only foreseeable based on the way that russia has prosecuted the war but it is likely that it is part of the policy. there is a war trial that got started yesterday. the darfur trial started yesterday. 20 years after the crimes themselves were committed. 200,000 dead, one lone defendant as the new york times put it. is that realistically how long it takes to go from the gathering of evidence to actually presenting the evidence and having a trial like this? well, it shouldn t. i think the reality is we need to recognize that justice is patient and justice could wait but we don t want to wait 20 years. chuck, i was part of the determination of the genocide in or indicators of genocide in darfur under the leadership of powell and president bush at the time and we had hoped that justice would be achieve quickly
the new sanctions in coordination with the g7 and eu are part of the all hands on deck effort from the state department to the justice department to treasury and in its it attempt to punish russia for everything they ve done in ukraine. they continue to see mounting evidence of war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. journalists and human rights groups are reporting the discovery of burned bodies in the bucha and russian troops have now withdrawn. you new sanctions do target vladimir putin s children and target the largest football institution, alpha bank and a ban on russia completely and this morning merrick garland announced an indictment against a russian oligarch for violating sanctions already in place. these are the first criminal charges filed against an oligarch since the war in ukraine began. our message to those who
about somebody like president trump, and they thought we would get red robes out of this. i was also struck by senator murkowski in particular when you heard her talk about her decision to support judge jackson. she sounded pained. she sounded like somebody who knew she was risking her political future with that vote, and that s interesting when you think about who judge jackson is, and people like romney, collins and murkowski are getting behind her and they feel like she will be somebody who is fair. to sound that pained voting for a person you feel like would be fair is telling. there s more price to pay if you look like a compromiser, right? i am out of time, i am being told. she did a good job and she will be the next supreme court justice. thank you all. appreciate the conversation. appreciate you being with us this hour. we will be back tomorrow with more meet the press daily, and
coincided about the discussion of who would replace merrick garland on the d.c. district after president biden had nominated merrick garland. and tanji jackson who was elecced to replace garland in the d.c. circuit. whoever the selection may be. judge jackson was confirmed by a margin of 53-44 with the same makeup effectively the same makeup of the senate last summer. but again from the white house, we have heard nothing specifically about this. theyerant even confirming justice s intentions to retire. the president is hosting ceos as his intention in that event is to focus on the build back better agenda. the ceos from ford, microsoft,
salesforce, are all on board with the build back better plans. but i will be among reporters in the room. but among the shouted questions will beabout his intentions and plans going forward as it appears clear he will soon have a decision to make about who he will nominate to be the next supreme court justice. and there some indication that we d heard that the white house might want to give him a ceremonial sendoff, even before a nominee is ready to be named. i know pete williams and i have had conversations. the expectation is some form of a ceremony. over the last couple of hours, no one is confirming that would take place. flrls but it would be by tradition. the democratic administration would fet a justice nominated