so far know reaction from vladmir putin.own people that this is a mission that russia must complete. that he has to counter western intransigence that created this crisis. that russia will achieve its goals. those were his final words to french president emannuel macron russian troops are still advancing in and letting the world know they are there. what is the latest benjamin? reporter: neil, absolutely they're almost surrounding this city now. there is one way in, one way out. i came in earlier today. got a good look exactly how defenses are being built up around the city. back to the press conference about zelenskyy. it was typical zelenskyy. it defiant. continue to fighting for the country. there was a slight change today, he was calling for more help. it seemed a little more on the back foot. that is what we're seeing on the ground. we get reports about the attacks happening, the death toll, it is worse today than it has been in the past. putin appears to be taking off the gloves to a certain degree. up tick on attacks

. >> are you willing to try to meet with vladmir putin? when you last met with him, you described it as a productive conversation. you said he did not want a cold war and do you feel, given the actions that have happened over the last few months, i guess i'm asking what has changed in his mind? >> i don't know what changed in his mind. his behavior has changed. we're talking about setting up a strategic dialogue and talk about the relationship of nato and russia and facing off in the regions and how bewe can have me transparency and all the rest. it was a normal discussion. i have two objectives. one is to make sure they never become part of nato and two, to make sure there are no long range missiles in there. we can't close the door on the first. then notice that demand list of his, not with me but others, have escalated significantly in terms of what he think is necessary. thank you. >> some of these big things that you say on the world stage keep getting walked back. >> what's getting walked back? >> just the last couple of days, it sou

the ukrainians, obviously to win the war out right and drag it long enough that the support that vladmir putin you think? >> yeah. i think, again, every day, every week, every month that this war drags on, that putin's military is humiliated, unable to achieve its objectives. it is clear that there is no winning strategy to achieve what putin said he would achieve, which is conquering all of ukraine and its reintegration back into russia. that is now impossible. russia, even if it wins ukraine will never be able to hold it and i think, you know, with thousands of russians already dead, with their economy sinking and tanking even further, that putin got to be looking around the room to figure out who has got the long knives out for him eventually. neil: all right. john, thank you very, very much. by the way i don't know if the russian president has a hank kerring for big macs, mcdonald's announced it will close 850 restaurants in russia, the latest corporation to say, we are out of here. we'll have more after this. neil: rarely do you see a presidential announcement that it guarantees to lift g

what is vladmir putin's end game? when we look at the video of the destruction and the damage that's happened, he wants to take over a country of burned out, bombed out cities of 44 million people who don't want him there, who are going to revolt? that's what he wants? >> no, i don't think that's what he wants. i think his end game has to change all the time. he's a dictator. a dictator has to wake up every morning hoping they don't die getting dragged into a gutter somewhere. he thought he needed to show strength and he thought this would be easier. we're seeing that now. kirby's comments make it clear that they thought this would be easier and it wasn't eedsier. vladmir putin, his skill is playing the opponent. the chess champion is says he doesn't play the situation on the chess board. he plays the opponent. it's using intimidation and bullying to try to get splits between people and get his way. this is the kind of thing he's done all the way up there. now he's stuck. now he's gone in trying to bully the west. it'

this is day 32 of vladmir putin's brutal invasion.utgunned ukrainian fighters continue putting up heroic resistance as we look at these awful pictures but russia's relentless bombardments are taking their toll and there are growing concerns that putin may resort to weapons of mass destruction. >> chemical weapons, biological weapons or nuclear weapons, all four of those would being game changers. if russia does that there is going to be some very difficult decisions that are going to have to be made by, by the nato alliance. one would hope, one would pray that the russians would not make what would be a catastrophic mistake. trace: catastrophic indeed. we have team fox coverage of the war of ukraine. rich edson at the white house about president's latest comments about the putin and clean yawp. first to jeff paul. he is in the western ukrainian city of lviv. jeff? reporter: the mood has changed in lviv after these missile strikes that happened yesterday. a big part of the reason that it has, for the most part this portion of the count

you don't have to kowtow to vladmir putin. you didn't have to listen to appeasement messages of some countrytries in europe like germans and french. that is irrelevant how the united states has to lead her on the world stage with strength, resolve and conviction. neil: we'll see next couple days whether that is the case. we're talking about possible new sanctions being added. going with more than oil but financial transactions and industrial activities. but the details need to be ironed out. neil gardner, appreciate catching up with you. appreciate it. up 212 points on the dow. russian stock market opened today. first time it tried to do, essentially a month into this. it had the desired effect. but stocks ended up. they're still down a lot, more than 30% on the year. we should posit it wasn't quite a fair trading day. it was limited, also the number of stocks you could trade was limited. you can't sell the market short. if you're a foreign investor you can't sell at all. so that is sort of like a muted way of opening up but n

