necessary. what i am trying to do is to make the case to the american people that our democracy is fragile. there is nothing self-sustaining about this. and to have them come to the table and be open to these facts, because it doesn t matter if you re a republican or you re a democrat or an independent, you should want your vote to count. and it can t just be that when you re side doesn t win you forgive people who try to take power by force. because that makes us no less than some tin pot despot banana republic. member of the select committee investigating the january 6 capitol attack, congresswoman stephanie murphy of florida, thank you very much. and coming up, this morning s inflation report showing prices rising 8.6% from a year ago. the fastest rising increase since 1981. stephanie ruhle joins us next. and we ll speak with one of the
they are on paper play out in actual wins and losses on the battlefield. let me ask you, ambassador, about conversation we had earlier this morning with a friend of ours, a friend of the show, dr. jeff see sax, obviously from columbian university. dr. sax suggested that the united states needed to do more in the area of diplomacy, that we re too focused on fighting this war, too focused on winning this war. and we asked how you negotiate with vladimir putin and said you can negotiate with third countries for the most part. what is your take on that? is there more we could be doing diplomatically? no. it takes two to tango. you can t have diplomacy if the side doesn t want to talk. i urge people to the last time vladimir putin spoke on camera about three or four days ago men said diplomacy is at a dead end
and just because you are on the prevailing side doesn t mean you re on the right side. and so i will say to all of my friends in the senate, that nobody is asking you to give up the filibuster. i wish they would stop saying that. we asked for voting rights and constitution rights, the same thing you ve done for the budget. and you do not allow one person or any group of people to filibuster the budget when you are trying to preserve the full strength and credit of the united states of america. that s how we raised the debt limit several weeks ago. and that s how we got the budget several months ago. simply because we do not allow the filibuster to hold up the budget. so why should the filibuster hold up people s constitutional rights like voting? so we have asked respectfully
pennsylvania avenue and what happened at the other. we heard that in the focus groups. there is a real sense among republican voters that this isn t, our side doesn t do that. our side doesn t hurt cops. our side doesn t break windows. that s not what we do. this secondary statement is trying to draw a disfinancial they did not draw very clearly. except can i say, and gloria, i ll get to you weigh in on this. there s a tweet from november 2020. it is still up on the rnc page. still on the twitter feed. it is a video. let s put it up if we can. a video of sydney powell, the untethered attorney. it says we will not be intimidated. we are going to clean this up. president trump won by a landside. if she wants to call a distinction between people
for help, because the russian side doesn t really allow people to use these green corridors. nothing helps. negotiations don t help. the promises are just failing one after another. so it is really, really critical situation in several ukrainian cities where people are just they are just hostages there. it s terrible. there are so many fleeing, of course and you look at the pictures it s very clear why. this is just it appears to be indiscriminate use of weapons of war on plainly civilian areas. we ve seen picture after picture of that, and as people flee west i wonder how able the infrastructure of the ukrainian state, electricity, internet, transportation is holding up and receiving those people, getting them to safety. you know, it s also very