tony blinken is telling the united nations and the rest of us that it's okay for ukraine to threatenlear war on behalf of the united states, and the rest of the world looks on with their jaws open, including china of all places. here's china's foreign ministry spokesperson yesterday. >> we call on all parties to find a solution that takes into account the legitimate security concerns of all parties. the international community will create the conditions and space for this. >> tucker: we call on all parties to achieve a cease-fire, like the one they nearly had in april, before the biden administration blew it up, because they want regime change in russia. that's coming from china, which has a human rights record that makes russia seem like sweden. china has benefited from the war as putin has, but even the chinese are not crazy enough to want nuclear armageddon. in the end, all they want to do its dominate through business. they don't want customers to blow themselves up. they understand they're coming incredibly close. only tony blinken and lunatics like tory nuland want that, fully

only tony blinken and lunatic's victoria nuland really want that. and they are fully behind ukraine's president as he declares that his goal is not ending the war and getting his country back , which is a fine and admirable goal that most americans support. his goal is toppling vladimir putin and turning russia into another failed state. oh, good plan. here he is . a crime has been committed against ukraine and we demand just punishment. the crime must committed against our state borders. the crime was committed again, the values that make you and me a community of the united nations and ukraine demands punishment for trying to steal our territory. this is the first item of our peace formula, comprehensive item punishment. >> so a corrupt eastern european authoritarian leader in a t shirt is lecturing us about the community of nations and telling us this is really about the punishing ukraine demands. it's not about self-defense. we're their territory back . it's about regime change. specifically, they're demanding a nuclear strike from us . how do w

when sergey lavrov says that the atrocities have been staged and it is russia that is the victim, tony blinken is sitting there thinking what? >> this is "alice in wonderland." it's the world upside down. up is down, white is black. truth is false. but here's the thing, all of these words ring totally hollow to every member on the security council. so this spewing of words is not having an effect. on the contrary. i think it just shows the total disconnect between russia and virtually the entirety of the rest of the world. >> at the moment we spoke to the secretary, russia was hurrying through what it calls elections to force these areas of ukraine's occupied east and south into the russian federation. >> these so-call the elections are a sham, period. they go in. they put in puppet governments, local governments. and then they proceed with a vote, which they'll manipulate in any event, to try to declare the territory russian territory. it is not. it will never be recognized as such. and the ukrainians have every right to take it back. >> blinken came to our interview after meeting china's for

security council meeting, to tony blinken just now. neither the russian ambassador were in the room not present at the table today. >> not entirely surprising that they were choosing to not be on camera, have their reactions photographed or film while that lit any of russian abuses over the past six months was run through by secretary blinken. and it is stark to listen to one man in one go, go through everything that ukraine has been through an the world has been through since russia chose to invade on the 24th of february. and the torture some of which we've reported on ourselves and the loss of civilian lives through bombing by russia, the dodge that has done to russia's standing, russia's people on one side and also too, to the world food markets and how they have it seems indiscriminately mined agriculture fields here as well so it is remarkable to have all of that spoken by secretary blinken there and i think it is a sign too that united states, despite the call for a partial mobilization yesterday, so far looking to be quite disa

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the united states is represented in the city of the big apple by secretary of state tony blinken and himself will be in new york until september 23, a little more than usual. well, according to this, many delegations, in particular, the ukrainian one, have extended their stay in order to have the opportunity, as they say, to check the clocks, that is even after the end of the already official part of the big debate, to meet once again to talk, to talk tete-a-tete and to understand what are the common positions, and let's also talk about blinkin, you see his such rocking of flight, it arose unexpectedly many years ago, it was the american president who was one of the first to open high debates, but the fact is that biden must be in great britain this year in order to say goodbye to queen elizabeth. and that's why this part of his of course, he entrusted tony blinkin with not the state powers, but those of oun. well, what i hear here unofficially is that it is even better for ukraine , because blinkin is very deep in ukrainian issues, very deep and detailed in everything . as for biden