no matter what happens ukraine vladmir putin could still ostensibly be running russia, a lot of sanctions and measures will not be magically lifted. so this environment continues, the price of almost everything continues rocketing. we see what started out in oil, spread to agricultural commodities, things like lumber, all this other stuff showing no sign of reversing. so are we going to be stuck with inflation and federal reserve stuck in a position where it is really limited how far it can go because maybe out of even its hands? >> yeah. we might. you know, your geopolitical analysis is superior to mine but i do think that you're on to something, that in a way we chose this. if we will confront the aggressor and we're going to boycott their oil, we knew there would be sacrifices associated with that but we're seeing it now. it is obviously worse for russia than it is for western europe or for the united states but it is not to minimize. there is pain associated with those decisions and i do think we're going to have to live with that for basically as long as, as this continues

take a look. >> democrats in washington have told you have a patriotic duty to hate vladmir putin. t's not a suggestion. it's mandate. it might be worth asking yourself, what is this really about. why do i hate putin so much? has putin ever called me racist? >> well, what's really interesting is i remember when conservatives criticized muhammad ali when he took the olympic torch and they criticized him. they're using the exact logic that tucker carlson is using to justify this invasion. muhammad ali never supported the -- >> that's wild. i had not thought -- i don't know if i heard anyone else draw that connection his memorable phrase but it's being flipped in a right wing perversion. what do you think of the break down of tucker trying to convince people that there's no substantive reason to have adversaries as if you would accept all foreign leaders and not have any u.s. based interest. how does that truck with america exceptionalism or america first or any of that. >> it's completely morally bankrupt and opposite of what republicans and conservatives have talked about going back

senator, everyone is rightfully cheering of sanctions against vladmir putin.any wonder why we didn't pursue them sooner. maybe prevented invasion. be that as it may, apparently president biden will give more tomorrow. why don't we hit them with everything we've got in order to stop the carnage? >> that would be a logical response, charles. it has been really frustrating to a lot of us, most cases the biden administration has been drug kicking and screaming into, a lot of these sanctions been imposed whether or not economic sanctions or providing military lethal aid to the ukrainians. i think that, in our view, this is i think could be substaniated look where we are now, if some of these things as a deterrent prior to the invasion, we might have been able to deter some of this activity, at least right now, you know, we do everything we can, everything short of american troops to help the ukrainians prevail because they want to fight for their freedom. it is essential that we stop putin f this thing spreads, this could get real ugly, real fast. we're at a critic

you've been so resilient, you as a people, olga, but the flipside ever that is a frustrated vladmir putin even more dangerous putin? do you worry about that? >> well we all talk about this in ukraine as well so that putin didn't expect such kind of defense from ukraine and i can say that, yeah, i feel this inside of all people become like one person. so we all united so much, everybody is participating to do something for the war. somebody with information on the war like me. somebody physically, old woman is going to prepare something for the front line. they sent money to the army to buy them clothing to buy them all those things and actually our fighters are fighting. my uncle is actually a military person. they said they have huge support from the ukrainian population like never before. yeah, everybody helped them with food, clothing with information, whatever it requires just to make our country free. you can see in the occupied territories which are supplied by russians, people come every day to protest with ukrainian flags, to show they want to be with ukraine. neil: you know, olga

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intriguing to me because this is the sort of financial pressure that was supposed to break the back of vladmir putin? >> right. well today actually putin signed an order establishing gas trade rules in rubles. that will start april 1st being tomorrow. it is not about commodities so much but a currency play. putin may have a lot of faults but one many them is not being dumb. this will force other countries to buy rubles, thus keeping currency afloat, thus keeping his economy afloat. charles: they will do it, right? despite the fact everyone bristled at it, they will have to cooperate. germany and france they're talking about rationing schemes. >> well, exactly, there is really no other choice at this point. charles: yeah. tracy shugart, thanks very much. bracing for gas rationing, russia announcing envisioning a new democratic world order alongside of china. i want to bring in iris independent research rebecca grant. i saw last night video after chinese official stating quote, there are no limits to the relationship with russia and they said this relationship would be based, get that, founding princi

vladmir putin gets that. the biden administration does not. the obama administration does not.basically control the global economy and you know, have a viable economy and so what the mistake that president biden has made in putin has not, all of europe has made this mistake, the move to green energy, become more reliant on other partners, opec, russia, we can trust them. we'll reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, just depend on the kindness of our neighbors doesn't work this is why we left europe, you know, i guess you remember remember the winston churchill book, while europe was sleeping, they definitely slept through the energy crisis. they're starting to wake up. i'm afraid it might be too late. elizabeth: u.s. will still buy russian oil working on a nuclear deal with iran involving the purchase of their oil. reports that president biden is reportedly set to give iran $7 billion in frozen funds instead of treating both of them like a pariah. giving russia legitimacy on iran nuclear deal. they iran will make money. iran will buy weapons from russia and putin gets money and i

