and i come back to your friends, victor orban talks of a liberal democracy, he has expressed great admirationuthoritarian systems that we see in russia, china and turkey as well. joe biden said during his election campaign that he thought orban was running a totalitarian style regime. now your great friends with victor orban, your campaign hasjust taken millions of euros in loans from a hungarian financial institution just ia, actually back in 2014 you took a lot of money from a russian financial institution. it seems both your political sympathies and your financial support comes from regimes which, to many in france, look authoritarian. do you think that works for you politically? is that the kind of democracy want to see in france? have you looked, for example, at the freedom of the media in hungry? really? i see. you're still, as a party, repaying the loan you took from russia in 2014. let me talk a little bit more about your relationship with putin. first of all, you regard putin as a friend, don't you? a man that you have great sympathy for. so, let me be specific, you say countries hav

and can hungry's victor orban win a fourth term in office.cial report on the choice facing the nation's voters. ♪ nato has said there is no evidence russia is withdrawing troops from the border with ukraine and warned moscow's readiness to use military force to pursue its goals has creat a new normal in europe. the secretary-general of th alliance said it would look to reinforce its eastern flank. ukraine's government has been holding what it calls a day of unity in response to fears of a russian invasion, which subhead suggested could come today. the country'ssident has told the bbc a genuine russia withdrawal would be clear to see. paul adams reports. >> ukraine's day of unity in kiev's olympic stadium, a gesture of defiance and a pledge to stay put, come what may. >> putin will attack>> but the biggest area with the biggest flag and showed we are not afraid. we will not go anywhere from here. we will stand here for our land and the land of our ancestors. >> today, we need to show everyone it is impossible to sce us that we are confident in

this is the same person who went to hungary to interview victor orban.s is, you know, a continuation of the propaganda machine of fox. it's not surprising but really, really disappointing. >> tucker: so now it's "unamerican" to defend america's national interests. shut up and support war with russia! that was congressman david cicilline of rhode island. cicilline was particularly exercised that this show would interview vladimir putin. our efforts to interview putin are unamerican. joe biden's legal adviser larry tribe agreed with this. on twitter, he accused us of treason. that's a death penalty offense. arrest the talk show host. how seriously should we take this? it's pretty clear where it's going. nsa spied on our e-mails and-tech. now they're accusing us of treason. we got it. they want us to be quiet. we won't be quiet, not just because this is a news organization but because we're americans and we can talk to anyone we want and have any opinions that we want to have. it's not treason or unamerican. it's the whole point of america. it's our bill of

. >> and richard, i was struck by the fact that hungary, despite the strongman victor orban was on the>> that is on my positive surprise list, and so is turkey, and then countries like india and the uae and israel who are on the negative surprise list that are not distancing themselves and not being nearly as critical as they should be of putin's russia for national reasons. it is a clarifying events, and it has a long way to go, and then some positive surprises as you say, but the big question is where we were a few minutes ago and how does china ultimately play the hand here, and that can be critical, because one of the goals has to be to weaken the growing bond between china and russia. we don't want to find ourselves on the wrong side of this triangle. >> no question about it. all right. ambassador richard haass, thank you so much for being with us this weekend. appreciate it. great to see you, sir. >> take care. >>> coming up, we get a live report from the polish border where thousands of ukrainians are fleeing putin's invasion, and stay with us here in the cnn newsroom. by the mu

vladimir putin said a couple of days ago following a press conference with hungarian president victor orban. putin repeated a lot of the grievances we've heard over the years. said the u.s. and nato have ignored three of russia's key sticking points in this, quote, confrontation over ukraine. that's the stationing of nato strike weaponry in eastern europe. that's the open door policy to new members as well as his concerns basically about this ongoing confrontation over ukraine and a long standing grievance that he's had basically about nato's posture in eastern europe. he would like to see that rolled back or at least nato's infrastructure rolled back to 1970 levels. something the u.s. and nato have made clear is just a non-starter for them. both washington and moscow are still very, very far apart but these continued tensions are happening at a very important diplomatic moment and very important geopolitical moment for president putin. he's prepared to leave today for a very high profile meeting. china and russia have had an ever sort of deepening cooperation and alliance economically and

interesting, when he was talking about his relationship with victor orban in hungary, how he was pleasedry to 2036, one fifth the current market rate for gas in europe. and he kind of indicated because he likes hungary, he was able to do that. it's an implicit threat, i think, to others. the hungarian leader saying he's here on a peace mission telling president putin that no european leader wants to go to war. the only one to solve this politically, but what we heard from the russian foreign minister after his conversation with secretary of state antony blinken really sounds like a status quo saying that russia's main concerns haven't been addressed, giving a little bit more detail on some of the things that could be addressed like arms controls agreements, open skies. these are agreements that existed in the past, spy lanes and russia without notice and he was leaving space for those things, perhaps to find agreement but the central issues not addressed. so diplomacy seems open, but a direct answer from president putin, we haven't had that unless it's quite literally been given it since

this is the same person who went to hungary to interview victor orban and i guess for his encore he'llilippines. it's shocking, it's embarrassing, he ought to be ashamed of himself. vladimir putin is trying to destabilize europe, to undermine the nato alliance, the security architecture that has kept the world at peace and who stands in contrast to democratic values of freedom and, you know, sovereignty of individual nations. so he ought not be given an audience on any american television. but this is a continuation of the propaganda machine of fox so it's not surprising, but really, really disappointing. >> congressman david cicilline, thank you so much for taking a moment to be with us this evening. appreciate it very, very much. >>> it's a date. senate democrats have set an ambitious deadline to confirm president biden's supreme court nominee. more on that, next. t nominee. nominee. more on that, next [limu emu squawks] woo! new personal record, limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ only pay for what you need. i earn 5% cash back on travel purchas