concerns you wouldn t tell us. let me move on. you ve done this yourself, nicolle. a frequent guest on this program made a forceful case for the technical standard of state sponsor of terrorism being met of russia atrocities, something you described as one of the ways that the president and the administration has rallied such a quick set of sanctions from the global community. i wonder if there s a debate under way as to whether or not to designate russia and vladimir putin as state sponsors of terrorism. nicolle, you eluded to this. we ve organized a campaign involving dozens of countries across four continents imposing unprecedented costs on russia in response to its illegal war against the country of ukraine, the people of ukraine and in response to the atrocities we ve seen. we pulled and will pull every
for that. that s what we live in but i hope that the humanity will learn the lessons. there is an exasperation that you re echoing that president zelenskyy reveals in an interview with two journalists in the atlantic and it s in the context of the weapons saying i feel like bill murray in groundhog day. i have to go to the list of the weapons that we need. we have talked about a third fear you have had and i m sure you have about the attention span in this country. a slap can distract us from some of the bloodiest days of the war. in this country there s a lot of awe at your president s ability to maintain the focus of this white house and the president and the west.
this president has a nearly unprecedented task of having to shore up the strength of our democracy at the same time. yes. it s a big issue. the parallel to what you re saying to what americans believe about the election is us questioning why the russians believe what vladimir putin says. he has an 80% approval rate. how can they believe they re de-nazifying ukraine? how do so many americans believe donald trump won in 2020? it s been going on for 15 or 20 years, measuring countries advancing towards democracy or retreating. i agree it s a global war. ukraine for putin is the frontline of the west. what he fears is not ukrainian
evidence, maybe there s something we re not seeing. it was about ten days. this was the first week or two of the war. there were fewer days between president zelenskyy describing what was happening in his country as genocide and president biden describing what s happening in ukraine based on everything he s seen as a genocide. this call was less public. it was a request that president zelenskyy made to the white house. you have to assume that the kind of evidence that you looked at, that some of the information was shared to make the point you made. if you put international politics and the history of the war on terror aside, explain to me how the definition has been met for putin s war in ukraine, that it is state sponsored terrorism. that s for me, nicolle. yes, frank. look, it meets our legal
provide security assistance to our ukrainian partners long before vladimir putin went into ukraine. as you know, it was in the summer when president zelenskyy was here, when he was standing with president biden. president biden met with president zelenskyy. their foreign minister have been in this building. we provided hundreds of millions of dollars of security assistance to our ukrainian partners before vladimir putin s forces went into ukraine. since then president biden made clear that as long as this war of choice, as long as putin s aggression continues against the people of ukraine, we ll provide more to see to it our ukrainian partners have precisely what they need to defend their country. ned price, thank you for spending some of your time with us. we re grateful. when we come back, ben wittis who organized last week s