Stay updated with breaking news from First lets talk. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
1:30pm. first let s talk to our weather presenter matthew taylor. give us more of the overview. things have deteriorated give us more of the overview. things have deteriorated quite give us more of the overview. things have deteriorated quite rapidly - have deteriorated quite rapidly across a part of the country. the day started off calm. we have strong wind is going to transfer eaters. we had our wind gusts last hour of 110 mph, on the needles on the isle of wight. a very exposed site, but even on the edge of swansea the past couple of hours we saw winds approaching 90 miles an hour. the strong ones have taken hold south wales, so testing and come along south coast and it is not over there because it will push its way northwards andy swiss. you can see on the satellite, there is eunice as it started to work in across uk and it started to work in across uk and it is just it started to work in across uk and it isjust on it started to work in across uk and it is just on the base of t ....
It s part of the sanctions put in place as a response to the invasion. in a little less than a week, the u.s. and its allies have shut off major russian banks from the global banking system known as swift, frozen russian bank central assets, an enormous deal. they have targeted president putin and his foreign minister sergey lavrov, among other escalates. that does not include the other measures taken by the biden ministration, things like restricting exports of certain technologies to russia, such as semiconductors. and banning russian airlines from u.s. airspace. but even with all that economic pressure, the big question now is, will it work? and i think, more profoundly, what is working even mean? adam tooze is a director of the european history institute at columbia university, and his book on subject outcome is an absolute must read. i m so glad to have you here, adam, to talk this through. first let s talk about what seems to be, obviously, the lowest hanging fruit, which is ....
Welcome back to state of the union. this winter as president biden warned that rufgts was planning an attack on ukraine one of the big fears here at home was cyber attacks. that hasn t happened on a large scale yet. here with me is the chairman of the senate intelligence committee senator mark warner of virginia. thank you so much. i m going to ask you about signer in a minute, but first let s talk about the president s big speech yesterday in poland. he said many things about autocracy versus democracy but then he ad-libbed at the end saying that vladimir putin cannot remain in power. the white house has clarified that since, saying that the administration does not support regime change. do you think that statement did any damage? dana, there is one individual that s trying to make regime change in europe and that s vladimir putin trying to change the regime in ukraine and i candidly agree with the ukrainian prime minister who really has been extraordinary. ....
Adam schiff of california is a member of the house select committee. he also is the lead impeachment manager in donald trump s first impeachment and he joins me now. congressman, first let s talk about congressman scott perry. obviously this is interesting, and i feel like almost uncharted waters. i m trying to wrack my brain for a similar situation in which you had to sort of special impanelled committee who have witnesses who are themselves a member of congress and how to treat that. what is your response to him saying he simply won t cooperate? well, there s, you know, precedence certainly for calling members of congress before an investigatory. in the russia investigation we asked a democrat and a republican lawmaker to come in and both agreed to voluntarily. it is extraordinary for a congressman to refuse and you have to ask why is he trying to obstruct the work of the ....