to pound the city into submission and pound zelenskyy to submission or negotiated settlement in the future. as the aperture opens up, you can see it better. something big was hit. meantime, bring in south carolina senator lindsey graham here to talk to sandra and me. ask you about the proclamation by putin about cleansing purification. that puts him in the same league as joseph stalin. and this is a message to his countrymen to say remember the terror and the great purge of the 1930s. are we going down that road again? maybe so, i don t know. but that s the speech of a loser. the guy is losing. the ukrainians are amazing to me that they are holding their own and then some. he would not be threatening his own people if they were with him. he would not be asking for syrian fighters to come in and
vladimir putin with the invasion of ukraine. the kremlin is responding after the president called him a war criminal. jacqui was asking questions. for weeks u.s. officials have resisted using the term war criminal, instead calling for putin and russia to be investigated for war crimes. but yesterday after ukrainian president zelenskyy s emotional plea to congress the president made his harshest condemnation yet, telling me that he thinks putin is a war criminal and the kremlin is not happy. that statement by mr. biden i already said yesterday they are absolute impermissible, unacceptable, unforgivable and probably the head of the state, bombing people all over the world for many years, cannot