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Today, we're going to talk about Russia invading Ukraine and the Republican Party's wholly

unpopular response to it.

And I interview the president of the United States Joe Biden on Brian Taylor Cohen and

you're listening to No Lie.

Okay, obviously a big week.

I'm recording this in Washington, D.C. where I sat down with the president for his first

one-on-one interview since both the war in Ukraine and his Supreme Court nomination.

But first, Russia has officially invaded Ukraine.

Bomings and cities across the country began early Thursday morning and they're continuing

night after night as it looks like Putin's attempting to seize control of Kiev.

President Biden's responded with sanctions, including most recently on Vladimir Putin himself,

along with his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov joining the European Union and doing so.

The White House is also targeted Russia's largest banks, semiconductors, telecommunications,

encryption security, lasers, sensors, navigation, avionics, maritime technologies, sanctions

on a number of oligarchs and Russian elites and their families who are close to Putin, the

Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and a number of individuals in Belarus, which is allied with Russia, along

with Belarusian banks and defense firms.

What's counterintuitive, too, is that if Putin's goals are to undermine NATO and to reestablish

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