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Allies through the process. one thing that s interesting is the president s approach is if you cross my line, vladimir putin, then we ll punish you and punish you swiftly and severely. congress has been a huge debate. should we have some sanctions you. they haven t been able to reach consensus. that negotiation really broke down this week because democrats made an offer to republicans on monday. on wednesday you had republicans unveiling their own legislation that was republican-backed only. i think that is a tell-tale sign those talks have ended on capitol hill. and at this point if there is a russian invasion, that whole debate over whether or not sanctions should come before or after an invasion or which sanctions should come before or after an invasion, that debate ends. and at the end of the day, democrats and republicans have to come together, where the president will have to make an executive decision if lawmakers aren t in washington next week to swiftly enact sanctions and y ....
Whether he can withstand that tide in a presidential year. so, you know, he may be one of the last standing rural senators who wears a democratic label, and he may not be around after 2024. that s how i read that conversation. he s looking for some help. looking for the cavalry to come in and help him because he knows what s just ahead for him. axe, appreciate your perspective all the time. appreciate it. next, president biden warns the risk of a russian invasion is, quote, very high. a closer look at how team biden deals with crisis. mutual customs your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. migraine attacks? qulipta™ can help prevent migraine attacks. it can t prevent triggers, like stress or changes in weather. you can t prevent what s going on ouide, that shy qulipta™ helps what s going on inside. qulipta™ is a pill. gets righto work to prevent migraine attacks ....
Still with us. this has been part of their strategy all along but especially today. from the top down, every top member of the president s war counsel, national security team saying it s coming. secretary blinken going to the united nations to just essentially almost say vladimir putin, we re watching you. we know what you re thinking. this latest phase of the ukraine conflict going on for years. you could argue even decades. this latest phase has already begun. we were seeing fighting between the united states and russia and what is concommonly called the administration phase. we know what you re doing. we know what you re thinking. we have visibility into your strategy here in ukraine. there s an argument. the russians made fun of it for saying the invasion would come yesterday on the 16th. the argument is, right, but when you tell them that you know when they re coming, that shapes their decision-making. it s not that it wasn t ever going to happen. it s that we think we dissuaded ....
And expleasitly saying what the united states has seen russia do in the last few weeks, last few months with this military build up of more than 150,000 troops along ukraine s border. being very clear, that the united states has not seen any of those troops pull back, despite the fact that russia has said that they are pulling back some of those troops. the secretary of state also being very clear about what russia could do next. right? in order to manufacture a crisis. in order to manufacture a pretext for a potential invasion. he laid down some of those details in striking specificity. he talked about the potential for manufactured terrorist attack. the potential for a fake or real chemical attack or a drone strike. all of those things he said are in the realm of the possibilities as something russia could do to then use it as an excuse to go into russia. here s what he said about why ....