states believed that in this case the delivery of those jets was unattainable, we had a number of questions about the logistics of delivering those jets from poland to ukraine, we also had questions about the ukrainian pilots that could potentially be flying those jets. but this is an evolving set of circumstances. we are continually coming together with our allies and looking at what more we can do to get lethal assistance in the hands of the ukrainian military. john: you say that the issue with the migs is mostly logistical but here in the united states the administration has said, no, it s a question of escalation. and if i m not mistaken, the original idea of poland giving the migs to ukraine was an american idea. it was only when the pols said we give to you and you give them to ukraine that it became a problem. well, my understanding is that the ukrainians asked poland, in fact, i believe that the ukrainians are in regular
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kousky and collins. more cow key and collins. i don t think going to get graham this time around. no, it s probably going to be close to 50 to-50. and, again, it s about the math. john thune, the republican whip, said there s probably no more than three republican senators who would vote for her, but again, you need to have all 50 democratic senators there, and we re living in the time of covid. they re trying to do this confirmation by about the 7th, 8th or 9th of april, and if you have senators who are out on the democratic side, bob casey tested positive last week, ben ray lujan who was out for six weeks after suffering a stroke, that could delay this. it will be about the math. john: sticking with with the supreme court, this is the wife of justice clarence thomas sending texts and e-mails to mark meadows, members of congress in the wake of the 20 election urging them to do whatever they could to try to maintain president trump as president. she wrote in one of them, and i
the president believes that sanctions are intended to deter. the purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence. the purpose of the sanctions in the first instance is to try to deter russia from going to war. sanctions are not an end to themselves, they serve a higher purpose. that purpose is to deter and prevent. we do see them as having a deterrent impact. john: madame, ambassador, can you hear this up for us, were they meant to deter or were they not meant to deter? look, before russia went to ukraine we took a number of steps to outline the consequence that is russia would be facing if they d opted for a war inside ukraine. we laid out a sanction s package, we made it clear that we were in daily contact with our european allies and put together a package. now that russia has gone into ukraine, we ve moved forward with those costs. they ve been unprecedented and if you look at any indicator for the russian economy whether you re looking at the va
butcher. john. john: rich edison at the white house for us. rich, thank you. let s turn to mike tobin live in lviv, ukraine with the latest on the ground. mike, the city of lviv which had largely been quiet was changed yesterday, what happened? mike: well, about 4:30 p.m. local time the air raid sirens sounded with the wind direction. we didn t hear the air strike downtown. we started learning about the strikes from our smartphones. short after that the fumes. the regional governor said 5 people were injured and the lviv mayor this was russia saying-o to president biden as you know was nearby in poland. john: mike, this all happened right about the same time as russia had said, look, we pretty much achieved the goals that we wanted to achieve in the first