influential role cold war the west german military was truly a capable fighting force. the germany s military has been allowed to you atrophy in the decades sense. bret: while the president and the german chancellor speaking it seemed from the same sheet of music except one key parted and we will talk about that in a minute. the russian president vladimir putin met are the french president emmanuel macron today during that he pitched it a different way. putin did if ukraine joins nato everybody would be drawn into this war. russia is one of the top nuclear powers. there will be no winners in this war and you will be drawn into this conflict against your will in a blink of an eye you will be implementing article 5. article 5 is the nato one is attacked and they re all attacked. and there we are. that sets the stage. let s bring in our panel mara liasson national political correspondent of national public radio. form everywhere education secretary bill bennett and
move, it will cost china in terms of how it is seen in the eyes of the world. emboldened by china s moment in the spotlight xi jinping agreed to vladimir putin to challenge the u.s. in outer space, cyberspace and in europe and asia. asked about the u.e. new partnership biden s national security team down played the threat. they didn t use the word alliance. we need to believe in ourselves. we need to have confidence in ourselves. are you concerned that russia is getting too close to china. there is nothing new about that. amid mixed messaging from the white house. putin has put himself front and center at the games. china uyghur torch bearer while 1700 miles miles away. will beijing propaganda oh, there are so many wig uyghurs
as his national security adviser warns russia could take action any day now and the president reiterated his belief that putin has not yet made up his mind but he urged american civilians in ukraine now is the time to leave. bret? bret: jacqui the white house facing criticism for another adviser the top science adviser keeps his job after an investigation found evidence he disrespected colleagues there at the white house? what s the reason for that? obviously we heard the president have a promise at the beginning kind of an unclear path listen. i promise you i will fire you on the spot, on the spot. doesn t sound like a zero tolerance policy. our objective and the president s objective is prevent this behavior from ever happening again. bret: what s the fallout? pretty unclear what the reason dr. landrieu gets to keep his job is out of step with the
decorated army veteran of world war ii. now when we think about russia. the words that come to mind are fear and uncertainty. now igor might have to fight against the army his grandfather fought for 8 million russians live in ukraine almost one in five. bret? bret: steve harrigan live in kyiv don t. steve, thanks. the u.s. has is having a start at the beijing olympics with a handful of olympics. america s two greatest rivals seem to be winning the diplomatic competition. russia and china are growing closer in this time and that is not good news according to officials for the u.s. here is correspondent gillian turner. the u.s. olympic team scored 3 gold medals in beijing. back home the biden administration was left playing defense after russia and china announced a new pack against the united states. if in the end china is seen as having supported russia s
biden needs to be calling out chancellor schultz and saying look. you can t have a nato that is supposed to be holding itself against russia totally dependent on natural gas. you can t have chinese airplanes flying over taiwan but at the same time have biden sending millions of home tests to americans when you flip it over and it s made in china. saying we all need to wear n-95 masks and they are made in china. we have got to wake up and realize we are contributing to the problem. words don t mean anything it s the actions that have to happen. bret: they have this moment in the lighting of the torch with symbolic uyghur and a chinese athlete together. you reacted to that on twitter. you know, that athlete that was lighting the torch. that s guilt. that s chinese guilt. they put that athlete front and center to try and say if we show you something different then you