almost $12 million to assist the red cross in ukraine. to our viewers around the world, thank you and well done. trace: the nsa says russia is playing a critical role in the iran nuclear deal negotiations saying russia has accepted enriched oour ainian from iran in the past. critics warn this will allow russia to procure more nuclear weapons. gillian turner has more on this. good morning. those comments from jake sullivan are raising major hackles among republican senators on capitol hill and alarm among national security sources who tell fox news they re now more concerned about the terms the biden negotiating team is agreeing to over in convenience yeah. take a listen to jake sullivan. the key role that russia played in the implementation of that deal was that russia accepted the enriched uranium from iran so their stockpile
the town that is northeast of the capital city of kiev. james hill was killed there. they re dependent on aid convoys. the primary bridge that the convoys were using to bring food, water and medicine into the town was blown up. the people are even more isolated there. trace: thank you, mike. we have a conflict of domestic security and the public can read for nuclear arms to be used. so if it a threat for a country, then it can be used in importance. dana: refusing to rule out the use of nuclear weapons at russian ground forces make little progress in ukraine.
ukrainians. over time, look, the russians outnumber 10 to 1 mass does apply. right now they re stalled out. i give the edge to the ukrainians. that s what should concern putin. my concern with him, what will he do next when he sees this whole offensive stall out, which it is. dana: last night cnn had the putin spokesperson on and asked about nuclear weapons and this is what he said. i want to know whether you are convinced or confident that your boss will not use that option. well, we have a concept of domestic security for nuclear arms to be used. so if it is a threat for our country then it can be used in accordance with our contract. dana: all right, general. let s get your thoughts on that. in some ways the story was quite overwritten. you would imagine they would say everything is on the table.
but let s show some strength. let s not lead from behind. let s not just follow after. as kash patel was talking about. we ve taken the exact wrong order and ironically it former secretary of state gates who said it joe biden has been on the wrong side of history of every decision from taking out osama bin laden forward. i m rooting for him but he is an american president and it s time of war. let s show strength and unity. trace: he was asked about chemical weapons, nuclear weapons he said it is a threat. it is a threat. should he be more forceful about that? well, the problem is, it was the obama/biden administration who drew the red line in syria on chemical weapons and really did nothing about it. so history is not kind to what
administration in syria and he had the audacity to go ahead and barrel bomb the chemical weapons and put the syrian regime down. hopefully the russian regime doesn t use chemical weapons. the people that lose are civilians on the ground for generations to come and chemical weapons are akin to nuclear weapons they just have a drastic and awful effect on the human population. trace: the fact that president biden is heading to brussels to announce more sanctions on russia. is that an admission that the original sanctions haven t worked so far or haven t deterred or stopped the russian invasion and maybe they should have been put in place sooner? great point. you don t trail with sanctions. you lead with sanctions. sanctions are part of a trifold regime. give me 30 seconds i ll explain. we did it with iran in the trump administration. we brought in kinetic force to