"THE REIDOUT" IS NEXT WITH JOY
REID AND SAMANTHA POWER.
>>> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.
WE BEGIN "THE REIDOUT" WITH
RUSSIA'S ASSAULT AGAINST
UKRAINIAN CIVILIANS AS THE
NUMBER OF REFUGEES TOPS 3
MILLION IN A MATTER OF WEEKS,
MANY ARE FACING FOOD AND
MEDICINE SHORTAGES WITH THE
CONSTANT THREAT OF DEADLY
SHELLING AND AIR ATTACKS.
ACCORDING TO THE TELEGRAM
CHANNEL OF A UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL,
ABOUT 20,000 PEOPLE LEFT
MARIUPOL THROUGH A HUMANITARIAN
CORRIDOR WHILE KYIV UNDER FIRE
HAS IMPOSED A NEW CURFEW AS THE
MAYOR BRACES THE CITY FOR A
DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS MOMENT.
>> THE SPIRIT RIGHT NOW,
EVERYONE IS ANGRY.
I TALK TO THE PEOPLE.
THEY DON'T WANT TO LEAVE.
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL CASE.
WHAT RUSSIANS DO IT WITH
CIVILIAN PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY?
>> THE INCREASING ASSAULT COMES
AS THREE EUROPEAN UNION LEADERS
TRAVEL BY TRAIN TO KYIV IN A
SHOW OF SOLIDARITY.
HERE IS VIDEO POSTED OF
ZELENSKYY MEETING WITH THE PRIME MINISTERS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC,
MINISTERS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC,
POLAND AND SLOVENIA.
PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY
CONTINUES TO DRUM UP SUPPORT
FROM LEADERS ABROAD.
HERE HE IS TODAY IN A VIRTUAL
ADDRESS TO CANADIAN LAWMAKERS.
>> THEY ALREADY KILLED 97
UKRAINIAN CHILDREN.
WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR MUCH.
WE'RE ASKING FOR JUSTICE FOR
REAL SUPPORT, WHICH WILL HELP US
TO PREVAIL TO DEFEND TO SAVE
LIFE, TO SAVE LIFE ALL OVER THE
WORLD.
>> THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT IS
SET TO MAKE THAT PITCH TO THE
U.S. CONGRESS TOMORROW MORNING
AS CITIES AND TOWNS ARE REDUCED
TO RUBBLE.
AS CASUALTIES MOUNT INCLUDING
THE DEATHS OF TWO JOURNALISTS
WORKING FOR FOX NEWS, WE'RE
REMINDED THE INVASION HAS AND
WILL CONTINUE TO BE A WAR
AGAINST SA VILCIVILIANS. >> [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
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>> FOR THOSE WHO COULDN'T CATCH
THE SUBTITLES, SOME OF WHAT THIS
UKRAINE YN WOMANIAN WOMAN IS SAY
BOMBED DURING THE DAY AND NIGHT
AND WE'RE PEACEFUL CIVILIANS AND
IT'S A NIGHTMARE WHAT RUSSIA IS
DOING.
RUSSIA DID THE SAME TO SYRIA
WHEN BASHAR AL-ASSAD USED MANY
BRUTAL TACTICS NOW SEEN IN
UKRAINE.
IN A POWERFUL REBUKE THAT WENT
VIRAL, SAMANTHA POWER ACCUSED
ASSAD AND HIS RUSSIAN AND
IRANIAN ALLIES OF PUTTING A
NOOSE AROUND CIVILIANS.
>> YOUR BARREL BOMBS AND MORTARS
AND AIR STRIKES HAVE ALLOWED THE
MAILITIA TO ENCIRCLE TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS IN YOUR
EVER TIGHTENING NOOSE.
IT IS YOUR NOOSE. THREE MEMBER STATES OF THE U.N.
THREE MEMBER STATES OF THE U.N.
CONTRIBUTING TO A NOOSE AROUND
CIVILIANS.
IT SHOULD SHAME YOU.
INSTEAD, BY ALL APPEARANCES, IT
IS EMBOLDENING YOU.
YOU'RE PLOTTING YOUR NEXT
ASSAULT.
ARE YOU TRULY INCAPABLE OF
SHAME?
IS THERE LITERALLY NOTHING THAT
CAN SHAME YOU?
>> JOINING ME NOW IS SAMANTHA
POWER, THE ADMINISTRATION TORE
OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
ADMINISTRATOR POWER, THANK YOU
SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
I'M PLEASED TO GET THE CHANCE TO
TALK WITH YOU.
