when washington was president. he was treatedwith great respect . when he traveled home to new york city he was celebrated and everybody turned out. everybody wanted to go to dinner with joseph grant call that a happy ending to the story where all loyalist forges a good relationship with the winning side, with the patriots side.a sad story is williamfranklin . he split with his father over this question who are you going to be loyal to? and benjamin franklin says my loyalty is to my new country william franklin says my loyalty is to my existing country. william franklinheld onto his decision . he was the governor of new jersey . the newly appointed governor of new jersey held onto that position as long as he could but when things change he was driven by force from his office and arrested. and he was held in custody or many months. he became ill and eventually he was exchanged n in a prisoner swap and wasallowed to go to new york city . which as i said earlier was a hotbed of loyalists and and from there he organize

who ran washington? so with that i would like to invite you to have any closing remarks and then also for the audience so that you know for those who have not read the book as yet the book is available for purchase just outside and the authors will be signing as well. absolutely. thank you. thank you for the great questions. thank you kai you have been so kind with your praise of the book and believe me. he is a master class in biography. so for us, it's a great honor to be with you. thank you great conversation. thank you guys. thank you very much. appreciate it. welcome to anything about kurt vonnegut and other. other interesting things. my name is vincent on aradia. i own a word bookstore in brooklyn and jersey city, new jersey. thank you so much for being here. it's it's beyond important for for everyone to support local businesses, especiay

is the fixer who made washington worked at a time when we said washington doesn't work anymore but the was both he and george h.w. bush did have a view of politics and in a way may be patricia in both of them that you were meant to fight hard in bush himself didn't seem all that comfortable he was more comfortable with a thousand points of light and bush is responsible for this. bush and baker authorized it. michael dukakis he's like the democratic governor of massachusetts and they turn him into a flagburning aclu card-carrying un-american figure. he was also not man enough and it's really an extraordinary thing in network. baker as margaret tutwiler who is a close adviser to him throughout washington she said aker doesn't do regrets and we found that to be a the case in our interviews with him. we couldn't get him to say he regretted anything. my record is my record and i'm comfortable with that kind of person. this is the only thing, willie horton was the only one who he said to us probably i may have gone too far. he didn't want this strategy in approaching his own biography and hi

who ran washington? so with that i would like to invite you to have any closing remarks and then also for the audience so that you know for those who have not read the book as yet the book is available for purchase just outside and the authors will be signing as well. absolutely. thank you. thank you for the great questions. thank you kai you have been so kind with your praise of the book and believe me. he is a master class in biography. so for us, it's a great honor to be with you. thank you great conversation. thank you guys. thank you very much. appreciate it. great conversation. thank you, guys. thank you very much. appreciate it. [applause] >> weekends on c-span2 arunachal feast. every saturday american history tv documents america's stories, and on sundays booktv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span2 come from these television companies, and more, including buckeye bought broadband. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> buckeye broadband, along with these television companies, supports

as all consuming as a book project like this one and a biography that's also the story of washington itself in many ways from you know in a period of time from the end of watergate really to the end of the cold war. i guess my national was we better do this together because otherwis >> we better because otherwise we won't have anything to talk about, i am very very lucky obviously have a partner was a wonderful wonderful partner in all things. [laughter] why u don't redeem this but we found particularly fascinating because not just his own story, which we can go through if we want about the secretary of state and reagan chief of staff ran five presidential campaigns and i myself would be really extraordinary but i think we also the that made us want to write it was washington semi with his worry was a story washington the course of a generation it and so it was not just jim baker story, he was washington and sarah and they are the contract so starkly with those today chris matthews here has written a reagan and two days washington is so radically different than the one with jim baker

his place in washington today is the fixer who made washingtone work at the time we all said wow washington doesn't work anymore. he was a very sharp partisan and he and george bush had a few politics that you were meant to fight hard but it was an unseemly business in lush himself read you did that. heit seemed more comfortable wih thousand points of life yet the authorized bush is responsible bush and baker authorized the campaign. michael dukakis they turned him, he was like the technocratic governor of massachusetts. they turned them into the flagburning aclu card-carrying practically on american figure. he was also not man enough. it's really an extraordinary barrage and baker would say, it's interesting margaret tet wyler who was a close adviser jimak said baker doesn't do regrets and we found that to be the case. we couldn't get him to say he regretted it. he was like my record is my record and i'm comfortable with the kind of person. willie horton was the only thing he said was probably that might have gone too far and took him back to the next interview. he didn't say was great or

