something we already knew, that he s a terrible liar. then he follows that up with more lies. the latest on the embattled republican who now claims he wants to be the most transparent lawmaker in congress. we start with a defining day for the u.s./russian relationship as well as for safety and security around the globe. today, president biden and vladimir putin gave duelling speeches, laying out duelling visions, both of the war in ukraine and what the world order should be. both see huge stakes, democracy and ukrainian freedom on the u.s. side, while in putin s mind, it is his country s very existence and neither man giving any indication they re willing to back down. over the past year, the united states has come together with our allies and partners in an extraordinary coalition to stand against russian aggression. but the work in front of us is not just what we re against. it is about what we re for. what kind of world do we want to build? there is no sweeter word tha
well, it certainly makes things more dangerous, chris. what you lose without a new start treaty is any verification regime or transparency or insight into russia s strategic nuclear forces. so obviously we would benefit from having that kind of arms control in place. that s why the united states and russia and the soviet union had arrangements like this for decades. what it shows you is the degree to which vladimir putin is cutting the cord on any way back to a relationship with the united states and the west. obviously the invasion of ukraine was the most extreme manifestation of that. the sanctions have been put in place have further driven russia away from the west, and now here he is tearing up the last piece of the arms control regime between the united states and russia. and i think it signals the era we re in, which is an era of direct competition and confrontation between russia and the west, and putin, you know this is the only place left for him to go, but it is a place he
putin. and that s the ultimate symbol of his failure. he does not control ukraine. he does not control kyiv. he s been humiliated and his military has, however, to your point, they re still there. russia is a big country, putin shows no signs of going anywhere. not uprisings against him. he s entrenched in power. he s find something work around to the sanctions. so the positive story is what ukraine can achieve. if there is some area of concern, putin is just as entrenched as ever and as dug in as ever and there are a lot of people dying. i think what president biden is trying to do is signal a message of endurance. we re in this for as long as it takes and it may not get better before it gets worse. there is a lot of violence, there is a lost suffering that is taking place. he wants to create that horizon. this is about big things like whether nations can make their own decisions for themselves. this is about the survival of freedom in this world and if we stick to this now, through d
they think that i think probably rightly vladimir putin, you know, in his own wrong and warped world view sees crimea as a part of russia, not just in terms of the annexation he passed, but in some kind of deeper way. and so they have been careful about that. i think what is going to happen now is you have this kind of grind it out artillery battle taking place. as the weather improves, you ll see offensives by both sides. we ll see if the additional tanks and weaponry provided to ukraine makes a difference or whether the russian manpower advantage from the call-ups being done makes a difference. and then they ll be constantly reassessing. where does this war look in three months, six months? are the ukrainians making rapid advancements and suggesting they can push russia out of all of their territory or is there a stalemate settling in and what kind of diplomacy do we want to bring to bear to help the ukrainians? right now we ll go through the next chapter of this war, the offensives
looking at intel and seeing the bottom line is they haven t moved, they haven t really gone anywhere. what s happened is the ukraine military has destroyed about 100 russian tanks, 250 armored personnel carriers. we know we re fighting a numerical superior force but the bottom line is that s ten tactical groups. they put in 14, they re losing 10, that s where we re coming to this calculus they are winning. if they can grind this down, now it s time and space and if we can grind this down over maybe one or two weeks russia will have no way to reorganize in that area and perhaps ukraine military goes on the counteroffensive. that s an artillery battle taking place in kharkiv, let s bring that self-propelled howitzers and fire back at the russians. i guarantee the ukraine military is itching to go on the counteroffensive. even if the russians are taking some towns and making progress broadly along this line. and that s okay. because, again, they re going to give that ground because th