DIE FOR THE SAKE OF OUR
FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE.
TREY: WELCOME BACK TO
"SUNDAY NIGHT IN AMERICA" WE
CONTINUE MONITORING THE DIRE
SITUATION IN UKRAINE, THE
PEOPLE IN UKRAINE ARE UNDER
ATTACK, AND PAYING A HEAVY
PRICE FOR RUSSIA’S
AGGRESSION, NO MEDICAL
SUPPLIES AND FUEL ARE
DWINDLING IN UKRAINE, AND AS
MANY AS 5 MILLION PEOPLE
COULD BE FORCED TO FLEE .
360 THOUSAND UKRAINIANS HAVE
ALREADY LEFT, PRESIDENT
ZELENSKY SAID THAT NEXT 24
HOURS WILL BE CRUCIAL FOR
HIS COUNTRY, THE WORLD
WATCHES FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN’S
NEXT MOVE.
LET’S BRING IN FORMER STATE
DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON
MORGAN ORTEGAS.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US,
THE IMAGES ARE HARD FOR US,
ON ONE HAND YOU ARE
RESILIENCY.
AND REALITY THERE ARE
CIVILIANS KILLED AND THEY
HAVE TO FLEE THEIR HOMELAND
WHAT IS THEIR REACTION WITH
THIS REAL COST AND
CONSEQUENCE OF PUTIN’S WAR.
>> WELL, TRYING TO DEAL WITH
WAR, AFTER IT HAS BEGUN IS
MORE EXPENSIVE AND HURTFUL
TO FAMILIES THAN IF YOU HAD
PREVENTED IT.
YOU SEENESE THESE IMAGES,
THIS IS REMINISCENT TO
SYRIA.
NOW IT IS MORE PREVALENT IT
IS ON EUROPEAN SOIL.
YOU SEE A FEW THINGS, THERE
IS ABOUT ROUGHLY 350,000
UKRAINIAN REFUGEES.
THAT NUMBER WILL BE JUST A
DROP IN THE BUCKET.
IT IS HARD TO ESTIMATE THE
NUMBERS, UKRAINE IS A
COUNTRY OF FORT MILL UNION
PEOPLE.
YOU SEE WHAT IS INTERESTING
MEN OF FIGHTING AGE ARE
STAYING, UKRAINIAN
LEADERSHIP ASKED MEN 18 TO
60 TO STAY AND FIGHT.
AND IT APPEARS THEY MOSTLY
ARE DOING SO, THE IMAGES OF
ZELENSKY.
OF THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE
STAYING TO FIGHT FOR THEIR
COUNTRY, I THINK THAT IS
WHAT MOVED EUROPE OVER THESE
PAST FEW DAYS MORE THAN
ANYTHING ELSE.
SOMETHING TO NOTE, THIS IS A
TECHNICAL STATE DEPARTMENT
THING, THERE IS ATION WIN --
ZONE.
UKRAINE IS A PART OF THAT.
IT WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM
SYRIA AS IT RELATES TO
REFUGEES, YOU SEE A LOT OF
NEIGHBORS COUNTRY WHO DO NOT
LIKE RUSSIA, LIKE00 BARE
THEY SHOULD AND WILL LIKELY
TAKE THE REFUGEES.
AS WE HAVE SEEN HAPPEN, OVER
THE YEARS, THROUGH SYRIA,
YOU SEE INTERNALLY DISPLACED
PEOPLE, AND REFUGEES, AND A
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY, I WAS IN
KYIV JUST TWO YEARS AGO WITH
SECRETARY POMPEO WE MEET
WITH ZELENSKY, IT IS ONE OF
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES
THAT I HAD BEEN TO.
I WENT TO THE CHURCHES WITH
MIKE POMPEO, WE MET WITH
MINISTERS AND PRIEST WHO HAD
BEEN YOU KNOW REALLY
HARASSED BY PUTIN AND HIS
REGIME.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT
BELIEVE IN THEIR FAITH, THEY
BELIEVE IN THEIR COUNTRY,
THEY WILL STAND UP TO
RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.
BUT STARK REALITY THIS IS A
SUPER POWER WITH A STRONG
MILITARY THAT IS ATTACKING
THEM, AND SURROUNDING THEIR
CITIES.
YOU ARE WILL SEE MORE AND
MORE OF THESE IMAGES OF THE
UKRAINIAN REFUGEES.
TREY: IT STRIKES ME ONE WAY
TO NOT LOSE A WAR TO NOT
HAVE THAT WAR.
BIDEN PROMISED CRIPPLING
SANCTIONS, SAYING THE
SANCTIONS THE LIKES OF WHICH
RUSSIA HAS NEVER SEEN
BEFORE, ARE WE TO TAKE, THEY
HAD NO IMPACT ON PUTIN?
HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE
RUSSIAN PEOPLE OR THEY WERE
NOT THAT TOUGH TO BEGIN
WITH?
>> SO MUCH TO UNLOAD,
SANCTIONS WHILE THEY ARE
STRONG, SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED
A LONG TIME AGO, NUMBER ONE.
NUMBER TWO, RUSSIAN STOCK
MARKET WENT UP A THINK 20%
FRIDAY AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN
ANNOUNCED THESE WERE THE
TOUGHEST SANCTIONS THAT
ANYONE HAD SEEN.
THAT IS NOT TRUE, I CAN TELL
YOU, IF LUKE AT WHAT
HAPPENED JUST IRAN.
WE PURSUED MAXIMUM ECONOMIC
PES IRE CAMPAIGN AGAINST --
ECONOMIC PRESSURE CAMPAIGN
AGAINST IRAN IN THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, IF YOU LOOK,
THIS IS NOT APP NOT ALWAYS
APPLES AND APPLES, BUT IT IS
A GOOD ROAD MAP, TOOK
IRANIAN CENTRAL BANK OFF
SWIFT.
THE PROBLEM WITH SOME OF THE
SANCTIONS THAT BIDEN
ANNOUNCED IN ADDITION TO
THEM TOO LATE.
RUSSIA HAS WITHSTOOD
SANCTIONS SINCE THEY INVITED
CRIMEA IN 2014.
THE PROBLEM IS, YOU START
CHERRY PICKING BARGE PICKING
BANKS, YOU DON’T GO AFTER
OIL AND GAS, YOU MAKE WAYS
FOR RUSSIA TO FIND TO GET
AROUND THOSE SANCTIONS, YOU
COULD TO SOMETHING, THERE IS
A MINERALS AND TIMBER SECTOR
THAT IS PROLIFIC IN RUSSIA,
YOU COULD GO AFTER 30% OF
THEIR ECONOMY RIGHT NOW,
WE’RE NOT DOING THAT.
TREY: MORGAN WE WILL SEE
BIDEN WILL HAVE A STATE OF
THE UNION.
WE’LL SEE, THANK YOU FOR