family whether we offer ourself as one of them i think different times call for different leadership. yeah, you know, he tried to kill my family and tried to kill me, but, you know, it remains to be seen, whether i may support him for the republican nomination there you go. scene. we re not here there you go that s he admitted last week, mika, that donald trump put his family in danger and his own life in danger mm-hmm. for i have to say, for me, for everybody that i know, that s the end in an attempt to subvert or democracy. there s that. but let s just keep with the family like, let s go a little john dutton here. you know, you protect your family he admitted last week that somebody tried to kill his family you know, don t go all john dutton on the revenge part, the other side of the boarder. at least you can say, i m not going to support him no, no, jonathan, you know, he tried to have me is and my family killed on january 6th while trying to subvert d
so, ian, you had an insight on vladimir putin who has been, obviously, very hard to read over the last year and several months i m curious, you had said earlier that he was seeming more confident than he has been in a long time. what do you put that down to does he think he can outlast the west, grind down the ukrainians? i think there are two big points here. one is the fact that xi jinping is making a three-day state visit to come and see him. just a few months ago, september, the shanghai cooperation organization, xi jinping was pressuring putin, and putin was forced to admit that the chinese have concerns this feels like a much better alignment between china and russia in part, that comes after these unprecedented hard line statements that xi jinping made directly against the united states just a couple weeks ago that s part of it. secondly, putin is also getting the news from the united states. increasingly, trump and others
clearly, the fact that the turks and the hungarians, the outliers in nato, had been dragging their feet, with now fully on board. finland is more important from a security perspective than the swedes are nothing personal, swedes that is not a happy piece of backdrop news for putin today. so your take on the icc issuing arrest warrants for vladimir putin for war crimes? i would put it in the context of putin traveling to mariupol this weekend, where, of course, many of those war crimes were committed. this is a message from putin to the united states, a message to the ukrainians, i m going nowhere. i m not prepared to give up on one inch of the territory i m presently taking this icc arrest warrant for war crimes means nothing to me now, to be clear, joe, you probably know, the russians, the united states and china are not members. the 123 members of the icc
perhaps this will be the visit that draws some red lines for china in its relationship with russia vladimir putin coming off a weekend when he was driving through mariupol and had an arrest warrant to issue by the international criminal court beijing, until now, has been straddling thisrelationship, i the taking a position on the war in ukraine and, for the most part, not wanting to risk straining ties with russia heading into this, there is the sense that perhaps china is the one that holds leverage here, and so there may be some negotiating room again, whether it is going to lead to anything meaningful is highly debatable. nbc s janis mackey frayer, thank you very much for your reporting this morning as janis mentioned, all this comes on the backdrop of major news involving russia and ukraine. the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for
washington post, george conway. and former u.s. attorney, chuck rosenberg, is back with us, as well before we turn to the former president and the potential indictment this week, let s start with a quick look at the headlines making news this morning. ubs is rescuing sweat suisse from the brink of collapse by buying the bank for $3.2 billion. this is the first mega-merger of two global banks since the 2008 financial crisis the deal was brokered by the swiss government over the weekend. the government will provide more than $9 billion to aid in some losses ubs may incur in the acquisition. the wall street journal reports depositors withdrew as much as $10 billion from credit suisse last week this after silicon valley and signature banks collapsed in the u.s. credit suisse has been plagued with issues over the past few years, including a string of