YOU BEGAN YOUR CAREER AS A
JOURNALIST AND COVERED THE SORT OF WARS AND HORRORS AND HAVE
OF WARS AND HORRORS AND HAVE
TAKEN PLACE IN BOSNIA AND RA
RWANDA, SUDAN.
DO YOU SEE THE SAME WAR CRIMES
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN UKRAINE?
>> WHEN YOU INTENTIONALLY STRIKE
CIVILIANS, IT'S A WAR CRIME,
IT'S FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD, AND
IT IS VERY CLEAR AND YOU SEE IN
CITY AFTER CITY THE TACTICS THAT
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARE
EMPLOYING ARE CONSISTENT.
THEY ARE DENYING FOOD, MEDICINE,
WATER INTO CIVILIAN AREAS AND
THEY ARE SHELLING RESIDENTIAL
BUILDINGS, MATERNITY HOSPITALS,
MORE THAN 31 MEDICAL FACILITIES
THAT HAD BEEN VERIFIED PROBABLY
MORE ONCE THERE IS MORE ACCESS
GRANTED.
SO IT IS HISTORIC AS ANYTHING
I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE AND CAREER.
>> DO YOU THINK THAT THE
IMPUNITY WITH WHICH RUSSIA HAS
BEEN ALLOWED TO OPERATE IN
PLACES LIKE SYRIA, THE FACT
THEIR MERGECENARIES OPERATED IN
ZIMBABWE
ZIMBABWE.
THERE IS NO REPERCUSSIONS FOR
BASHAR AL-ASSAD WITH THE HELP OF
RUSSIAN FORCES.
DO YOU THINK THAT THAT IMPUGNNIT
COMMUNICATED IN SOMEWAY TO PUTIN
THAT HE COULD GET AWAY WITH THIS
AND THAT MIGHT BE THE PROBLEM,
THAT HE NEEDS TO BE PERSONALLY
SANCTIONED FOR WHAT IS
HAPPENING?
>> WELL, AS YOU KNOW, HE HAS
BEEN PERSONALLY SANCTIONED AS
HAS THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY AND SO
MANY SOURCES OF WEALTH AND
INCOME FOR THE OLIGARCHS THAT
SURROUNDED AND ENABLED AND
EMBEDDED PUTIN. YOU KNOW, OUR FOCUS IS ON
YOU KNOW, OUR FOCUS IS ON
KEEPING THIS UNPRECEDENTED COAL
COALITION TOGETHER.
NOT WITH STANDING THE GAS
ATTACKS AND ATTACKS ON ALEPPO,
THERE WAS A LOT MORE DIVISION
THAN NOW.
YOU COULD NOT HAVE MOBILIZED THE
KIND OF U.N. JOURNAL ASSEMBLY
REBUKE THAT AMBASSADOR THOMAS
GREEN FIELD MOBILIZED ALONG WITH
THE UKRAINIAN COLLEAGUES JUST A
WEEK AGO.
SO THIS UNITY, THIS SQUEEZE ON
THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY IS IN
POSITION OF COST.
THE STRAE TEETEGIC FAILURE AS RU
SECURES A TACTICAL SUCCESS AND
MAY RAEP TERROREAP TERROR BUT VL
PUTTEN
PUTT
PUTIN ISN'T ABLE TO ACHIEVE HIS
OBJECTIVE IN UKRAINE.
>> WILL HE ULTIMATELY GO THE WAY
IN THEORY TRY FOR THE WAR CRIMES
FOR WHAT HE'S DONE?
>> YOU KNOW, LIFE IS LONG AND I
CAN'T SPECULATE.
I WISH I KNEW WHAT WAS COMING
TOMORROW, NEVER MIND THE DISTANT
FUTURE.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WE IN THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT AND EUROPEAN
FRIENDS ARE FUNDING THE PARTNERS
WE HAVE BEEN FUNDING FOR YEARS
AS THEY MOVED IN A DEMOCRATIC
DIRECTION, AS THEY SOUGHT TO
INTEGRATE THEIR ECONOMY WITH
EUROPE AS THEY SOUGHT TO BUILD
THE RULE OF LAW AND END THE KIND
OF IMPUGNNITY OF OFFICIALS IN TH
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ENJOY.
THOSE SAME GROUPS THAT WE'VE
BEEN FUNDING FOR YEARS FOR THOSE
PURPOSES, MANY OF THEM TURNED
THEIR SIGHTS TO GATHERING
EVIDENCE KNOWING THAT THE
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
ANNOUNCED THAT IT PLANS TO OPEN
THE INVESTIGATION, KNOWING THAT
THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNSEL LAST
WEEK CREATED A COMMISSION OF
INQUIRY WHERE A LOT OF THAT
EVIDENCE WILL ULTIMATELY BE
FUNNELED.
