sanctions should target putin's war machine. putin's war economy.ssible, for putin's regime to continue conducting this criminal war... so you're saying that the baltic states and poland, which have made it virtually impossible for a russian to enter their territory, you're saying that that's fundamentally misguided, are you? yes, i am, because this doesn't affect putin, this doesn't affect lavrov. i don't think they were planning to drive in the baltic states with a russian number plate on the car. but you know who it affects? it affects independent journalists. it affects human rights activists. it affects lawyers who are helping political prisoners in russia because they cannot enter these countries because they hold russian passports. you know, the last i've looked at the european convention on human rights, article 1a expressly prohibited discrimination based, among otherfactors, on nationality. so this is unacceptable to me, in the 21st century, to be labelling entire nations of peoples as that there's something wrong with them. look, hannah a

that is another clear sign of putin's desperation.th forces have suffered more than a thousand casualties since they enlisted last december in putin's war and course there other estimates that are far north of that. meanwhile the economic cost to ordinary rations from putin's imperial fantasies has also been staggering. the kremlin plans to stand 40% of russia's 2025 budget to keep up with the contract group support to ukraine. now that's a 25% increase from last year. meanwhile the russian ruble has continued to plummet. the kremlin has become more isolated and rushes global stature as a strategic position has continued to. so russia has paid an price for this indefensible war. yet putin has not achieved a single one of his strategic objectives, not one. in fact putin was so bogged down in ukraine that when the assad dictatorship in syria collapsed after more than 50 years, all he could do was watch. russian troops had to race to haul equipment and personnel out of syria which had once been the centerpiece of the kremlin's global amb

they putin is isolated. you know he doesn't have the ability to to project combat power as in the past, we saw this with save syria. i think -- we saw that with syria, i would challenge as to whether or not ukraine has fallen short, i think russia is falling short, the number of casualties without accomplishing a single strategic objective, that is unthinkable. i think you know this format and our ability to rush urgently needed security assistance to ukraine has been remarkable. we have done it at a speed and volumes that have not been seen in the past. so i really applaud the work that the team has done together. but there is more to be done, we recognize that. we will continue to do everything that's can to helpo ukraine for as long as we can thank you, sir be. thank. >> thank you so much for doing this since you mentioned remarkablee nature of what you have done in past 3 years, focus on today. andan are commitment in road maps made today for ukraine my capability coalition enough to give ukraine the upp

same thing with vladimir putin and it was even worse when he met with vladimir putin. he said well, russia has told me they haven't interfered in our elections when our intelligence committee had told them that russia had. so he was deciding very publicly with our adversary on the international stage. that is dangerous. speaking with leaders is important, but you have to do a lot of diplomatic round work to get it where you are actually having a fruitful conversation. guest: on the north korea front, i agree that talking without gaining is for the birds, so to speak. but actually achieving a cessation in nuclear and long-range missile test was more than we had gotten. so yes, perhaps scraps, but not nothing. i do think the instinct to actually engage with these adversaries is of critical import. i do hope that trump with at least test their mettle. guest: can i say something about venezuela? post: rich in sout korea to massachusetts said our national security depends in pa sharing information with our allies. given trims famously careless approach to protecting classif

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could pay for this thing seems absurd to me.- putin could pay for this thing seems absurd to me._ seems absurd to me. does this have implications down - seems absurd to me. does this have implications down the - have implications down the line? will other countries be looking at this and say why should we put our currency reserves, why should we allow the uk, for example, to hold currency reserves if down the line we have a problem with them and they decide they want to seize those that are at the net assets?— to seize those that are at the net assets? . . net assets? that argument might work if we do _ net assets? that argument might work if we do it _ net assets? that argument might work if we do it by _ net assets? that argument might work if we do it by ourselves - work if we do it by ourselves but i think the argument to do it is to do it together with other countries. with the eu, the us, with canada, with japan, with switzerland. if all the major reserve currency countries do it, together, then there is no place for people to put their money. furthermore, the only people t

