tony blinken didn't use quite those words, but no mistaking what he meant.ch. >> it's a tremendous opportunity for once and for all to remove the dependence on russian energy, take away from vladimir putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. that's very significant. and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come. >> tucker: now, we don't have a super-long attention span, but this was compressed in the space of four days. last tuesday, the largest act of industrial terrorism in our lifetime was a baffling crime, but by friday the same event had become, quote, a tremendous opportunity, in fact a tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come. it's a good thing. now, that's an admission. that's the clearest admission we're ever going to get. no one could miss it, least of all the russians. the biden administration is responsible, either directly or through proxies for the destruction of the nord stream pipelines and the economic collapse that will follow. that's true. it's done. so the questi

congressman matt gaetz noticed it sent a letter to tony blinken asking what is this.s us tonight to tell us what he's heard back. congressman thanks so much for noticing this and asking what it means. what does it mean and did you get an answer? >> it means that the globalist left was a that mong knifed north america because they don't think that much of the united states of america in the first place. i haven't gotten an answer but it begs the question why are we so friendly with mexico anyway? they've cooked up more death in the mexican mountains than any crazy mad scientist at wuhan would have ever thought of. it's hard to tell where the cartels end and the government of mexico begins. >> tucker: that's right. >> they had a former president take a hundred million dollars bribe, they had a former defense chief function as the muscle for the cartel, one of their state level attorneys jensen tensed to 20 years in the united states of america. but while they're sleep walking to a war with russia, they're actually surrendered america sovereignty with mexico and canada's

now, tony blinken, by contrast, is not an expert. he's a failed rock musicianthe e who somehow became the secretary of state of u the united states . he's onitef happy to lie, does t a lot, but he's not especially good at it at the beginning of last week, blinken was pretending to be baffled by the sabotage of nord stream. >> no one benefits from this, he said, notne ben in a millions could he imagine who would do something like that. d doit was just unfathomable. that was tuesday. was by friday, blinken had dropped the post and admitted that actually we did it. now, tony blinken didn't use quite those words, but theren' was no mistaking what he meant. >> watch.h. it's a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependance on russian, take energy and thus to take away anh from vladimir the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. that's very significant o and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for for the years to come. now, we don't have a super longs attention span, but this wasomp

and we're quoting, it's a tremendous opportunity, said tony blinken. it's a great thing, not a tragedy, a victory, somethingf we are in favor of. besid >> we're excited about it. destroyed a natural gas pipeline before that. so it might be another clue that the administration may have had something s to do with it. oh, but nospite , saysth the whe house, despite the fact that we promised we would do it. and then we crowed about how great it was after itthing happened. we had nothing at all toat a dly with it. who did it? well, russia did it.ine, they blew up their own pipeline, making their own country poor and weaker in the middle of a major war, because that's how crazy, but. also diabolically effective the russians are suicidal, yet brilliant. and if you don't buy thauytif yu story, uncritically, if youre a have any questions about how exactly that might work,am you're a disloyal american. shut up. disloyal american. here's here's chris stewart, a republican member of congress from utah, making the very mak same pointin >>. il wasin >> john kirby wi

tony blinken, the united states secretary of state, said it, because the russians will be scratchingd that something will be possible, nuclear is possible, but it strengthens the similar and that's why i'm so, and god forbid, i'm a little emotional towards the french, who show traditions for such security, which only wants to continue blackmail and, god forbid, nuclear weapons, that's why it will be some kind of answer from our other western partners, there is already an answer even from one of these, well, we are holders of french passports, they are domestic, compatriots of the french, yes. so what did the former president of francois lande say, he said that the reliability of nuclear deterrence is not to say what exactly we should have done commented on macron's words, ex-president françois-hulan noted that it is better to say as little as possible and be ready to do as much as possible instead deputy vice-president of the defense committee of the lower house of the national assembly jeanlou and thirio of france said that he almost fell off his chair after hearing macron's stateme

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 tha the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day... a "let's dig in" day... mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... - mm. [ chuckles ] - ...a "love my new teeth" day. because your clearchoice day is the day everything is back on the menu. a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. ♪ ♪ luxury exemplified. innovation electrified. with apple music seamlessly integrated. the all-new, all-electric eqs suv from mercedes-benz. gerry: the crisis at the southern border is worsening daily under the progressive policies of this administration. the number of migrants taken into custody surpassed 2 million in august,

