surprise, that by continuously putting more information into the public space including declassifying, as you were talking about with congressman quigley, it forces putin into a tougher time. as long as putin is talking he s not invading, and we have seen president putin with a series of conversations over the last weeks with other european leaders, boris johnson by phone a few weeks ago, just this week with president macron of france, he s actually scheduled to meet in person with olaf schultz, the new chancellor of germany on february 15th. at this point, it does appear that that meeting is moving forward, and so the more that the white house can encourage these kinds of conversations to continue, then they see that as a good thing. as a white house official just put it in this call with reporters that ended a few moments ago, military action still appears a distinct possibility. they re clear eyed about the fact that this diplomatic effort, this diplomatic path
we inform our allies what s happening, so they are kept abreast. mr. putin is unpredictable. what he may want to do may be totally unique and unprecedented. and are you, sir, of the belief that vladimir putin doesn t yet know what he s going to do, that he s just getting all of his ducks in a row so that whatever decision he makes he s at the ready? i m sure he s keeping all of his options open. it s apparent as congressman quigley and jake sullivan and others have said, they have been communicating their intentions and perhaps using that as threats as some sort of blackmail, political and economic blackmail toward the west, but it looks like they re fairly intent on an invasion, and congressman quigley and the others in the national security arena are probably much more attuned to what s happening right now. let me inform our viewers of what we know in terms of the reality on the ground. we have more than 100,000 russian troops positioned along
opportunity to cement and deepen economic and political ties with russia. okay. former u.s. ambassador to china, gary locke, sir, thank you so much for your expertise and insight on this one. congressman quigley, i ll ask you to stay with me. i have a few domestic issues. for all of you, you may not have heard about it yet, it s one of the biggest emerging mysteries about january 6th, missing information about calls inside the white house that day. what might these calls reveal? that s next. plus breaking news at the u.s./canada border as police move in, but are protestering moving out? protesters moving out? but a moving out protesters moving outprotest? protesters moving out? protes? ? protesteringprotesters moving out? protesters moving out? prote moving out? protesters moving out? protesters moving out? moving out protesters moving out
the matter is this is exactly how the russian kremlin playbook runs out, right. disinformation, cyberattacks, and false flags. this is how they interwarfare, that they set up the situation in which the circumstances allow them to do this. so i think they d be very sophisticated if they did something like this, and i think we can expect it and expect it to look very real. so i think the fact that the administration released this possible information is the fact that they re letting the rest of the world know ahead of this, before the russians do. fascinating stuff. congressman quigley, thank you very much for coming on. thank you. anytime. coming up, meet the midterms. that closely watched texas democratic primary we told you about last week just took a nasty turn. plus, we ll tell you who just ended the speculation about a possible senate run.
know, from the u.s. economy, we don t import a lot of russian oil, but we are looking at options that we can take right now if we were to cut the u.s. consumption of russian energy. what we are also mindful of is not taking steps that would have the impact of raising energy prices, raising oil prices, raising gas prices for the american public, and we also are mindful of doing things in a way that is unified with our partners around the world. reporter: has warned oil and gas companies to not take advantage of the situation by just for their own profits. he has also said that he is tapping into the u.s. s petroleum reserve to help energy so these are all currently weighing right now, alex. okay, lauren egan, thank you so much from wilmington. joining me right now, congressman mike quigley, democrat from illinois. he sits on the intelligence committee and also co-chair of