we should be going after, or we should be taking putin's money and let putin pay for this.at i would call a halfway measure. we said, "ok, we've frozen this money. "we're going to give ukraine the interest on this money". but the interest on this money is just simply not enough. and so we're in a situation where either the taxpayers are going to have to pay or putin is going to have to pay. and so it seems like a pretty obvious thing to me and to the mps who are holding this debate that putin should pay. and that's what this is all about, which is notjust taking the interest but taking the full amount of the money. now, the uk government says that it is acting already in the correct legal framework. so do you think that what is being proposed could go beyond the correct legal framework? this is not about legalframeworks. this is purely about political will. if there is enough political will, we can confiscate the money. it's legal to confiscate it. it's legal to confiscate the interest. and so what you have the british government saying is they're sort of, you know, spewing

a close compared to putin in terms of being a very dangerous player. but characterize a bit the threats we face with north korea and iran. obviously very different ones. >> they are very different and here, at the basic level is with your most different. north korea is a nuclear power, and they view nuclear weapons as the best deterrent to regime change. nuclear weapons are how they're going to maintain control internal in their own country and to fend off of the world powers like the united states and remain relevant. iran doesn't have that. they aspire to be a world, i mean a nuclear power. we all have the capability to stop one of those two countries from getting a nuclear weapon, and that's iran. the thing about iran response in the intelligence community is i mentioned north korea using nuclear weapons as a deterrent as we maintaining power. we don't know what the iranians would use a nuclear, a deliverable nuclear weapon for. when you before a effect or for an offensive effect? talk about a regime that is based on religious zealotry and is essent

we help ukrainians stop putin, now nearly three years later putin has failed to achieve any of his strategics failed the star to subjugate ukraine. failed to break the unity of nato. failed to make large territorial gain. there's more to do. we can't walk away. we rallied 15 mentions to stand with ukraine. not just in europe. for the first time in asia as well. those countries in asia no what happens in ukraine matters to them as well. we delivered their interceptors come much the number of munitions, and acted relentless unprecedented sanctions to keep ukraine in the fight. now russia struggling to replace what they are losing on the battlefield. in terms of military equipment and fighters. and the ruble is under enormous pressure. as i saw it, putin launched his invasion i had two jobs. one come to rally the world to defend ukraine, and the other was to avoid war between two nuclear powers. we did both of those things. today, ukraine is still free, independent country with the potential, potential for a bright future. and we laid the foundation for the next administration so they can prote

so i looked at it and it was a petition for pardon addressed to vladimir putin. just started laughing and looked at them. but their facial expression did not indicate that they were in the mood for joking. so i said, what is this? and they said, well, please write this and sign this. i said, i'm never writing something like this. i said, why not? i said, well, because i do not consider vladimir putin to be a legitimate president of my country. i consider him to be a usurper, a dictator and a murderer. and i'm not going to ask him of anything. and secondly, i'm certainly not going to admit my guilt because that's what they wanted as well, because i'm not the one who is who is the criminal here. the real criminals are those people who are sitting in the kremlin who have started this war of aggression against ukraine, not those of us who are in prison because we had opposed it. so that was that a really bizarre episode. and then a couple of days later, i was woken up in the middle of the night, told to get up and get my things ready in ten minutes. and at that momen

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putin? >> well, first, what makes me optimistic is the situation on the ground. it's deteriorated slightly over the last few months, but after three years of fighting, ukraine has essentially fought the russians to a standstill. second of all, zelenskyy, president of ukraine, seems to have come around to the idea that he's not going to militarily liberate the 20% of his territory that he's lost, and he seems to be willing to make a trade. essentially, i will compromise for some type of a cease fire in place. i won't give up my long term claims in exchange for the security assurances about arms, what have you. so i think essentially the united states and ukraine are pretty much at that point. now you will turn on to to putin. if donald trump really wants this agreement as much as he said, it's vladimir putin who stands in his way. vladimir putin clearly has manpower problems, not just we see it from the north koreans, but increasingly anybody and everybody in russia is being incentivized to j

