ahead and invade ukraine and gobble them up, it's the second largest country by land size in europe. and it's only harbin jeopardy of things to come. this is very important that we don't allow this. i believe the president needs to use every tool at his disposal, including economic sanctions. but one other tool that he has that he probably won't use is energy. energy is key to russia's economy. we're destroying our us energy producing sector here in the united states. we ought to start ramping that up and pose a serious threat to russia and its ability to generated cash. todd: congressman, you talked about what you want joe biden to do. what you hope joe biden does. what he should do. at the end of the day, will vladimir putin be more or less emboldened following today's conversation? >> will look, vladimir putin and the rest of the world saw what we did in afghanistan. hopefully the president learned his lesson from that.