youngest manager in baseball and then three old men with the cardinals. it will be a fun year. do you think that you can win this year? never underestimate the cardinals in october. ever. that is true. love your passion. thank you very much. we ll roll right into the fourth hour right now. diving into the news this morning, global outrage is giving way to global action as the world tries to confront russia over those horrific atrocities uncovered in ukraine. just a half an hour from now, nato foreign ministers will begin arriving in brussels. secretary of state antony blinken is there. he will address the gathering in just a few hours. but first he spoke exclusively to andrea mitchell who asked him how the u.s. and others plan to hold putin and others responsible. the wheels of accountability can move slowly, but they move. and some day, some way,
eframes. .but you can find her, and millions of other talented pros, right now on upwork. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. any minute now, merrick garland and christopher wray will address new actions to crack down on what they call criminal russian activity. we re going to bring you those remarks live. and in just a couple of hours, president biden is expected to address new sanctions against russia on day 45 of the invasion. this as the u.s. and eu are considering sanctioning putin s doctors. also breaking this morning, more attacks in ukraine, including an apartment building where emergency crews are searching for bodies in the rubble. and while civilians b for more violence. russia denying allegations of war crimes in bucha, but today,
people. and that is why the administration has been advertising sanctioning banks, sanctioning putin, sanctioning the oligarchs, keeping imports away from them and also i would hope that we are going to even increase rather dramatically the military aid which should be going out. and by the way, i ve been on record with you, sandra and john, and welcome back, john, the fact is, is that i believe all of this should be going on now. we should have started the sanctions a long time ago, and not wait for an invasion. sandra: should congress be doing more right now if the white house isn t? congress is trying to get its act together. and congress sends a message on sanctions, it does send a very strong message. they made powerful declarations dealing with the iranians in the past and they have a role to play here. while the president is the leader of the country, congress represents all the people of the country, and sends a huge
sanctioning putin and by stopping nord stream 2. threats of severe economic punishment including put a stop to russia s gas pipeline are all on the table if russia attacks ukraine. russian president vladimir putin wants security assurances that ukraine will never be a member of nato and receive mutual defense but so far he is getting getting the opposite. we are not. i. i nato manipulate it will mel secure our security. delivered antimissiles to ukraine as american weapons shipments continue as part of $200 million aid package approved by the u.s. government. with or without military assistance, ukrainian civilians are pledging to fight back against any russian aggression. even voices that would normally speak about prayer and unity are talking about preparation for war. we are organized and well-prepared. and we have many veterans who will fight. with military presentations ongoing, both russia and ukraine have a variety of diplomatic
welcome back to the lead. i m jake tapper. we have a lot of breaking news for you this hour. president biden along with western allies slapping russia with another round of sanctions, this time around five major russian banks and ten russian individuals. but president biden stopping short of sanctioning putin personally. he announced the deployment of 7,000 u.s. service members to germany and the movement of u.s. forces already in europe to the nato eastern flank allies, estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland and romania. it has been a brutal 24 hours across the country of ukraine after russia launched an unprovoked, full-scale invasion by land, sea and air. russian troops have taken control of chernobyl north of