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Criticizing president bidens decision to exempt russian oil and gas from sanctions, saying that bidens restrictions on u.s. energy is a kin to sanctions. >> we need to sanction his oil and gas exports. i know that russia has got a lot of leverage over european countries. well, it is time for those european countries to recognize the mistakes they have made. they can seek help from the united states, we can export from a liquefied natural gas them. here at home. joe biden needs to complete the re...

>> reporter: and perhaps his most chilling remark, the president warned that the russian leader has his sights set on more than just ukraine. >> he has much larger ambitions than ukraine. he wants to in fact re-establish the former soviet union. thats what this is about. >> reporter: now, jake, we also heard from senator mitch mcconnell who said president biden called the top four congressional leaders this afternoon to give them a personal briefing on ukraine. when it comes to these sanctions t...

Putin? >> it is not. and frankly i dont necessarily agree with the premise that these are deterrent sanctions. theyre punitive sanctions. theyre sanctions taken in response to russian actions. theyre not -- deterrent sanctions might be something, you know that you do like a graduated response where you signal that war is coming ahead of time. it is proactive. this is punitive. this is in response. and i think a lot of this stuff now is -- i hate to say as lightly as window dressing, it is not. i...

Pipeline, if you recall that. the problem is that weakness abroad and trouble at home is a molotov cocktail of destruction. biden is stumbling and bumbling his way through every day. in the mean time, we need leadership in this country. unfortunately, 20% of the american public, only 20% thinks hes going to be a successful president. last week when cnn polled people around the country and said, can you name something that biden has accomplished, 58% of the people said nothing. >> hannity: they s...

Own economic well—being on the line. so we dont want to touch russian gas and oil exports because we need that stuff. and food and i think since is our relative unwillingness to really do tough things with them im not suggesting we should fight for ukraine, but i do think we might have to be going to accept a little bit of economic hardship and sully higher gas and oil prices, develop a plan to get ourselves off russian oil and gas over the next three happen five years if this gets worse, if t...

What he claims to be the legal backing to do so. >> yeah. when it comes to the sanctions, you know, putins pretty much ignored these ones. he knew they were coming. he knew sanctions would come whatever he did. hes been planning for it building up his currency reserves and so on trying to sanction proof the country. he must know that even worse ones are coming. >> yes. >> do you think hes sort of baked that into his calculations and that its worth? >> to some degree. there are costs here for him...

The party almost always loses seats. in most races you would rather have an incumbent because they with raise more money, are familiar with the district. thats why this hurts. >> this is in line with the trend, what we see happen, republicans in 2018. i would say the issue here is while democrats are still in power this blunts their momentum and i think weakens their leverage. republicans are looking at them like we dont have to work with you in power because were on the way out the door. >> oba...

Thats romania and lithuania and the baltics states. he wants them to it look like belarus with a government that responds to him. we need to make clear. thats not going to happen. at the beginning of the program you touched on what gives vladimir putin leverage. nuclear weapons in the battleground is one. the other is oil and natural gas. he weaponized energy and to hear joe biden say its not our goal to disrupt oil in the market place. its not to disrupt it, its to replace it. we could chip awa...

On on sanctions and hold on on military assistance to ukraine if, until russia invades. the problem with that strategy is, president zelensky emphasized today, russia is the enemy at the gate. 190,000 troops against the u.n. charter. president zelensky would like us to do more to ratchet down the crisis and so far we dont have the leverage to do that. david: dan, do you think its a mistake for zelensky to leave ukraine at this moment and go to germany? >> i think he saw that he had to do it beca...

>> so we deliberately negotiated with the justice department that if stopped we would turn around and go back to the church. >> 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 legi...