george washington became a revolutionary. because of course he is the leader of the revolution and its obvious he would become -- and it wasn't obvious at all. this is part of the story try to tell. i look at benjamin franklin and benjamin franklin was another unlikely revolutionaries because frankland at the status quo worked for george washington it would work even better for benjamin franklin in. he became world-famous in the british empire and george washington wasn't very excitable character so he didn't get excited about the british empire. benjamin franklin was then in busiest of the british empire. he thought that british empire was the greatest thing going and it was within the british empire and under the auspices of the opportunities of the british empire provided the benjamin franklin became the most famous american of his time. it's entirely possible the world would not have heard of george washington. he was a virginia planter and he would have lived his life as a virginia planter and that would have been that n

i will tell you, the levers of power in washington dc are controlled by dark forces. we have halls of congress being shoveled by cowards. we have a geriatric despot in the oval office. my friend, what's going on in our country, it is hard. we are facing dark times. i know that many of you recognize that we are facing dark times. you also realize that america's greatest comeback happened when things seemed the hardest. the american spirit, when it is pushed against, that is when we fight the hardest. my friends, when i start seeing what is going on in our nation, when i see how quickly our country has changed. i think the adage that best describes this time in history is that hard times create strong men. and strongmen create good times. but those good times create weak men. and weak men create hard times. and you see what's going on in our nation right now. we have weak leadership. how quickly things have changed. my friends, i know about how things can change quickly. eight years ago, i was in a car with my best friend, we were driving in florida. i was asleep in the

i think what made us want to write w it is washington in some ways, it was a story of washington over the course of a generation so itt wasn't just te jim baker story it was washington in this era that contrasted so starkly with us a today. chris matthew has written about reagan and tip o'neill. today's washington is so radically different than the one in which jim baker was a giant on the stage. we want to capture that and we started this instead a long time before donald trump came along. it was already broken by the time he got there. we can argue that he bashed it some more but we started when obama was president and things in washington were already so dysfunctional that the story told us something today as well as his time. >> i love this book. it really taught me things i didn't know about the reagan presidency and how it works in washington. it's the classic story of sort of the man behind the scenes, the guy who's making things worse and who gives attentionn o details. it's a story about the establishment of the sort of end of the establishment. there is a notion both on the

who ran washington? so with that i would like to invite you to have any closing remarks and then also for the audience so that you know for those who have not read the book as yet the book is available for purchase just outside and the authors will be signing as well. absolutely. thank you. thank you for the great questions. thank you kai you have been so kind with your praise of the book and believe me. he is a master class in biography. so for us, it's a great honor to be with you. thank you great conversation. thank you guys. thank you very much. appreciate it. and succeeding in male-dominated professions. and i can show you how you look like. good morning everyone. good morning. good morning. good morning and welcome to the kentucky book festival uk mainstage. my name is maya barber and i'm a sophomore at uk studying vocal performance at first guest a native edgewood. kentucky was the first female marine to fly a combat mission in the fa 18 her childhood was shaped by love of country baseball and fro

in the case of george washington george washington didn't have to win the war. they had to avoid losing the war because soonerad or later the british say it just isn't worth it anymore and in this regard position of the two sides in the american revolution were not symmetrical because the americans were fighting for their mere existence and if this didn't work this thing in the united states would be destroyed and that would be the end of it. it was no means the end of the british empire and there was british home territory. it was easier forth the britisho say enough is enough the war is over then it would have been for the americans because they would have had to give up this thing and there was the small fact that they were identified as traders by the british government and there were penalties to pay for them. >> and you also talk about how the rivalry between britain and france impacted how not only the american revolutionary warti was fought at the french and indian waren before it and how critical french support was to be ultimate victory of the colonist

washington. that's not something that could have happened anywhere in washington d.c. so that space that first ladies and first families in general have provided for gathering americans from across the political divide has been a crucial part of it. i think that's why in historian's solidarity, the unofficial sphere, is such an important term rather than -- i know political science and soft power. but that unofficial sphere is integral to what the first lady is and has always done even down to today. so changes, well, there are many changes and we can talk more about these, but it has to do with the growth of gender expectations, the growth of women's activity in the world as we move through the century of the civil war, it makes changes. women's more work and as we get to the gilded age, the sort of work that women do in the world to move out of their domestic sphere which is the socially dictated place for women to be. >> just education. >> carry on. there's a million changes. education is just one. certainly. by the time you reach the first decade of the 20th centur

