russia is ready to move. you know, look, we have reason to believe the russian forces are planning to and intend to attack ukraine in the coming week. in the coming days. we believe that they will target ukraine s capital, kyiv, a city of 2.8 million innocent people make no mistake, if russia pursues its plans, it will be responsible for a catastrophic and needless war of choice. reporter: the president also once again warning russia, specifically president putin, any military action against ukraine will trigger harsh and widespread economic sanctions. although we expect the sanctions to differ a little bit per country, just yesterday italy s prime minister says he does not believe any sanctions should impact russia s energy market or imports from russia when it comes to energy. cameras capturing vice president kamala harris meeting face to face with ukrainian president zelensky. both leaders are in munich for a security conference. during their nearly
[bleep] [background sounds] david: canadian police firing tear gas near protesters in ottawa, this after making a hundred arrests yesterday while cracking down on truckers for defying orders to clear out. matt finn is following it all in ottawa. matt, i saw you in the last hour, and you could hear the sound we thought they were flash and bang rounds, but those were actually rounds from tear gas canisters, right? reporter: you know, it s not entirely clear. it sounded like a flash bang and maybe the tear gas canisters came afterwards. we can t really confirm that right now. but nonetheless, this is still a really tense moment because police are, you know, kind of systematically squeezing out some of the fine protesters her. our understanding that parliament is in session today, so you have the prime minister in there. these people not happy with the prime minister here. so this is pretty much the
reporter: yeah. they re all locked in. i talked to a trucker who said i m kind of blocked in. so going to be interesting to see how they get these trucks out of here. but they said they re having yeah, looks like tear gas in the distance. [inaudible conversations] so, i mean, these are live pictures. they speak for themselves. this is what s happening. police are shutting this down. david: matt finn, we re going to be coming back to you as soon as you have a safe place to stand, you and your cameraman need to get out of the way of that tear gas. thank you so much, matt finn. very dramatic footage both from canada and what s happening in ukraine. so as provinces throughout canada have begun phasing out and eliminating vax mandates, u.s. and canadian leaders are urging president biden and canadian prime minister trudeau to reinstate vaccine and quarantine exemptions for cross-border truckers in an effort to ease the mess. nebraska governor pete ricketts is one of those leaders sign
it s really unnecessary. i mean, you know, we certainly encourage people to get vaccines here in my state. we publish data about how to help keep you out of the hospital, but i have always a opposed vaccine mandates, and here in nebraska we weathered the pandemic better than just about anybody else. we ve done that without vaccine passports, statewide mask mandates or lockdowns. we educated people about how to handle the virus. they did the right thing, and we let people make their own choices, and it s not clear why president biden and president or prime minister trudeau couldn t do the same thing with regard to the, you know, areas of responsibility they have because we ve been very successful here in nebraska. i bet the same things work for them. david: we should mention, by the way, that are there are still a number of states suing the federal government for vax mandates on federal contractors and, of course, all of the health care workers, etc. by the way, again, we are looking
hurt by inflation. it s very corrosive. and one of the steps the president could take working with the prime minister would be to reinstate the vaccine exemptions, allow those truckers to start moving their goods, and that would help us fill grocery shelves. david: again, i don t want to just focus on just trudeau, this is much bigger than trudeau alone, but not only is he playing hardball with the truckers chen, in fact, other provinces are getting rid of the vaccine, compromising, saying we re going to phase them out for truckers as well, but earlier this week he actually accused a jewish member of parliament of being sympathetic to nazis in her sympathy with the truckers. i mean, the kind of rhetoric he s using matches this kind of hardball behavior on the streets, and it s just very unbecoming of a prime minister. yeah. i really don t understand it. and, again, if you just look at what s going on with regard to how we re managing this virus,