would he stop there? as you have said he would basically destroy anything in his wake. disputant really care about inciting or provoking world war iii? rex i m not privy to the intra- thoughts of a putin. and clearly they have sort of shown themselves to be sort of all over the place the last couple of weeks. raising questions about his judgment. but at the end of the day leaders tend not to be suicidal. the difference of attacking eight nato country where we have a solemn legal pledge to come to their defense that is to say initiate an attack against stay tuned nuclear armed alliance, i think that would be doing a lot. i don t think that is going to happen. if that s the case, jim, you said you don t know because he s unpredictable and he seems alright if if that s the case you and other experts say they don t think putin would respond
after that was 100 million metric tons of russian coal in china has removed restrictions on the importation. putting a lot of money and basically it means that china is financing the killing in ukraine. is that amount enough then to sadly offset sanctions the west puts on moscow? books i do not know if it is enough. but certainly it is substantial. it is something that putin obviously wanted. remember putin and jinping spoke for more than two and half hours on vibrate forth just for the opening of the olympics we could see other chinese support. so for instance, the u.s. and other countries cut russia off of the dollar system, swift and u.s. dollar accounts in new york, china is probably at this point trying to get russia onto
protests have been popping up. large group or railing to show support for ukraine in the full-scale invasion is really ignited the largest attack on european soil since world war ii. even leaders condemning vindman putin s actions those attacks continue on for ukraine president i can tell you he s pushing today talk to members of congress to do more asking for a no-fly zone nato is not done that yet. that is the issue today we seen so many people across the nation and here in new york city calling for more support. these people specifically to your calling for the united states to do more to cut up buying oil from russia and do more to make changes starting right now, eric. arthel: says russia continued to devastating assault on ukraine, china at russia s biggest partners for the most part staying on the sideline refusing to outright condemn putin s
seat tanks you see sandbags coming see concrete barriers, waiting for the urban street fight they fear is coming. the fear is also they were start to soften up with civilians in the city first with airstrikes, rocket launchers and missiles as ident and other cities. putin s modus operandi pretty said it time and time again. siri has did it, chechnya he s done it that is what we are expecting if and when he finally decides to make that push. arthel: is going to ask you that about the town i see behind you some twinkling lights and some of the looks like apartment buildings or something behind you. it does seem as you reported people are staying indoors for their hunkering down for what might come next. yes. as we ve been reporting a 1.4 million people fled the country many simply have nowhere to go many people want to say they want to stay and fight for you can attribute that to perhaps zelenskyy what a leader like that can do to galvanize
on this issue the house and senate introducing a bipartisan bill. they re choking off a critical source of revenue for russian president vladimir putin s regime that help support his terror. what should we do? republican congressman darrell issa paid member to house in foreign affairs committee. congressman great to see you. why have we not cut off russian oil yet? why have we not cut off putin s legs under him to try to weaken him? we can find neither republicans nor democrats any valid reason we cannot stop aiding and abetting it s that simple but if you want to use their oil and not pay for it, sees ships that is fine. the reality is we must stop immediately. and if we think back to every time american gauge on behalf of freedom we have been willing to