connect with people beyond whoever s sitting will there on the house floor. it s all become theater with the applause and the standing and the sitting. i mean, it s really time, i think, for a better format for the president. he needs a way to connect directly with the american people. this is no longer the venn venue for that, and that is apparent not just with this president, but the last few years. howard: yeah. it s become more like check the box of all the interest groups that want their proposal mentioned it s theater, you know? howard: marijuana there should just be a maybe there should just be a video on tiktok. ahead, hogan gidley on dealing with vladimir putin, but up next, a closer look at russia cracking down on any reporting that goes beyond official propaganda. . and when i m driving, i see inspiration right through my glass. so when my windshield cracked, it had to be fixed right. i scheduled with safelite autoglass.
have brought down russian war planes, russia 11 days into this has not been able to establish air superiority over a country like ukraine that has a much smaller air force, much smaller air defenses. those air defenses are still operational, and those the weapons that have been flowing in every day before and after the invasion, there s been a steady flow of those javelins and stingers. they ve really made a difference. but what it has done, as you said, is pushed putin and what people are very concerned about, people here at the pentagon and elsewhere, nato, is that if he is pushed into the corner, if his conventional military keeps being stymied and stopped, he could rely on even worse weapons. he has,s remember, 2,000 tactical nukes in his arsenal, and part of russian doctrine is that he could use those on the battlefield, howie. howard: it s a chilling prospect. given that some u.s. media voices and i understand people are frustrated, they want the west to do something watching
you ll remember, howie, back in the soviet union the underground newspapers that were printed out and handed person to person on the streets. that is what is happening right now. putin is trying to shut his people off from information about what is happening in ukraine. howard: high-tech. we have about a minute left, and i guess we should do a little bit of a history lesson because we have faced this before. the soviet invasion of hungary in 1956, czechoslovakia, 1968, afghanistan, 1979 and then the russian invasion of georgia in 2008 where the temptation and the instincts of many in the west are to stop the killing, to do what it makes takes. but in each of those instances the u.s. held back not wanting to go to war with russia in russia s spear of influence spear of dis, sphere of influence. reporter: when you look at the history of europe and the history of interventionism and what is the red line, better to fight a country early or a mad
case, refugees. people are former ambassador to russia this morning, excuse me, yesterday morning on twitter was encouraging russian-speaking people to start speaking out on restaurant reviews. these are all things that we ve seen before during wartime but with a profusion of apps and things now, there s a lot more opportunities for people, which is wonderful. howard: yeah. the russian people to various degrees have always had to find a work-around. this is just a brutal attack on anything other than the propaganda, putin saying it s a peace-keeping operation. gillian turner, thanks so much for your contributions today. you got it. howard: next on mediabuzz, a live report from ukraine and jennifer griffin at the pentagon and how this story s moving in a dangerous new next. and later, how social media is having a huge impact on the global community.
forbid them from buying oil from the united states of america. and what i would say is we re playing economic and war brinksmanship with a nuclear power. and that, you know, to be face to face with a nuclear power at point in history is going to require calm, cool, collected threading of the needle for the american interests. howard: yeah. brinksmanship is a good term. unfortunately, the bloody nose is not good enough, we need to bloody putin further. gillian, one things that seems to have faded is the media argument about, oh, ukraine just isn t that important, not of strategic interest to the united states. is that because this has now mushroomed into a a global confrontation between the u.s. and europe and even japan and even switzerland and putin s lies and his ruthlessness? yes, but i think the other thing that s kind of shifted the narrative is the white house is now trying to convey that message to the american people. a few weeks ago jen psaki at the