doctrine to escalate in order to deescalate. that is of concern and being watched closely. what is most notable to u.s. defense officials that i speak to is how slow-going the progress is for the russian military. they are indications that putin is frustrated as well the way he s been dressing down his defense minister and his top general in public. 80% of russian s prestage combat power, the 160,000 forces that he had on the edge of the ukraine are now deployed inside ukraine. yet they have not taken any large cities. some russian units have been captured officials tell us. they have evidence that some russian soldiers have surrendered even without a fight. the main advance on the capitol, the 40-mile long convoy shows no appreciable movement in the last 24 hours. the convoy stretches bumper to bumper halfway to the border. it may be because of ukrainian
amount in terms of the whole world oil market, price gouging and monopolies are the way to reduce costs and to do it in a long-term permanent way. the white house rebuffs calls to sanction russian gas including house democrats blaming europeans for concerns about price spikes. inflation is also a problem here at home. it s a 40-year high. the president in his state of the union address is expected to call for increased manufacturing to help brings down the prices of goods. at least so far that same logic does not seem to apply to energy costs. neil? neil: jacqui heinrich at the white house. to mark warner on this. senator, how do you feel about your colleague, joe manchin s push, let s beef up production here?
wants to do that. where do you stand? well, thank you very much for having me. you know, i do not get too far in to foreign policy issues. i don t go to the super secret, top secret meetings because i don t not wish to be curtailed in any way in what i want to express for programs like this. so i do not know what unclassified information he may be getting. i don t know what the president should or should not do when it comes to foreign affairs. i will say this. i am standing firmly in support of what our allies are doing. not just nato, but i consider ukraine a part of that. i ve been to that country. i tell you, it does something to
president to risk his life for his beliefs and for the country. it s really admirable. neil: you know, he s become like a churchill. nobody saw it coming the way he s handled it. one of the things he said talking to the european union parliament proved that you are with us. do you think the world is with ukraine? i think the citizens of the world are with ukraine. i think even maybe some politicians are. but in general, the countries which could help ukraine to overcome this battle and they could have done it years ago actually. they re silent or not really silent but they re not keen to do something particular. they re happy to arm us, give us this and that.