threat of military aggression and done in concert with russian leadership. we are we have been hearing from the vice president of the united states about what she thinks should happen next. we remain, of course, open to and desirous of diplomacy relating to the dialogue and discussions with russia. but we are also committed and russia taking aggressive action to ensuring there will be severe consequence in terms of the economic sanctions we have discussed. that s where we begin. shannon petty piece joins us and evelyn for russia, ukraine and eurasia in the obama administration. welcome to both of you. thank you for being with us. shannon, we are waiting to hear from the president, second time this week to hear from the president ahead or part of the
countries to turn the ships around and to head back to europe to provide the supply that will be necessary for the duration of this winter. thank you for your time and we d like to keep in touch with you making trip and determine the progress that s made. god speed. there s no invasion by the time you make that trip and may turn into a mission to try to stop something. thank you. we re back with shannon and evelyn and the ambassador and i will point out on the left we are waiting for the president to give the second address this week on what he expects to happen or the situation with russia and ukraine. shannon, you have been sometimes at the white house with bits of information about what s coming out of this thing. the expectations to be managed for this. there s no announcement of a
cannot be changed by force and russia occupies the neighbors. in 2008 it occupied republic of georgia and an unsolved issue. in 2014 annexed crimea. first time to grab land and said it was theirs. no one did that using military force since world war ii and don then donbas. but we need to stand up to russia internationally. i think shannon made a good point that this is about the global order. i want to bring in ambassador michael mcfaul. ambassador, this is a good place to pick up with you because evelyn was talking about georgia and crimea. right now you have vladimir putin saying to the west, if you guys agree not to invite or allow ukraine into your nato
you ask all of these people and yes, they ll tell you vladimir putin is committing war crimes. again, what we heard from president biden in the last literally the last four or five minutes here is this assertion for i believe the first time we ve heard it said directly from president biden that vladimir putin is a war criminal, coming in the impromptu moment. shannon petty piece stepped away for a moment but we ve heard there is a difference right, between president biden saying it, which carries some weight, and vladimir putin formally being charged with war crimes. there is an investigation, of course. it is open at the international criminal court on that front too. that s right. the international court of justice has said there s absolutely no justification for this war, that there s no evidence that vladimir putin has been saying that ukrainians are committing genocide in the east of the countries amongst russian speakers. they called for an immediate end to this war saying it
minutes. also this hour with president zelenskyy is telling our own lester holt in an exclusive interview you will only see here about talks with russia and the risk of a world war. the other breaking news in just the last hour affecting nearly every american, the fed hiking interest rates. wall street almost immediately giving up a 500-point gain. what it means for you and inflation in just a in int. i m hallie jackson in washington. our busy team, shannon, ali in western ukraine, and lee ann is posted up on capitol hill. shannon, we ll start with you because here s what president has announced is going to be heading ukraine s way. 800 stinger anti-aircraft systems, 9,000 anti-armor systems, including 2,000 javelins, right, meant to hit tanks, the u.s. will provide 7,000 machine guns, shot guns, rifles, grenade launchers, 100 drones, 20 million rounds of ammunition. this feels, shannon, like the