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Join nato which makes sense. >> senator, that's one of the top republican issues in congress. what do you say to that? >> well, i think, first of all, when you have a country like ukraine which wants to move west and look towards western values that is a democracy, we side always with countries that are democracies. certainly there isn't going to be troops committed in that regard. i tell you, the people who are saying we shouldn't be engaged in this at all are going to be singing a very different tune when they go to fill up their car with gas if, indeed, there is an invasion by russia. as bo...

But i can describe where we've come together on that, and i think it's a combination of both. bob, would you agree with that? >> i agree with senator risch. look, there are some sanctions that really could take place up front because of what russia has already done, cyberattacks on ukraine, false flag operations, the efforts to undermine the ukrainian government internally. those are just some examples of sanctions that could take place now. but then the devastating sanctions that ultimately would crush russia's economy, and the continuing lethal aid we are going to send which means putin has ...

And incredibly strong bipartisan resolve to have severe consequences for russia if it invades ukraine, and in some cases for what it has already done. so what i would say is what we are devising, building upon the legislation that both senator risch wrote independently and i wrote, which i call the mother of all sanctions, is to include a variety of elements, massive sanctions against the most significant banks, crippling to their economy, meaningful in terms of consequences to their accounts and pensions, more lethal assistance to ukraine, the ability to deal with russia's sovereign debt, to ...

Working together trying to reach a compromise on a large sanctions bill to deter putin or punish him, a bill that would require bipartisan support. i want to begin with a special exclusive this morning, two top senators on the foreign relations committee together, democratic chairman bob menendez of new jersey and republican ranking member jim risch of idaho. gentlemen, thank you for joining us this morning. mr. chairman, i'll start with you. we have heard stark warnings is about a possible invasion from top american officials, the ukrainian president is urging the u.s. to stop those dire wa...

>> it's a little like reading tea leaves. >> -- a bipartisan group of senators is trying to prevent war. i'll speak with two members of the foreign relations committee, democratic chairman bob menendez and republican ranking member jim risch next. are we done yet? omicron shows signs of retreating in the u.s. as some states rethink covid restrictions. but with millions still unvaccinated, is it too soon to figure out how to live with the virus? >> we're still seeing pretty high levels all across the state. >> i'll speak to new hampshire republican governor chris sununu. president biden wil...