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midterms, but the reality here that is the saidives aren't afraid of biden's bluster or scolded by tony blinkenfting sanctions on inventorya unleashing power domestic energy production caused them a much different approach under obama and trump administrations a market share approach as opposed to price management approach first of all, why biden is struggling with rampant inflation much more than obama did his energy plailz are far more radical than obama's if you can believe it, to bigger point inflation is a policy choice it is the he chosen policy of the democratic party inflation is what happens when you ram through trillion dollar spending bills did hemonize energy producers concede all congressional with esg narratives policy choice hardworking wisconsinites in my district dealing with that very inept policy choice by biden administration. >> even moving forward with green rj agenda could unleash u.s. oil as a satisfy wouldn't have been able to have this control along sited russia russia, 13 million barrels saying back to where we were we could do two, two and a half million barrels more

it's a tremendous opportunity, said tony blinken. it's a great thing. not a tragedy, a victory.omething we're in favor. we're excite beside it. destroyed a natural gas pipeline. we're for that. so that might be another clue. did the biden administration may have had something to do with it. oh, but no says the white house. despite the fact that we promised we would do it and then we quote about how great it was after it happened, we had nothing at all to do with it. who did it? well, russia did it. they blew up their own pipeline, making their own country poorer and weaker in the middle of a major war because that's how crazy the russians are. suicidal? brilliant. and if you don't buy that story, if you have any questions about how exactly that might work, you're a disloyal american. shut up. here's chris stewart making the very statement point. >> john kirby with the national security council was on earlier in no uncertain terms said the u.s. was not behind and a proxy of the u.s. was not behind the explosion in the north stream pipeline. from your perspective, both of you, you

united states has denied any involvement in the pipeline attack, but on friday secretary of state tony blinkencknowledged the development presents a "tremendous opportunity" for the united states. >> and ultimately, this is also a tremendous opportunity. it is a tremendous opportunity for one side for all remove the dependence on russian energy and thus to take away from vladimir putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. amy: the death toll from hurricane ian has reached 87 and is continuing to grow amid a massive search and rescue effort in florida. about half of the deaths occurred in lee county, which waited until a day before the storm to issue a mandatory evacuation order. president biden is expected to visit florida on wednesday. today he will be in puerto rico whe hurricane fiona killed 25 people and knocked out power to the entire island. about 14% of the island is still without power two weeks after the storm. sunday marked the 16th day of consecutive protests in iran following the death of mahsa amini, a 22-year-old kurdish -iranian woman who die

. >> with respect to how it all ends and that really is up to i think tony blinken and other diplomats to figure out a way to get both zelensky and putin to the table. >> martha: is that what needs to happen at some point? >> it's going to end that way. it will end with conversations. about every war absent total defeat ends one way. something that we should be engaged in today. there's no evidence that putin is prepared to engage in that. >> martha: he mentioned it in his speech. none of these places that i just declared as part of russia are part of that. >> the ukraines and russians have talked about since crimea. those negotiations went nowhere. vladimir putin conducted another act of aggression. he want get back to the status quo. he has to learn to accept that. i'm convinced the west can do that. it matters for ukrainian. the ukrainians are doing well. zelensky should got tons of credit for that. if we let off, if he laid down his weapons today, it would only be temporary. >> martha: you think the leadership here now is the leadership you would want to tempt nuclear war with? >>

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. >> reporter: tony blinken calling the actions dangerous and reckless. >> we have called on them to refrain from further provocations and engage in a sustain and substantive dialogue. this is something we proposed going back many months. it will increase the isolation and increase the steps that are taken in response to their actions. >> reporter: north korea has carried out missile tests this year, 23 so far. the latest on tuesday flying almost 3,000 miles or 4,600 kilometers, right over japan for the first time in five years. a major provocation and escalation. >> i don't care if people are angry about it. they know what they want to do. i think they are dead set on doing it. >> reporter: kim's meetings with former president donald trump proving little help in slowing north korea's missile and nuclear development. >> he believes these safeguard his regime. i think that he is both talking that talk, but he is walking the walk going on about his business of building up his nuclear arsenal. >> reporter: the white house says there's no response to their offer to sit down with no preco