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and and washington recognize that what we have to deal with which but when he visited washington whens president, he was treated with where a loyalist forges a good relationship with the winning side he split with his father over the question who will you be loyal to? he says my loyalty is to my new country and williams has my loyalty is to my existing country. he held onto his position. he was the governor of new jersey. rarelywi appointed but when things change t was driven by force and then held in custody and then that like i said earlier was the hotbed and from there there was a loyalist militia to engage in guerrilla warfare and he could use —- criticize the government for not fighting hard enough and giving up too soon. and that is the battle of yorktown that the british could have kept that the new government said we will change some things and end the war w for. but he was very disappointed and dismayed with the british but his feeling was doing but nobody wanted to talk to him. it's a little bit but you lost the war nobody wants to talkth to you. the same thing. he received

but the powers in washington, d.c. are controlled by dark forces. we have a geriatric despot who sits in the oval office. my friends, what's going on in our country, it's hard. we are facing dark times. i know many of you recognize that we are facing dark times. but you also realize that america's greatest comeback happens when things seem the hardest. when we come out and fight the hardest. when i see how quickly our country is changing, the adage that best describes this time is that hard times created strongmen, and strongmen create good times. but those good times created weak men, and weak men create hard times. you see what is going on when we have we leadership, how quickly things have changed. i know how quickly things can change. eight years ago i was in a car with my best friend. we were driving in florida i was asleep in the passenger seat. he fell asleep behind the wheel, we ran into a concrete wall at 70 miles per our. at that point, i had less than 1% chance to be able to live. i was destined to never stand again. i know how quickly th

well, it seems to me that one of the things that we mentioned about martha washington. and again, we'll lead us into dolly is the concept of soft power and i am a pseudo historian. i'm really trained as a political scientist. so we like to think in terms of power and how power is used and defining power and typically political scientists and others. will define soft power as diplomatic power diplomacy cultural exchanges, and we know that first ladies certainly have excelled at that. so let's think in those terms in lynn. let's turn to dolly in that you called it catherine when we were first talking this unofficial role because again, this is a position that that is given to this woman. who's the spouse of the president simply because she's the spouse of the president. yeah, and i mean i at some point somebody's going to ask the very rude question. why should we care about first lady and one of the things is that by studying first ladies the same way studying women their words their work their lives. we learn things we would not have known about and it cannot just be a r

washington is as low as possible.he essence is now somewhere close to the ground from here attempts to shift, again, from a sore head to healthy, so to speak, that this is russia can apply and so on. so this is a very dangerous trend. what is she talking about? she is talking about a very simple thing that sober heads are completely understood in washington. by the way, i know him personally in another and in another incarnation. i recognized him. of course, he is not a stupid person. he is a professional indeed. and uh, i understand that dominance is slipping away. can't hold it. so there are two ways. how can this be done? the first way is to form a new disposition in the international community. these are some issues of multilateral cooperation bilateral, there and so on, so to speak, washington is not ready for this. they are rowing for themselves. here, look at nato. they built europe now , of course, they undoubtedly built it if sweden is in finland, uh, enter there purely hypothetically. donata, they will lose

what is washington's goals in this conflict here? because this massive a sending of arms to ukraine, which nobody knows where it goes to out who's the end user. if it's going to be sold on the black market. one, the problems with western coverage of this conflict is that ukraine is notorious for its corruption. i mean, it makes some corruption in russia blush. i can guarantee you that. so what is washington's goals here? because it seems to me that they're calling the shots. not mr. zalinski. go ahead. daniel, it seems to me, this is the most incompetent handling. major foreign affairs issue in the history of the world. i don't believe that washington has a clue what it's doing. the only thing that's driving the policy right now was the military industrial complex every week. now for the last 2 or at least 2 or 3 weeks, we see a new $800000000.00 military, a package going to ukraine. you know, after a while these $800000000.00 weekly checks are going to start adding up. right. so you have the u. s. sitting massive amounts of military

so washington is in danger, losing it all. so if i were in washington, i'm thinking of a long term and trying to plan for a negotiated solution. however unpleasant that might seem to the hoax they daniel, i wish that way it could happen, but i just don't, i just simply don't. i mean, that's the rational path, because what just to kind of an extension of what we just heard from john and marco is that, you know, europe is flexing it's, it's really weak muscles, you know, and it feels really good about itself, but it's isolating itself from the rest of the world, the chinese are watching the child, the russians obvious are, these are not reliable people. these are not in tele and people that you can actually seriously deal with, you know, what happened between a december and in the time of the military incursion. is that the russians remember this very carefully, you can't talk to these people. these people don't tell the truth. they, they're out there. they have a different agenda all the time. and i and i, i personally think th