a lot has to do with vladmir putin. >> you used the phrase putin's price hikes. >> blaming putin andntributor. >> that is another way to message i would argue. >> putin's price hike is a great way to message. >> they're blaming biden for rising gas price. let's who gets off scot-free? not just putin but the big oil and gas companies. >> can we have an honest conversation about gas prices? right-wing pundits are trying to make it sound simple, blaming it all on president biden. "new york times" fact checker was pretty explicit republicans wrongly blame biden for rising gas price. elizabeth: you know what? i would like a job, joe where i only have to read one newspaper and just sit in the amen corner and agree with everybody else's opinions and don't do any journalism or any reporting or digging in. more than 2/3 of the gas price hike came before you know, excuse me, president putin invading ukraine. you know, it is demonstrably proven gases were going up for months on end, eight months straight, before, before this happened with russia and ukraine. so your reaction to what you just he

i think they stepped up and supported vladmir putin, something they deeply regret at this point. s argument to china this would be over in two or three days. it is 20 plus day grind. not turning out the way china planned. nato is stronger and united more than ever before. we need to push back on china. the world is looking at china hard. elizabeth: senator hagerty, thank you for your kind and generous words. good to have you on. we'll have you you back on soon. staying on the story, ukrainian invasion, people living paycheck to paycheck. why are democrats in d.c. pushing the climate change agenda? white house republicans say you got to probe russia meddling again. is russia really funding climate activists here in the u.s. who undercut u.s. independence as russia is believed to have done in europe? all of that ahead on "the evening edit." >> not only are they making energy more costly for u.s. customers they're at the same time increasing global warming. so they're basically self-defeating. ♪. happiness. or confidence. but you can invest in them. at t. rowe price our strategic inv

obviously, vladmir putin has the largest flnuclear arsenal.pons? >> you're right. we have never seen a confluence of nuclear threats at one place at one time. unprecedented. they are knocking out the key pillars of the nuclear operations. if one of those is used, it will be many more times powerful than any weapon in existence. even a small nuclear weapon could be 1,000 tons of conventional explosives. the damage is bad flenough but what happens next. once you start using nuclear weapons, there's no logical side. each will match in kind. it escalates into a thermo nuclear war. >> i don't want to leave it on that note so what is the answer for deterring that? >> what was that? >> what's the answer to deterring that, for that not happening? >> three answers. one is the way biden has reacted to this calmly. no nuclear talks in return. we're not seeing any replay of the donald trump, kim jong-un, who has the bigger button, fire and destruction. that's one. number two, you could do more. nato and biden should say that nato and the u.s. have no atte

does vladmir putin have a soul?sed presidents of both parties over the years to the point that we, we can't figure him out and now he is unleashed terror on the world? what do you think? >> well, he is an enigma. he is a kgb agent. i looked into his eyes saw a kgb agent. president bush in his defense he read a biography before he went to slovenia before he met with president putin. one of the first things he said to president putin and i was sitting there with condi rice and translators and our counterparts, president putin had a stack of cards he wanted to go to and president bush put his hand on the top of cards, before you go through your cards, i you can go through every single one of them, i will be fully attentive to say, what was it like you wn with your mother and burned to the ground and going through the ashes and saw something glistening. president putin was taken aback by that. that was amazing experience. i was going through the dacma. there was ashes, i saw this glistening, gold and i saw it and it was

he also met with russian president vladmir putin.-fire deal to slow the fighting, to stop the civilian casualties from rising. as for talks tomorrow, they will take place between the russian and ukrainian delegations. pete: trey, you mentioned increased bombing of larger cities. we know car keefe has been under siege, mariupol, potentially odesa. you're in the capital. there are sirens going off. there are historic buildings, government buildings, religious buildings. have they taken shelling the city center of kyiv at all? have they done that at all? if they haven't, is there a sense they're leaving that out of bounds for now? reporter: earlier in the week they hit the city center with russian missiles. they hit an apartment building also a television tower killing multiple is civilians in these strikes. we've seen more devastating images in population centers around the country. there is really nothing off limits for the russians. u.s. intelligence analysts worry that will be the president putin's playbook next couple days, hammer

president, not vladmir putin's regime. so we kind of -- neil: good point. yeah, no, i didn't look at it that way. claudia, you're right about that. claudia rosett, looking at these latest developments whether intended remarks or accidental remarks, they are what they are. we have a lot going on domestically here. a lot of people are picking through the budget the president has submitted right now. he is giving another go at a corporate tax hike from 21 to 28%. i know what you're thinking, been there, tried that, didn't succeed at that he is going after billionaires with a minimum 20% tax. those with assets of $100 million or more. he been there, done that, failed again. the other big point he said reducing the deficit by a trillion dollars over 10 years. that sounds impressive but the overall debt of the united states will go up by more than $10 trillion over the same 10 years. we pick apart. you decide. ♪. ♪ ♪ i'm the latest hashtag challenge. and everyone on social media is trying me. i'm trending so hard that “hashtag common sense” can't keep up. this is