same thing with vladimir putin and it was even worse when he met with vladimir putin.said well, russia has told me they haven't interfered in our elections when our intelligence committee had told them that russia had. so he was deciding very publicly with our adversary on the international stage. that is dangerous. speaking with leaders is important, but you have to do a lot of diplomatic round work to get it where you are actually having a fruitful conversation. guest: on the north korea front, i agree that talking without gaining is for the birds, so to speak. but actually achieving a cessation in nuclear and long-range missile test was more than we had gotten. so yes, perhaps scraps, but not nothing. i do think the instinct to actually engage with these adversaries is of critical import. i do hope that trump with at least test their mettle. guest: can i say something about venezuela? st: rich in south korea to ssachusetts said our national security depends in part on sharing information with our li. given trims famously careless approach to protecting classified in

same thing with vladimir putin and it was even worse when he met with vladimir putin.id well, russia has told me they haven't interfered in our elections when our intelligence committee had told them that russia had. so he was deciding very publicly with our adversary on the international stage. that is dangerous. speaking with leaders is important, but you have to do a lot of diplomatic round work to get it where you are actually having a fruitful conversation. guest: on the north korea front, i agree that talking without gaining is for the birds, so to speak. but actually achieving a cessation in nuclear and long-range missile test was more than we had gotten. so yes, perhaps scraps, but not nothing. i do think the instinct to actually engage with these adversaries is of critical import. i do hope that trump with at least test their mettle. guest: can i say something about venezuela? post: rich in sout korea to massachusetts said our national security depends in pa sharing information with our allies. given trims famously careless approach to protecting classified in

putin never has. think about it. [applause] long train ride and only commander in chief to visit a war zone. we helped ukrainians stop pughin and putin has failed to achieve his objectives and failed to subjugate ukraine and failed to break the unity of nato and failed to make large territorial gains. we can't walk away. we rallied 50 nations to stand with ukraine. not just in europe. for the first time in asia as well and those countries know what happens in ukraine matters to them as well. massive numbers of munitions relentless unprecedented sanctions to keep ukraine in the fight. russia is struggling to replace what they are losing in the battlefield in terms of military equipment and fighters and the ruble is under enormous pressure. as i saw it when putin launched his invasion, i had two jobs, one to rally ukraine and avoid war between two nuclear powers. we did both those things. today, ukraine is still free, independent country but the potential for a bright future. and we lay the foundation in the next admin

we help ukrainians stop putin.y three years later, putin has failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives. he has failed thus far to subjugate ukraine, fail to break the break the unity of nato, and failed to make large territorial gains. there's more to do. we can't walk away. we rallied 50 nations to stand with ukraine, not just in europe for the first, for the first time in asia as well. those countries in asia know what happens in ukraine, matters to them as well. we delivered air interceptors, massive numbers of munitions, enacted relentless, unprecedented sanctions to keep ukraine in the fight. and now russia is struggling to replace what they are losing on the battlefield. and in terms of military equipment and fighters. and the ruble is under enormous pressure, as i saw it, when putin launched his invasion, i had two jobs, one to rally the world to defend ukraine, and the other is to avoid war between two nuclear powers. we did both those things. today, ukraine is still free, independent country with t

putin. in fact, even before, well before the russian aggression, look, we were trying to get the relationship with russia to a different place, one that was a little bit more stable, a little bit more predictable. president biden, president putin met in geneva, had a lengthy meeting. this is well before the aggression, and that's what we were trying to see if that was possible. that's the direction we wanted to move things in. this is near the beginning of the administration. there were so many other things we wanted to be focused on and concentrating our time and resources on, not conflict with russia, whether over ukraine or anything else. unfortunately, i think what proved out over the last three years is that putin's had imperial designs for a long, long time, starting really close to home in chechnya, going to georgia, then to ukraine in 2014, and now again to ukraine in 2022, and this was never about real concerns that russia or putin had about russia's security. it really was about th

different than trump that i be dealing with for years, putin got his answer.n biden's back, that putin takes the initiative and goes into ukraine and the catalyst of the failure in afghanistan that underscored the rationale that he was going to do it. let's take the middle east. in the middle east when biden comes into power iran is reeling from the death and maximum sanctions that have been put on him and the progress being made in the abraham accords. for the first time we are starting to stitch together an era of nato that we've been talking about for years. what does biden do? stop the sanctions and tells the irony and i'm making this concession to you as a sign of good faith so we can get back into the nuclear deal. the iranians read that is weakness and they stiff them on the nuclear deal and they take the money and what did they do? they stopped a few will ammunition and everything into the proxies. and what happened as a result of all of that? iran operationalize as their proxies and they go after israel with a vengeance once and for all to destroy the

