the house foreign affairs committee. you were just in ukraine. this is something that you have paid a lot of attention to as you watch what has unfolded in the last 12 hours. get your initial thoughts and also if you could just give us the mindset of where you think president zelensky, the president of ukraine is today. >> well, it's a tragedy to wake up this morning in 2022 and to see a sovereign nation invaded by a thug. that's exactly what happened. i was there just over three weeks ago and sat across the table from president zelensky. he said ukrainians would fight for their borders. border security mattered and said we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for an environment of weakness. i believe that weakness has been directly a result of president biden's policies specially regarding nord stream and energy security. i call on president biden and speaker pelosi to make sure that we have broad sweeping sanctions that will cripple the