they even had a lady washington 's brigade. and that was sort of the vestige of the british past, but she was also an example of what a southern bag would do. so, that was the beginning. >> great. >> i just think it's really striking. so, in other venues, i've actually said that dolly madison was the first first lady. and i'm preferred prepared to defend. but treat, as you're right. right from the beginning, martha washington is getting the message, but what's also true, again, there's an in intentionality from her, so she begins dressing a certain way. and she, along with george washington and alexander hamilton, maybe john j, they start communicating about the kinds of ceremonies that would be proper for a new republic. because of course, at that time, they got a real tight kind of like link to stay in. the american colonists have rebelled against the monarchy. they were going to create the world today, the world turned upside down. and i monarch all, anti king, and our royalty. it's all going to be new. except when it came t

washington. that was not something that could have happened just anywhere in washington, d.c. so that space that they have provided for gathering americans a i cross the political divide has been a crucial part of it. that's why historians, unofficial sphere is such an important term. that it's integral to what the first lady has always done. we can talk about these, but it has to do with the growth of gender expectations, the growth of women's activity in the world as we move through the century. it makes changes, more work and then as we get towards the guilded age and moving into the progressive era, the work that women do in the world to move out of their domestic sphere, which was the socially dictated acceptable place to be. >> there's a million changes. session just one. by the time you reach the first decade of of the 20th century and you have many differences too. >> i think the reasons why male political scientists focus on soft power is they focus on hard power and want to make that distinction. they view it as the military power and the economic sanctions. but in t

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and that that really niggles somebody like george, washington. um, and we don't talk much about honor. we don't put as much of a value on it in our history, but the the insults of being treated as second class englishman were were a factor i have found. the seven years war what we called the french and indian war certainly was enormously expensive written. you just mentioned the figure. actually they're dead. so how justified in your mind were? its leaders an advocating and legislating for the colonists to contribute in ways that they hadn't before. well, the the leaders of england the parliament tended to ignore the fact that the colonies were given royal charters. and the charters included privileges including each colony was allowed to legislate and set its own taxes and collect its own taxes. it wasn't intent people did not come here to it to north america expecting to be have the whole framework of their of their government pulled apart suddenly because the new administration came to power in london wanted to ignore the rights of the america

now the washington post in the new york times both admit it was real. they are back tracking and acknowledging hidden truth cnn, the federal investigation into hunter biden's crooked business dealings as a very real, very substantial investigation of potentially serious federal crimes. there is a realistic chance this could result in federal charges. i think it's as bogus as it was before. trump's appeal to russian president vladimir putin to find information about biden as despicable u. s. media is now trying to retail and re interpret a story they previously claimed was false. meanwhile, russia is raising very serious concerns about bio labs. and at the same time, many are optimistic hoping that negotiations can brain and the hostility and ukraine. we certainly live in a world of free flowing wild information with different forces scrambling to try and control it. caleb martin, r t new york. that does it for me this hour, stay with us. throughout the days we have more news and commentary about the war in ukraine. this is archie internet. ah ah ah ah a

s. allies in washington? rachel blevins are g germany. chancellor sholtes has pledged to country will phase out russian, coal and gas this year. as he laid out a plan for the you to drastically cut its reliance on russian fuel, vandalism, indigo disgust at 1st. ling up, awesome. we will need a little longer regarding gas. we're working very hard to create new infrastructure to be able to transport gas and pump it into the european network from ports on the northern germany coast. this will be beneficial not only to ask, but too many other countries. it will also send a last message to the russian president, the essential basis of his economic justice model is disappearing by putting has said that countries that sanction moscow will need to pay for russian gas applies in rubles through an account at a russian bank and threatened to sever contracts, if those payments aren't made, immediately put and warned that a gas shortage in the you could inside a recession and caused mass unemployment association. the us w

washington journal continues. host: welcome back to washington journal. it is open forums, so i'm taking your calls on anything public policy related on your mind. go ahead and start calling in now. i want to show you the new york times, the headline, "we made it -- jackson celebrates supreme court confirmation." it says "the confirmation of judge ketanji brown jackson has changed the course of american life, says president biden." the article says "judge jackson, the first black woman to be nominated to the supreme court, celebrated her confirmation friday, saying it was the honor of her lifetime and understands what it meant to the young black women and girls who followed along with her nomination process." we have a portion of that from the white house. here it is. [video clip] >> i have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers with just my law clerks, in isolation, so it has been overwhelming, in a good way, to be flooded with thousands of notes and cards and photos expressing just how much this moment means to so money people.