so if these signals were transmitted by, for example , tony blinken or the head of the pentagon, theree a completely different mood, you understand in white at home eh in the white house eh hmm a little more of these pigeons that's why i'm not convinced you know they like to say i called putin and put him in front of but in fact, these conversations take place in a completely different way and they never take such a tone with russia, that's why it's a little bit. it doesn't worry us. but , as i said, the main thing is ukraine's position, no one can force us to do anything. and we're the west already forced us forced him to become more uh brave we forced him somehow to stop living in this pink cloud of illusions about russia that's why well yes jaxaliv you he is like that but but still if we are strong if we continue strong that jack sally they are president biden and even more so those people who have shown themselves extremely worthy in the american administration, they will provide us with support, thank you for clarifying this international chessboard oleksandr shcherba, diplomat ,

you're hearing a lot from tony blinken, but you haven't heard much from lloyd austin or the joint chiefswhich says, to me, that the pentagon is preparing for the worst, and they're not talking about what they're preparing. gerry: let's hope there's diplomatic back channels very, very pulley -- fully operating at the moment. >>> joe biden blames the gop for making the border a crisis. how does my of that make sense? we'll take it up. carlos rodriguez-galindo: no child should die in the dawn of life. and that means no child anywhere. i cannot think of any other institution in the world that has made that commitment to change the world. millions have made the switch from the big three to the best kept secret in wireless: xfinity mobile. that means millions are saving hundreds a year with the fastest mobile service. and now, introducing, the best price for two lines of unlimited. just $30 per line. there are millions of happy campers out there. and this is the perfect time to join them... add a line to your existing plan, or see for yourself how easy it is to save by talking to our helpful s

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effective so obvious, our february dim secretary of state tony blinken acknowledged it.said it is, clearly and no one's interest. right. but only half right. blowing up north stream doesn't help put in, he would not do that, why would he? but that doesn't mean other countries would consider doing it. they had they have considered it. when i said so in public. in early february, biden suggested on camera that he might take out these pipelines. >> if russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of ukraine again. then there will be no longer an north stream to. we'll bring it into. >> but how will you do that? control of the project is within germany's control. >> i promise you, will be able to do it. >> tucker: notice how you phrase that. he's the president. he didn't say, i will pause the delivery of gas from russia to germany. he said there won't be a north stream to. will put an end to it. i will i will you do this marquis was asked. they thought this through. those watching, including us, didn't take biden seriously when he said it. he declared climat

but most importantly he was tony blinken's father, and this is secretary blinken in the midst of this crisis, and dealing with it as admiral stavridis said in the security council yesterday, and we have to pass on our most sincere condolences, because this is a terrible personal loss. he was 97 years old. >> absolutely, thank you for sharing that with us, andrea. he was the ambassador to hungary in the 1990s among many posts he held. our condolences go out to the blinken family and the secretary of state who did make that persuasive speech yesterday before the security council. admiral, i'm going to ask you to do something you probably don't want to do. that's to put yourselves in the shoes of vladimir putin, and you're looking what's in front of you right now. he understands whether he says it publicly or not, that this isn't going well. how do you see this playing out if you're him? we know the west has puts -- put pressure on them, the united states has provided aid. we know the ukrainian military are brave. where does this go if putin is backed into a corner? >> putin is a brillia

secretary of state tony blinken made a surprise visit to kyiv as secretary of defense austin met allies in germany. they unveiled a 20th package of u.s. weapons for ukraine, and following it all is nick schifrin who joins me from southern ukraine. tell us about these promises made by secretary blinken. nick: his trick here was the highest profile of a triumvirate of support by the secretary of defense, blinken and the president's allies. he traveled to kyiv by train, and in the center of town, he met president the load mayor zielinski in his office, announcing a long-term assistance program to ukraine and 18 eastern european allies, and he called this a pivotal moment in the war, referring to ukraine's opportunity to re-seize territory. blinken walked through irpin, one of the epicenters of horror in this war where russian soldiers tortured and dumped ukrainia soldiers into a mass grave. >> look at all of these buildings, all civilian dwellings, and at best, it seems indiscriminate, and at worst, intentional. there has to be accountability for those who committed atrocities, those who o

and we have heard over the last few days, the secretary of state, tony blinken here at the united nationsly. we've heard pyaresident biden, just last weekend in his "60 minutes" interview, also warning the russians against using nuclear weapons and saying there will be consequences. it would depend on the extent to which they use those nuclear weapons, but not getting into details. but it's really interesting they're using these private channels, we don't know when, but over the last few months, to reiterate, don't use nuclear weapons. >> the mere existence of the private channel, interesting, in and of itself. kylie atwood, great reporting. thank you very much. >>> so a passenger sucker punches a flight attendant mid-flight. the video ahead. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) make it even smarterer. we call this enterprise intelligigence. california, mountains, oceans, natural wonders, diverse and creative people. but when the out-of-state corporations behind prop 27 look at california, they see nothing but suckers. they wrote prop 27 to give themselves 90% of the profits from online spor