we help ukrainians stop putin. and now, nearly three years later, putin has failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives. he has failed thus far to subjugate ukraine, fail to break the break the unity of nato, and fail to make large territorial gains. as i saw it when putin launched his invasion, i had two jobs one to rally the world to defend ukraine, and the other is to avoid war between two nuclear powers. we did both those things, and today ukraine is still free, independent country with the potential, the potential for a bright future. >> president biden described how much weaker iran is in the middle east now, and how the alliances of the dictator states prove their weakness. >> now, major authoritarian states are aligning more closely with one another iran, russia, china, north korea. but that's more out of weakness than out of strength. so as a new administration begins, the united states is in a fundamentally stronger position with respect to these countries than we were four years ago. >> the preside

and it is one of the reasons putin cited for his invasion of ukraine.so biden wouldn't have had to have bring together all the alliances to help fund ukraine if they'd appeared tough to russia. at least that is how history is going to debate this. >> i think one of the things that's important here to build upon what kim has said, is that putin misread the united states and what the united states would be doing vis a vis ukraine. the fact that the united states supported ukraine in this way was a very significant move. the strengthening of the alliances, that is absolutely key, a key component of key component of biden's legacy. one of the things, perhaps on the other side of the balance sheet might be this, that while those alliances focus alliances focus physical and kinetic power and also on economic power, they don't specifically address issues, at least they haven't in the public realm of things like cyber security and the fact to protect intellectual property like artificial intelligence. he certainly mentioned artificial intelligence quite a bit i

they go about it putin gets to call the shots in russia. and he is resolute in maintaining the relevance of russia and will do whatever it takes to maintain a seat at the world table. china wants to sit at the head of the table. >> this is questions international order, this is what wee see in terms of last severalt years and no decrease looking forward. you mentioned space. this is interesting because, the previous administration began to invest heavily in that area, and last intelligence element that joined that committee was intelligence area of the j2 of space force. talk more about that space competition that is under way now in relationship to the adversaries. >> space is the new and highest frontier if you will, in thehe great power competition. y and this is where china and russia are working together. where the enemy of my enemy is my friend, they realize. united states does not have a near peer adversary, and china and russia they are working together if you will, they both really recognize that what they have to do is be in a pos

president putin wants to meet. even publicly and we have to get that war over with. that's a bloody mess. >> brian: no question. joining us now retired four star general fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane. when i heard him mention that, i thought that's got to be our lead with you today. your thoughts about him contacting vladimir putin directly after the 20th. what should he say? >> well, certainly a meeting with both of these leaders makes lots of sense. the relates is what president trump is facing, when he left office four years ago, the strategic framework was, you know, china was our major competitor. our major threat. and now he is facing collaboration coordination with china, russia, iran and north korea. we haven't seen that corroboration and collaboration since world war ii. the reality is the danger of that is presented as a result of their collaboration and coordination is significant. it's not an isolated event that russia went to war in europe. because they believe they are going to

why we will engage with china, we have to challenge them, not to throw their lot in with vladimir putinnd second to be taken seriously by our opponents and allies and we must put our money where our mouth is. that starts by facing the facts. donald trump and jd vance are simply right when they say that europe needs to do more to defend its own continent. it is myopia to pretend otherwise with russia and the march and so this government will lay out a clear pathway to reaching 2.5% of gdp on defence. this is a figure unless we forget that the last labour government met and has never been met by the tories since david cameron's cuts and withjohn healy, we will lead and we will challenge to convince all of our nato allies that rising defence spending is a strategic necessity. and third, we must forge closer partnerships with the global south because the world is larger than the north atlantic and mediterranean, we cannot divorce the euro atlantic from the indo—pacific and the kremlin has spread its tentacles across the world spewing out misinformation on every continent. dispatching mercen