and that that really niggles somebody like george, washington. um, and we don't talk much about honor. we don't put as much of a value on it in our history, but the the insults of being treated as second class englishman were were a factor i have found. the seven years war what we called the french and indian war certainly was enormously expensive written. you just mentioned the figure. actually they're dead. so how justified in your mind were? its leaders an advocating and legislating for the colonists to contribute in ways that they hadn't before. well, the the leaders of england the parliament tended to ignore the fact that the colonies were given royal charters. and the charters included privileges including each colony was allowed to legislate and set its own taxes and collect its own taxes. it wasn't intent people did not come here to it to north america expecting to be have the whole framework of their of their government pulled apart suddenly because the new administration came to power in london wanted to ignore the rights of the america

your front row seat to washington, anytime, anywhere. >> washington journal continues. good morning, and welcome back to "washington journal." it is time for open forum, so anything you would like to talk about public policy wise, anything you heard on the program. give us a call. i want to show you first what is happening in russia-ukraine war. this is from "the washington post" about -- the headline says russians shall kyiv after loss of worship. the article says this, the russian warship that sank this week and the black sea was hit by two ukrainian antiship missiles, and a senior u.s. defense official confirmed that yesterday, as relentless russian attacks continued in the east. the southern port city of mariupol, which has held out against weeks of bombardment, a."'s to fall into russian ground forces. says that ukrainian satisfaction of a guided missile cruiser was tempered by the situation in mariupol and by the russians morning it would step up strikes on ukraine's capital. that is the latest coming out of russia. i would like to know what you think about that,

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i left washington a week ago. and now i can tell you what i heard then. i talked to some officials. i've talked to people in congress. i have a clear impression. a lot has happened this week as well. and this is the flushing of the red, uh, lines towards more permissiveness. this took place only after my departure. and to what extent should it be taken? seriously. i don't know, i think you have to take it seriously. yes, that's what mine is for instinct, and then i’ll tell you that from what i heard, the administration, of course, completely denies the russian explanation of why the special operation began, how the special operation is going on, and who has advantages in this special operation now, the administration simultaneously says that she does not want this conflict to drag on endlessly, which the administration would rather start looking for, but some negotiated solutions, that the administration will insist that these negotiated solutions are acceptable to zelensky so that it is not for zelensky's back, but the administration will make it clear t

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and a canny operator in washington. and then who would win the forth.n and so and thenhi the campaign could be rough-and-tumble but then it would be over. but the purpose at least for bush baker was to get the power so theywa could do something. it was in the the all and end all. and then to do something of interest. and then to hear governance and then to set up issues to bash the other guy. and those that in six of the 12 years indn the senate. so why would he said there? >> and then to talk to democrats. and as secretary of state he actually barred netanyahu from entering the state department. >> that's actually one of the k best stories that netanyahu clearly failed to understand baker in this story was told to us by tom broker one —- tom brokaw who later covered baker and then became friends with him at the ranch out west and told the story then a young deputy foreign minister netanyahu came to washington he askedw, brokaw to go out to breakfast and explained the secretary of state to him. and tom brokaw took them

so go ahead in washington. the whole thing has been a basically them had holding a pair of deuces and claiming to have a royal flush all along. i mean biden's jumping in its own mouth every day. so he says, oh sanctions were never meant to be returned and, and people pull up a list of clips in which everybody from him to blink in a saying exactly that, you know, that they're trying to read on this thing because they're to miss getting away from him and the narrative is all they have fee backlash from this has been spectacular . it's basically the american empire, such as it is that i've spoken about for years. it relies on perception that is the most trustworthy, the strongest, the most economically powerful in world. and right now with these sanctions, the embargo is really it's showing to the rest of the world that it is not trustworthy. that it is not in fact power for and that the economic consequences are very real or showing how weak it's actual economy as opposed to the narrative economy really is. i mea