prominent russians including putin's former climate envoy, who got out and criticized the government, vladmir putin in particular. isn't that the kind of stuff you need to see, general, to get putin to change or even to be forced out? that it has to come from home, not from ukraine? >> i've talked to a number of experts. in fact last wednesday i talked to a fellow over in the ukraine and a guy with an incredible amount of intelligence which i think was valid and i don't think there is any question that vladmir putin turned on the oligarchs. stop and think about it. he turned on the oligarchs. he turned on the people that helped keep him in power and now he has got a problem with just the average russian all over the country. i think he is gone. i don't think that he can stay in power but i think that he is going to do everything he can to overcome what has occurred here with regards to him losing this war to a, an army that was underequiped and frozely -- grossly overgunned. they're winning. there is still a long way to go but they're winning. neil: you're right about that but i'm wondering too wha

he has everybody rallying around the flag of vladmir putin. the other thing, it makes the president of the united states look incompetent. not only incoherent, but in cognitive decline. if that is your adversary looking at you, wow, the boss is in cognitive decline, the white house didn't agree with hymn, disarray in the white house, we're kind of headless over there. at the same time our allies look at this and say who can you trust. elizabeth: watch out media pick up what is going on with the president. they're running interference for him, watch this. >> he did not in that speech say that vladmir putin should be removed or we're going take him out of power. he said this man should not remain in power. what person in their right mine thinks that someone who bombs innocent people, children, a country that is, unprovoked war should remain in power? now if he had said on the other side of that, so i think we should do something to take him out of office that would be a different thing. >> biden is couple steps ahead on this whole situation. if

he condemned vladmir putin's war. listen. president biden: we're meeting at a moment when demands on unity in the world are really accelerating. we have to be united and we certainly are and but, i, putin's brutality, and what he is doing and his troops are doing in ukraine is just inhumane. reporter: for weeks u.s. officials resisted using the term war criminal, instead calling for putin and russia to be investigated for war crimes. yesterday after ukrainian president zelenskyy's emotional plea to congress which included a horrific video of death and destruction across ukraine, president biden made his harshest condemnation yet. mr. president, after everything you have seen are you ready to call putin a war criminal president no. are you asking -- no, i think he is a war criminal. reporter: president announced $800 million in new aid to ukraine, 1000 light anti-armor weapons and a 100 area systems including switchblade killer drones but the administration has into the moved to transfer the polish mig-29 jets despite bipartisa

i think we know that vladmir putin in so many ways is delusional.thought his troops were equal to this. in four or five days he is bound to be badly disappointed and shocked what he has been told but also the more important point that really need to make is the exchange between congressman waltz and general walters. the ukrainians are fighting their war. they're telling us what they need and the response was, if we had given them stingers earlier they might be in a better position. we met with six members of the ukrainian parliament yesterday. they told us what they need and frankly they say we're not getting it. so there is a disconnect with what we're hearing from our military team and our state department team and what we're being told by the government that is actually fighting this war with boots on the ground. neil: i don't know if it would be a 180-degree difference to your point, senator, but certainly having access to those weapons, to say nothing of the 100 killer drones, these switchblades the ukrainians are still waiting for would have m

first of all american troops heading into ukraine which they needed to clarify, vladmir putin needs to go, they have to clarify. that is an easy excuse, not that we should play on every calculation of putin it, it is rational excuse for domestic propaganda to make it look like russia is under siege. the russian statement is also ridiculous on its face. they say only russians who vote for their president can decide that. the russians have not voted for vladmir putin in 15 years. there is no legitimate election. >> there is no room for sloppy language. will: sloppy is the word. rachel: sloppy communications can lead to world war iii with the largest nuclear power. it is really, i have to say it really speaks to, it could be that he spoke off-the-cuff but i just think he is not all there. i do not think that joe biden is cognitively all there. i think, this was 10 years ago, i dope think, maybe he wouldn't have made that. pete: that is absolutely obvious statement. rachel: yeah. pete: there have been people willing to say it. if this was the trump administration there would be leaks galor

that is the huge miscalculation by vladmir putin.zabeth: sorry if he is aiming bombs at nuclear power plants, not like he is trying to miss or shut it down. these are nuclear reactor records. in chernobyl, there was a threat, liz peek that would wipe out europe. so this is a serious issue, not one but two nuclear power plants he has gone after. they are saying he may go after more. what do you say, liz peek? >> i think putin is not just trying to threaten the citizens of ukraine, liz, he is holding the entire western world captive. he knows that we are scared, that we're scared he raised nuclear forces level status and we're scared going after the nuclear power plants. i know this sounds bellicose, i don't want to get into a war with russia at some point. nato has to show we're not afraid of putin and stand up to him to push back. right now the biden administration tiptoeing around, are we giving them fighter jets, aren't we, let's not make putin mad. he already mad and dangerous and a criminal. i think at some point we call the bluf