SO THERE IS PERSONAL
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS
THAT HAD ASSETS FROZEN, WHO
WON'T BE ABLE TO TRAVEL.
WE'VE SEEN DEPRECIATION AND
ACCESS TO THE PERKS THAT BEING
FRIENDS WITH PUTIN HAD -- THAT
THEY ENJOYED BEFORE.
THIS OTHER ACCOUNTABILITY LIES
IN THE FUTURE BUT WE NEED TO
BUILD THE EVIDENTIARY RECORD
NOW.
>> WE HAVE A PIECE OF VIDEO OF
YOURSELF IN BOSNIA BACK IN THE
DAY IN YOUR DIPLOMATIC CAREER
AND, YOU KNOW, JUST TO COMPARE
THE AMOUNT OF DEVASTATION AND
NUMBER OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED
PERSONS BEING CREATED NOW, THERE
YOU ARE.
THE WARS CREATED 2.4 REFUGEES AND 100,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED
AND 100,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED
AND MOVING FROM 2011 TO TODAY. WE HAVE 3 MILLION REFUGEES IN
WE HAVE 3 MILLION REFUGEES IN
SEVERAL WEEKS.
IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE BECAUSE IF
YOU DO THE MATH THREE WEEKS FROM
NOW IT COULD BE 6 MILLION
PEOPLE.
HOW DO THE SURROUNDING COUNTRIES
COUNTRIES.
>> THIS IS A COUNTRY OF 44
MILLION PEOPLE THAT PUTIN HAS
SOUGHT TO INVADES AND APPEARS
INTENT ON TRYING TO DESTROY AND
DISPLACEMENT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT
NOW I'VE NEVER SEEN IN MY
CAREER.
IT'S NOT ONLY THE 3 MILLION YOU
MENTIONED THAT WILL FIELD INTO
EUROPE AND ACROSS THE BORDER BUT
SO MANY JOURNALISTS ARE
GATHERED, IT'S THE 2 TO 3
MILLION INTERNALLY DISPLACED. SO OVER 10% OF THE POPULATION OF
SO OVER 10% OF THE POPULATION OF
UKRAINE DISPLACED AND WE'RE A
LITTLE TWO WEEKS INTO THE WAR.
THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO
LOOK AHEAD.
WE NEED TO PREPARE FOR MUCH
LARGER INFLUXES IF SOME OF THE
BIGGER TOWNS FOR EXAMPLE IN THE
SOUTH WERE TO BE ATTACKED THAT
COULD MEAN ANOTHER MILLION
PEOPLE COMING INTO FURTHER INTO
EUROPE IF YOU STARTED TO SEE
LARGER SCALE EVACUATIONS BEING
ALLOWED BECAUSE REMEMBER, THE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION ISN'T
ALLOWING WHOLE SALE EVACUATIONS
IN THE EAST THE WAY
INTERNATIONAL LAW DEMANDS THEY
DO.
BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU COULD SEE
THE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE SEEING
NOW PALE IN COMPARISON TO A
WEEK.
IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE FRONT
LINE STATES, ESPECIALLY MALL DOE
A COUNTRY THAT NEVER FIELDED A
REFUGEE FIELD LIKE THIS BEFORE
ATTICA CAPACITY WITH 130, 140,00
PEOPLE WITH UKRAINE LIVING IN
MOLDOVA BUT SEVERAL HUNDRED
THOUSAND MORE PASSED THROUGH
MOLDOVA ON TO ROMANIA AND
FURTHER INTO EUROPE.
YOU WILL SEE MORE AND MORE
PEOPLE ENTERING POLAND AND THEN
GOING TO GERMANY, GOING TO
SPAIN, GOING TO A COUNTRY OF
ORIGINS TO IRELAND, THAT IS
WELCOMING ON A PER CAPITA BASIS
AND I'M SURE THERE WILL BE
QUESTIONS BEYOND THAT IF THIS
REFUGEE FLOW CONTINUES BUT THAT
IS WHY OUR FOCUS IS ON CHANGING
PUTIN'S CALCULOUS HERE AND NOW
JUST AS THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENT'S FOCUS IS IN SITTING
DOWN FOR DIPLOMATIC TALKS IN THE
HOPES THAT DEESCALATION CAN BE
ACHIEVED AND THAT PEACE CAN BE
BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY BEFORE