senate republican joni ernst is urging president biden to be very clear and very strong during his call with mr. putin. cnn military analyst retired general weighed in on this. he knows what russia has done in the past. he realizes that this is another threat by mr. putin against nato and european countries, and he wants to stop it before it starts. but i think what s also interesting, while the president is meeting with mr. putin on tuesday, he has already sent secretary blinken, secretary austin, and remember, he also sent c.i.a. director burns to moscow a few weeks ago. they were all doing preludes to this diplomatic engagements to tell the russians, we know what you re doing, knock it off. it s only going to cause major problems not only for you, but for your cotocracy as sanctions
this is a heart in the throat moment to be watching this. look at these images. this is the largest arab country in the world rising up against otocracy. we re at an incredibly fragile mome moment. to see this kind of exuberance in the street, to see people flooding into the middle of the night, it s a berlin wall kind of moment. these are images we never thought we would see in this lifetime, and yet it is fraught and worrying and fragile. because we don t know what s going to happen in just the next couple of hours. we don t know what s going to happen to all this emotion and energy in the streets, from, for example, omar suleiman is named at the person who s going to be handed power. we do not know how the street is going to react to that. we know that they mostly want