we help ukrainians stop putin.e years later, putin has failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives. he has failed this far to subjugate ukraine. failed to break the unity of nato. failed to make large territorial gains. there is more to do. we cannot walk away. rallied 15 nations to stand with ukraine. not just in europe. for the first time in asia as well for those countries in asia and know what happens in ukraine matters to them as well. delivered air interceptors, massive numbers of munitions, enacted relentless unprecedented sanctions to keep ukraine in the fight. now russia is struggling to replace what they are losing on the battlefield in terms of military equipment and fighters. and the ruble is under enormous pressure. as i saw an ad, when putin launched his invasion, i had two jobs. one to rally the world to defend ukraine, and the other is to avoid war between two nuclear powers. we did both of those things. today, ukraine is still free independent country with the potential, the potential for a b

that increase began in 2014 when putin invaded crimea.en trump came into the office and his first term he did put a lot of pressure on the allies and that was helpful. he was rude and how he did it, but it was helpful. once he left, when biden was in, spending continue to go up because of the problems putin presents to european national security. europe is concerned what will happen after ukraine and they are trying to arm themselves to deter further aggression by russia. it is not trump, it is putin that makes them spend more money. sumi: we have to leave the conversation there, but good to get your analysis. we want to take you to pictures from southern california where a wildfire exploded in size, going from 20 to 200 acres in 20 minutes. you can see pictures showing dark smoke rising near homes and buildings in the pacific palisades neighborhood of los angeles. you can see there is a home on fire in these images. the situation is caused by wind gusts of up to 100 miles per hour combined with incredibly dry conditions and low humidity.

to meet with putin to discuss the ukraine situation? >> well, i can't tell you that, but i know that putin would like to meet. i don't think it's appropriate that i meet until after the 20th, which i hate, because, you know, every day people are are being killed, soldiers, you know, the lands very flat d the hundreds of thousands of soldiers from each, many hundreds of thousands from each side are dead and they're laying in fields all over the place, nobody to even collect. there's landmines all over. it's a disaster, but it's very fl. it's great. it's farmland and it's very, very flat. and the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body. and the human body is stopping a lot of bullets. >> and within the i hope, i hope, i hope to have six months first 3 to 6 months. >> no, i would think, i hope long before six months. look, russia is losing a lot of young people and so is ukraine. and it should have never been started. that's a war that should have never happened. i guarantee you, if i were president, that war would have never happ

putin tried to erase ukraine from the map and he has failed. he has ignored i think a heavier and heavier strategic setback in everything he's done in ukraine. and we are at a point where it may be that the parties to choose to negotiate we want to make sure and we are making sure the incoming administration will be able if it's going to oversee such a negotiation to make sure it's doing it from a position of strength and president president trump and get the strongest possible deal and we can go down the list but the point is this we are handing over a lot of positive opportunities, initiatives, work and if the next administration chooses to carry it forward i think that would be clearly in the interest of the united states. private citizens in our country can say what they want and what they believe and everyone else can draw their own conclusions and take a position on the matter. i'm not going to comment beyond saying he like any american has the right to express his views. as far as i'm concerned let me tell you the french government is wo

putin tried to erase ukraine from the map and he has failed.red i think a heavier and heavier strategic setback in everything he's done in ukraine. and we are at a point where it may be that the parties to choose to negotiate we want to make sure and we are making sure the incoming administration will be able if it's going to oversee such a negotiation to make sure it's doing it from a position of strength and president president trump and get the strongest possible deal and we can go down the list but the point is this we are handing over a lot of positive opportunities, initiatives, work and if the next administration chooses to carry it forward i think that would be clearly in the interest of the united states. private citizens in our country can say what they want and what they believe and everyone else can draw their own conclusions and take a position on the matter. i'm not going to comment beyond saying he like any american has the right to express his views. as far as i'm concerned let me tell you the french government is working on a f

