senior military officers and other top level officials will be believed to be responsible for the alleged war crimes in bucha will also hit the sanctions list. it s a big raft of sanctions, but there s a lot of talk needed to get it over the line. nic, pope francis, he spoke with the leaders of the russian orthodox church. he told him to not become putin s altar boy. we also know, according to sources that the leader of the russian orthodox church is included in the eu s latest sanctions proposal. why include that figure? reporter: yeah, and there s been heavy pushback from the leadership of the russian orthodox church today as well on both those accounts. the reason being that the perception is and the words of the russian orthodox patriarch have been supportive of president putin, have been supportive of the war, and the pope, like other religious leaders around the world, doesn t mean that another religious leader should be
sanctions will not only have bite on russia but it will mean sacrifice and pain for our european allies and even here in the united states. i think what the administration needs to be signaling is we re willing to do what is necessary to protect the sovereigty of all nations and push back on russian aggression. congressman gene robinson of the washington post is here with a question for you. gene. yeah, congressman, my question is about once again sort of intra party relations. are you getting are you and the moderate democrats whose jobs are very much on the line in the fall, are you getting the kinds of support you believe you need from the speaker, from the progressive caucus in the house and from the dnc? look, the democrat party talk about a big tent. i prefer the metaphor of a big raft. we have room for everybody, but
relationship with the taliban going forward, and i think this echos what the president said, that thus far the taliban are working with us, thus far the president said, but we re now getting to that pinch point where we heard from sam that the taliban aren t allowing afghans to get to the airport because they say that afghan nationals should stay in their country, that the country needs the doctors, needs the engineers, needs the academics. it doesn t want to lose this big raft of intellectuals who ve been helping the coalition who feel that their safety is guaranteed only by leaving the country. so you have this pinch point emerging. british prime minister framed it this way. let me just quote it precisely here. the number one condition we re setting is the g7 is that they, the taliban, have got to guarantee the right-of-way through to the 31st of august and beyond for the safe passage of those who want to come out. so we seem to have a direct confrontation now between the agreed posi
he would have breaks in which he could read and write and contemplate but those were relatively spare and then he would continue on that path until 6:30 at night he would go home and have dinner with his family and spend time with his kids and then work typically into the early morning hours because he would take a big raft of documents and briefing papers back with him to study so he would be prepared for the next day s meetings. everybody has a different style. i m not suggesting that the way barrack obama did it is the only way to do it, but you do want a president that is reading and absorbing information and meeting with people who have insights into the issues on which he has to make decisions. and so this hap hazard, well he s on the phone and calling people and so on, doesn t make sense to me. now, you know, kellyanne and
until 6:30 at night he would go home and have dinner with his family and spend time with his kids and then work typically into the early morning hours because he would take a big raft of documents and briefing papers back with him to study so he would be prepared for the next day s meetings. everybody has a different style. i m not suggesting that the way barrack obama did it is the only way to do it, but you do want a president that is reading and absorbing information and meeting with people who have insights into the issues on which he has to make decisions. and so this hap hazard, well he s on the phone and calling people and so on, doesn t make sense to me. now, you know, kellyanne and sarah sanders said he has a different leadership style than his predecessors and the results speak for themselves and that s something that we can all agree