amy: meanwhile, tony blinken said last week the biden administration has no plans to reduce sanctionsuela. some cities estimate the sanctions have killed tens of thousands of people in venezuela . a few years ago it was mike pompeo under trump who offered a pathway to lift the sections predicated on regime change in venezuela and replacing the president with juan quite over. how much of the situation can you attribute to u.s. policy against venezuela? what is happening with this massive deportation venezuelans and also talk about haitians being turned back. >> thank you so much, amy. again, i'm not been for an venezuelan politics but what i can tell you is that the 24,000 venezuelans who have been -- is a piecemeal. we are seeing thousands fling venezuela. we are seeing expulsion, deportation of at least 1000 venezuelans a day from the united states back to mexico. we are seeing that the piecemeal that is being offered to the venezuelan population is also being used as a terror factor for people who have already been seeking protection, people who are still traversing, people who are

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and after tony blinken warned that north korea must change its ways. >> i think what we are seeing is a continue down this road, it will only increase the condemnation, increase isolation, increase the steps that are taken in response to their actions. >> that didn't do it. secretary blinken says the commitment to u.s. allies in the region is ironclad. the south korean military, full readiness posture. >>> of vladimir putin signing the final papers today to illegally annexed four regions of ukraine. but russian forces are quite frankly struggling to keep control of those territories. the kremlin insists are now a part of russia. troops continued to deliberate several settlements in the countries south. ukrainian military officials say their blitz has crippled russians attempts to move initial troops in ammunitions to the front line. the kremlin responded by launching, causing drones deep inside ukraine. ukrainian officials, and other buildings come about50 miles south of kyiv, the capital yesterday. this video shows smoke billowing from the destroyed buildings. russian forces have bee

the situation so dire that secretary of state tony blinken and vice president kamala harris met todaying one whom you may recognize. nazanin boniadi. she'sologist in the new amazon series "lord of the rings, the rings of power," the season finale which dropped today. and i will ask you about that, i promise. but i know more important than that is what's going on in iran. i want to know what you asked during the meeting with secretary of state blinken and vice president harris. did you come away with any assurances the u.s. will do more? >> thanks for having me, jake. i walked away hopeful. i'm very grateful to the administration for making the time for us today. and, you know, the message was that the people of iran are looking to every democratic leader in the world to stand by them unequivocally, just as we did with the anti-apartheid movement in south africa, just as we did for the people of ukraine. they deserve and are demanding that we stand by them in the same way. and i was assured by the administration they will do everything they can to ensure accountability of the crimes co

i think that the biden team, with tony blinken and lloyd austin in defense are rightfully concerned toen. we cannot give him a way out. this is a time in which the ukrainian army is being told, gain and maintain contact with the enemy force, and relentlessly conduct a pursuit. you just can't say, well, let's give him a face saving way out. they are going to take on the battlefield what they can get, and right now it is completely going in the direction of the ukrainian armed forces. >> okay, we'll have to leave it there. general barry mccaffrey, shine monster, thank you both very much for joining us tonight. coming up, kurt more della and -- will join us next on how republicans keep getting tripped up by donald trump's extremism, and yes, his racism. (fisher investments) it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same, but at fisher investments we're clearly different. (other money manager) different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades

. >> so tony blinken, jake sullivan, if they go to riyadh, they should talk real tough to the saudis >> neil: that's what you should say, right? we don't need you. we have our own stuff and we were experimenting and we're going to make our own stuff now. >> incidentally, next time to vote comes up in opec, we expect you to support an increase in out put. i wish that the u.s. would walk away from the negotiations with iran going on in vienna. they're awful. they're demeaning to us, threatening to our allies in the region. how can we morally make an agreement that killed this woman and while the people of iran are fighting with tremendous bravery in the streets. that is a key to getting our relationship with the saudis back on track. i think ultimately that's -- >> neil: i get it. you're calling for like a soprano's moment here. >> exactly. >> neil: at your next meeting you didn't increase production. i think that's what you're saying. >> yeah, this is not soft talk. >> neil: i understand. >> yeah, this is -- this is -- we need tony soprano if he was still around. >> neil: all right, s

you are looking at [indiscernible] he recently -- and tony blinken. i remember this a few weeks ago. they -- china talked about the cancellation suspension. but there was a period where -- china still wanted to talk to the u.s.. mr. friedman: this is my last question before we go to the audience. is it time for bite it best biden -- look at what is going on with u.s. and russia is this a moment for biden to beijing? mr. li: i did not see that politically it is impossible -- they would not allow that situation but i think you raise a very important question about the russian ukraine war. i wanted to cover on that. and i will say this is the biggest challenge for -- not the biggest challenge the biggest since taiwan -- the russian ukraine war. and i have never seen a foreign policy issue that the chinese -- are so divided. this is a like -- elites and entrepreneurs and -- political elites partly because all the years their engagement -- with russia was west be united states -- how you had an everlasting impact. and some people argue that china foreign p

