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Neighbors, and go to shelters. this this has happened daily here and it there it hasn t been resulting in any sort of kinetic activity in the city of lviv but it is a it is a precautionary thing. obviously, the authorities see something, they hear something and these announcements go on. they say get your documents, get your family, turn off the stove, and go to a shelter. so, if you can hear that behind me, that s what s going on. all right let s now go to washington where cnn s jasmine wright is standing by. fw give us a sense of what the white house knows as it is monitoring what is going on in kyiv. yeah, michael, while the president spends his home in delaware but no doubt, white house officials are watching growing developments, and watching it with concern, i would say, um, as you know we have gotten these really grave warnings from officials for the past week. intensifying, no doubt, in the last few days because of their ....
Of course he s jailed his political opponents in russia. he s jailed up to 15,000 russians who have taken part in anti-war protests. some of those people by the way are getting long sentences. we know he killed people on british soil through nerve agents. he s poisoned ukrainian leaders before. this is a pattern of behavior for putin. what i do think is interesting and you pointed this out is that putin still remains very popular at home. one poll i saw, a very legitimate poll said that he s up to 83% approval rating. so he s been able to get russian citizens to sort of rally around the flag so to speak, and so he s not necessarily suffering domestically even with the sanctions that the united states and europe have put on the putin regime. steve: that s exactly the point that i wanted to move to, morgan, because actually, you know, we can all express our outrage, and we should. it is outrageous what we re ....
Until we get serious about the china part of this story, nothing s going to change. well, i would just say amen and hallelujah to that. listen, we are seeing you just talked about that genocide that was designated by the way, i should say that was president trump s designation. steve: right. mike pompeo, state department, we put that statement out one of the last things i did as state department spokesperson, i m very proud that president trump had the guts and fortitude to make that decision. you are exactly right. with an ongoing genocide in china, a corporation that investment firms are still doing plenty of business there, and how you see that translate to russia in this current conflict, the war that they ve inflicted on ukraine is i think you and i talked about this very recently from a western perspective we haven t given the knockout punch with sanctions we could have given, number one. number two, i think we are ....
And if they do get a job, what the rates will be. it is going to be chaos. it already is. again, i m worried about certainly not just the americans who are within the border region and the cities that these individuals are being moved into without any background check, the health issue now is off the table, so we don t know beyond coronavirus of course, it s zika, it is tuberculosis, it is measles, it is everything else. americans we have to worry about that as well. but the people making this trip because they want a better life, they are the ones being lied to and being manipulated in this framework. steve: exactly. it is so classic of the biden people. they create a problem and then oh, let s make it worse. it s just every way you look, that s what s going on. let s get to the second thing i would love your thoughts on. your reaction from this today from white house chief of staff. the washington post also reported this week on deals that hunter biden had with the ....
Especially at a time of high and rising inflation. the measure that makes sense is how much we re spending as a share of our overall economy. when you look at that, look at it that way, biden s budget is practically a record low. here s the actual data. you can see after the build up that happened during the george w. bush presidency, defense spending was slashed by obama and biden by a third. then trump built it up again. and now biden s taking it back down, close to post cold war lows and even lower in the decade ahead. he s cutting the navy to 280 ships when the navy itself says it needs 500 to defeat china if it takes taiwan. he s cutting the air force, even as the air force association said this week it s now the smallest oldest and least ready it s ever been in its 75-year history. presiding over massive risky changes to the marine corps reducing their battle readiness. all this as china and russia reaffirm their alliance, as biden s ineptitude pushes former ....