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The interesting thing about that, though, president biden and the nato allies have all said any additional incursion from the 2014 attacks into ukraine would be considered an attack. so hes looking to gain leverage, and as nic robertson just reported, watch very carefully two things. number one, the cyberattacks. and any kind of indicators that russian troops or actions in the donbas or in crimea are spiking a little bit. because that will give mr. putin an excuse in his mind to go in to protect...

She wears being an economist, ceo and something i wont say live on the air. they face up to 25 years in prison for the scam. they are giving the government leverage and the irs sharing cryptoexchange information to present scams like this from occurring. >> dana: battle against school mask mandates boiling over at a board meeting in loudon county, virginia last night. a group of students and parents serving sacks of sworn affidavits to board members asking them to cease and desist their mask man...

Ukraine. what potential consequences russia could face if it invades. a lot of speculation what kind of action germany would support. the white house believes there is room for a de-escalation of tensions through diplomacy. s*urn the president spoke by phone with the french president reaffirmed support of ukraines sovereignty. important today. macron is meeting are putin today. energy security is a concern. an invasion could kill russias by a built to have russia transport national ral gas. >> w...

All this without consequence. >> so two points here. firstly, how many warnings does putin get? threats about follow-through are meaningless. is there an argument tonight that putin should be sanctioned now? >> i think you can certainly make an argument that putin could be sanctioned now. however, the counter argument to that, john, would be that right i know we have some leverage. the germans have some leverage with nord stream 2, for example, and what could happen is, lets say sanctions putin ...

Its not just influening american consumers. at the heart of ate all, the leverage is energy and the reason things are going to move or not move with ukraine is going to come down to energy. >> sandra: look at the nord stream 2 pipeline. it was newsworthy when asked after he said that we will shut down that pipeline if putin invades ukraine, the follow up is how can you do that or say that? we will do that. if germany is not on board, they have control of the pipeline. he said we will stop it. ho...

Rest of the united states allies, are all pulling in the same direction. they can be pulling on different ropes, but they are all pulling in the same direction. we would like the germans pulling on the rope theyve got. theyve got a thick rope. theyve got this pipeline mr. putin would really like to put in operation that goes from russia to germany that would further the vulnerability of europe to russian energy leverage, energy blackmail. so what we would like to seat germans do is say this pipe...

Proposed the call monday which we talked about, it was then counter proposed today. what do you make of that and does president biden have any leverage here? what progress could be made in this call? >> probably no progress, if utins already decided to invade. theres some evidence to indicate putin hasnt even decided yet what hes going to do, which is why theed a% wants to talk to putin as early as possible. looks like the russians have all the troops they need, and all the support they need in ...

Leverage on the table right now. namely that nord stream 2 pipeline that today president zelensky of ukraine called a geopolitical weapon. bret? >> bret: trey yingst in ukraine tonight. thank you. as mentioned at the top of the show there are significant developments tonight into the investigation into the origins of the trump-russia probe. special counsel john durham has tied 2016 presidential nominee hillary clinton to an effort to infiltrate trump tower computer false narrative. david spunt h...

Helsinki, and he said, wow, thats bugged, but it went back on air force once. remember also the orb that was presented to him? one wonders if it was part of this. that hurricane map, as funny as it is now, the president then because he was so upset he got -- he was wrong about his twitter prediction and then changed on the map a government agency, the national weather service went back and revised its prediction to prove him right. they reverse engineered it and it was a moment of -- maybe an in...

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