organized atrocity. you say this is the savage way of war. they commit war crimes to terrorize the population into surrender. what s your response when you hear nations around the world, like israel playing both sides for what we re watching in ukraine? it s a horrifying morale lapse. when you watch that coverage and cnn has done a fantastic job of documenting what s going on. it s sickening to read about what the russians are doing to the poor people of ukraine. it s almost sickening to see the indifference to people around the world. to the fact that europe continues to purchase russian oil and gas. the fact that countries like india and china and israel and others are not rushing to full throatedly condemn russia and
at a question of do we have a pro democracy, not a democratic party, a pro democracy party, because we only have one of those in the two party system right now, sadly, that is doing everything to preserve the american experiment? so i agree with the idea that there are 10 months here that we have. and obviously, the thing that s standing in the way is an arcane senate rule that allows people who represent 41 million fewer people than the democratic party to hold up a set of democracy reforms that have nearly super majority support across the country. and so that is the silver bullet, it is filibuster reform. i was glad to see president biden finally come out and very, you know, full throatedly endorse it and here is where we are. yeah, and i will say, i mean, we ve been around and around circles obviously on this for a very long time, you know, they re pushing again, there s questions about the conversations and sinema and
take. that s true. they the german government has to consider their own domestic audience. it s the middle of winter. and they do dmend depend on that oil. they re concerned about what russia might do to them. interesting piece, german president was reelected today. and following the reelection he said something that was very unusual for him. russian troop movement cannot be misunderstood. they are a threat to ukraine. for him to step up like that, and to have chancellor sholz saying the same kind of thing, i think if bad things begin to happen caused by putin. germany will be in this full throatedly. very important observation. we know that president biden on that phone call with the ukraine president today said that the u.s. would respond and i quote swiftly and decisively. if russia takes further
a little earlier i spoke to a senior adviser to the us congress on sanctions and foreign policy and he told me that the move on swift would make a difference. the swift ban is very important, very important politically in particular. it becomes something of a cause celebre for president zelenskyy and all those who are supporting ukraine and it is very important from the perspective of continuing to isolate russia. it will, from an economic perspective, be somewhat.not weak but much of what it will accomplish has already been accomplished with the financial sanctions that have already been placed on russian banks. what about moves towards russia s central bank? those are the real deal. now we re about really serious economic and financial cost. sanctioning a central bank is rare and, you know, if done full throatedly
that the reason the progressive proposals for voting rights were not being passed is because it sbaz hazent been reintroduced since it was struck down but the reason it was able to be struck down is because republicans use the filibuster she is currently supporting. and so, i mentioned that example to show she is kiends of kicking up a storm of dust which we in arizona call a you know, vocabulary for aw you at home. but a storm of dust to kind of mystify constituents and people in the country as to her stance on the filibuster and voting rights. you can t have it both ways. you can t claim to support voting rights full throatedly. while you are supporting this measure that is being used in this current time as the most effective cudgel to stop voting rights from being passed and that s what she is trying to do with all of her rhetoric over the past couple weeks. she also told politico she continues to support the senate s 60 vote threshold because she thinks it is geeg