i interrupt you with i m sorry to interrupt you, we re going to go with leticia janes. howard: and new york s democratic attorney general who had postponed her press conference until biden was off the air, announced a civil suit against donald trump, his adult children and the trump organization. donald trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and to cheat the system. howard: and that is the trump-obsessed media environment we all live in. msnbc spent hours and hours talking about almost nothing other than the suit against trump which he denounced as a political witch hunt calling leticia james a fraud. cnn was more balanced but devoted plenty of time to the lawsuit including an interview with michael to cohen who showed up on hsnbc as well. fox news covered the story but much less than its rivals. as for the president, russia and ukraine, i m sure by now joe biden is accustomed to being blown off the screen by the former pr
the reason is simple, russia is for big. ukraine is too simple. russia itself is the largest country on planet earth with a relatively huge economy for the region and 145 million people who live there. ukraine has a population of about 40 million. it s the poorest country in europe. it s got an average annual income that s much lower than albania s. so just by looking at the most basic wikipedia numbers, if ukraine remained a sovereign country, ukraine it would have to reach a negotiated settlement with russia. pitch battles were not going to do it. that s not a moral judgment. you can root for the ukrainian military all you want. it s still a fact. the second thing that was immediately evident about this war was how unusually destructive it was, and was going to be. it wasn t just ukraine that was getting pummeled, though it certainly was, it was the entire western economy, including our economy. russian energy fuels europe. a recession in germany was certain to lead to a re
this war is about extinguishing ukraine s right to exist as a state, plain and simple. and ukraine s right to exist as a people. whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe, that should not that should make your blood run cold. we re going to hear from the german chancellor olaf scholz, ukraine s prime minister denys shmyhal. i m going to start with the president s national security adviser, jake sullivan. mr. sullivan, welcome back to meet the press. thanks for having me, chuck. let me start with this. we have russia doing sham referendums trying to annex territory from ukraine. we have the civilian draft that putin instituted to mobilize 300,000 troops. based on those two developments, what is the u.s. assessment right now of why putin is making
the deaths of tens of millions of americans. that s what he just said. sane people do not talk this way ever. if there was a moment for the bush administration to shut this whole thing down and force a negotiated peace, which they could do in an instant, that moment is right now before huge numbers of people die. but that s not what the bush administration is doing. they re moving in the other direction, high speed and doing all they can to bring the west to the brink of destruction. at the un yesterday, joe biden accused russia, not ukraine, of making overt nuclear threats. watch. this war is about extinguishing ukraine s right to exist as a state, plain and simple. and ukraine s right to exist as a people, whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe that should not, that should make your blood run cold. president putin has made over nuclear threats against europe
sane people do not talk this way ever. if there was a moment for the biden administration to shut down this whole thing down, and force a negotiated peace, which they could do in an instant, that moment is right now, before huge numbers of people die, but that s not what the biden administration is doing. they re moving in the other direction at high speed, doing all they can to bring the west to the brink of destruction. at the un yesterday, joe biden accused russia, not ukraine, of making overt nuclear threats. watch. this war is about extinguishing ukraine s right to exist as a state, plain and simple. ukraine s right to exist as a people. whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe, that should not that should make your blood run cold. president putin has made overt nuclear threats against europe and a reckless disregard for the