Hello, I'm Jim Sudo, filling in for Fareed Sikaria, who is on a very well-deserved vacation

this week for you.

We did some great interviews before he went away, and we're going to have those for

you later in this hour.

In the meantime, let me welcome all of our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world.

Today on the program, I'll have a conversation with former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest

Moniz about the state of the Iran nuclear talks.

But first, this week marked six months of Russia's brutal war in Ukraine.

The true cost of this war difficult to measure.

There were the military costs.

The billions of dollars spent.

The cities destroyed and the territory seized.

The human toll is well.

The lives lost.

The refugees forced from their homes.

The disruption to daily life for Ukrainians living in the shadow of Putin's war.

Not to mention the spike in food and energy costs beyond the theater of war.

And these costs all continue to mount.

This week, the U.S. pledged nearly $3 billion in additional security aid to Ukraine.

This comes as Putin decreed an increase in the size of the Russian military as well.

After half a year of war, what would it take to bring this conflict to a close?

I want to speak now to John Kirby, who is the coordinator for strategic communications

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