. >> back in february when i was last year working with secretary of state tony blinken and others. people didn't believe us then. and i was with tony yesterday, he highlighted the fact that we know these to be sham referendum, we know they do not reflect the will of the people in those parts of ukraine. we'll continue to highlight the nonsense that is the narrative trying to be built by vladimir putin that somehow the people in east ukraine want to be invaded by the russians. we know it's not true. we'll continue to broadcast that dishonesty to the world and working alongside the u.s. and the international community we'll continue to support the ukrainians in every part of ukraine, including east ukraine. >> nonsense though it may be, do you have a concern they'll go there with the sham votes and russia will say this is now part of russia. ukraine is fighting in them, violating our territorial inte integrity, that's the pretext we laid out to use nuclear weapons? >> well, vladimir putin has been using pretext for his actions for some time. we must not allow him to to lean on this d

. >> tony blinken has referred to the annual u.n. gathering as diplomatic speed dating.s taken on a critical view of the organization. >> i'm not a fan of the u.n. it is a money-making corrupt organization. >> i personally don't trust them 100% in all different aspects. >> i don't know why they exist to tell you the truth. >> the body that stood by as russia built up troops and invaded in ukraine. genocide continues in china despite a council created to prevent it. north korea is thumbing its nose at all u.n. security council resolutions meant to stop its missile tests. all this inaction doesn't come cheap. in 2020, the most recent fiscal year with data available the u.s. contributed $11.6 billion to the u.n. dana. >> dana: all right, as that meeting gets underway. >> bill: president biden is about to take the world stage as we await his address at the u.n. after president putin made major headlines overnight. a draft, a 300,000 russian men under the age of 35. putin says he is not afraid and will not bluff in the event of nuclear weapons. florida congressman mike waltz,

. >> secretary of state tony blinken was clear when he said ukraine could use u.s.any territory seized by russia. >> what we're going to see in the future, we have delivered weapons during different phases. first the javelins and the stingers, then the himars. ukraine needs a modern army. they don't have that now. they have a smorgasbord of equipment being delivered by nato members. they need to have the opportunity to train on that equipment and conduct combined arms operations. but still, even considering all that, they're doing extremely well against a dysfunctional, poorly trained russian force. so they'll continue to take background. and some of it will go much further than we anticipated. >> are you getting a sense on the ground how much russian views have shifted as a result of the mobilization? >> reporter: yes, there's definitely a sense that this has brought it home to them. some of them said, we didn't know before, we were confused. now we understand that we don't want to die for this fight. this is not our war. but more than that, what we are hearing fro

we heard yet from the secretary of state tony blinken who talked about the fact this announcement was expected and the referendums announced by the proxies, and here's what he tells you about what putin thinks of the united nations. >> that both of these things are happening this week as we're at the united nations shows his contempt and disdain for the united nations, for the general assembly, the charter. the principles that we're here to uphold this week in the charter, sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity are what are being violent aggressed through russia in attempts to proceed with the referendum and putting more forces in to seize more ukrainian territory. >> he said it also demonstrates russia's failure. putin is making the announcements because he's failing. and we heard similar comments to that effect from the british defense secretary this morning. so there is a lot of response saying putin is doing this because he's backed into a corner but that doesn't explain what this is going to look like on the battlefield, that's what we'll watch for. >> it's fascinating

. >>> this morning secretary of state tony blinken says the u.s. has privately warned russia to tone down its threatening rhetoric on nuclear weapons. he says the kremlin has been told that the consequences would be dire. >> we're focused on making sure that we're all acting responsibly, especially when it comes to this kind of rhetoric. we've been very clear with the russians publicly as well as privately to stop the loose talk about nuclear weapons. >> privately the united states has been in communication with the kremlin about these threats of nuclear war. >> yes. it's very important that moscow hear from us and know from us that the consequences would be horrific, and we made that very clear. >> cnn anchor and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is with me now. i wonder what you think about that? by the way, blinken calls it loose talk, but ukrainian president zelenskyy is saying putin is not bluffing here. >> putin said himself this is not a bluff. these communications have been going on for some time. there's a reason u.s. offic

