i was disappointed that there was not one word about negotiations in the statement that joe biden made. he wanted to sit up top but he s not doing anything to sofl the crisis. to solve the crisis. it seems that negotiations might only be possible when vladimir putin feels real pressure. i wonder, we ve seen sanction after sanction, does not seem to have an effect. what can put that pressure on him and bring him to the negotiating table? putin is going to have to see very clearly that he cannot achieve his original objectives of occupying, seizing and occupying the entire country of ukraine. so, fred is exactly right. we have to be finding offramps. we re in a space of opportunity to find that. there should be so many more discussions about a diplomatic solution here. and i think it s obvious i mean, the easiest parts supposed to be the battlefield victory. you look at iraq, you look at
right to do so. republicans would have demanded an investigation to find out who was responsible for the violence and would have been right to do so. there can be no sofl pedaling or absolution for those who planned, encouraged, and aided the attempt to overthrow our democracy. that is exactly what the president of the united states was saying today. just to take people back to what it was like, because i have been revisiting our reporting and our coverage from january 6th, january 7th, and the days that followed. when it comes to the video we re talking about, several outtakes, i was told then and we reported that trump put that video out because he was worried about being removed from office. that s how they finally convinced him to put that video out. that was the gravity aides were saying to him, this is going to be the issue facing you. even his own daughter, ivanka trump, who was there that day. i was told by sources that trump hated he put that video out.
general bare mccaffrey. nie era hawk, and gordon chang is a columnist for the daily beast. welcome to all of you on a friday night. thank you for being with us. let me just start with you. the president s comment that the only one who matters is me may or may not make sense but certainly there s a real reason why we have diplomatic channels and a state department and an entire organization that is built around the sofl power of the united states. when the president says what he does, it fundamentally challenges that assumption. it has two impacts. the first is that the president cannot be everywhere at all times leading policy directly. so it has direct impact. we don t have people on the ground who understand the very deep histories of these countries and the personal dynamics that are required to move a conversation toward and
chipotle struggling, sales came up short, related to a hack in april and yet another food safety scare. stocks down 9%. twitter is promising greater transparency for political ads. they will label it with information about who bought the ad and what they spent as twitter and other social media company face scrutiny over russian trolls. these new guidelines might not have prevented those ads from happening. russian bought ads focused on issues not candidates like race, refugee, immigration and gun control. those russian troll farms finding the achilles in the american social fabric they ll be back. we re a long way from solving this problem. people are still going to click on these. what s going to sofl it, i don t know. at least they re doing something. thanks for joining us this morning. i m christine romans.
do not like the republican health care plan. they re trying to sofl for something that the people don t believe is a problem. 11 million more people have health coverage. that was the problem with the obamacare, affordable care act was trying to fix. what problem are these folks trying to fix? they ll cost millions of people their coverage, reducing basic benefits, whether talking about mammograms, preventive care people need, certain kind of screenings. what problem are they fixing? all they re trying to fix is meet the rhetoric of the last seven years and that s why the public isn t embracing it. that s why they have problems with their moderate and quefshtive members. you mentioned a poll. quinnipiac poll shows only 17% of voters support the goep plan to repeal and replace wok obamacare. 56% of voters oppose it. we re going to sneak in quick break right now. on the other side we ll get into russia, wiretapping, devin nunes and all that is going on in washington today that doesn t