HAPPEN. SEVERAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS JOINED UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ZELENSKY OVER ZOOM TO TALK ABOUT WHAT SUPPORT THE COUNTRY NEEDS IN ITS FIGHT AGAINST THE RUSSIAN INVASION. JENNIFER: MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESSMAN BILL KEATING WAS ONE OF THE LAWMAKERS WHO TOOK PART IN THAT MEETING. HE JOINS US LIVE NOW. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ISTH MORNING. FIRST, WE WANT TO ASK YOU, PRESIDENT ZELENSKY IS CALLING FOR A NO-FLY ZONE OVER UKRAINE AND FOR OTHER COUNTRIES TO PROVIDE AIRCRA.FT WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE ON HOW THE U.S. CAN HELP UKRAINE WITHOUT DRAWING US INTO A WAR WITH RUSSIA? REP. KEATI:NG A NO-FLY ZONE IS <i><u>FF OF THE TABLE RIGHT NOW, FOR</u></i> GOOD REASONS. THAT WOULD ENTAIL US KNOCKING OUT GROUND DEFENSES, AIR DEFENSES BY PRESSURE AS WELL AS HAVING -- DOWNING RUSANSI AIRCRAFT. THAT WOULD LEAD US INTO A FULL KILL YOUR, -- FULL-SCEAL WAR, WITH MORE DEATHS. DISCUSSIONS ARE UNDERWAY, I THINK THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY EMPHASIZED DURING YESTERDAY'S PHONE CALL. INDEED, THERE ARE RUSSIAN MIX THAT UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS ARE ALREADY EQUIPPED TO FLY. THERE IS A REAL POSSIBILITY GOING FORWARD THOSE DISCUSSIONS WILL RESULT IN GIVING UKRAINE AND THREI MILITARY SOME AIRPOWER TO FIGHT BACK. RHONDEA:LL SOME LAWMAKERS ARE CALLING FOR INCREASED SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA, BUT YESTERDAY, PRESIDENT PUTIN LIKENED SANCTIONS TO A "DECLARATIOOFN WAR." ARE YOU CONCERERNED THAT EVEN SANCTIONS COULD CAUSE THIS WAR TO EXPAND BEYOND UKRAINE? REP. KEATING: I THINK THAT IS OUR ONLY TOOL GOING FORWARD. RUSSIA NOW, AND PUTIN REALIZES, HE IS HOLDING A LOSING HAND IN THE NGLO RUN. YOU ARE SEEING DESPERATE CLAIMS. THE KEY TO PUTIN OVER THE YEARS IS THIS. LOOK AT WHAT HE DOES, NO WHAT HE SAYS. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING. IT WAS INTERESTING DURING YESTERDAY'S CALL WITH YESTERDAY -- PRESIDENT ZELENSKY, SANKEY CALLED UPON WESTERGAARD INTO VISA TO STOP OPERATIONS AND RUSSIA SO YOUNGER PEOPLE AND OTHERS WOULD UNDERSTAND THERE IS A WAR GOING ON. HOURS AFTER PRESIDENT ZELENSKY SAID THAT, THOSE TWO COMPANIES ANNOUNCED THEY WERE BLOCKING ALL ACTIVITIES IN RUSSIA. JENNIFER PRESIDENT ZELENSKY HAS TO BE THE MOST-WATCHED PERSON IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. WHAT WERE YOUR IMPRESSIONS OF HIM DURING THAT HOUR LONG ZO?OM IS HE EXASPERATED? WHAT IMPRESSED YOU THE MOST ABOUT HIM? REP. KEATI:NG HE SHARED HORRIFIC DETAILS. THE BOMBINGS OF COLLEEG DORMITORIES THE DAY BEFORE, THE BOMBINGS OF TWO KINDERGARTENS INCLUDING A SPECIAL EDUCATION SCHOOL WITH 50 CHILDREN KILLED. THEYRE A TAKING, AND ONE OF THE MAJOR CITIES, MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS AND HOLDING THEM HOSTAGE. TAKING THE MAYOR INTO THE BASEMENT, TORTURING HIM INTO KILLING HIM. HE SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THE THRTEA POSED BECAUSE OF THE NUCLEAR HE, DIFFICULT DETAIL, EXPLAIN WHAT WAS GOINGN, O INCLUDING ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS OWN LIFE. RHONDELLA: ALL VERY HORRIFYING. IT'S BEEN 11 DAYS SINCE RUSSIA FIRST CROSSED THE BORDER INTO UKRAINE, AND RUSSIA SEEMS TO BE MAKING MORE AND MORE HEADWAY. CAN UKRAINE SURVIVE ANOTHER 11 DAYS? REP. KEATING: WELL, IT IS OVERWHELMING. THE RUSSIAN ATTACK HAS CHANGED FROM THE FAILURE EARLY ON TO CRUISING RIGHT THROUGH, THE WAY THEY DID TO SOME EXTENT IN OTHER AREAS OF THE WORLD AND OTHER INTERACTIONS. THEY FOUND UNFORESEEN RESISTANCE, HEROIC AND COURAGEOUS RISTAESNCE. NOW, THEY ARE GOING TO THE OLD PLAYBOOK, WHICH THEY USED IN SYRIA OF JUST ENCIRCLING AND BOMBING CITIES, HITTING CIVILIAN TARGETS, HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, HOUSES OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. THIS IS WHAT THEY DID IN THE PAST. THEY BOMBED AND SHELLED THEM INTO SUBMISSION, THEN GOING IN AFTERWARDS WITH THE CORE OF RESISTANCE. THEY ARE GOING TO FIND HARD-CORE RESISTANCE WHEN THEY DO THAT. THEY HAVE THE OVERWHELNGMI NUMBERS WHERE THEY WILL BE ABLE, STMO MILLIE -- MILITARY EXPERTS BELIEVE, OVERTAKE THE CAPITAL CITY OF UKRAINE. THAT IS A HUGE AREA, THE SIZE OF TEXAS. THE RESISTANCE IS STRONG. THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THEY COULD PUT THE VENEER OF A PUPPET GOVERNMENT INTO PLACE, IT WILL NOT BE A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT. IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY THE PEOPLE, AND IT MAY TAKE SEVERAL YES,AR BUT PUTIN IS HOLDING A LOSING HAND. JENNIFER: CONGRESSMAN BILL
