trump always for the heaviest o sanctions and the first thing that they do is roll out the sanctions too, but i think the difference was trump understood what sanctions are for, sanctions don t deter, they don t punish, what sanctions ar really good for is to deny an adversary that use of resources and therefore if you re going t use sanctions as a tool, the sooner you use them, and the more you throw them down, the more useful they are if they d started months ago, and if they were really heavy sanctions, they might have had some impact on the russians in concert with other things. even at this point, as russian troops are finding a way in kyiv , the u.s. hasn t triggered maximum sanctions and it will take weeks and months for her t have an effect.
president trump and russian collusion might have for the effort we are seeing right now in ukraine? yes, no question. this distraction of the russia hoax really did or any chance t engage with prudent food and. them sorry, when we rewrite the history were going to look back at the russia hoax and how that had one of many factors leading to the tragedy we see in ukraine , but yes, the russia hoax was a factor and the tragedy we see in kyiv today. thank you for coming on. it s a late night and we appreciate you staying up with us. it is day two of the war on ukraine from russia, and we are told that russian tanks are jus miles away from the capital. continuing coverage of this breaking news story.
russian forces have entered the northern section of the safety. the northern suburbs of kyiv am the minister of defense is advising people to stay in thei homes. house to house fighting is goin on and they say that residents should arm themselves with althoff cocktails and stay in their homes. according to local ukrainian media, russian forces are entering the northern section o the city several miles from where i m standing right now. life for us on the ground thank you. rising concerns about potential nuclear disaster with russian forces taking control of the chernobyl power plants. the worst nuclear accident in history back in 1986? with is now is analysts dr. rebecca grant. it is nice to have you back. was this a strategic move to
a leveler in terms of differential resources between countries. these reports, very quickly on your thoughts on the fact that the aspect, we have not confirmed, it might be that there is this belief out there that some countries, that vladimir putin might be in the days ahead willing to at least talk about the neutrality of ukraine. i think that the russians ar looking at this from up high benefit point of view. i think he s realized it s probably unlikely, while you know now whether ukraine will join nato or not, but i think h wants to engage in some sort of discussions because the longer this goes on, the risk, as well as the greater cost to the russian people and the russian military. so it s likely that there will be at least some overt attempt
coming to his aid there is no magic package of weapons and armaments that are going to change what s going on here. it doesn t work that way. combat doesn t work where you throw a bunch of weapons in and under fire and think that s going to have any positive impact on the outcome. it once. i think he s going to be disappointed with both a fact that is going to be nearly impossible to get it in there, but the second issue directly related to that is russia isn t going to sit passively by and allow their enemy under combat to be armed by the west and not doing anything. any action we take right now is a double edge sword that could have repercussions against our troops weather in syria or russian czar or even elsewhere in nato and that is something that has to be taken into consideration. i guess is we just said, the big goal is for russia to go in and decapitate the regime and you had president zelenskyy say