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Differ from president obama. congressman of fox news contributor dennis gets a match. nice to see you this morning. much has been made from the moment said the airplane landing at the tarmac with the king coming out of the red carpet. stark contrast to a president obama was received and basically no one showed up on the tarmac. it would seem largely here as a snub. how did you see it, congressman? >> well, aside from the optics, we have to be concerned that america does take in a direction of foreign policy because that's a president trump processed with respect to saudi arabia as we all know ...

Ability to produce energy to supply europe with that energy. >> in addition to the energy issue though, congressman, isn't one of the issues the fact that the u.s. only does $40 billion of trade where the european union does $460 billion and if you remove the energy issue from the equation the brits, germans, others in the eu rely too much on russia, their economies are so intertwined they are afraid any sanctions imposed against russia would respond -- would result in retaliation. >> it's a two sided sword here. it's two edged in the sense that as much as it would help in the leverage, you kn...

Uk, they get very little. maybe up to 20% of their oil and gas from the ukraine. by now you start to talk about germany and this middle part and you're talking about considerably more. maybe between 40 and 80% of their natural gas comes across that pipeline we saw earlier. and then you get to the countries like the czech republic, poland, you get to these countries. now you see those flows coming through ukraine much more power any. and these countries will be badly affected. that's the way it comes together. when you put those numbers -- those numbers again, if you remember, 460 billion from ...

Issued today. >> and now russia puts up this immense military exercise. what is your reaction to that news? >> well, look, whether or not russia has a military exercise within its borders is the not the issue. the issue is whether they respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. that's what they have already violated in crimea. we've been clear that it would be a destabilizing he is came laer to move for them. that would invite even stronger response from the united states and our european allies. as long as they're in crimea, they will face consequences from us that will hav...

>> yes, that's why the u.s. is pushing harder for economic sanctions. i think the economic issues make him pause. he's unlikely to push further into ukraine with his troops, but if he feels he's going to lose his warm water port in crimea, which this is all about, he will go to the mat, he will use more military force, so it's a tool, i think, economic leverage, but not an answer when it's sort of a key interest in putin's mind. he will lose whatever he needs to lose. >> energy, obviously, a key component, but there is a bigger issue of trade. the european/russian trade relationship is worth $...