to your point from the very beginning vladmir putin has acted on that.ullivan issuing a warning to china over the weekend. take a listen. >> i'm not going to sit here publicly and brandish threats but what i will tell you is that we are communicating directly, privately to beijing. that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions, invasion efforts or support to russia to backfill them. we will not allow that to go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to russia from these economic sanctions from any country anywhere in the world. charles: all right, rebecca, are any of these bad actors, particularly china, taking that seriously? >> oh, i mean i think that we should take it very seriously about the chinese willingness to help the russians. i don't know about jake sullivan's threats. i think jake sullivan is right to say those things. whether or not it is believable of course is in doubt. i mean, listen, we talked about this before. when vladmir putin went to the beijing olympics he had this conversation with xi xinping and they said

vladmir putin is in a situation he didn't predict. can only imagine he met with president xi at the opening of olympics. he told xi, this will be a quick experience. we'll be out in a few days. we'll divide nato, get the united states hung up. signed a favorable gas deal. putin goes day after olympics, he finds something that was very unexpected. a very aggressive ukrainian public. the ukrainians have risen up and fought back. president zelenskyy is a great communicator. he captured the imagination of not only ukrainians and inspired them but people around the world. we've been locked down two years, deployed of our liberty and freedom. president zelenskyy is stepping up and fighting for their liberty and freedom. everybody is supportive. the question how we do it in most effective basis. neil: everyone is watching, china, as you know, senator, if it were to help military help on top of economic, that would be a red line. now would we, would you recommend sanctioning china if it, for example, buys the oil from russia it can't sell any

i dare say there has been sort of a reassessment of the world order here that whatever vladmir putin he is doing the world is essentially abandoned him saying no, no, this won't fly. they're proving it with their money and proving it with the sacrifice they are making going after putin's money. there is something epic about that, what do you make of it? >> i think you're right, neil. the thing i don't think putin calculated and xi probably didn't calculate was the world who may disagree on a lot of different things rallying together against a common enemy. if you go back to world war i, world war ii, there were way more divisions between who was on which side. right now seems like the entire world against putin and china's economy requires having trading relationships with the rest of the world. they could not handle, forget about sanctions, they could not handle a boycott of chinese boycotts. maybe we couldn't live without buying cheap stuff on amazon, the fact of the matter the chinese economy i don't think could handle something like what is going on with russia right now. i don't

. >> the president labels vladmir putin a murderous dictator and a pure thug. >> as ukraine's suffererring grows as demonstrated in the two, powerful interviews. the president continues to ratchet up his rhetoric against putin after labeling him a war criminal he doubled down at the st. patrick's day watch. >> now you have ireland and great britain, and the republic standing together against a murderous dictator, a pure thug who is waging an immoral war against the people of ukraine. >> now secretary of state is joining the president in his opinion. saying intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime, as biden prepares to speak with china's president combining ping will cause economic blinken is expressing concern over china lack luster response. china has a obligation to support the rules it claims to support instead it is refusing to condemn this aggression. >> as lloyd lawson is traveling in slovakia a nato country willing to send surface to air missile defense system known as the s300, but it is only if the u.s. will back fill with new equipment and secretary austin was noncommitta

what are the other possibilities for vladmir putin.ive substance to asassassinate somee on the territory of great britain. you look at socme of the propaganda that the russian stats immestate media. what i haven't heard from the biden administration is what happened then. what would we do in response is a military response called for and what circumstances would they be able to target specifically. remember, public sentiment already is appalled at the horror of this war. i think it would be overwhelming political pressure on president biden to do something in the case of a horrible escalation by that by vladimir putin. >> thank you. >>> ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy got a standing ovation that he is making the rounds to allied government pleading for more help in this fight. >> president zelenskyy will address s u.s. congress in the morning. machine uses naturally inspired ingredients. and no preservatives. try biotrue! as a main street bank, pnc has helped over 7 million kids develop their passion for learning. and now we're

could this be what makes up the average russian send to vladmir putin's evil? will that penetrate the propaganda there. it happened in the coastal city of mariupol. it is one of the hardest hit places in the conflict. no food, no water, no power for days. and now this, we're told at least 17 people were injured in the hospital bombing. there are also unconfirmed reports of large numbers of people trapped beneath the rubble. it is important to note many women and children have not been able to escape the city because the russians were reportedly shelling the escape routes. police are warning refugees that it is too dangerous to leave, telling people to hide in their basements. watch. >> >> translator: everything is mined. the ways out of town are being shelled. at the moment negotiations about living in security have not been successful. trust me, i have family at home, i'm also worried about them. unfortunately maximum security for all of us to be inside a city underground and in the shelters. kennedy: of course mariupol is not the only city putin has his sight

