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That they have with russia, given putin's brutal war in ukraine. >> bret: we love to have interviews with democrats and republicans together talking about issues. this seems to be an issue that there is bipartisan support. to support ukraine. outside of this issue, mr. chairman, what do you all agree on? >> well, the biggest thing we agree on, the armed services committee is a very bipartisan committee. we had a great brief today from the under secretary for policy and the members. the knowledge base on the committee in a bipartisan way is incredible. and every year we pass the defense bill. a...

Russians with their now confiscated villas and yachts will put the pressure on putin to stop this war. but the conventional wisdom is, it is not the businessmen but the security services chief who have putin's ear, if anyone has putin's ear. bret? >> bret: amy kellogg in london. thank you. joining us tonight. house foreign service committee chairman democrat adam smith washington state and committee member republican congressman mike gallagher of wisconsin. gentlemen, thanks for being here. i want to ask you both the same question. i'm going to put up a map of ukraine over the past day or so, ...

Willingness of both sides to come to an agreement. if there is a willingness would be there to try to help. eric: has the prime minister seen that willingness from vladimir putin? >> so, we know it goes up and down. unfortunately as we speak there still taxing ukraine. i think if we could see a cease-fire at least for the talk would be an opening. but unfortunately for hearing reports there is some progress we have not seen it on the ground. the right thing to do is to cease fire, to sit down to negotiate. we hope will have influence. eric: do you think that will indeed happen? what is the mai...

Domestic energy production as well as iran policy. on the issue of support, ukraine. i think right now we are united and i very much appreciate what the chairman said about getting tough on china. i think we have a huge opportunity to expand bipartisan on that point by as the chairman said, shaming them by declassifying intel if it shows that they are providing military assistance to russia as well as cutting off the export of things like semiconductors, subcomponents that china needs for semiconductor industry. i think we have an opportunity to forge a bipartisan consensus that gets very toug...

Evidence to suggest otherwise. but it reminded me of a tweet i saw from russia's former foreign minister this week, he said putin likely overestimated the strength of his military because of corruption, and he claimed money that was intended to modernize russia's military, was actually stolen and then spent on megayachts and that top military advisers with respect going to tell putin that, so they reported lies to him instead. do you think that's true? >> yeah, i think there's a lot of deception here going on. i mean, given putin's relative isolation, in fact the last couple years literal isol...