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Devastating price. >> senator risch, some conservative personalities, even some sitting lawmakers, they're questioning why the u.s. is helping ukraine at all. i want you to take a listen. >> why is it disloyal to side with russia but loyal to side with ukraine? ukraine is strategically irrelevant to the united states. he wants to keep his western border secure. that's why he wants ukraine to join nato which makes sense. >> senator, as 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 w...

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 to decide how many body bags of russia's sons are going to return to russia. the sanctions that we're talking about would come later on the he invades. some sanctions would come up front for what has been done already, but the lethal aid will travel no matter what. >> quickly, senator risch, the issue of the nord stream 2 pipeline between russia and germany, the administration is reluctant to do anything to block that. will you have -- i...

>> well, i don't think that decision has been made yet. there's a lot of us that believe that if putin sees weakness, if he sees bumbling, if he sees ineptitude, if he sees indecision, he will take advantage of that. i don't think he's made a decision to do that yet. what bob and i and our coalition of bipartisan senators are attempting to do is to project the resolve that we have as americans to see that he doesn't do that, to provide the strength, project the strength and convince him that this would be a very, very bad idea and it's going to be extremely painful. this is not the same as cri...

The, quote, near term as his top military general warned an invasion by the russians would be, quote, horrific. harsh assessments the ukrainians are downplaying as that country's president urges calm. in the latest sign of the growing threat, cnn is reporting that the u.s. sees indications russia is positioning new supplies of blood near ukraine's border, that according to two senior defense officials. it's a grim potential signal of russian plans for an invasion. on capitol hill republican and democratic lawmakers are working together trying to reach a compromise on a large sanctions bill t...

Invasion. on capitol hill republican and democratic lawmakers are, woulding 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 about a possible invasion from top american officials...