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the cia director said vladmir putin is determined to dominate ukraine despite slow advances on citiesry and frustrated now. he's likely to double down and try to grinds down the ukrainian military with no regard for civilian casualties. >> joining me now is retired lieutenant general. >> welcome back. i want to start with the sloer than expected advances. we see very little change. for the first time we don't expect them to make any gains in the next few days. when you pair that with what he heard today is putin sees this as a war he cannot lose. what do you expect will be the result of that? >> first, i'd like to talk about the operational plan that you talked about. the russians have had four major advance. the one coming into kyiv from the north. the other going to kharkiv. the one in the south called cry p -- crimea approach that separates into two directions. one we haven't heard about is the situation in the donbas. there hasn't seemed to be my movement out there. there's been varying degrees of success and failure. yes, what i would say from a military perspective is none of th

what i'm concerned about is when you look at the russian position, vladmir putin said he's sending hisine to demilitarize and de-nazify ukraine. they are getting ready to lay siege to kyiv. i'm not sure we're seeing indications out of moscow it will be a serious approach. >> let's talk about military requests coming from president zelenskyy wanting to yjoin the european union. he spoke today and said, hedon' just tell me you love me. show me you love the ukrainian people. here is what he said. >> do prove that you are with us. do prove that you will not let us down. do prove that you indeed are europeans and then life will win over death and light will win over darkness. glory be to ukraine. >> that was a standing ovation you see there. short of admission to the eu and we'll talk about that in a minute. what should other countries there be doing? >> it was the decision to not sign an association agreement back in 2013 that triggered the revolution. it's very popular, but as much as i think ukraine would like to get in the european union, there's so many issues you have to do in terms o

we gave that up within 30 minutes because you know, the rules, maybe vladmir putin knows we'll have to make some sort of compromise, right? i mean he's, to your point, this is not going according to plan. we hope he doesn't become desperate. >> right. charles: we hope chemical weapons are not introduced into all of this. if there was some sort of armistice, for lack of a better word, some sort of a cease-fire woo we be able to use the that window, bring in the mig-29s, weapons, prevented this in the first place? >> i believe there may have been before biden's stumbled over his words and started talking to the 82nd airborne when it will long like when they go into ukraine. that is a joke when the career politician tells the 82nd what it is like in a war zone. when you see that, that raises a red flag. that means the president of the united states, commander-in-chief telling them they're going in. the very next day he says putin can't stay in power. at that point it takes a very desperate individual like putin to escalate the war because he sees there is no way out because if he lets his

that's why vladmir putin forces are intensifying their long range missile, targeting civilians.krainian man said it's worse than when the germans invaded generations ago. i want to turn to ivan watt zone. city leaders ignored a russian order to surrender this morning. >> by holding out in a siege that's gone on for week, it draws russian forces away from the center of the country. the russian defense ministry de demanding, asking for mariupol defenders to lay down thier arms. promising safe guarantees to leave the city if they sur surrender. it was basically screw you. a russian expletive. we have been in contact with some of the ukrainian defenders of the city. here is a message about some of the conditions inside that one commander sent us a couple of days ago. take a look. >> people are cooking food in the streets, risking their l lives. the temperature is minus 5 degrees celsius in the street. nobody knows the exact amount because people are buried together with no names. many bodies just outside of the streets without being buried. some people are under yruined buildings, b

. >> i think it is perfectly clear that vladmir putin is not the cause of this rampant inflation. >>st take a look at what prices were like when joe biden took office. price, gallon of gasoline, 2.38 the day biden became president. this is all on joe biden. >> typical family we're told is going to pay $2,000 more this year for gasoline than they did last year. >> the president is literally gaslighting the american people. he feels if he says it enough people are going to believe that fuel prices were putin's fault. we know that's not true. elizabeth: senator. >> your reaction to that. about 3/4 of the price spike higher came before the war in ukraine. your reaction to what's going on. >> what we know they're trying to blame anybody but themselves. they think if they say it long enough people are going to believe it and people know that prices have been going up steadily over a year. they know when it went to $3 a gallon. they know went it went to $4 a gallon. people are smart. what we need this white house to do is to say let's have an "operation warp speed" for american energy. let'

we have to stop vladmir putin or else he'll keep going invading countries like plrkmaldova, pol.s tens of thousands of refugees are living in the homes of ordinary maldovans. an extraordinary act of collective kindness from one of the poorest countries in europe. asked how long he could afford to continue hosting this ukrainian family, boris told me, they can stay as long as they need. the government says one out of eight children in this country is a ukrainian refugee. the government is starting to look at trying to integrate this population with the country's existing education system. the kids that i met today, i asked them what are you guys doing for school right now. their parents said, that they are actually doing distance learning right now. a phenomenon that began for these ukrainians during the covid pandemic and now has been extended into this war. they may be refugees outside of their countries but their teachers in ukraine are still sending them assignments and homework to do on the internet. >> that is incredible. extraordinary what it says about those teachers. it i

