more difficult time than they expected. but just in the last few hours this afternoon, we're hearing about increased shelling of kharkiv. we're hearing and seeing evidence the russians are moving closer to kyiv. what is your understanding of what the military situation is right now? >> well, judy, i think we should appreciate that we're in the very e

host: you were in the position of white house security coordinator in the obama administration. what was the worst cyberattack that the u.s. experience during that time that you dealt with? guest: that is an interesting question. some of them were not singular incidents. the ongoing chinese campaign to steal intellectual property and business and trade secrets from u.s. company's. the russian interference in the 2016 election which was as much about misinformation as it was about cyber activity. north korean attack, the iranian attacks on our financial institutions. it was quite a long list. got to where we had to develop much better incident response procedures and policies. many of which are still in place today. you can see the white house building on that. host: plenty of calls for you. allen in new york democrat. caller: you cute into my topic about the election. we had to deal with the problem of redefining treason going back to the 2001 attack on the world trade center dealing with nonstate actors. what does it mean to be a traitor to your own country if you are not align

in 2016, the obama administration, for the first time, released data regarding the number of civilian deaths from drone strikes. i commended the administration at the time for taking this important step toward transparency. unfortunately, in 2019, the trump administration halted this annual requirement. i strongly believe, mr. chairman, that greater transparency with drone strike data is away way for the public to gauge the true value of the drone program and understand the care with which these operations are conducted. hiding this information moves us in the wrong direction. various numbers have been tallied by outside organizations, but the government has access to unique information to help determine the number of civilian deaths. i believe the american people deserve to know more about this program and its effects around the world. in 2019, president trump removed the requirement to annually report. i would like to ask this question to everyone if they would quickly answer it. what do you believe the value in reinstituting the requirement for an annual report on u.s. drone strike

. >> in 2009 the obama administration did reset with russia worth mentioning since a lot of former obama currently in the biden administration. how did that impact vladimir putin? >> i was -- i was still in the u.s. government during the first six months of the obama administration and i was appalled when the reset policy was announced. that was the signal to putin that despite having invaded georgia and occupied large swath of its territory, everything was okay. we wanted to reset relations with russia in a new administration. and i just think back to with the president at the time, he said, look, it's bad that russia invaded georgia but if they invade ukraine that's going to be a big problem and then -- the then president of georgia said after what they just done in georgia, crimea is next. he predicted. crimea. so to sum it all up during the years from 2009 when the reset policy was announced and implemented until 2014 when russia invaded ukraine the first time, russia launched its biggest piece time military build-up in history in northwest russia, in the baltic states to threaten ou

keep abilities now with michael daniel, the former white house cybersecurity for nader in the obama administrationent president of cb -- of

in 2016 the obama administration for the first time released data regarding the number of civilian deathsrikes. i commended the administrationn at the time for taking this important step towards transparency. unfortunately in 2019 the trumpun administration halted this annual requirement. i strongly believe mr. chairman greater transparency with droneri strike data is away for the public to gauge the true value of the drone program. hiding this information movesio us in the wrong direction. various numbers have been tallied by outside organizations but the government has unique access to help determine the number of civilian deaths. i believe the american people prdeserve to know more about this program and its effect around the world. : >> so i was part of the effort back in 2016 that allow that level of disclosure and i was a stepping outside that role now and not be promoted by the executive branch and that requirement be reinstated. i also want to make the caveat that there was enormous hdiscrepancy that they reported back then and then number and by that transparency was the one pare

he was a state department, russian ukraine analyst during the obama administration, and is now a history professor at the catholic university of america damage. welcome back to do you ever you get to see you even in he's very pressing times, the rhetoric coming out of the white house from blink and bite in jake sullivan. it's, it's really quite urgent. what do you see as having actually changed recently? that's been causing this very dire kind of statements. well, 3 things to have intensification of, of the military build up, including in the black sea sort of naval component into it. and that's really proceeding rapidly. secondly, you have the failure, so to speak, of the diplomacy, it really hasn't yielded all that much. you have the last talk between pain and russia yesterday on a resolution to the situation that crane. and thirdly, i'm presuming here is the intelligent pointing of the direction in bays. and so let's come off the back of that 3rd point. presumably the intelligence is pointing to that, but we haven't seen any evidence. does the us have a credibility problem when it's t

