you can to make sure that joe biden's favorability in your state increase dramatically or you are not going to get reelected. >> senator heidi heitkamp, mike memory and ashley, thanks to all of you. also this morning russian and ukrainian troops remain locked in a standoff. president biden now predicting vladimir putin will ultimately send troops across the border, but he also raised some eyebrows with this remark about potential consequences for russia. >> russia will be held accountable if it invades, and it depends on what it does. it's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera, but if they actually do what they're capable of doing with the force amassed on the border it is going to be a disaster for russia. >> within an hour administration officials tried to walk that back, insisting that for the purposes of the u.s. response any action would be interpreted as a renewed invasion. the vice president doubled down