and washington centric. and the other, for lack of a better word, might be thought to be more jeffersonian, more limited in his approach to government and more decentralized. in other words, the new deal and the centralization of authority in washington and particularly the executive is reversible. you could argue that much of the last 50 years is an attempt to do just that. >> that was the fifth part of our eight-hour conversation with historian and author richard norton smith. the rest of this conversation airs at the same time each week. you can watch this and upcoming segments once they aired online at c-span.org/history. >>> weekends on c-span2. every saturday american history tv documents america's story. and on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span2 comes from these television companies and more including charter communications. >> broadband is a force for empowerment. that's why charter has invested billions. billion infrastructure, upgrading techn

go ahead in washington. that's. that's the problem of ramsey mentioned, you know, you can then ben did this, well, you can do this for a while, but at some point you run out of good a good will. you know, the, all that it was you can take the money and run, but you can only do it once. well, the americans have gotten away with it repeatedly as we've seen. but i do think at this point they've reached a hard stop because again, the world is in such a state that the washington has been trying to ruin. since the early ninety's, as the sole superpower the dictates to everybody would be, must or must not do. and you had the situation where in early february you had all of these you as officials for every sovereign country has the right to choose. but the moment the kinetic warfare st kicked off, they turned to, well, you must to just about every country, you know, they go to india and say, you must do this, they go to china to, you must do this. they go to africa, you must say, wait a 2nd. what happened to the average ove

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washington had a clear understanding of moscow's moves today. there are not so many rules left that the new strategic arms reduction treaty. it was a very positive and wise foreign policy decision made by president biden to support russia's proposal, an agree on a 5 year extension on new starts with no p conditions. president trump administration wasn't willing to do that. the same time, other tools and mechanisms that allow to control the arms and nonproliferation agreements are in a shambles. we no longer have the anti ballistic missile treaty or the intermediate range nuclear forces. are i n f treaty? the united states keeps rejecting our proposal to enforce a moratorium on the deployment of short intermediate range nuclear missiles. despite the fact that we have agreed on the need to reconcile verification mechanisms. with key objection is that they can't simply trust the cleaning grad, deployed escandone systems comply with the i n f treaty requirements. we propose exchanging delegations, so our american partners could inspect the base and

"washington journal" is. -- "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: and good morning.his is the "washington journal" on c-span, three hours of news and, as always, your views. indoor mask mandates nationwide have been mostly lifted, including in the capital them about their some signs that the latest variant could be spreading. here is what dr. fauci said yesterday on abc's "this week." [video clip] >> obviously, there is a concern as we are seeing an uptick in the cases. as i have mentioned, this is not unexpected, that you are going to see an uptick when you pull back on the mitigation methods. if you look at the cdc calculation with their new metrics, it is clear that most of the country, even though it is in an uptick, it is still in the that green zone, which means masking is not recommended, in the sense as not required in indoor settings. but as people pull back when you have a highly transmissible virus, like the ba.2, and you're pulling back on medication and at the same time there is waning immunity, you will see an uptick. the numbers are gaining. what i am

washington is not in the we think that's kind of give them inside. sponsor saw number one and washington is obviously doing a lot of pressure on india, the link economy and the defense side with the russia. in fact, president biden very recently mentioned india, which is a member of the 4 nation ward which consists, saw us india, japan and australia. rough so biden said that india is what i caught, brooks abide and shaky in its isolation of russia. and after that, the deputy national security adviser from the us who, who came to new delhi, he actually made a statement. what you said, if china attacks india next the, you know, russia on save you, you know, which means meaning thereby that we, in the americans would not help you in a way this was not spelled out, but that's what it was meant. so obviously, the washington news would be a lot of pressure. i mean the, the trouble is that washington, whatever he sees its own national interest. and what is nato's interest? it was to impose on india and make about india national interest. whereas india takes a very independent line for in russia

washington correspondent basil john has more details now as the u.s. continues to deploy sanctions and increase the refugee effort. >> the state department says currents u.s. sanctions are hitting russia hard economically. this is one of the most. >> comprehensive and meaningful set of sanctions we placed on any country, but particularly a country with an economy as large as russia's state department counselor derek show les believes the sanctions will have an impact on the russian invasion. it's going to be harder for it to create and resupply itself in terms of the weapons that it's currently using in the battlefield. the u.s. is also helping in the refugee effort. the biden administration is launching a new program to help ukrainian refugees find sponsors here in the u.s. will be seeking to do whatever we can to help americans as they are going to contribute in whatever way they can to help ukrainian refugees. the process will start on monday and allow individuals or organizations to declare they are prepared to financially support a refugee. i thin