As the Alabama Republican sees it, Russia invaded Ukraine because it's a “communist country” in need of “farmland.” That's not even close to being true.
But if Tuberville concluded that Russia had to invade its neighbor in order to acquire “more farmland,” we can only hope he won’t be playing a leadership role in the Senate on the U.S. response to the crisis. And the three branches of the United States government. It’s tempting to think the senator may have simply been having a rough day, but there’s also a larger context to consider. By square miles, it is the largest country on the planet by a wide margin. Right off the bat, it’s curious that Tuberville believes Russia is a “communist country,” given that the Soviet Union collapsed more than three decades ago. Not to put too fine a point on this, but Russia is a country so large, it spans 11 time zones.
CHRIS JANSING, HOST MSNBC: Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland – thank you for being with us at this very serious time, Senator. A lot of people ...
And that’s why continuing to support the resistance here – to provide weapons to the resistance – will be important. We need now to raise the price – the cost to him, his cronies, and to Russia – of the invasion. Look you’ve condemned – world leaders have condemned – this attack in the strongest possible terms, but given the kind of actions that we’ve seen will anything, do you think at this point, get Putin’s attention? Look we all know – we’ve talked about it – that no bipartisan agreement was able to be reached after weeks of work that you all did on sanctions. The key of course is to do this in unison with our allies. We also need to be providing weapons to the Ukrainian resistance.