launch a full scale invasion of ukraine. and that russia could be fully ready for an invasion by next tuesday. i m starting to wonder whether this is a situation in which the dog may chase the bus, but wouldn t actually know what to do with it if he caught it. the dog being vladimir pute physician that within clear. the same official told nbc news, an all out invasion by russia would likely cause significant casualties killing or wounding up to 50,000 civilians in weeks, and making up to 5 million people refugees and today president biden vowed that if russia invades ukraine, they could say goodbye to their new massive natural gas pipeline from russia to europe, which is a huge potential blow to the russian economy, which gets most of its foreign currency from oil and gas sales. and it would only be a piece of the sanctions levied on russia by western nations if russia invades ukraine.
with russia and ukraine. and it is winter, and you know, the united states, a couple of weeks ago, announced a boycott of russia s oil and gas, european nations did not follow suit, president biden said he did not expect them to follow suit, because they re not in the same situation. but had is something that the europeans have been specifically requesting help with, from the americans, and this is something that both in the short term, getting the shipments there, as soon as possible, and over the long term, the united states believes will help put europe and that s the entire sort of western alliance against russia, in a better position, to be even more forceful against pute physician they re not so reliant on russia for energy. and if energy was to immediately stop importing russian oil and gas it would plunge the continent into a significant recession. so there is a recognition that that can t, that can t be done. and you certainly have correctly identified how much more reliant
supporting chaos and authoritarians so it is not a china type competitor but the world could get more dangerous if russia helps authoritarianism and doesn t mind the spread the weapons of mass destruction and crushes free press and shows other authoritarians how to do this. so pute sine big problem. and look at what they did in our 2016 election. just in terms of sowing chaos and down. and there were many reasons and so much pushback with congressional republicans to pull troops out of syria this month or last month i guess at this point. because obviously the republicans were making this could could embolden terrorism in the region but this is going to create a vacuum that will embolden putin and that i why there was so much criticism and it has died down a little bit and not hearing too much of it but that is part of the concern that you were seeing from republicans at the time. and yet the president is not
person who worked there that had never been to prison so i didn t really fit in. i have a question? yes? grinding means a lot of things now days, so pizza and what was the grinder part? i had a shirt that i had to wear that said gotta grab a grinder. [laughter] but it was a sandwich. greg: tom, first job? i worked in a nursing and retirement home and i lied to get into the job. you were able to lie back then. they said are you 16 and i said yeah, but i was 15. greg: [laughter] that gets me into a lot of trouble. my first job, i can t figure out which one was my first real job because they were like i had a paper route, is that a first real job? yeah. i used to take two sticks and pute them together and put them together like crosses and go door-to-door and try to sell them. that doesn t count as a job. greg: that seems like a
writing in the washington post germany s foreign minister heikal moss and actor and julian are surely have called for action against sexual violence in conflicts they said impunity for perpetrators remain the norm the measure is facing resistance from the u.s. china and russia. and joining me now from washington is our correspondent helen humphrey haleh tell us more about this measure and what she wants to achieve with it. to be very frank about it amrita i think what is being called for and what is now being debated are actually two very different things and with this text put forward from germany i think it s fair to say from a humanitarian act as it was highly praised it call for impute to end impunity when it comes to sexual violence somewhere where victims can go to reports of these