as you noted, secretary of state tony blinken condemned this, called it reckless and dangerous.at north korea would be much better served by not only refraining from these actions but actually engaging in dia dialogue. i think what we're seeing is if they continue down this road, it will only increase the condemnation, increase the isolation, increase the steps that are taken in response to their actions. >> this was the 23rd missile launch from north korea this year. we have seen a growing number. according to experts and analysts, there is no sense that those tests are going to end any time soon. there's no sense that north korea is going to denuclearize any time soon. in fact, one expert i was speaking with earlier today said we could expect to see a nuclear test in the very near future. >> alex marquardt from the pentagon, thank you. >>> joining us is "newsweek" columnist and author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world, gordon chang. good to have you back. the expectation that what follows this ballistic missile test is a nuclear test. do you agree with that a

of this kind of altogether, the secretary of state was on abc and george stephanopoulos asked tony blinkenrational actor or player. let me play what he said. >> it is hard to put yourself in someone else's mind. i think he's rational but the decisions he's making are maybe putter put his objectives are not rational. >> how do you deal with that, though, ambassador? how do you eventually or at all negotiate with someone like that? >> you probably don't, kate. you probably don't negotiate. president zelenskyy has made it clear he will not negotiate with president putin. he'll negotiate with the next russian president. but to negotiate with someone who is performing these atrocities, that is killing your people, killing ukrainians, civilians. this is not a military fight. this is the russians under president putin attacking civilians, schools, hospitals, power plants, hoping that the ukrainians will be miserable this winter. how do you negotiate with that kind of a person? you wait until you have pushed russians out of their country and that is what the ukrainians say. they're willing to nego

i think that the biden team, with tony blinken and lloyd austin in defense are rightfully concerned to cannot give him a way out. this is a time in which the ukrainian army is being told, gain and maintain contact with the enemy force, and relentlessly conduct a pursuit. you just can't say, well, let's give him a face saving way out. they are going to take on the battlefield what they can get, and right now it is completely going in the direction of the ukrainian armed forces. >> okay, we'll have to leave it there. general barry mccaffrey, shine monster, thank you both very much for joining us tonight. coming up, kurt more della and -- will join us next on how republicans keep getting tripped up by donald trump's extremism, and yes, his racism. and yes, his racism peaceful state. full plate. wait, are you my blind date? dancing crew. trip for two. nail the final interview. buy or lease? masterpiece. inside joke. artichoke. game with doug. brand new mug. come here, kid. gimme a hug. the more you want to do, the more we want to do. boosters designed for covid-19 variants are now availabl

and so far the state department, the secretary of state, tony blinken has said that they have seen no indication that russia is in a position to engage in serious diplomacy. so what we have seen is that the biden administration is really doing everything it can to support ukraine during this time. so that if ukraine goes to the negotiating table, they are in a position where they would have their strongest hand on the table. but, we should also think about the fact that if they want to set up a channel like this, would president putin allow it? presumably, if the russian ambassador here to the united states is throwing this idea out there, he has some sort of sign-off from the kremlin, but we would values to see who in the biden administration would take up such an effort. >> it is an interesting discussion. kylie atwood, thank you so much. >>> president biden seizing on comments from several republicans, including house gop leader kevin mccarthy. these are leaders who are threatening to cut aid to ukraine if they win a majority in november. biden said these guys don't get it. it's a

you heard it from jake sullivan and tony blinken. why would the president at a democratic fund-raiser -- all of this, off camera, is that calculated or is that biden being biden? >> yes to both. i'm not much of a poker player. but when you say, as vladimir putin did, i'm not bluffing, that generally means that you are bluffing. i think what biden is doing is raising the rhetorical ante on putin. by the way, i think he is right. i think the distinction between tactical nuclear weapons and the weapon used in nagasaki and hiroshima is a distinction without a difference. biden is shooting a rhetorical bullet across the bow. >> shane, your newspaper, you and your colleagues citing u.s. intelligence sources say that putin was confronted directly by a member of his inner circle about the conflict in ukraine, given the setbacks. doesn't that raise the stakes also that he is cornered here and is facing these divisions, which keir simmons has talked about today? >> yes. i think that's right. he is cornered and he raised the stakes on his own,

