to speak of the senator from nevada. thank you, mr. president. you know, this morning i have been listening to my colleagues, watching the news, watching our president, reflecting on harris: we are watching what s happening play out on capitol hill, and what we are told is that right at the top of the hour they would hold a moment of silence. we were then going to hear from speaker nancy pelosi. we will continue to watch this. obviously we are now seeing multiple senators come up and talk about that day, january 6th, a year ago. there has been so much political fire thrown onto the grill of conversation, if you will, going into today. i want to bring and bring in aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. aishah, you are with me last hour for the faulkner focus. we are starting to see what we had anticipated. it is so much less about what happened that america saw was
which our country is crumbling t as these people chase unicorns and their pipe dreams. yeah, or higher self-esteem for themselves. se gas cost seven bucks in california, i don t care about equity. lower the gas prices. right. ned ryan, thank you . thanks, tucker . so here s some good news. jim acosta learnedou a new wordn this week that doesn t happen very often. but when it does happen, acostao likes to show off his new vocabulary like a dog prancing around your living room with a mouthful of roadkill his throat. now the word he s learned isle called democracy. t jim acosta hasha no ideae what that word means, but he does like the sound of it has gotoes a weighty ring to it. so he showed off the new word on his new show on cnn which pretty much no one else in america saw. but we did hear itriee is this s democracy in peril, our specials series to expose the ongoing threats to our democracy post insurrection as we head into yet another election season.se - the stakes could not be hig
this as somebody who s half american, wanting america to stand up and show the leadership that the world absolutely demands. but this is the same president that said it would be ok if a portion of ukraine was splintered off by russia. he would be content with that. he kind of rowed back. he then rowed back on that, but the fact that he s even contemplating or thinking that. he s saying a severe price would have to be paid. what is that price? but you just said earlier on, there s no point showing your hand to president putin and telling him what you re going to be doing. no, no, no. so. biden s been saying what we will not do. yeah, all right. you don t want biden to say to putin, this is what we re going to do if you use chemical weapons. keep him guessing, surely? potentially you could, but if you do keep him guessing and something happens, then you must act. do you expect him to act? can ijust say, what happened when america saw, under obama, weapons being used, similar weapons be
presidentjoe biden has said that if putin uses chemical weapons in ukraine, there would be a severe price to pay. yeah. and that s a quote. and he didn t specify what that would be. i m afraid, and i say this as somebody who s half american, wanting america to stand up and show the leadership that the world absolutely demands. but this is the same president that said it would be ok if a portion of ukraine was splintered off by russia. he would be content with that. he kind of rowed back. he then rowed back on that, but the fact that he s even contemplating or thinking that. he s saying a severe price would have to be paid. what is that price? but you just said earlier on, there s no point showing your hand to president putin and telling him what you re going to be doing. no, no, no. so. biden s been saying what we will not do. yeah, all right. that s a difference. you don t want biden to say to putin, this is what we re going to do if you use chemical weapons. keep him guessing, sure
so. biden s been saying what we will not do. yeah, all right. that s a difference. you don t want biden to say to putin, this is what we re going to do if you use chemical weapons. keep him guessing, surely? potentially you could, but if you do keep him guessing and something happens, then you must act. do you expect him to act? can ijust say, what happened when america saw, under obama, weapons being used, similar weapons being used in syria, those red lines were crossed. we did nothing about it, and it was russia that took advantage of our weakness and moved in lock, stock and barrel into that area, to the point now where they re bringing soldiers from syria to fight in ukraine as well. what i m saying is that we re still in this risk averse peacetime mode, and we need better statecraft that we saw during the cold war to make those riskier decisions, which are calculated, and that means providing the necessary support and weapons systems that ukraine actually requires. all right. y