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Warnings were seeing with the russian buildup on the border with ukraine, theyre taking advantage of this window of time that exists before a potential invasion. i think when you looked at what ultimately halted russias advance in 2014 after they moved into a couple of eastern provinces of ukraine, it was a combination of truly multilateral sanctions on russia, but not just the u.s. acting alone, but the u.s. aligned with europe and other countries, which increases both the diplomatic and econom...

To read there is vladimir putin there to listen. is he truly looking for an off ramp or is he looking there just to have some talks and then he can start into a prove sghags do we know? what does he want? >> you know, i think that vladimir putin is trying to decide what exactly he wants from all of this as well. i dont think theres any question that as secretary blinken said there are two paths here. this is a dangerous moment between russia and the united states and our allies. we can either wo...

If you are a republican and you know somebody decides that they want pave an off ramp and if you want to call them communists, go try and see if it works. so the only thing i am saying here is after again saying democrats need to fight like hell and learn to be meaner and tougher. >> right. >> you know that when you are doing the outside game. joe biden needs votes. hold on. he needs to get -- he needs to get his 50 votes. >> he played the inside game.

Administration, despite what the democrats did to president trump have been very reluctant to send any sort of lethal aid to the ukrainians for fear that there provoke the russians. >> brian: we should not worry about them. they should be worried about us. and we dont seem to get that. >> right. >> brian: january 10 on it we will have talks with them and january 12th. nato will have talks with. they russia is beginning to win because they have this give me an idea of an off ramp. is he all about...

White house does not want an off ramp with some moderate approach. they want an all or nothing on this. and theyre trying to make the big lie as theyve now adopted that language referring to president trumps actions on the election as one of their tools. >> garrett haake, let me pose the question to you that we posed at the top. what is chuck schumer, but ill alter the question a little bit. what is chuck schumers end game here? >> i wish i could tell you, chuck. this is the challenge of reporti...

You say that you dont want nato on your borders. if you go further in ukraine, youre going to guaranteed nato presence along those borders. this is the kind of difficult game of diplomacy, as you know, andrea, on the one hand you want to make clear there will be firm consequences if russia goes back into ukraine or goes beyond where they are in ukraine. at the same time, you dont want to that outcome so you need to have an opening for some diplomacy, and well learn a lot in a week or so when the...

State antony blinken about that. do you think these are just bad faith efforts the russians are going into with the pretext as you described it. he projected a more optimistic view. i suspect hes more clear eyed. todays meeting is the second tleef with russia scheduled to take place this week. any reason for optimism that some sort of breakthrough can be reached and some off ramp for putin can be offered? >> you know, that phrase off ramp, i have to say, it triggers me. >> sorry. >> because i re...

Control. >> putins only real leverage is those 100,000 troops on the border. thats why he manufactured this crisis. hoping to pressure even blackmail the u.s. into providing the security guarantees that he wanted. second biden call earlier on the program suggest to me is looking for diplomatic off ramp to get the u.s. to agree to the security guarantees that he wants without having to pay a price and without being able to avoid the threaten u.s. european sanctions that could really damage the fr...

Thursday. well stay tune but biden held his alliance together so far in resisting the russias event. >> david, theyre seeing mixed signals and 100,000 troops on the border but now they thought 125 or 150, fewer men expected and helicopter has arrived which could be a sign considering it. is there another off-ramp that could be offered to de-escalate here? >> there is talks of number of off ramps and ways that you can finesse on limitations and troops and exercises and ways which nato forces are ...

. today an important meeting between russian and u.s. diplomats about ukraine. united states and europe says they wont negotiate with a gun held to their head. the american secretary of state outlined an off ramp for putin and will shoot it if he plans not to take it. >> theres a dialogue in diplomacy to try to resolve some of these differences and avoid a confrontation. the other path is confrontation and massive consequences for russia if it renews its aggression on you a crane. >> lets get ...