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Hes got a long list of things he wants to accomplish, and it doesnt cost him much to put a bunch of troops there so he has a negotiating position. because everybody is so afraid of going to war with russia, which i dont think he has any intention of doing, the world will basically say, yes, the western world, i should say, biden and the germmans and the eu and so on, will say whats on your wish list, well grant it. thats how he operates. >> to that end, bill, president biden going in with what w...

Off. the fact that we allowed the process to move it as far as it is not a big deal. its leverage for us. is it leverage? >> at the end of the day, martha, this white house is bringing talking points to a gun fight. a lot of this is because of their just -- just asinine energy policy. talk to larry kudlow. we had the pieces in place to export american glass, which is cleaner gas on lng ships to the ukraine to supply eastern europe. that would have reduced the strangle hold that russia has on ukr...

A propaganda victory for putin. they discussed cyber attacks but putin has nothing to do crackdown on them. we look for weak am we need to change course before its too late. >> john: the nord stream pipeline, how much leverage does putin have over germany and other nations? ukraine is not a nato nation. so an attack would not invoke article-5. any response from the europeans would be voluntary. just a delay in the cetification of nord steam saw gas prices europe.

Two. >> ari: lets start with a dippel medic bar card. its a good idea. im glad the biden administration is doing it. but why is it unilateral? i thought joe biden was going to organize all of these international coalitions and he was going to be america first or america only? wise in france england, italy, why didnt joe biden work with them behind the scenes? that is a failure by the administration not to make this international effort. in terms of, where you really have leverage over china, it ...

For russia but leverage for the west. biden is expected to ask germany to coordinate to stop or utilize the norm stream 2 pipeline as an economic sanction if russia invades you vein. republicans say biden rolled over on the pipeline to begin with and now is looking for germany to bail him out. >> why do you think the white house is backtracking on a policy that they defended for months? >> well, because president biden is obviously wrong. if you look at right now we have over 100,000 russian tro...

Confrontation. >> today i would like to say stay safe. it is very important because we need you to tell your grandson and granddaughters wonderful stories when you defend the country. with people like you, im confident we will bid them off for. >> we have talked with ukrainian defense officials and the recent weeks who are taking these troop seriously and preparing for a full-scale work, sandra. >> sandra: trey reporting from jerusalem for us, thank you. speak to the former national security adv...

Where this administration stands. >> well, this is quite a moment, isnt it. suddenly here we are now all these years after the end of the cold war worrying now about what russia and china are going to do in an aggressive way next. i think its important to understand that while we have, as has been pointed out in this program considerable leverage in terms of the options available to us for dealing with russia. the situation with china is much more complicated and difficult and its not at all cle...

You think that language is strong enough and that was his interview that he did with bret. >> no, i dont, martha. were being too passive with 110,000 troops on ukraines border. right now putin has three lines of effort going. hes exploiting russias leverage over europes energy supplies. number 2, hes enabling belarus to escalate activity against poland by weaponizing migration. what is that about? undermining nato. the third thing is what were all talking about, the troops on the border of ukrai...

This is to respond. this is where putin is playing a game. if they do not respond militarily come i think he is rubbing the back of nato. people will go, where does america respond and how does nato respond? i dont think he cares. i dont think it will hurt him one bit. to me, this is what i would tell the president to tell the allies in europe. you need to place forces inside ukraine. you tell the germans, the polls, the spanish, the brits, this is part and we are not going back to the start of ...

>> no doubt this will be a big topic of conversation on that call. thank you. president biden and the russian president will speak on a video call. president biden is warning them to stay out of ukraine and he believes his administration has leverage. >> what i am doing is putting together what i believe will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for mr. putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do, but thats in play right now...