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Front for what has been done already, but the lethal aid will travel no matter what. >> quickly, senator risch, the issue of the in order -- nord stream 2 pipeline between russia and germany, the administration is reluctant to do anything to block that. will you have -- in this legislation, will you actually take action? >> as you know, we've had a disagreement on that, a continuing disagreement since the administration took office. look, there's been something happen on the ground that has changed the dynamics and opened the door really for us to reach agreement on that, and that is that the ...

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 crimea, when he did this last time. there is substantially, substantially more worldwide opposition to his thoughts this time. >> let's talk about what you just mentioned, senator risch, chairman menendez, you're working together. the two of you are leading a broader discussion, bipartisan discussion to...

As the u.s. warns russia is ready to invade ukraine -- >> it's a little like reading tea leaves. >> -- a bipartisan group of senators is trying to prevent war. i'll speak with 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 next. president biden will...

Welcome back to "way too early." it's 5:31 on the east coast. 2:31 out west. i'm jonathan lemire. as bipartisan negotiations on a russian sanctions package remain at an impasse, republican senators are now unveiling their own bill. the proposed legislation is spearheaded by senator james risch of idaho. the bill would slap sanctions on the nord stream 2 gas pipeline and russian officials and provide financial assistance to ukraine and speed up arms to the yoourp people country. the january 6th committee issued six new subpoenas to people they said were involved in organizing slates of alternat...

Risch bill? >> it's so interesting, the twists and turns on sanctions, it seems like senator risch and senator menendez the chair of the foreign relations committee are working together. and the big disagreement has always been important to implement sanctions before a russia invasion. republicans wanted that. democrats didn't. particularly the white house. and that's really where this fell apart. yesterday, they had kind of a strong statement from senate leadership. i'm not quite sure that sends, you know, a unified front to russia to say that the u.s. is going to be strongly together on this...