a member of nato and at the same time watching what we saw today with the joint any news the joint summit that took place, what would the thinking be in ukraine this afternoon about ukraine s position and whether or not the you state is prepared to go to bat for it? i think there is increasing confidence in kiev that the united states has their back. this is obviously a dramatic sea change from the prior administration where there was deep concern that, of course, washington was aligned with moscow on this issue and that the former president was cow towing to putin. president biden has been clear, 60,000 troops were amassed at the border of ukraine and putin blinked when biden spoke out against it. biden administration has been sanctioning the administration and today there was a lot of talk to vladimir putin about ukraine. if i were in kiev right now i would take solace for the fact that an american president is
indication, recent history, probably not. but the case that schumer and a lot of other senate democrats are making is that they re going to at least try, like zerlina said, because this is the time when you at least have to try and make that case. obviously, mitt romney is not necessarily responding to the democratic voters of utah and he s certainly not up for re-election until 2022. but these other folks do potentially have some difficult re-elections on their hands next november. realistically speaking, though, how likely is it that those voters are going to be talking about the procedural vote early on in the year during the impeachment all the way in november? that s what these senators are thinking about. now, i do think there are going to be democratic voters calling these people s offices. but if you re cory gardner, if you re hearing from mitch mcconnell a lot more than you are hearing from chuck schumer and your democratic leagues. what do you think? i think, politically,
screen. this is a number of headlines about american companies bowing to chinese pressure. u.s. airlines comply with china s demand to scrub taiwan references. gap wary of crossing china, apologizes for t-shirts map. china asks marriott to shut down its website, the company complied. cbs censors a good fight segment, the topic, chinese censorship. how china is building its own hollywood. how much influence will they be able to have about what we are allowed to say not just in china. the new top gun movie, you may have noticed, some may have seen this, on the back of the jacket, the taiwan flag is not in this version although it was in the original one. that s an emblem of chinese power. it is going to happen if china can get away with it. that s why it is unfortunate that the nba is cow towing in this case. when the nba went to china, they made the argument at the time seemed plausible that engaging china would help bring western
for prosecutions and sentencing that 27000 requests from the i.c.c. prosecutor to investigate the situation in afghan i cannot comment on pending matter that is a matter now pending before the chamber of this court and we need to leave it at that are you going to challenge this incredibly hostile threat from the u.s. or bow down immediately and except it. will put it to use those sort of mood of the language becomes a little difficult. there are other things that can happen between cow towing and the media as you put it and or the other thing you said the point is now we. to consider that this court case important for the global interest for the interest of humanity they want you to change course the i.c.c. is attacking america s rule of law it s not too late for the i.c.c. to change course and we urge that it do so immediately direct direct appeal from
and sentencing that 2017 request from the i.c.c. prosecutor to investigate the situation in afghan i cannot comment on pending matter that is a matter now pending the full chamber of this court and we need to be good at that are you going to challenge this incredibly hostile threat from the u.s. or bow down immediately and except it. will put it to use those sort of a mood of the language becomes a little difficult. other things that can happen between cow towing and the media as you put it and was the other thing you said the point is no we. to consider that this court case important for the global interest for the interest of humanity they want you to change course the i.c.c. is attacking america s rule of law it s not too late for the i.c.c. to change course and we urge that it do so immediately direct direct appeal from