close to half of all their exports and who s russia s biggest energy client? you guessed it. the european union. joining me now is evelyn farcus, a former national security adviser who served as deputy secretary of defense during the obama administration. thank you for being with us. i m in hungary. your family is from hungary. yes, i have to say you re at work because you re in sa and my parents are watching. i was raised here, very aware because my grandparents lived under communism, what the alternatives were. as i have been reporting, hungary in recent times has not had the best record with refugees, including those from syria. they re doing better right now
vladimir putin. evelyn, quick final thoughts to you. i would say that president obama did try hard and that is part of the program. i think that president biden learned from president obama and all of the other predecessors that you have to be firm and ready to ratchet sanctions. there is a lot of space in there. that s the only way to go with the kremlin. maybe find common ground on transactiona thinks. on your way to you where you are as we speak. thank you for your reporting. we re going to be watching that landing live as president biden arrives in switzerland for that highly anticipated face to face. they criticizes the republican
good morning. any minute now president bide listen arrive in geneva. you will watch it live here when he lands less than 24 hours before he is set to confront his russian counterpart. what sources are tells us about what it is like inside of the president s putin prep. a back here in washington, top house democrats huddling this morning hashing out their next move to investigate the deadly january 6th attack on the capital. we re live with one democrat on how they plan to move forward. we have a lot of action for you on this tuesday morning. i m joined now by monica alba, chief foreign affairs correspondent, along with evelyn
the fact is they could come out of that with something positive on arms control. there is also an indication that it could be an extended meeting that could go well beyond. there are hints that it could staid over. stay over it could be another night involved. even and of course it all depends on what happens. i m just saying they re preparing for nearly everything and they may be adding some things to the president s agenda in meetings that are taking place today. evelyn, let me bring you into the conversation here. evelyn, to andrea s point, people who know that the scenario is the best case scenario for the president is an
error-free summit. evelyn, is that really it? error free? that s the bar here? okay, well that is like the public, how the public should perceive it. we have to remember that the reason this meeting is taking place is because the invitation was extended to vladimir putin when he had amassed his forces on the ukrainian border. he was blockading the black sea. and he would not let alexi navalny who was on death s door, to go to the hospital. we have achieved something because navalny is alive. i think what comes out is president biden will deliver the