we also know that secretary of state tony blinken had a chance to speak with his counterpart, the foreigninue to provide unwavering economic humanitarian and security assistance so ukraine can defend itself and take care of its people. now in just a few hours, we'll have our first chance to try to ask president biden about his response when he believes wilmington to head back to the white house. and, lindsey, the last time that we heard president biden speak about russia's war in ukraine, it was in that fund raiser when he raised the spector of nuclear armageddon and said that things were as bad as they were during the cuban missile crisis. in the three or four days since then, white house officials have been trying to lower the temperature, to try to make it clear that biden wasn't trying to escalate with those comments. but that has created a whole lot of questions in the wake of these new attacks in kyiv and elsewhere in ukraine just about how serious does president biden think the situation is right now. that will be top of mind for reporters as we try to question the president about

secretary of state tony blinken today calling north korea's actions dangerous and reckless. >> if theyown this road, it will only increase the condemnation, increase the isolation, increase the steps that are taken in response to their actions. >> reporter: north korea has carried out a flurry of missile tests this year. the launch on tuesday, flying almost 3,000 miles or 4,600 kilometers, right over japan for the first time in five years. a major provocation and escalation. >> they don't care if people are angry about it. they know what they want to do, and i think they're pretty dead-set on doing it. >> reporter: kim's meetings with former president donald trump proving little help in slowing north korea's missile and nuclear development. >> he believes that these are the things that safeguard his regime, and so i think that he is both talking that talk, but he's walking that walk, going on about his business of building up his nuclear arsenal. >> reporter: and pamela, there is no indication that north korea intends to denuclearize. in fact, experts believe that a new nuclear test fr

he's been shot at himself, i think he and tony blinken at state and the president and the national security council have put together an astonishing package. they brought nato together. nato was moribund after trump got through with it. so, i think we've done the right thing. it may well be that there will be turning points with mr. putin about to get destabilized politically. what will he do? but, you know, the doctor said you can't allow nuclear weapons to be normalized and be used on the battlefield. so we have some tremendous affairs coming up. >> so right. so right. mika, i should revise my question, not right-wing freaks, right-wing extremists, because it is a very small group of people on the far right who are attacking our military, who are saying they are weak, who are supporting vladimir putin, a very small group. most republicans shoulder to shoulder with democrats and president biden in pushing back against this russian tyranny. >> clint watts, back to exactly what's happening on the battlefield, as much as we know, what do we know the ukrainians have been for sure able to recap

or some combination of them with respect to how it all ends, and that really is up to, i think, tony blinken and other diplomats to figure out a way to get both zelenskyy and putin to the table, and as is typical in any war, it's got to end, and usually there are negotiations associated with that. the sooner the better as far as i'm concerned. >> and we talk about these tactical nuclear weapons. where would he use those? what kind of damage can they do? >> well, depending on the size of them, he's got some very small ones, which theoretically while devastating would localize the damage. the winds all blow back onto russia, so he would have to in a way contaminate his own country. he could pick a symbolic target. he could pick zelenskyy's hometown, for instance, as a target as opposed to having a big impact on the battlefield that would badly hurt the ukrainian army, which has fought so well. >> all very frightening stuff and always good to talk to you and hear your perspective. thanks so much, admiral. >>> coming up, has herschel walker's abortion scandal hurt republicans' odds of winning th

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yesterday ant tony blinken said beijing's approach to taiwan has changed in recent years. >> insteadsion that the status quo was no longer acceptable and that beijing was determined to pursue reunification on a much faster timeline >> joining us right now with his thought on whether he thinks the time line has shortened is virginia senator mark warner senator warner thank you for being here it is good to see you. >> thank you, becky. >> blinken pointing to this but it comes after comments from president xi talking about how reunification is coming, they would like to do it peacefully but they will do it by any means necessary. >> you have two autocrats, putin with rebuilding the soviet empire and xi confirmed nor another five years has been very clear that he thinks acquiring, invading, taking over taiwan is his life goal. and i think we have to realize that while most of the world's focus has been on the russia/ukraine challenge, the circumstances with china not only vis-a-vis taiwan but in terms of the technology competition with china, i think that is the issue of our time. >> i w