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Might be there during an invasion? what scenarios would you put american troops to get americans out? >> its not. thats a moral war. when americans and russia start shooting at one another we are in a very different world. >> not even to evacuate americans? >> how do you even find them? i hope he is smart enough not to do anything that would negatively impact on american citizens. >> have you told him that? >> yes. >> you told him that americans will be a line they cant cross? >> well, i didnt h...

Can maintain leverage. i know germany stands strong with the united states. i have no question as to their commitment to stand with us should we need to impose sanctions on russia. >> you do believe although we did not hear it yesterday that germany has agreed, has committed to shutting down the pipeline. >> i think they are committed to do it if thats what it requires. i have no question they would stand with us if that were case. >> lets listen to this exchange. this is the president yesterday...

What was left of our embassy presence out of kyiv further west to obviously a safer position, and its an illustration of a concerned level at the highest levels of the government. >> we are approaching if we are not already at a peak, and the u.s. government already called it a crescendo. if this is a way for vladimir putin to exert the most leverage against the west, what is he trying to get here. what does he ultimately want? >> what he ultimately wants is ukraine in the first instance. but as...

>> the best we can do now is just hope that wallace will be true to his word and king will break them up peacefully after 35 or 40 minutes. >> and king did break them up peacefully to go back. >> i dont know if lyndon johnson knew we would have bloody sunday, and at that moment it meant people couldnt turn away anymore. johnson recognized that moment would provide the legislative leverage that he needed. >> you look at the timeline, and the march over the bridge is the 7th, and then lyndon johns...

General, as you have looked at this, your opinion has been that you are not convinced vladimir putin will attack. why is that? >> im not convinced hes going to attack on a large scale, john. i think hes going to continue to try to probe. i think the interesting piece to watch for is what happens in the southeast part of ukraine and additional forces rolling into the donbas. they have said any additional incursion from the 2014 attacks into ukraine would be considered an attack. so hes looking to...

Dana: lets bring in michael allen former special assistant to george w. bush. he been following these issues for a long time what you make of this escalation. some described as an escalation to de-escalate. >> thank you for having me. i believe putin is trying to get leverage. he is losing the public relation more, this is taking a lot more russian lives than he wouldve calculated. i think you seen a diplomatic thing that hes tried to do. hes trying to get leverage by saying nuclear weapons on t...

Is in germanys control? >> we will, i promise you, well be able to do it. >> sandra: why was it made such a big deal there, obviously to make that statement, to make that threat, the president and the white house sees that pipeline as leverage. are they getting this wrong? >> no, i do think its important but i think we are just overstating its value because look at, theres many pipelines going from russia into europe, and certainly a number of them going through ukraine. thats the revenue source...

Have been asking the white house daily as well. look, this is the leverage we have to hold over him. this is what is potentially, they are hoping, maybe urging him to reconsider in those final hours that theyre going to hit him with some of the toughest they say economic sanctions that have ever been slapped on any country historically. however, we did learn yesterday that they are holding back on basically kicking russia out of the swift banking system. that would be really the toughest thing t...

Putin says that, putin has also asked that his foreign minister will carry on these discussions. he was supposed to meet with secretary blinken, and they are turning out the idea of a summit. they have turned down both lines of operation at the same time. but from a position of strength where they are threatening ukraine just designed to give them the leverage to practice the coercive diplomacy that they want. russia is really no different than north korea, trying to extort us with nuclear test....

Strength is very important. if we sanctioned before an invasion, we lose all of our leverage. there is no reason for him to back down. he actually has to show strength by invading. so the timing and sequence is very important. thats where some of the disagreement comes in. other than that, there has been a lot of unity around this, which has been a little bit of a silver lining. >> i want to turn now, congressman, if you will to the january 6 committee investigation here at home. the committee i...