the best it could and gave up lives trying to get people out of there. the president, no, if he messes this up with russia, what is at stake? well, fundamental american interests are at stake whenever our adversaries around the world see something happening like what happened in afghanistan or what could happen with an invasion of ukraine and realize that they can push and threaten american interests and america will not stand up and defend our interests. so what happens in ukraine, for instance, has direct bearing in the western pacific where china might decide to go for the jug lar in taiwan or might continue to cheat on trade deals and take american jobs and shutter american fact reese. so much of america s interests and security and stability in the world depend on how our adversaries view the president of the united states.
invasion of ukraine. nothing to do with ukraine joining nato or that is not happening. ukraine doesn t have a plan to join nato and we re not conducting exercising. vladimir putin s desire to reassembly the russian empire and create non-democratic states around his country. why does he think he can go for the jug lar in ukraine now? he has seen president biden s performance over the last year and thinks he can get away with it. harris: thank you for being in focus today. thank you, harris. harris: ask the president what time it is and he might tell you it is time for ice cream. delicious. crisis on crisis on crisis and president biden spends a day out on the town with the press in tow, delicious. plus the debate over masking our children in schools is now reaching a boiling point. parents in virginia go
that would mean nato and russia are in open conflict. this is not about ukrainian membership in nato. president bush stated it as an aspiration 14 years ago. there is no plan for ukraine to join nato. not something that s coming up. it s a pretext for vladimir putin to do what he has wanted to do since he took power more than 20 years ago, resemble the greater russian empire. simply believes now conditions are ripe for him to do so. unfortunately a lot of that has to do with the long train of concessions and weakness by joe biden toward russia over the year and the humiliating debacle from our withdrawal from afghanistan in august. those are reasons he thinks it is time to do what he wanted to do for 20 years is go for the jug lar in ukraine. bill: if he does that there will be enormous casualties. it will certainly create
let me say this. i ve seen the security staff he has put around him is stellar, a stellar security staff. and i believe he is paying attention and listening to them. i have said this. whether you re a democrat or republican or voted for donald trump or against donald trump he is now the president and you always want your president to do well. but you always should be able to give constructive criticism. people just want to go for the jug lar on every occasion. i m not that person. i m looking for a way to make this country and government work and make sure we have the best interests of the united states in our hearts. if i can give information and input is make sure we re dealing with honest brokers and protecting our intelligence community and understand we have the greatest military and they need all the equipment they possibly can to do the job that we require. all of these things go together is this. if you are out to destroy, if you think you are working within and you don t bel