has russia escalated? no. they re not going to escalate and use nuclear weapons which hops the war to nato and also the generals want no part of it. their troops are not prepared to deal with radiation on the battlefield. they have no training, no clothing to protect them. makes no sense. we have to take counsel of our fears and get on with helping the ukrainians end this as soon as possible. martha: well, peace in the hill says who is president biden s general? jack keane. i d like to know the answer. who is the person who is really in his ear with strategy here, sir? i said on the secretary of defense s policy board. we talk about issues similar to this. the biden administration has not changed in terms of its basic policy. that is there is not a defined end state and a midlitary strategy to support it. martha: thanks, general keane. serious times that we live in.
to see the aftermath of russian war crimes. martha? martha: thanks very much. with that, we bring in kurt volker, former u.s. ambassador to nato and former special representative for ukraine negotiations. good to have you with us today. vladimir putin one of the things that he said is that he s pulling out of the one remaining nuclear weapons treaty that russia was not in full compliance with. now they re officially out of it. what does that mean in terms of what he has in mind, sir? well, i think what he s trying to do is get inside the heads of people in the biden administration who he believes really care about nuclear arms control. getting them to be fearful that oh, maybe hour support for ukraine is taking us the wrong direction. the reality is just as you said, they weren t fully implementing this treat tiny way. they had limited inspections. what keeps us safe here is not the arms control treaty is deterrence. as far as we re prepared for a
so in the meantime, the stakes extraordinarily high. they couldn t be higher on the world stage right now. biden, president biden and putin gave duelling speeches just a short time ago at the bitter one-year mark of russia s war on ukraine. now putin keeps telling his people that it s the west s fault that he had to invade the country that has been independent for 30 years that is on their border. he went on for nearly two hours, which he tends to do to persuade his people that all of this loss, tremendous loss of military members, is worth it. the intent to transform a local conflict into a global confrontation, that s how we understand it and we will respond accordingly. president biden firing back during a major address today in poland. i speak once more to the
that innovated ukraine. putin s remarks comes 24 hours after president biden visited kyiv for support. during his trip, biden announced a $450 million military aid package. more details on the much-needed support this week as an american congressional delegation was in the ukrainian capitol this afternoon. led by house foreign affairs committee michael mccaul, the group met with president zelensky and is speaking out about the need for a more aggressive timeline when it comes to weapons delivery. the plan right now from the administration is just enough to bleed through the winter and spring. but not enough for victory. we need to give them enough for victory. there are members within this cab cabinet, within this administration that agree with me. general mccaul visited bucca
little too late for people there? some people think the federal government has come here too late. some people they shouldn t let the american taxpayer off the hook. we spoke to president biden s epa administrator after that press conference. he said he wants norfolk southern to reimburse the federal government, not the american taxpayer. made the following threat. listen, we want norfolk southern to pay for the work without having to reimburse the epa. if they don t, we will step in, do the work and then we will charge them triple the amount. we want to incentivize to do the work because that s what this community deserves. a very similar message from ohio s governor mike dewine following that press conference. we spoke to him, too. look, norfolk southern needs to pay for everything. they need to pay for people s medical bills, they need to pay