that is only way you will tighten the noose around vladmir putin. at is the only thing he understands. he doesn't understand summits. don't understand diplomacy. he understands shutting down his economy and getting his oligarchs coming around it. elizabeth: awful irony putin makes more money on oil as it goes higher because of attacks on ukraine? >> the ukrainians are right. we're not doing enough, not doing enough to stop attacks. i wonder if they attacked germany would we do enough. the congressman is absolutely right. cut off the exports. put tariffs on the exports. make it difficult for him to get this money this is it how ronald reagan defeated the soviet union. a big element of that defeat was not only our military spending because we had the economy to back up spending, we drove down the price of oil. we can drive undo the price of oil again driving up american production. if we do that the price of oil will be impacted and cut off the russians and make progress on this thing. elizabeth: we hear you loud and clear. cnn did an exit poll reactio

let's begin with the russian invasion, your thoughts on vladmir putin, what his goals out and likely >> thanks for the plugs for my books, much appreciated. i turn to the serious subject of war in ukraine. what putin set out to do prevent ukraine stablizing as democracy oriented toward the west. ukrainians want to join the european union and nato. for putin that is a red line. he will not let a country linked to russia for so long let that democracy linked to western institutions. that is why he went to war for him. it is not going well for him. it was supposed to be a blitzkrieg, a lightning war. he expected to be in control of kyiv by now and deposed volodymyr zelenskyy ukraine's historic president. it hasn't worked out that way. he may still succeed but it will be a very messy, destructive war. the price he is paying economically is much higher one and daunting than he may have expected. charles: i know it may feel like too little too late, in the postmortem, what do we say about the west, particularly the united states, a lot quicker? all the amazing sanctions taking a bite out o

novalny, opponents poisoned by vladmir putin.oey, i asked you the difference between a chemical weapon, a biological weapon how it is used. rachel: ultimately chemical is something toxic to us, biological is living organism like bacteria. how they look, when we think chemical weapons, conventional military, we think of conventional ordnance. artillery of 155, that type of shell can be loaded with chemical weapon, shot through the air in a specific target. explode in the air above you. as gas comes down, you have mustard gas or sarin or blood agents that affect your body. some are worse than others. some are choking agents, like tear gas. so there is lot of variants of a chemical weapon, idea you can find the ordnance, attack the source, eliminate it or contain it. biological weapons are much more stealthy a lot harder to detect or harder to pinpoint. biological could be salmonella or bacteria placed in a human host and water, a lot harder to detect, a lot more nefarious in my opinion. they are not allowed on the battlefield in to

. >> vladmir putin is expanding his attacks in ukraine. the first time russian forces hit three key cities. one of them just 60 miles from the polish border which is part of nato. this is an explosion unleashed t an airfield overnight. russia has also ramped up attacks near the center of the country firing missiles at a kindergarten, an apartment building and shoe factory. >> the 40 mile long russian convoy has moved into new positions. pentagon press secretary says that's not necessarily a sign of progress. >> i don't want to make too much of the fact that there's satellite imageries talking about this convoy moving off into tree lines or dispersing. that could be forced protection because the ukrainians have continued to threaten that convoy and its progress. >> more sanctions against vladimir putin. president biden announcing the u.s. is banning luxury rush slan i -- russian items like vodka and seafood. it will row evoke the most favo nation trading status. >> the fight moving to that part of the country despite the challenges the russ

this is day 32 of vladmir putin's brutal invasion.

there was a story recently told one of the interviews president trump gave he said to vladmir putin whether apocryphal, he said if you hurt a hair on one american's head, i will bomb moscow. putin goes, no you're not. he said, yes i am. even if vladmir putin believes that 10% or 20%, consider the fact that is the threat of violence that maintains peace. you know conversations like that are not had at all. rachel: right now that wasket ball player that is being held in russia, there are now democrats saying hey the administration is not doing enough to get her out. hurting one hair on an american's head, it was under donald trump that more u.s. hostages were released than any other president, 50 of them. again, that is the strength he exuded and people responded to that on the world stage. will: want to get to this morning because this was a fascinating piece of sound that came out yesterday from the vice president of the united states kamala harris. at first it's funny, and then it's scary. watch. >> so i will say what i know we all say and i will say over and over again, the united states

