. let s back back to our top story vladimir putin pacing an release warrant from the international criminal court for war crimes and for more on that i want to bring in a key democrat congressman of california. the international criminal court is sending a powerful and historic men with in arrest warrant but will this havemy practical impact in curbing putin s power? well it should send a message to any other country that you don t want to deal with someone month is committing human rights frost advertise. that is why xi jinping s announcement he is going to meet with putin is shocking comeing the same day as the icj is saying there are human rights crimes and we need other countries to be paying
Ukraine and its NATO allies are girding for potential Russian government-backed hacks of electric grids and other critical infrastructure as winter closes in.
hasn t mbs behaved since that meeting exactly the opposite way the u.s. would want him to, on human rights, on opec, on everything? we have important equities with the saudis. it s naive to think we shouldn t be talking to them. but we can remove any hint of legitimacy that meeting gives by downgrading our security relationship, removing their liability. there are steps we can take to make it clear to the saudis that we are, that there will be a price to be paid if you take our weapons, if you accept the cover we give you for your human rights crimes and you get in bed with the russians on oil production. another reason the u.s. has been aligned with the saudis is because the saudis are enemies of iran, another evil regime, violent clashes between human rights protesters appeared security continue this week, and
everything? we have important equities with the saudis. it s naive to think we shouldn t be talking to them. but we can remove any hint of legitimacy that meeting gives by downgrading our security relationship, removing their liability. there are steps we can take to make it clear to the saudis there there s going to be a price to be paid if you take our weapons, if you accept the royal cover we give you for your human rights crimes and you get in bed with the russians on oil production. another reason the u.s. has been aligned with the saudis is because the saudis are enemies of iran, another evil regime, violent clashes between human rights protesters and four more civilians killed yesterday, bringing the total number of those killed to 185 according to a human rights group. it s probably much more than that. are you satisfied with president biden s response to these protests? first, i think it s far higher than the number