president vladimir putin with threats about what might happen if russia were to invade the eastern part of ukraine. >> sandra: continued message on the bright house on the upcoming phone call with diplomatic work preparation. in planning for what will come next there. on the vp office, interesting response, everyone she knows at the office looking forward to continuing their job but on the smash and grab robberies, an interesting exchange. john, the program last week jen psaki was highly criticized for blaming the spike in crime in the country coast-to-coast onto the covid pandemic. it seems now she was pointing to the increase in crime during the pandemic, not because of it. perhaps a change of messaging in approaching this. , a federal prosecutor, congressman, a lot of the discussion today around