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
when they can t feed their babies. in some cases hording is a problem. one massachusetts mother confronted another shopper whose cart was overflowing with baby formula. look at this. look at all this. look at the shelves. you don t think i need it for my baby, too. this is the whole reason there s a formula shortage. you take all the formula off the shelf and buy it once. you come after me, get this one. i m saying this is the reason there s a shortage. you come and buy all the formula at once and there s kids who need formula today who won t be able to get it because you just bought it to stock up. we all have to work together on this folks. elizabeth cohen joins me from ram stein air base in germany where the formula flights will depart. elizabeth, tell us what you re seeing there. reporter: i ve been watching service members at ramstein service base put together these pal lots. 1.5 million bottles of formula headed to indiana arriving tomorrow. talking to the s
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
You re right about that. let s talk about, you know, whether or not, you know, there is cause to be had, concern to be had about whether or not vladimir putin is going to stand for sweden and finland to do something like this, to join nato. is that something that the united states should be worried about? that this is a provocation, and, of course, obviously we want to play into don t want to play into putin s hands here by saying sweden and finland can t do this. i have to imagine it s interpreted as a provocation and there is a risk involved in all of that. let s be clear that the provocation was 190,000 russian troops that rolled into ukraine, an independent sovereign country, and putin lied directly to the united states, the heads of state in europe, saying it was a training exercise, they were not going to invade. it s a provocation that s not coming from nato.
A polite term but essentially just took it over. that s where president putin is right now overseeing this nuclear exercise that they re having in the black sea. i don t think that s by accident. is it just stage craft, or does he want a ringside seat for an invasion? i think what putin s specific objectives are and the details of his operational-level execution plans are yet to be known. but, you know, you heard what the president said yesterday, that based on current intelligence putin s made the decision to invade. so, yeah, it s a logical place to oversee the invasion from. david: forgive me for interrupting, but i have to ask about the ukrainians themselves. we have been providing them with a lot of weapons over the past couple of months, but they are behind the 8-ball. with 190,000 russian troops not to mention the artillery and everything they could bring from the air potentially to the