so a full hour of briefings, sandra. sandra: and after jacqui a plan to remove the iran revolutionary guard from a terror black list, part of a revived nuclear deal and one of which russia would reportedly benefit. a state controlled energy company with the $10 billion contract to build out one of iran s nuclear sites. and china is keeping a close eye on what happens in ukraine, and president biden will talk with president xi tomorrow. sandra: and ted cruz will join us in moments. john: first, jacqui in the briefing room to start us off. yesterday jen psaki said the president was speaking from the heart when he answered my question calling vladimir putin a war criminal, making those remarks after everything we have seen on tv. he apparently did not understand
are waiting from our partners. president biden called vladimir putin a war criminal. a thug, he says. what do you want to see happen to vladimir putin? first of all, i fully agree with a good friend of mine and good friend of ukraine, president biden. second, i doubt that putin is adequate now. i think that putin is crazy maniac, who is not understand what would be the reaction of his steps. and i just want to remind the people of the world that this maniac has a nuclear knob. and the ukrainian now paying a huge fight for the fight, for the war, not against the ukraine but against the collective west, against our values, against our principles.
and i think it s president biden s message to be like now is the time that you should be reconsidering that. remember, china, unlike russia, has not in recent decades used force as a routine aspect of their foreign policy. the last time china went to war is 1979, whereas vladimir putin has used brutal attacks on civilians and military actions throughout his 20 years in power. so they already have a somewhat different approach to the world, you know. and so we ll see if anything comes out of it. susan glasser, general wesley clark, thanks to both of you, appreciate it. acts of kindness in the face of a brutal war. how people are opening their hearts and their homes to those fleeing for safety. so you canan “woooo” more. - wooo. - wowooo. wooooo!!!!! woohooooo!!!! w-o-o-o-o-o. yeah, feel the savings. priceleline. every trip is a big deal. i ve always focused on my career. but when we found out our son had autism, his future became my focus. lavender baths always calmed him.
although some observers may believe that putin would fold before he approaches the nuclear threshold and others worry that even the smallest nato action will inevitably spark world war iii, such arguments at both extremes ignore the role of chance and risk. putting so many military assets in play with combat breaking out all over europe could spark a catastrophe that neither we nor putin intended. tom, explain. putin s created a disaster for himself. he wen it in with one plan, which is that ukraine would surrender in 48 or 72 hours. that plan blew up in his face. he has no plan b. he didn t expect this to happen. so now all he has left is to flatten ukraine through sheer brute force, and the best thing that could happen to him is to turn this war that he sold as a
switch blade drones that destroy when they land. what difference do you think this will make? we ll see what difference it s going to make, but as i said, any aid, especially military aid, is especially important to defend our country. we are fighting. but we also need support of our allies. we need humanitarian help, because a lot of civilians are struggling. we need the support crucially. and we need to stop putin s war. we need to stop as soon as possible. the sooner it s going to happen, the more severe the lives, or lives in general we ll save. german chancellor has said something this morning pretty much said by every nato nation up until now, they will help while they can, know there will be no nato military assistance