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Administration for five years. i think i remember one time that he asked for a call. its usually the other way around. so that means he has a message he wants to send to the president. >> republicans have criticized president bidens russia strategy for waiving sanctions against a russia gas line project to germany called nord stream 2 analysts say that pipeline would strengthen russias position in europe at the expense of american allies like ukraine and poland. some republicans also say the whi...

While his granddaughter got her degree. love that. >> joey: got bless america. >> kayleigh: god bless america. its been wonderful being here with all of you. happy new years eve eve. that is it for us. watch "the five" tomorrow this time you will have the original crew. "special report" is up next. ♪ ♪ >> bret: good evening. im bret baier. breaking tonight senior defense officials are privately very concerned russia will make some move in to ukraine soon with tens of thousands of russian tro...

President in wilmington, delaware. good evening, rich. >> richard: good evening, bret. following that call senior administration officials say they are now watching the russian ukrainian border to see what russia does from here. just heard from white house press secretary jen psaki on this 50-minute call. she says, quote: president biden urged russia to deescalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear that the united states and its allies and partner also respond decisively if russia further inva...

Havent left. in fact, there is evidence that they have been fortified in recent days and senior defense officials tell fox that they are really concerned about what they are seeing and hearing from the russians. we dont know the specifics of this call. but we do know that the white house put out a statement saying president biden urged russia to deescalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear that the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invades ukr...

Territory. the specifics on that are unclear. the white house is also threatening unprecedented sanctions. this is all ahead about the next week and a half or so top american and russian officials will be meeting in geneva to discuss these issues. presidents biden and putin according to white house officials will not be directly involved in those conversations. rich, im just seeing some of these highlights from the senior administration official saying that the tone of that conversation substant...

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...