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Important times, arguably, since 9 11 in terms of the united states getting allies to, you know, stand behind them, but also step up in terms of those defense commitments. yeah it really is. and it's huge what we're seeing in that regard. so tell us about this asylum agreement. how this is illustrating the changing policy priorities for these two allies , especially in the wake of that chinese spy balloon ordeal. yeah absolutely. and when we look at what they're doing on defense, you know this is continental defense. right? so you're dealing right up to the arctic and going down to mexico and ...

Strategic ambiguity. how do you read this back and forth between the biden administration and the president himself yesterday? >> this is an amateur hour at 1600 pennsylvania. this actually has real-world consequences, largely because the chinese will look at this and say that the administration is incapable and irresolute. biden was very clear a couple days ago when he said, "look, the united states will defend taiwan." there was no ambiguity about that. now, under pressure, you have his subordinates contradicting him, and biden now changing his tune. this is bad, and it's bad not with regard...

With regard to taiwan only, it is with all our defense commitments around the world. >> carley: biden said the u.s. is prepared if north korea decides to conduct a nuclear missile test. the fbi taking center stage in the durham probe trial of michael sussmann. >> todd: government building the case against the lawyer accused of making a false statement to the bureau during the trump-russia collusion investigation. brooke singman joins us live from washington with details. brooke. >> brooke: yesterday we heard from several fbi officials during michael sussmann's trial. biggest name was former he...

Have it in 2008 and we went down by almost 3 million barrels in one year, we are vulnerable. that waves the flag and putin gets an appetite. the second thing is when nato, remember, tucker, it's got 1 billion people and economy eight times larger than russia. when it meets its defense commitments and most people pay the 2% and turkey and germany, which are the two largest countries in nato like the united states better than they do russia. and russia more than us. then putin seems to stay where he is. finally and most importantly, when the united states is confident in the united states talks ...

What do you think of that? >> neil, i think we've got to put all of these options on the table. let me step back. ten days ago, i was in munich. if you told me then if you'd have the germans take the lead on shutting down north stream 2, sanction putin personally, that we would have the europeans taking the lead on kicking russian banks out of swift, that we would have the central bank of russia sanctioned, the germans step up and meet their defense commitments, that we would have sweden and finland sending arms to ukraine and the swiss getting off the neutrality peace and weighing in, i would...