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Martha? >> martha: chad pergram, that's very much. lee seldon joins me now. good to have you with us today. >> great to be with you. >> martha: what can you share as you walked out of that briefing today about what is going on? >> what happened inside of that briefing was top secret. so there's a lot that i can share, but what i would tell any americans that are in ukraine, they need to get out. it is an important, serious moment for their safety. right now there's commercial air traffic that is going to be capable now and there's no way to guarantee the safety for them if this escalates. ther...

Diplomatic solution, it is beginning to close. but it is still an option. want to bring in josh lederman in wilmington, delaware, where the president spent most of the weekend monitoring the situation. this story was breaking overnight. as we saw it hit our inboxes, it was startling to see what a war essentially between moscow and ukraine would look like. the casualties that could feasibly be involved, of course, as well. and just how ready russia is in fact to invade. did any of this catch the white house off guard? >> i don't think it caught the white house off guard because this was an inte...

President trump was low 52s up until august and his approval rating plummeted and he hasn't been able to recover. record lows he's see suggest in part reflection on his press conference. the only headlines were yelling at a reporter and giving putin green light for minor incursion. >> todd: important you bring up afghanistan and you often do, that debacle showed the american people, does this guy know what he's doing? i'm concerned he has no idea what he's doing and nothing since that point engendered confidence. >> todd: 10 democrat led finally lifting mask mandates after two years. >> carley...

Not going to happen under president biden. griff: congressman, you wrote a letter to secretary of state blinken in recent days. what is it that you're asking of the secretary? >> we need to make sure that we're arming our allies in ukraine, but i'm very concerned about sending troops over there. they're not asking for that. ukraine is asking for material support and certainly something that we need to continue doing. griff: and just as a sort of an assessment of the administration's plan, do we need to be sort of united here in our approach before we cast apersians and what do you think of the...

Example. do you think putin is looking at it different than he did a month ago? >> i still don't see what the face-saving move for vladimir putin right now is to not invade. that's what i'm concerned about, richard. how is there a way for this to deescalate that putin still saves face, which as we know what he needs. this is ideological to him, whereas we know the american people is not going to be necessarily supportive of going into ukraine. >> i think he has three options. one, he can take some of the diplomatic things being offered to him in the way of arms control, new talks in europe, pu...