you think about this is not one particular administration, we know took crimea during the obama administration nothing during trump and now seems to be on the verge of taking ukraine during the biden administration, what is your take care? >> we were lied to by the mainstream media for so long about russia. how long were we told the president trump was a poodle who lived in vladimir putin's purse and crimea taken by the russians during obama's administration and now you have all of this going on with ukraine? i talked to ambassador richard, the ambassador of the american ambassador to germany and he told me when he met with president trump, when he was considered for the position, president trump will him on a number of subjects, one of which was making sure all nato nations paid their bills so nato would be fully funded to deal with the situation exactly like this and the other one blocking the natural gas pipeleusasi to likseernyma eope nss ginasnerg energ e e aedllnll hopend ntt ruruiaiahis that htan holold ooo doop eurnshiche' y:mmley:t a a factorr l, tha. t. torced hes. ge moromingomit yo

mean the obama administration along with nancy pelosi took everything from my family.hey took our cattle ranch and i was left homeless. when i was home as i made the decision that i would change my life plan and i was going to go after big government so nobody ever had to go through what my family went through. so, i made a choice. >>[applause] rep cammack: that led me to stand before you as the youngest republican woman in washington today. >>[applause] >> nancy hate sad because she needs victims. she needs victims because she believes in equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. i grew up in a house come -- a household that believes in equal opportunity not equal outcomes which is why i have been able to go from homeless to the house of representatives in under a decade. we know they want victims. the democrat agenda is an agenda about dependency and control. they want people dependent on big government so they can control them but they need victims to do that. you all in this room know something. something that those on the left do not. victimhood is not a virtue. it i

the obama administration had their own efforts to do cooperation, i attract to efforts with former generals of the united states, russia and europe. we came up with a framework for cooperation said here it is, this is how you do it but once again, politics moves away from and i think that's the issue on russia. let me give a little context. bush administration time, bush 43, making statements like we are not threatened from the russian nuclear deterrence. we are prepared to reduce our level of nuclear warheads unilaterally if necessary. we don't do the sizing of nuclear forces looking at the russians capability. those statements seem hard to believe given where we are now but that was the thinking at the time and the opportunity. the relationship between the united states and russia soured and i would argue that for a lot of reasons that are much more decisive and missile defense, things like russia felt weakness, exploited in a lot of ways with their weakness. they renewed their strength probably because of fiscal policies they had a grievances mopping treated appropriately, there was the

caller: i think we should send times of military equipment and blanket like we did under the obama administration. have you ever to describe -- have you ever tried to destroy a with a blanket? it doesn't work. they need military --. sometimes i think the democratic party is in cahoots with the oceanic party in russia. host: so you think the military we have given ukraine so far over the last couple of years is insufficient? caller: yes. definitely. we need to probably triple what we have sent. you cannot throw food at a tank. are you crazy? host: here is anne on the democratic line in pennsylvania. caller: i understand a lack of leadership in our european allies. i am a regular-season -- citizen who reads the paper every day. in 10 years ago when i read about the alliance and the oil in russia, i just shook my head. i don't understand why our leadership is so lacking. thank you. host: to kernersville, west virginia. lawrence is on the republican line. go ahead, you are on. caller: all putin wants is to keep the missiles out of ukraine. and once nato keeps the missiles out, whatever they want to d

this was passed during the obama administration. there's still $400 million left to be spent this year, 2022, and next year. so there's research. there's a call to action on cancer screenings to get more people aware of the need to go to the doctor and get checked out. it's going to involve more coordination within the government, different cabinet departments, as well as bringing the private sector together with government. this is something that i think we also need to point out politically is a topic that touches every single american family and after a long period of time where the president's been bogged down in legislation in congress, he can come forward and talk about this initiative as something that the executive branch can do on its own that touches pretty much every american family and of course it's touched joe biden and jill biden very personally as well because of the loss of beau biden in 2015. >> all right, john, stay with us. we want to bring into this conversation, abbey phillip and dr. emanuel. also the vice prov

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the obama administration took tentative steps to limit force. 20 years and four administrations, the department of justice legal analysis permitting these lethal strikes has remained shrouded in secrecy. the biden administration is also rightfully sought to restore american leadership. in addition to do more to prevent these mistakes, we must ensure erroneous strikes are followed by appropriate investigations and accountability including redress to the victims and families. following a series of new york times investigations revealing systemic flaws in department of defense, that the department of defense miigates and tracks civilian casualties, secretary austin developed a civil harm plan in 90 days. at this point i'd like to turn to ranking member grassley for opening remarks. >> this hearing will cover issues related to the department of defense use of force in war on terror. this will include targeted killings and the use of drones. these are important issues that are more appropriate to the senate armed services committee. now if the chairman knew what i was doing in the 1980s b