. >> yeah, so as you point out, jim, the russian foreign minister and the secretary of state tony blinken have been in the same place at the same time in multiple instances in recent months. in one of those instances, a secretary of state went after russia and said very bluntly, ukraine is not your country, and we expect that there is going to be more tense confrontation today. and the reason that today is different is because we do expect that both the secretary of state and the russian foreign minnist her lavrov are going to deliver remarks as part of this meeting on ukraine. and when it comes to blinken himself, we're told that he is very similar to president biden yesterday going to directly confront what we have seen as these recent developments over the last few days with president putin talking about the nuclear possibilities of this war. also, with those referendum that are planned in the ukrainian occupied territories in russia and also the mobilization of additional troops that russia is sending into this. so there are recent developments but the secretary of state is expected t

especially when you see jake sullivan and tony blinken talk about that.hite house says they've seen no indications that they can change their own nuclear posture. but it was told by someone, they are viewing this differently. this threat from putin. differently now than they were six or seven years ago. when they thought the idea of this was incredibly unlikely. they still think it is low, they still think it's likely, they are human differently. they are taken putinesque word. when it comes to this posturing. it does mean they've changed any of their own posturing, carrying and states. but it is something they're watching closely at. there >> all right, cause of the white house, great to see you, thank you very much. >> one of the mobilization backlash inside russia. that's a mainly muslim region of -- those are pleased by over the heads of protesters. many of them believed they aren't fairly bearing the brunt of the mobilization. >> cnn's matthew chance is watching this story for us and joins us now. matthew, what we know about these protest and how lar

an tony blinken is at the department of state talking about ukraine. >> while also combating the climateill release the strategy forfurther these goals and won't to work closely with canada to make them a reality. like the united states, canada is both an atlantic and pacific nation and we saw that last week at the general assembly where canada joined both partners in the pacific and strengthening atlantic ministerial meetings. it will further our shared goals as a pas -- we're working to end epidemics. we see canada's leadership on display at the general assembly with the prime minister's generous contribution of more than $900 million to the global fund in its seventh replenishment. canada, mexico and the united states are partners in the usmca. we're strengthening supply changes and strong labor rights protections and the clean energy transition across an increasingly integrated north america. since december, our countries have partnered to mobilize more than 295 million in international commitments for haiti. we deeply appreciate canada's leadership in launching the u.n. basket fund

secretary of state tony blinken spoke monday. >> i want the families of americans who are being arbitrarilydetained and held hostage anywhere in the world to know that our coitment t them , bringing their loved ones home, is resolute and we will relentlessly continue to focus on doing just that. amy: in related news, president biden met friday at the white house with the families of two u.s. citizens imprisoned in russia, basketball superstar brittney griner and paul whelan. it was biden's first meeting with the families. back in the united states, a for-profit company that operates prison telephone lines has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by incarcerated people. advocates say global tel link routinely pocketed deposits made by prisoners to pre-paid phone accounts and preyed on prisoners by charging them exorbitant rates of up to 100 times the actual cost of calls. and in baltimore, supporters of adnan syed are celebrating his release from prison after a monday maryland judge vacated his murder conviction. the 41-year-old syed had spent 23 years behind ba

but secretary of state tony blinken welcomed the news of alex and andy's release earlier this week thankingring the deal that also secured the release of prisoners from the uk, morocco, sweden and croatia. despite what the two men have been through, their family members say they have no regrets about supporting the ukrainians. >> he wanted to get it known that they totally are proud of going there. they love the ukrainian people. they really want people to understand that ukraine needs our support. they need the support of all democratic nations. they need democracies to come together and push putin back. >> now, of course, u.s. officials are welcoming the release of alex and andy. but, unfortunately, it doesn't seem like this swap for these prisoners of war that was brokered by the turks and the saudis is at all impacting what are these ongoing negotiations to try and get home those americans who are wrongfully detained in russia. because those are talks that are happening directly between the united states and russia. and so far they haven't gone anywhere. >> brittney griner and paul whel

