we re joined now live with much more on this. jamie, i have to say, this is an extraordinary step for the committee to take, to subpoena the house minority leader. do we know if any of these men are an are anticipated to cooperate? we don t, but kevin mccarthy said the committee just wants to go after their political opponents. that doesn t sound like he wants to cooperate. mo brooks just told our manu raju that i believe it s wise to wait to determine whether it s best to present a united response. look, that said, the committee, jake, has laid down a marker. they knew as one source close to the committee s investigation said to me, a political tsunami. they debated it for months. but in the end, do they really
they had not predicted this response. going back to the beginning of this war nato was frag mented about how they wanted to deal with this. it has been a robust response and united response. the u.s. is doubling down on that. it s clear the russians are not happy about it. sam, we heard what sounded like an air raid siren before. is that still going on? is that heard often there? reporter: anderson, this is the sound of spring here in kramatorsk. almost constant air raid sirens. there have been occasional strikes of missiles, probably fired from aircraft, long-range missiles. this is the sort of witching hour in this sort of hour or two before dawn when they most often strike just as the sun is coming up. so we re expecting what are likely to be largely kind of psychological pressure, i think,
well talking about nuclear threats. and i think there s no question that they had not predicted this response, going back to the beginning of the war, it seemed that nato was fragmented about how they wanted to deal with this right. and it has been a robust response, it has been a united response. the u.s. is now sort of doubling down on that and it s clear that the russians are not happy about it. sam, we heard what sounded like an air raid siren before. is that still going on? is that heard often there? reporter: anderson, this is the sound of spring here in kramatorsk. almost constant air raid sirens. there have been occasional strikes of missiles, probably fired from aircraft, long-range missiles. and this is the sort of witching hour in this sort of hour or two before dawn when they most often strike, just as the sun is coming up, so we re expecting what are likely to be largely
i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday. news as tensions escalate. the top diplomat sending a blunt warning to russia coming close to a red line that moscow must not cross. if a single additional russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, as i said, that would trigger a swift, a severe and united response from us and from europe. and, again, there are other things russia could do that falls short of actually sending additional forces into ukraine and, again, across the board we re prepared with europe for a swift and calibrated and united response. we re looking at every scenario preparing for every one. blinken s warning comes as russia has amassed some 100,000 troops near the ukraine border. despite repeated warnings from
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