wanted sanctions from the biden administration yesterday. being more of the outliers and the party right now, compared to those who have even praised president vladimir putin in the spirit of tearing down joe biden, and in order to i think hype up and traumatize the democrats reactions to russia. that being said, there has been some bipartisan support that house emerge today, if not muted applause for biden s sanctions announced. although even democrats say that they believe that the administration should impose more severe economic penalty going forward, as it has been clear that months of these economic threats has not deterred putin from ultimately invading ukraine. that is true. ambassador
other party when it comes to foreign policy. this is just day one of really the biden administration s handling of the actual invasion, and more sanctions are potentially to come. i think we should probably expect to see republicans continue to try to further politicize the administration s response to putin going forward. and the president is exactly one week away from the state of the union. tonight, nbc s reporting that he has interviewed three supreme court candidates. so he has got this convergence of domestic issues, trying to show america at the same time that he is front and center, and trying to prevent the outbreak of war. what is going on behind those doors? how are they prepping for all of this? that is exactly right. they are taking it one day at a time. obviously the president is nearing his decision on the
remember tried to hold up ukraine in an effort to get the country to dig up dirt on biden. with this take during a right wing radio interview today. here is just a portion of it. i went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and they said this is genius. putin declares a big portion of the ukraine, of ukraine. putin declares it as independent. oh, that s wonderful. here s a guy that says, you know, i m going to declare a big portion of ukraine independent. and we re gonna go in and we re gonna help keep peace. you gotta say that s pretty soggy. pretty savvy. we will have more on that development later in the hour. with that, let s bring off our lead off guests, philip rucker coauthor with jacqueline alemany, msnbc
on the most severe sanctions against russia that have been drawn up in order to leave open the possibility of a diplomatic solution here. that being said, they are the president and his team are using that team word invasion, that is a worth it and not use yesterday. so it indicates further and the that is the description that the u. s. government has of what they see playing out on the ground near the russian ukrainian border. but that being said you saw biden hold back on the sanctions today. he did not rule out the most aggressive and punishing sanctions that the u. s. could impose on russia. he has said if russia continues to advance continues to accelerate, this movement into ukraine, this invasion as he put it, the sanctions will continue from the u. s., and of course from western allies as well. but biden is leaving open the hope, the glimmer of some sort of diplomacy here in the hours ahead.
some new polling that came out today, on the heels of afghanistan and the public s prescription of biden s botched handling of his withdraw from afghanistan. that biden looks increasingly weak on the foreign stage. this is politically expedient for republicans to attack going forward. but i think we are also seeing here is the accumulation of four years of criticisms from trump and democrats, and the president former president trump s barely solicitous attitude towards the former towards the russian president vladimir putin. and the constant doubt that if you pass on the u.s. government s assessment, that russia interfered in the 2016 election. this was a former president who spoke with admiration of vladimir putin, oftentimes, and i think created a lot of norms when it came to criticizing the