guy, i have to begin with the nine words that sounded like a declaration to remove vladmir putin. house of course doing damage control. like some of these gaffs, if you want to call it that feels too little too late. your thoughts? >> charles, you're absolutely right. as always thanks for having me on, i appreciate it. what is so bad about this, charles, it strengthens this back home. he can use propaganda today. the west is after me. they want regime change, so forth. shows joe biden's weakness and vacillation because it was weakness and vacillation in the obama administration when they allowed russia to take crimea and aggressive going into georgia. that weakness and vacillation is what we're seeing now. instead of making sure, instead of being quiet about it, teddy roosevelt, speak softly and carry a big stick? charles: yeah. >> biden is doing worst of both worlds. he is screaming at the russians, doing nothing to get mig-29s in poland to ukraine. not jamming missiles. not jamming electronics of the russian planes. creating no-fly zone through electronic warfare. he is doing no

charles: hugo, let me pick up on this pro vladmir putin.inian conestution, reject claims to enter the blocs including nato. recognition of dough necessary and luhansk, apparently that is it where they are. the next rounds of negotiation of talks, the way you typically works both sides start to make concessions. is there anything in here you see, maybe okay, they put it out there for public consumption but ultimately it have to be the part of an ultimate deal if we're getting to a point where it doesn't come to the worst possible conclusion? >> look, we cannot afford to reward a tyrant like putin. basically his terms and conditions cement in place the gains that he has already made. he seized crimea. he wants to annex that to russia. he created these phony territories. he basically wants to, he wants to make sure that there is, that he is dictating terms to his immediate neighbors. the danger that ukraine presents to russia and to putin in particular is that it was a functioning democracy. it's a functioning democracy. of course it wasn't pe

high oil prices enabled vladmir putin to do exactly what he is doing and that one person is joe biden came into office and he started shutting down the american energy industry. he stopped exporting liquified natural gas to europe. he canceled the keystone pipeline. what did that mean? of course prices went up when the united states stopped producing energy and it is always been about energy. we won the cold war because we pushed the price of energy from $40 a barrel to 1dollars a barrel in nine months and we bankrupted the soviet union. they had no choice but to concede the cold war on our terms. now today if you really wanted to hurt vladmir putin and you really wanted to help the american economy and you really wanted to rebuild europe, here is how you do it, you say to the american people, follow the lead of the american green movement and reopen the american energy industry. i will export liquified natural gas to the europeans. i would say to the europeans we have your back. we will replace russia with all the russian exports. we would have american energy. we might not get it to

charles: of course many have said from the onset, particularly when xi and vladmir putin met and theyis new friendship, if you will, this is always sort of a, not a litmus test per se but china sitting back watching the resolve of the west, watching the resolve of america as they pondered their next move with respect to taiwan. what would you like to see president biden get out of this meeting? >> well, i'm sure, china's watching the situation very carefully in terms of what is happening with russia and ukraine. i hope china realizes that vladmir putin has become a pariah around the world and that this is had devastating effect on the russian economy at the same time it is having a terrible effect on ukraine. the longer this drags out though, i think the better china likes it. because it is keeping the u.s. and our allies in nato preoccupied. i think president biden needs to make very clear to president xi we're not taking our eye off the ball what is happening in that part of the world with respect to taiwan, with respect to the east china sea, south china sea. we're not taking our e

mail says borisjohnson has condemned the bombing of the children's hospital, and promised to hold vladmir putin, the telegraph reports that there are fears vladimir putin could use chemical weapons next. yasmin, do you want to start us off this evening with that front page of the mirror? very striking photograph. the mirror? very striking photograph-— the mirror? very striking photograph. the mirror? very striking -hotoara-h. , . , ., , photograph. yes, and they have 'ust one for photograph. yes, and they have 'ust gone for the — photograph. yes, and they have 'ust gone for the bigger i photograph. yes, and they have 'ust gone for the bigger visual. �* photograph. yes, and they have 'ust gone for the bigger visual. it is h gone for the bigger visual. it is indeed exactly what they say. it is a barbaric act and on a maternity hospital, and this very pregnant woman on a stretcher. most of the papers have this image in one form or another. it brings it home to you that this is all happening, i do not know how to pronounce it, is it mariupol? yes, there are slight variations. yes, there are slight

. >>> vladmir putin's warning, the russian president comparing sanctions to a declaration of war, while ukraine's president calls on his countrymen to go on the offensive and appeals directly to the u.s. congress. >>> defiance, the brave ukrainians protesting in the streets in a city controlled by russia, even marching towards soldiers as they fire. >>> children fleeing for their lives. more than half a million and counting we're there for th emotional reunions. >>> mastercard and visa shutting down service in russia. americans joining the fight, volunteers from the u.s. preparing to battle russia. >> was there a moment you decided to go and fight in ukraine >> the moment i found out you could. >>> soaring prices at the gas pump. set to hit a new record in days would you be willing to pay more to punish russia >> 100%. i would be willing to pay extra. >> and more than just a flower, a symbol of hope uniting much of the world behind ukraine. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with jose diaz-balart. >>> good evening the day started with a prospect of a limite cease-fire in ukraine b