is easy, quote/unquote, to surround the city and it s very, very, very difficult to occupy and take control of it and i think the russians are seeing that right now. belarus has been involved as well. there was a discussion about the nonnuclear proliferation agreement allowing the idea of the russians to move tactical misses on their land. i think any of these things need to be quickly de- escalated. the soldier is the one that prays for peace the most. absolutely. thank you all for being with us. stick around for a second round. good to see you all tonight. beaten of putin s nuclear threat, were going to talk about how the us is responding. that is coming up next. the time you spent on the docks, the banks, the boats.
they ve done that. they said that is the reason they ve done that. they said that is the reason why this could be kids fault the reason why this could be kids fault at the reason why this could be kids fault. at the moment, rush or are almost fault. at the moment, rush or are almost playing along with the same lines almost playing along with the same tines that almost playing along with the same lines that we ve heard from western officiats lines that we ve heard from western officials in lines that we ve heard from western officials in terms of false flag situations over there. i know today there s situations over there. i know today there s been some shelling around and some there s been some shelling around and some of the eastern side of ukraine and some of the eastern side of ukraine and at the moment, nato and the people ukraine and at the moment, nato and the people who are looking at these stories the people who are looking at these stories are the people
this war started. so it s done, the white house probably would be better off just moving on from it instead of wrapping iticideself into a pretzel trying to walk it back. russia will say this is escalation and this has been a time for almost the past five weeks now, the biden administration has de-escalated every single time russia escalated. biden has de-escalated. every time putin, for instance, brings up and starts talking about his nuclear toys and says i have them, i have them, the united states has ignored that and just moved on and de-escalated. now we have slipped a little bit, but what s done is done. it s not as if anybody here in the u.s. actually wants to see putin remaining in power, so well, and i want to kind of pull on that thread a little bit, because how does this world
first off, your reaction to these shocking claims that ukrainians might be being forcibly relocated to russia. well, mehdi, first, it s good to be with you. it s all part of mr. putin s propaganda. he s trying to show that ukrainians want to come to russia when they re really trying to seek refuge from russia. i think it just feeds into his misinformation. it s outrageous. we know that the ukrainians, all they want is the russians to leave their country and they certainly don t want to go to russia. and, senator, there s a lot of talk, especially from your republican colleagues in the senate, about escalating sanctions against putin and co. but i wonder, how do you envision these sanctions ever being lifted or de-escalated? i wondering, would you support a zelenskyy peace deal with russia, say, that led to an automatic revoking of u.s. sanctions on moscow? is that going to be part of any
before. both sides have to remember that. this isn t something that can t be walked away and de-escalated. it was just months ago, recently, that putin had troops and withdrew them. midst all of the same handling and concern that they could invade, this could happen. it doesn t necessarily mean that invasion or violence is inevitable. and both sides said on staff level that the discussions would continue in the weeks ahead. and certainly, the russian side has pushed another face-to-face in-person summit that has happened between biden and putin before too long. nbc s matt bradley, thank you. we also also note that biden is expecting to speak to ukrainian president zelensky tomorrow. meanwhile, republican senator ted cruz is blaming biden for this. and simultaneously blocking the white house from filling yet another key state department