days have just been released. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin threatening nuclear war amid humiliating losses in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin today ordering a military draft and warning that he could use nuclear weapons against west. during a rare televised address to the russian nation, the russian president summoned 300,000 more troops to fight and threatened nuclear retaliation. translator: mobilization will begin today, september 21st. i am instructing the heads of the regions to provide the necessary assistance to the work of the military recruitment offices. this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. i emphasize this again with all the means at our disposal. and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. the prevailing winds c
gathered here in new york for this united nations general assembly talking about the death and destruction russia caused in ukraine and wants action, specifically that court dedicated and created by the united nations dedicated to punishing russia and holding them accountable and also he wants russia to be denied its veto vote it has right now on the united nations security council. special should be created to punish russia for the crime against our state. this will become signal to all would-be aggressors that they must value peace or be brought to responsibility by the world. reporter: and, wolf, those are comments president zelenskyy made just a few hours after president biden himself spoke. he stopped short of calling for russia to be expelled from that security council where they have used the power of that veto vote to block action when it comes to russia s own actions and when it comes to ukraine though he did issue his own warning message. you cannot seize a na
legitimate country but now this is his second encroachment into this sovereign country, obviously annexing crimea and now going back in and going back for the country en masse. how do you negotiate with someone like that, how do you move on as a thriving successful country with vladimir putin in charge? i don t trust vladimir putin any more than you do or anybody than anybody who s tried to negotiate or talk with him. he s a bit of a wild card right now because we have been describing him, i think, correctly as painted himself into a corner. it s clear he s not going to be able to, i think, win and control all of ukraine, which makes me think over the long run, he might be looking at a smaller piece but you re absolutely right. how do you negotiate with somebody that you simply cannot trust who has boldfaced lied to people who have been able to see better in the west, we have press that indicates what s really going on. he could lie to his own people, it s a little bit easier. but th
incentive but cater to the shia death squads and iranian interest unless we re there to pressure them. this logic of yours that you pointed out is consistent you re thinking about foreign policy and intervention. at this moment in the american policy, it seems to me less than zero appetite for the kind of thing you re talking about. how would you get over the fact that the country en masse, democrat and republican would tell you you re nuts to think that we should be sending i don t believe that. residual forces back into iraq to get back involved in this war? if the president had gone to syria in 2011? the president of united states goes on tv saying this is a strategic crisis for the reasons i m laying out here. we have to do something no one wants to do is go back in with air power and special forces and a few conventional troops to help stabilize the situation and not allow an al qaeda-backed group to dominate one part of