you met with tony blinken, the secretary of state?but you are demanding a meeting with president biden? can you talk about all that you are demanding the significance of chris van hollen come the senator from maryland, not accepting the israeli report on her death and calling for that independent investigation? >> when president biden was in the middle east when he was in jerusalem, specifically, he was 10 minutes away from our house, from shireen's house where she was born. yet he refused to meet with us there. instead, our family had to come to d.c. we met secretary antony blinken. but we're still calling for a meeting with the u.s. president, with president biden because that will show he is serious about the case an that he is willg to take action. ever since my aunt was killed, all of the statement released by the u.s. state department, this administration have been nothing but empty words followed with no action. that is why we will continue to demand an investigation, a u.s.-led investigation for the killing of a u.s. citizen.

meantime, our secretary of state, tony blinken today, addressed the united nations security council to try to rally support for his campaign against putin. >> one man chose this war. one man can end it because if shah stops fighting the war ends if ukraine stops fighting. ukraine ends >> sergei lavrov spoke, too. accused ukraine of being a war-crime state. he said it was a war state and ahead the alleged invading russians he offered no evidence to support any of that. after the speech lavrov stormed out of the security council. visibly angry. the ukrainian foreign minister said this afterwards >> fleeing the battlefield fleeing the floor of the u.n michael mcfall former u.s. ambassador to russia thanks so much is there a way the west can capitalize on what appears to be, i don't know, a lot of unrest in russia >> mr. putin is having a bad several weeks. he lost the beginning of the war in the battle of kyiv. he's lost this incredible setback around the second largest city kharkiv. so he's decided to take this very dramatic step that he promised the russian people he wouldn't do which i

attempt by the remaining russian-backed forces to withdraw, and last night secretary of state tony blinkenalled the recent gains by ukrainians encouraging. >> i think it would be wrong to predict exactly where this will go, when it will get there and how it will get there, but clearly we've seen significant progress by the -- by the ukrainians, particularly in the northeast. >> questions, though, still remain. how far could ukrainian forces go. could they hold onto this land that they recaptured, and how will vladimir putin respond? >> let's bring in cnn's frederik ple pleitgen. we're largely talking about this area around kharkiv, this yellow area, which is growing by the day in size back under ukrainian control. how has this been received in russia? >> not very well at all. it was quite interesting. we literally john just a couple of seconds ago got off a conference call with the kremlin, the spokesperson for vladimir putin who once again as he does pretty much every day say that the special military operation as the russians put it will continue at its previous pace and will achieve all

security council today, tony blinken condemned his counterpart. >> this week, most gather and not speakingt for his charter and this council. the very international order that we have gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes. we cannot, we will not allow president putin to get away with it. >> blinked's comments followed president biden's sharp review for vladimir putin's sharp remarks to the general assembly yesterday. and his comments yesterday saying that if they threaten russian's sovereignty saying that thousands of russians will be forced to serve, and citizens demonstrated yesterday against putin's controversial move, and many were protested and handed brash papers. and many were fleeing to destinations that were selling out quickly. to tell us more about this is john kirby, the national security spokesman, and now, let's talk about the nuclear threats, and how seriously should we, the west, be taking these brazen threats from vladimir putin? >> very seriously, and we are. this is not rhetoric that is new to mr. putin and he has been making these threats since the b

here is secretary of state tony blinken on this. >> the united states, for me personally, there is noan bringing americans who are being arbitrarily and unjustly detained back home to freedom, to their families. >> nbc's josh lederman is outside the white house. tell us more about the negotiations, and this afghan drug smuggler who is now free. >> mark frerichs was working as a contract ner afghanistan more than two years ago when he was captured and became a hostage, and he was really the last u.s. hostage that was on the american official's radar, when the u.s. announced it was pulling out of afghanistan more than a year ago. and so it was a top priority to try to get him back. and over the past many months of negotiations, according to senior administration officials, what became clear was that if the u.s. wanted to get mark frerichs back from the taliban, what the taliban really wanted in exchange was this other person in u.s. prison by the name of norzi who was convicted in 2008 of running a drug smuggling ring, trafficking heroin into new york city, he had been given a 17-year s

