monday at the general assembly. mike emanuel has that story for us from richmond tonight. they seek seek declining schools. think the pilot crime reports dominating the news. and they seek government failures and encroachments on their liberties. beyond the state of the commonwealth address, it has been a fast pass there for virginia s first republican governor elected in more than a decade. he signed actions on day one ending requirements for state employees and terminating the virginia board. others focus on education such as reversing mask requirements for stalled schoolchildren, ending the use of concepts including critical race theory, asking his multiple school districts are pushing back in richmond and the northern virginia suburbs
used to attack democrats for not being tough on russia. the republican party wasn t the tough on russia party. i don t know what s happened, but so yes. this is a, it s a very vital thing and i think part of the problem and ned does a good job of it and i thought biden did a good job of it, too, explaining to americans why this is so important and why it s to vital and why we should be concerned about it because it will affect the world economy. it will affect the encroachments against democracy that are going on all around the world. so you know, people have to you know, put a foot in the door and that s what the u.s. is trying to do. julia, how important are the sanctions to putin? how can he sort of maybe use that as his ledge to say i did this for you to protect your economy. how important is that as a piece and tool for the administration and the alliance? i think it s an important tool for the administration just to show that they are willing to get tough and to slap very h
army veteran that served in afghanistan and iraq. we have joe concha with us from the hill and fox news contributor. mark penn, former adviser to bill and hillary clinton. great to have you all with us. all of you represent a different area of expertise and the full picture of what the political scene is that the president faces right now. pete, you ve been listening to military analysis and reporting from lucas tomlinson, jennifer keen and jennifer griffin at the pentagon. what is your reaction to where we are today? my reaction is we re about the see the beginning of the kinetic phase of a re-alignment between east and west, russia and china to supplant the world order. they believe they can. from what happened in hong kong with the chinese and what happened in crimea, they have seen the encroachments with very little resistance from the west. they think they can re-establish
feel the price of her actions. so over time, hope from inside russia is coming to ameliorate it. it is decades of containment. and george kennan predicted in 1947 that russia will eventually fall of its own weakness internally, it cannot sustain its domination. so i think the europeans are faced with needing to set boundaries for vladimir putin, increase sanctions or whatever, add a containment element, and hope that, eventually, no further encroachments by russia will occur. we hope for the best. we cannot be sure. but if we insist on setting the boundaries for russia, maybe we might deter putin from tearing further. john, i wonder what your thoughts are on that. i think actually the best hope
it is decades of containment. and george kennan predicted in 1947 that russia will eventually fall of its own weakness internally, cannot sustain its domination. so i think europeans are faced with needing to set boundaries for vladimir putin, increase sanctions or whatever, and a containment element, and hope that, eventually, no further encroachments by russia will occur. we hope for the best. we cannot be sure. but if we insist on setting the boundaries that are keeping it for russia, maybe we might deter putin from tearing further. john, i wonder what your thoughts are on that. i think actually the best hope is what he said is right, the whole sort of strong jar of putinist roster