putin's failed to achieve any of his strategic objectives.stration with a very strong thoond play. >> we will have to settle up with russia, ukraine. this was a biden fiasco that he got -- that should have never happened. >> bret: russia's top diplomat says his country is open for talks with president-elect donald trump about the war in ukraine. sergey lavrov also praised president-elect trump for citing nato's plan to embrace ukraine as a root cause of the nearly 3-year-old conflict. tonight we get the ukrainian perspective. joining us is oksana markarova ukraine's ambassador to the u.s. good evening, thank you for being here. >> thank you for being here. >> bret: when people look at foreign policy when it comes to ukraine, how do you think things change if they do? >> well, first of all, bret, let me say thank you to the american people for this very unwavering support that they we were able to get during this 1051 days of unprovoked unjust war and we are really eager for the transition to be over and to have people inside the administratio

the biggest mistake that he made was he never engaged in conversations with putin. to him over two years. he needs to talk to him. that is one thing the president does, he talks to adversaries alike. he knows it is a tough one but he knows you need to talk to them to get to in-state and that is what he will do. we will set t the for the president and talking to president putin and prime minister zelenskyy as well. i think they will come to a solvable solution in the near term. when i say near term, i would like to set a goal personal level, professional level and say 100 days and move back, if there is a way to do this in the near term to make sure the solution is solid and sustainable and that this war ends and so that we stop the carnage. i think that will be very, very important to do. it will be important for national security. it is a part of the national interest in europe as well and the globe as well. >> sandra: general, president-elect everybody talking with this moment in the press conference when he made these comments on greenland. listen. >> we need gre

vladimir putin, among — of deterrence. vladimir putin, among his _ of deterrence.alculations, one compilation he took going to ukraine _ compilation he took going to ukraine was that the europeans would _ ukraine was that the europeans would complain, perhaps hit him with sanctions and write some strongly— with sanctions and write some strongly worded letters but ultimately would not be able to do anything effectively because of how— do anything effectively because of how much they depended on russia — of how much they depended on russia and in some cases continue _ russia and in some cases continue to depend. i believe france — continue to depend. i believe france is _ continue to depend. i believe france is the third leading player— france is the third leading player into russian energy in the world and i think a couple of other— the world and i think a couple of other european countries followed behind, so there is still— followed behind, so there is still significant dependence, and that dependence is a tremendous amount of leverage that vladimir putin holds on

and the the the ukrainian war, what he means is he'll cave putin he'll give putin everything you wantand i think that's absolutely clear. don't know anyone if anyone can contradict that please do but and we even take a point of clarification. sure. because it seems to me, even if trump says to putin, i will give you everything you want vladimir zelensky seems prepared to continue to fight as long as he feels he needs to. well that may well be true, but. but trump would cut off the weapons. i you know, i mean, that's hugely important. ukraine's fight, if he does it without american support that puts all the onus on europe and it's going to going to split up our our alliance. i mean that nato's in tatters. the end of trump's first term. you i think one of president biden's achievements is he quickly repaired the damage he did a very, very quickly. but there's no question my mind that the atlantic alliance would shatter if trump became president. we also had another question. i think maybe you can add some additional contact to the answer here, but why did the iranians agreed to release

it's not clear when this possible meeting between trump and putin could take place. and oil prices jumped today following the news that the u.s. has hit russian oil companies with sanctions. they target producers, tankers, intermediaries and traders and ports. the goal is to hit every stage of moscow's oil production and distribution chains. experts say the move will cut russian oil export volumes and make them more expensive. treasury secretary janet yellen says the u.s. is taking this action against russia's key source of revenue for funding its brutal and illegal war against ukraine. for the second time this week, a judge has found rudy giuliani to be in contempt of court in 2023. a judge found giuliani guilty of defaming two georgia election workers. the court ordered him to pay nearly $150 million in damages. giuliani is appealing the verdict, but just last week, the judge found giuliani to be in contempt of court for refusing to turn over his financial documents. today, he is being held in contempt again. this time, it's for continuing to defame those election

that is if we have the will to counter putin in ukraine. have the will to stand up to china, we easily have the means to do so. as to what trump may be up to, if he ever wants to have a chance to win the nobel peace prize, he should pressure putin to accept the peace deal acceptable to ukraine. if so, that would be great. if he manages to settle the conflict, i think it would also improve his domestic standing in the u.s. it would help a bit to bridge these big divide with between the two parties. so, in my view, trump, depending on which advicers he s to, he has the chance to heal the wounds. or decide tariffs on everybody or a harsh clamp down on immigration and i don't care about ukraine, then a lot of things could go wrong in the western world. >> i would like to understand what are the odds according to you in terms of how likely this war can actually come to an end this year because you've highlighted there that it's one way or the other. we don't know what donald trump or president trump is going to do once he arrives at the white ho

