performance, if you think about it. but like sam bankman-fried, it looked like a scam. so the tens of billions you re sending, is not charity, zelensky explained, this money, zelensky said, is, quote, an investment. ooh, an investment. what exactly are the terms of this 77. now that we re talking finance? when do we get our dividend checks? zelensky didn t specify that, but at one point in the speech he provided a-point. are the tens of billions of dollars you re sending me with no audit and no concrete proof of what i m actually doing with it, will all that money be enough, zelensky asked rhetorically. answer? not really. not really. he-he-he. more pitches for more investments in ukraine is the return. give me more money so i can demand more money. that s what zelensky promised us last night. under certain circumstances that might actually be fine, if nothing else zelensky is quite an audacious young entrepreneur with the kind of pluck and fast talking shamelessness where yo
Ukraine so we can weigh in on which guy in a sweatsuit gets to rule cr crimea. he s begging for more than the hundred billions that the congress has already set to send them. now, when president trump said that america would never be a socialist country, you saw democrats sit on their hands. but when we say, you shouldn t send endless amounts of money to this place where we re exacerbating death and conflict, it s like we re traders to the movement because lauren and i didn t stand up in some sort of north korea style performance. it makes you wonder, what was all this for? i think that mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi wanted to bring zelensky there to the congress to provide air cover for an otherwise totally indefensible
That are obviously lower numbers than invading russians with far less ammunition and weapons are holding on, conducting counteroffensive operations and saying that if we had more weapons, we would already liberate, not only kherson but cr crimea. their morale is high and they ll believe everything they can to protect their lives. we ll continue to watch closely oleksiy. families of americans unlawfully detained abroad. some of them for many years. pleading with the biden administration to take more action. we re going to hear about one family struggle to bring their loved ones home, two of them from iran. that s coming up.
What is your analysis of what we saw yesterday and how it will impact the border? kasie, i was surprised that he said it in in public. a gaffe in washington is a saying what s true in public is the saying. true. nato is not completely unified on these issues. they re unified about what happens if russia moves to seize all of ukraine back. as matthew suggested before, there are not many people who think that is putin s preferred way of doing this because he knows that that will result in an insurgency and he will be stuck there as the coast union was stuck in afghanistan in the 1980s. so the most likely would be that he would take some of the russian-speaking areas around cr crimea. and the president clearly has
Who support putin against him? well, the sanctions imposed by the rest and russia really aren t, they are greater than the sanctions that were imposed in 2013, after the annexation of cr crimea, but they will produce a short-term shock to the russian economy, because now, after the united states imposed the sanctions on russia s central bank, russia s ruble has become a nonconvertible currency, basically. so russia is its currency. but in the meantime, we shouldn t forget that russia decides now, the tourists, who