in last month, you heard is we knew that vladimir putin would invade, but the obama administration administrationrk. hopefully the strength of the ukrainian people that would leave to a good outcome. inspite of mistakes that joe biden made in not lit listening to our intelligence. trey: director john ratcliffe. former congressman of great state of texas. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. trey: we'll be right back. alert get him stressed. he knows he's covered with zero overdraft fees when he overdraws his account by fifty bucks or less. overdraft assist from chase. make more of what's yours. nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: just stop. go for a run. go for 10 runs! run a marathon. instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette. mass general brigham. when you need some of the brightest minds in medicine, this is the only healthcare system in the country with five nationally ranked hospitals, including two world-renowned academic medical centers, in boston, where biotech innovates daily and our doctor

it is not also exactly akind though strategy that the obama administration had. is a strategy that the biden-harris administration has put forward after an intense policy review and a policy review that determined that through diplomacy and dialogue, it is our hope that there can be incremental progress. incremental progress toward the complete the nuclearization of the cyan peninsula. we haven't yet found a willing partner in pyongyang to engage in that dialogue but we have continued even in the absence of substantive engagement from the dprk to coordinate closely with japan and other partners in the indo pacific and other allies and partners around the world, which you've seen us do in the u.n. and elsewhere as we take on this challenge. reporter: i have a couple of questions. the white house issued a statement saying that president biden is going to go and visit israel late they are year. is he likely to also go -- i know this is a white house question but do you think he'll also make a detour to ramallah or other places? >> the readout made a reference to his

joining us, ben rhodes, deputies security adviser in the obama administration., thank you for joining us. it's remarkable that the lies flow as quickly as they do. i want to get your reaction from those comments not just from donald trump calling putinen's invasion of ukraine ingenious and savvy, and republicans are getting behind it? >> we have to recognize that these will play on a loop. that's been the case with tucker carlson's segments with mike pompeo lavishing praise on vladimir putin. and trying to convince his public that what he's doing is not an overreach but actually enjoys support around the world and positions him as a strong leader and strong man which is how he wants to be seen. so this is something that is a propaganda gift to putin. and it's patently absurd. but i think, if we're honest about this, there are elements of the republican party that truly admire vladimir putin. he represents the type of leadership, kind of shameless capacity and will to power that he embodies is something that trump has sought to emulate. and let's be honest, too,

afternoon, he announced he is relaunching the cancer moon shot program, started during the obama administration. the goal is to cut the death rate by at least 50% over the next 25 years. president biden, of course, lost his son beau to cancer in 2015. he spoke today of an experience all too familiar to too many. >> for too many of the patients diagnosed with cancer, instead of hope there is also bewilderment. they are frustrated that doctors and hospitals cannot easily share your medical records or help find answers when minutes count. and they are having to advocate for even the most basic care and attention for your loved ones. even when therapy is in reach, a therapy that is too expensive or that your insurance will not cover, and despite all the progress, there is still a sense of powerlessness. there is a sense of guilt that maybe you are not doing enough because you do not know enough. and there is fear. >> biden is also encouraging americans to get screened more regularly. more than 9 million screenings have been skipped during the pandemic. with that, let's bring in our lead off guests,

but the fact is -- and this is something that's very important -- we saw this in the obama administration administration. but vladimir putin is scared to death about being isolated again. we're scared of the economic sanctions that barack obama put on him. he's scared of the fact that we can literally crush and cripple his economy and he'll be isolated and alone. that's looks as if what's about to happen. >> he annexed crimea during the obama administration. >> and what happened after that? >> the reality is, whenever joe biden is in the white house, russia runs wild. the politics of this -- >> but that's not accurate. >> what's not accurate? he annexed crimea, he meddled in our election. now biden is in charge, he's back on the border. the politics of this are so fraught because the air of competency was let out of the balloon over afghanistan. look at the pentagon report about our evacuation of afghanistan. the air of competence is gone. >> oh, my god, they meddled in our election. you're letting that lead go right by you, bakari. >> every time i'm here. >> let's be honest about the ric

that led him to get a big popularity at home, and the obama administration to work with europeans to fortify the rest of ukrainian democracy against russian aggression and impose tank shuns in a response. what is different this time, there has been a ramp up, a deployment of 150,000 troops and circling ukraine, threatening an invasion, a military operation, that is far more significant and substantial than anything that was faced in 2014. now it i think the biden team has done very well with that time is, number one, warned people about what they were seeing. the classified intelligence. help -- tell people what putin is up to so he cannot fabricate a -- russia engaging in military operation because of some defensive rationale that they have cooked up. putin has been removed from putin-ism as a pop possible tool. secondly they have been able to prepare how they would respond. what sanctions they can get the europeans to sign up for. the kinds of sanctions president biden discussed today. export controls, denying technology, -- sanctions on banks that could hit hard on the wealth that