could officially absorb the four regions as soon as this friday today, secretary of state avon tony blinkend that the u.s. would never recognize those territories as part of russia. the referendum comes as thousands of russians continuing to leave the country they are trying to avoid putin's call-up of 300,000 reserve troops to fight in ukraine our sister network sky news and their correspondent dominic waghorn spoke to some russians who crossed the georgian board sneer 10,000 russians have crossed today here since the putin decree, like nick on the run now to avoid fighting in new york. >> i want to leave russia because i'm an engineer and scientist and my government wants me -- wants to make meat from me. >> reporter: there are vehicles backed up for miles with similar scenes back in cab stan and mongolia, too. russians are voting with their feet against putin's war and his call-up plans. we met an engineer, an i.t. specialist, a nuclear physicist all who have given up their jobs and are simply walking out of russia it is a mass exducks in which russia is hemorrhaging some of its brightes

meantime, our secretary of state tony blinken addressed to try to rally support for his campaign against putin. >> one man chose this war. one man can end it because if russia stops fighting, the war ends if ukraine stops fighting, ukraine ends >> blinken's russian counterpart, sergey lavrov, spoke too. that was different he was belligerent lavrov accused ukraine of being a nazi state saying there was no war crime in bucha, period, and alleged the ukrainians are committing atrocities against the invading russians he offered no evidence to support any of that. after the speech, lavrov stormed out of the city council, visibl angry. the foreign minister said this afterwards russian diplomats flee almost as much as russian soldiers. >> fleeing the battle, fleeing the draft orders and fleeing the floor of the u.n michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia can there a way the west can capitalize on what appears to be a lot of unrest in russia? >> well, mr. putin's having a bad several weeks, right he lost the beginning of the war in the battle of kyiv. he has now lost this incredible setback

i think what tony blinken said last night is exactly right, that we should not recognize these territoriesave a sham referendum and russia says they are part of russia they aren't part of russia and we have to be very clear about that. the second thing is to not be alarmed by putin saying they are going to defend their territorial integrity even with nuclear weapons if they have to. we should say great. no one is threatening russian territory. no one is going to attack russia we are not challenging your territorial integrity. you are attacking ukraine and you should just get out. stuart: but if he goes ahead with this annexation referendums in certain parts of ukraine and turns them into russian territory, he could use that as an excuse, he could use that as an excuse to escalate to nukes. >> that's exactly what he's implying. he wants to scare us into thinking that but we have to not be alarmed or fooled here that just because he waves a wand and says okay, now this is part of russia, that anyone actually sees this as part of russia, even his own military, even his own people. i think tha

secretary tony blinken in the same room as the russian counterpart sergei lavrov and talking about the war and putin's escalation of it at the u.n. security council meeting. >> president putin picked this week as most of the world gathers at the united nations, to add fuel to the fire that he started. it shows his utter contempt for the u.n. charter, for the general assembly, and for this council. the very international order that we have gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes. we cannot, we will not allow president putin to get away with it. >> let's talk about this. joining me now former adviser to president zelenskyy, and michael crowley of "the new york times" as well, they both addressed the u.s. security council, however lavrov left the room when secretary blinken was actually speaking. what does that say to you? >> well, russia lass shown very little interest in what the u.s. has had to say and the actual diplomacy between the u.s. in particular and moscow has essentially ground to a halt. i was actually with secretary drinken in mid february when he had last

and tony blinken goes. back to performing man. t did he tako e his stepkids to the drag show this weekend? probably. they all did. probably they all do. all of these people on we should tell you that all these people on msnbc and at the state department officially are not work for joe biden. sobi the dumbnesdes may flow downhill like certain other fluid matter flos. >> joe biden doesn't even appear to realize that his military, his pentagon, which he oversees, lost the withdrawal from afghanistan, in fact, was juste this weewik. >> the joe biden claim very loudly that americans would need personal fifteens if they wanted to overpower the u.s. government. oh f, there's no way you can bet us . you're not sophisticated enough . you're not illiterate, sandal wearing militia in the poorest country in the world. >> there's no way. h >> and you made that argument t with such confidence. you have to wonder if anyone him told him what happened in what kabul.ha let's look back . oh, last year,ppened he also dod appear to realize thatoe ac's

