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senate chamber. retired republican federal judge j. michael luttig is expected to condemn trump for instigating as he is expected to put it a war on democracy so that he could cling to power. judge luttig is expected to say had the vice president of the united states obeyed the president of the united states, america would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis. >> joining us now is democratic congres...

Vladimir putin is also a kind of anti-american who tries to block america and germany in various ways. the chinese are very careful. they have offered rhetorical support for russia and its war against ukraine, they offered very little material support, even though the russians have asked for it, and they have actually provided humanitarian aid to ukraine. even in this meeting in this phone call, which was, by the way, a happy birthday phone call to putin, the chinese readout is very different fr...

Call says, quote, president biden voiced the deep concerns of the united states and our european allies about russias escalation of forces surrounding ukraine and made clear that the u.s. and our allies would respond with strong economic and other measures in the event of military escalation. president biden reiterated his support for ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity and called for de-escalation and a return to diplomacy. the two presidents tasked their teams to follow up. now, the...

Military escalation. president biden reiterated his support for ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity and call for de-escalation and a return to diplomacy. the two presidents tasked their teams to follow up ... no, the russian readout of the call was much longer. three, four times longer than the white house readout, which is actually quite sure. and the russian readout includes details not mentioned in the white house read out. the russian readout includes this. the presidents recalled ...

Second, richard, let me come to you. if you were in that briefing, we were getting the official kremlin version of events here. walk us through that and what stood out by national security sullivan so far? >> reporter: first all start with the russian readout. perhaps it was coordinated but maybe it was. but it came out more or less at the same time. as soon as sullivan began to speak, it dropped in russian a long readout from the kremlin, how it saw this call. first it started talking about how...

Policies of donald trump regarding russia. were constantly told by his critics hes a puppet of putin. hes not a good puppet if he is. hes armed the ukraine, slapped sanctions on russia. went to warsaw and gave probably the most anti russia speech since the cold war. both in words and deeds hes making life difficult for vladimir putin. >> you believe that? you think hes been too tough on russia? >> no. come on, steve. why do you think hes getting this criticism? its because objectively he has bee...

Further intelligence from the united states. and thats why, again, this is not just a matter of looking backward. its an important question for our future because its important that americans, when they go to the ballot box and those in other countries as well, understand and be assured that the russians havent been there first. >> no question theres a lot to deal with in the future. but because you were there, i have to ask. you said that more could have been done. did president obama make a mi...

Well, understand and be assured that the russians havent been there first. >> no question theres a lot to deal with in the future. but because you were there, i have to ask. you said that more could have been done. did president obama make a mistake in not doing more? >> well, he did -- took some steps, no question about it. but i think you see from vladimir putins answer right now that more needs to be done. putin is not convinced that there are going to be consequences of a magnitude for russi...

Understand why this could not go well, but on the other hand this will appeal to trump -- trump doesnt like to lose. and i think he will push back in some degree. i dont think on the meddling, but i think hell push back on some other things. what you would fear as an american is the first kind of meeting jack kennedy had when he went overseas and met with krush khrushchev in vienna right back in 61, and he just beat him up in the meeting. kennedy left there saying weve got to find a way to get b...

Donald trump has a game plan going into this meeting. so it is -- it would be easy to understand why this could not go well, but on the other hand this will appeal to trump -- trump doesnt like to lose. and i think he will push back in some degree. i dont think on the meddling, but i think hell push back on some other things. what you would fear as an american is the first kind of meeting jack kennedy had when he went overseas and met with krushov in vienna right pack in 61 and he just beat him ...