setting up barricades, security cameras newly installed after trump called for protest on social media and rallied his base, to quote, take our nation back. he believes this is a very big political plus for him which is why he is fanning the flames. if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it. michael cohen is far from solid evidence. i have facts. i have the truth. i have the documentation. xi jinping and vladimir putin will meet for a second day of talks at the kremlin. this is a critical time in russia s ip investigation of ukraine. and xi is framing himself as a possible peacemaker. is there going to be a substantial chinese contribution to the russian war effort or is this just a bunch of talk. that remains to be seen. the federal reserve begins meeting today to decide whether to raise interest rates again. it s about who is going to be vulnerable as interest rates rise. that could be companies. it could be consumers and
bloody spring offensive and then a very bloody counteroffensive. the question is, are we going to give the ukrainians the means and the resources needed to prevail in that conflict to save their democracy so they don t find themselves in an even worse position next year. and i think when we talk about a cease fire, what we re talking about is that time is not really on ukraine s side. that as it goes, the longer this goes on, the worse off they are. and that s why i think there s a big debate both in congress and inside the administration frankly about whether to speed up the assistance so they can win faster because if we let this go on for too long, eventually these lines will get dug in and that spells disaster for the ukrainians. and horror for the people living on the russian side of that line. yeah. and they have major concerns about how much ammunition they re burning through in ukraine as well. josh rogin, thank you so much for joining us with your perspective this morning.
they say the fighting could end if russia simply pulled out its troops. but that s because u.s. officials say a cease fire would merely serve to ratify territorial gains in ukraine and give the russians time to regroup and rearm and then choose to restart the war at a time of their choosing. tony blinken, the secretary of state, said that it would essentially amount to a tactical move by russia supported by china. and u.s. officials really want to dissuade the world of this notion that china is some honest peace broker in this conflict. the secretary of state noted just yesterday that china that the chinese president is traveling to russia just days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin on war crimes charges. he said that xi s visit essentially gives putin more diplomatic cover to continue committing war crimes going forward. one other thing u.s. officials are watching for is this possibility that china could decide to provide russia with
during this meeting. i asked john kirby from the national security council about this yesterday. this is what he told us. so if they call for a cease fire, you believe ukraine should and will reject that? yes. we do. we would reject it as well. we think that s an unacceptable outcome right now. essentially arguing if there was one right now it would give russia the land it invaded so far, give them time to potentially regroup. what did you make of the white house s stance on that? right. i think basically they re correct that a cease fire advantages russia and disadvantages ukraine at this stage of the war when we re expecting a new fighting season in the spring and summer. there will be a new fighting season. what s funny about that is that vladimir putin doesn t isn t for a cease fire either. he has no intention of obeying any sort of cease fire. so just goes to she you how flimsy and disingenuous this chinese peace push really is. and there s going to be more fighting. we
setting up barricades, security cameras newly installed after trump called for protest on social media and rallied his base, to quote, take our nation back. he believes this is a very big political plus for him which is why he is fanning the flames. if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it. michael cohen is far from solid evidence. i have facts. i have the truth. i have the documentation. xi jinping and vladimir putin will meet for a second day of talks at the kremlin. this is a critical time in russia s ip investigation of ukraine. and xi is framing himself as a possible peacemaker. is there going to be a substantial chinese contribution to the russian war effort or is this just a bunch of talk. that remains to be seen. the federal reserve begins meeting today to decide whether to raise interest rates again.