effect in fact, it's soiv obvious thato even our famously dim secretary of state, tony blinken, seem to acknowledge it. sabotaging nord stream, he said. today is , quote, clearly in no one's interest. >> right. cle buart really only half right. hl it is true that blowing up nord stream does not vladimir putin, he would not do that. why would he?, why woul but that doesn't mean that other countries wouldn't consider doing it. they would consider it. and we knortries woit.w they hae considered it because at least one of them has said so in public. id sin early february, less than three weeks before the war in ukraine began, joe bidenamera suggested on camera that hthe might take out these pipelines . >> i >> watch if russia invades thatk means tanks or troops crossing the the border of ukraine again, then there will be there will be no longethr a nord strem two. we will bring it to you. ill yo >> but how we do how will you do that exactly? since the project and control tp of the project is within germany's contro il, we will i promise you will be able to do it. to do notice how you phr

. >> reporter: this morning a surprise visit to ukraine from american secretary of state ant tony blinkenountry meeting with government officials and visiting a children's hospital at a time when ukraine has been sounding an international alarm about the deteriorating zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. the town around the facility under intense fire again. ukraine's deputy prime minister telling residents in russian occupied territory near the plant to evacuate or take cover. mean while, the plant clinging to power, rely on the only working reactor. world leaders fearing a possible catastrophe as both sides blame the other for the continuing shelling. >> russia is playing roulette with nuclear safety. >> reporter: residences aren't taking any chances in preparing for a possible radiation leak. this pharmacist said people are coming in droves ask fogger iodine but they have run out. this top military chief claims in an interview that russia could use tactical nuclear weapons putting the world on guard for what he said is the potential for a nuclear conflict. this morning the devastation in ukrain

only tony blinken and the psychos like toria nuland want it to be and they fully support the narrow presidenthich is a good and noble goal that most americans support no his goal is to overthrow vladimir putin and the forgiveness of russia in the shade defended the beautiful. here he is, a crime was committed against ukraine and we demand a fair punishment so corrupt east european authoritarian leader in a t-shirt. it teaches us, and the community of nations, and tells us that this is all for the punishment ukraine demands. this is not about self-defense or the return of territory. it's about regime change. in particular. they demand a nuclear strike from us, as we do in this leslie. but almost no one in washington will stop and ask this question. they are completely for everything. it's crazy, but not only for. i will start with paradoxical things, because i will say that the presence of such people as takerkanson and the fact that he is still on the air inspires a little optimism that everything is not lost with america, the most popular presenter there is the presence of fox news and the f

i know the secretary of state tony blinken and jake sullivan know there's a super focus on this, andation at some point. >> former job, secretary of state, current climate with explosions around the nord stream pipelines. what do you believe putin is up there there, if you believe he's up to something. >> well, our european friends have been more forward-leaning on labeling it sabotage. we're waiting to get the facts. the administration is looking very, very closely at that, obviously, and critical is going to be repairing it as fast as possible. an underwater operation, but that's going to have to happen. >> so obviously environmental impacts from this as well. what's the concern there? >> well, the concern there is that if you have blown up a gas pipe and gas is coming out, which evidently you can see happening in the ocean, that's methane. huge release of methane. unburned gas is the most, the methane it leaks is the most destructive gas. it's 20 to 80 times more damaging and destructive than co2, the burned gas, and it's responsible overall for half of the warming of the planet.

only tony blinken and psychos like toriya nuland want it and they totally support the ukrainian presidentns support no its goal is to overthrow vladimir putin and turn russia into a day away from the country about a wonderful plan. here he is, a crime was committed against ukraine, and we demand a fair punishment. so the corrupt east european authoritarian leader in a t-shirt. teaches us, but the community and tells us that this is all for the required ukraine to punish? it's not about self-defense or return of territory. it's about regime change, in particular. they demand a nuclear strike from us, how did we get into this at all. but almost no one in washington will stop and ask that question. they are completely for everything. it's crazy, but not only for. i’ll start with paradoxical things, because i’ll say that the presence of people like tucker carlson and the fact that he is still on the air inspires a little optimism that everything is not lost with america, the most popular presenter is the presence of fox news and what is not only he is there a number of presenters who advocate

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