yasmin vossoughian. tensions between the u.s. and china reaching a dangerous point. after meeting between both of the country s top diplomats over this buying balloon controversy. i can tell you know, there was no policy, but, what i can also tell you if this was an opportunity to speak very clearly, and very directly, about the fact that china sent a surveillance balloon over our territory. violating our sovereignty, violating international law. and i told them quite simply, that was unacceptable. and can never happen again. on the ground in ohio, lawsuits now starting to be filed by residents worry that government is not telling them the truth. about the danger for that massive train derailment. former president jimmy carter at home and getting hospice care as his family is gathering around him. plus what comes next for mike pence? as the former vice president refuses to testify to the special counsel investigating his former boss. all of that, plus speci first annivers
good to talk to as, well richard, you ve been covering this war from beginning to end. and many wars not unlike. it as you kind of take a look back, right, as you what ukraine has experienced over this last year, could you have imagined we would be where we are today? i actually haven t covered many wars like, this i ve covered many conflicts, but this war is very different. it s much more of a classic war, more akin to world war ii, then the wars in the middle east, and the warrants of our generation. which have been much more along religious lines, or ethnic, lens tribal lines, this is, this was a naked aggression. you had a country, under vladimir putin, that decided it was going to take over its neighbors. and a year ago, about 190,000 russian troops were assembled on the border, not all of them
their war against ukraine, and now we re hearing from secretary blinken that we believe the u.s. has assessed it s possible to go even further with that, in terms of china supporting russia in this battle. so take a listen to how the u.s. is framing the stakes this season. china is having it both ways. publicly, they present themselves as a country striving for peace in ukraine but privately, as i said, we ve seen already, over these past months the provision of nonlethal assistance that does go directly to aiding and abetting russia s war efforts. and, some further information that we are sharing today, and that i think will be out there soon, that indicates that they are strongly considering providing lethal assistance to russia. and when secretary blinken makes that distinction about the nonlethal versus lethal, he is talking about possible
he wants to eliminate ukraine. that is an obsession with him, that s what seems to be going on in his head. so he won t stop until he is persuaded. he has shown, and he is convinced, that he cannot win. that s why we need to continue to support the ukrainian. so they can continue to fight. ukraine s don t want our soldiers, they want our weapons. they want our tools. they want our tanks. they want our aircraft. they don t want our pilots, they don t want to soldiers, the winner takes an aircraft. if we can give them that, they can convince vladimir putin, that he cannot win. the u.s. has committed to continued aid, alex, along with the international community as, well that we just heard of the meeting security conference. vice president harris had a pretty damning speech there as well, saying that russia has committed war, crimes and those responsible will be held to account. how does that happen? so one of the things that we started this conversation with
pin them down under earth. we have to know where they stand, and were the partial queue shun is ultimately fraud. i would love to hear the derek sardonic laugh, sardonic, how do you say? it sardonic? i would love to hear. it i ve got to say. it sounds intriguing. i ll keep it off the air. all right thank you joyce, good to talk to. you mourn the first anniversary of the war in ukraine. n ukraine. simon-sounding in the capital city of kyiv last february with russia hoping to take hold of the capital city, a day that has not come one year later. failing to dominate this war, what would it take for the