austin. he forgot the name of the late secretary of state, the name everyone knows madeleine albright and he called the declaration of independence corny. watch this . based on an idea whose only country will be some idea and we hold these truths to be self-evident that all women men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. sounds corny, but it s the truth of who we are. we ve never lived up to it. and you know, a woman who just died, the secretary of state used to have an expression. she said we are the essential nation reason why one of the gentlemen, the secretary of state asked me about senator a thousand troops to the united states. i said yeah, from the united states all men are created equal. it s so corny. believe it or not, it gets even worse today. the white house was forced to issue two major corrections one after biden vowed to respond in kind to a potential
one foreign policy or another, not to join nato, for example, not to join the european union . i think that s over the president s zelenskyy and i will tell you that based on the time i ve spent in ukraine and my study of the situation, i frankly doubt that zelenskyy and his and his ukrainian countrymen and women are going to want to give up any more territory. they want back donbas. they want crimea back . and so and look, we need to stand up for them. we haven t done enough. i mean, i think that the obama administration should be held accountable. i think it should weigh on their conscience that we haven t done enough to stop the slaughter. but we need to think about the future as well. and i would like to hear as we ve discussed in tonight s program, what is the obama administration s policy? we haven t really heard that i d love to hear president biden get up on the bully pulpit which teddy roosevelt made so famous and tell american citizens and the russians that this is what we se
putin will alter course based on the action you ve taken today? let s get something straight. you remember if you covered me from the very beginning, i did not say that in fact the sanctions would deter him. sanctions never deter you. keep talking about that . sanctions never deter. what do you what are you talking about? don t listen to anyone in my administration like vice president harris and secretary of state blinken and national security adviser jake sullivan, all of which said that sanctions were specific we put in place to deter russian aggression. but i guess joe just never got the memo. here now for more on biden s big trip abroad, his white house correspondent peter do peter. good evening, pete. white house officials are telling us that president biden does not intend to send u.s. troops into ukraine even though a few hours ago he was talking to us troops about what they re going to see when they go to
with the troops. every president wants these images there. wonderful. it s not because the president makes the troops look good. it s because the troops make the president look good and here we are a month into this thing and he s not gotten any sort of bounce out of any of it. and i think that the white house is literally getting desperate and we re talking about the smallest of small ball. they re getting desperate about poll numbers at home and that s why they re doing this right now and the the danger is that he s going to bumble us into something far more dangerous than we re already in . that s exactly right. one miscalculation and a step away from that chemical attack that he said we would respond in kind. and there s also rumors that a change in language we may change the way we view usage of nuclear weapons. but matt , i want to go to you on the idea of deterrence because we heard for months and months the word deterrence tied to sanctions that that s how we re going to preven
the biden administration is how we manage that going forward. it feels like biden s backed into a corner. i don t know if these people going to russia are russian speaking or if they could be used as hostages. but now we hear we hear talk of chemical weapons. we hear talk of nuclear weapons. if he feels like he s losing, what are the possibility of what he may attempt to unleash? and maybe it is to entice a wider war . we can we know at this point i don t think we really know, pete. i think what we really have to do is try and discern what his objectives are. we don t know what these are. he hasn t made it clear. clearly they didn t achieve the objective of toppling the ukrainian government within three to five days after the invasion started. at this point, i think what we re going to have to do is continue to get as much lethal weaponry to the ukrainians as possible to create the standoff distances that are going to allow them to hit the russians harder, faster, more often and begin