, putin, and trump?, we haven't, you know, set the exact framework for it yet. we're working on that, but i do, you know, expect a call at least in the coming days and weeks. so that would be a step, and we'll take it from there. i will say, you know, the other thing that we're going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield, and one of the things that we'll be asking of the ukrainians, is they have real manpower issues, you know, their draft age right now is 26 years old, not 18. i don't think a lot of people realize that. they could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers. so when we hear about morale problems, when we hear about issues on the front line, look. if the ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy, and they certainly have fought bravely. they certainly have taken a very noble and tough stand, but we need to see those manpower shortages addressed. this isn't just about munitions, ammunition, or writi

in february of 2022, the threats by vladimir putin have changed with saying that the putin's russia is -- full-scale invasion in ukraine. it became more international. by exporting the conflict in asia and involving north korea. and became hybrid by getting into all fields of the conflict and by attacking members of the european union. like antony blinken said, gain that our prior fee is to support ukraine and allow ukraine to whenever they decide to do so, -- will make sure they have no return of the war in european continent. it means on behalf of europeans we need to deter the russia pushing toward the rest. this is quickly. interference. here again, europe has been clear. in 2022, time france was at head of eu council, which set clear rules and applied social network, and applied regulations on digital services, social networks has to do with it takes to make sure that their discussions on networks do not represent a new front, they may have to pay fines up to 6% of the turnover for the europe commission to make sure that there is no european -- new european regulations are applied

putin tried to erase ukraine from the map. he's failed. he's endured, i think, a heavier and heavier strategic setback in everything that he's done in ukraine. now, we're at a point in the coming year where it may be that the parties will choose to negotiate. we want to make sure -- and i think we are making sure -- that the incoming administration will be able, if it's going to oversee such a negotiation, to make sure it's doing it from position of strength and that president trump could get the strongest possible deal. i can go down the list, but the point is this. we're handing over a lot of positive opportunities, initiatives, work, and if the next administration chooses to carry it forward, i think that will be clearly in the interests of the united states. >> elon musk? secretary blinken: private citizens can -- in our country -- can say what they want, what they believe, and everyone else can draw their own conclusions and take their own positions on the matter. so i'm not going to comment beyond saying he, like any american, has th

so that's the last that the mon, you started corresponding with president vladimir putin 3 years ago, as well as what the children have done bass and began collecting humanitarian a for syrian refugees. and residents of don bescedy. how did you come up with the idea to help those in need of why i did change the feelings? hey, any child, especially considering that terrorism is now present on by the way it has, it is the same terrorism that was in syria and killed syrian children. now this terrorism is killing the children of dumbasses and that i collected my clothes, personal savings and toys and sent them to the tools moved on boston, drew pictures for them. i wrote matches to the soldiers in don't bass, who are fighting terrorism. so what do the children have dumbass swamped? they just want to return to the homeland and feel the stomach piece. so showing the neighbor that had it so that was it, your idea that your parents supported you in or did the initiative come from that? this was my idea together with my friends parents involved in the head. we decided to help syrian refugees a

still no call with putin. is that day one or week one problem? >> he wants to meet. president sheik, without a lot of communication. with a lot of meeting set up with a lot of people but some have come but i'd rather wait until after the 20th. >> me with putin or meet with president sheik do you want to have some kind of a summit or do they want to come here? >> to be determined. but president putin wants to meet. he has said that even publicly. with get that were over with. that is a bloodied mass. soldiers are being killed by the millions. i looked at some very graphic pictures yesterday. the soldiers you know it's a flat field. douthit stops a bullet is a body. it's a very, very flat lands. the soldiers are fighting and theyare dying by hundreds of thousands. not to mention the towns in the cities that are largely demolished. a lot of people but the biggest surprise and it's it going to be very unpleasant surprise is how many people were killed and that war. it's much higher than with the press is reporting when a building comes out these are big buildings two and