proactive, and we met a voter that said she is eligible to use voting by mail, she came in because she trusts this process right now. it s hard to remember what number you used, it s hard to forget those things it s very easy to forget, that s what i meant. thank you. president biden tried out his state of the union message on ohio, and he talked about the inflation and touted the benefits of the biden infrastructure law. we re investing in our economy and in our people. we re claiming our leadership and creating millions of jobs for building a better america. that s what we are going to do. part of this new economic focus will be an emphasis on
putin? katy, i disagree. we are on the same page. there s strong bipartisan support in the senate for imposing crushing sanctions on russia if there s further aggression against ukraine. while we did not work out the fine details of the bill to introduce before we leave, a bipartisan group of us are going tonight where we will be meeting and speaking and having a series of conversations in munich with our vital nato partners and eu partners about how we are united in standing up and detouring putin s aggression against russia. you introduced me as a member of the judiciary committee and foreign relations committee, katy. i will remind you, part of why i was so excited about joe biden s candidacy to be president, he was on the committee, and he s
fabricated, quote, terrorists bombing in russia, a drone strike against civilians or a fake or even a real attack using chemical weapons. next the attack is planned to begin. russell missiles and bombs will drop across ukraine, and communications will be jammed and cyberattacks will shutdown key ukrainian institutions. after that, russian tanks and soldiers will advance on key targets that have already been identified and mapped out in detailed plans. here today we are laying it out in great detail, in the hopes that sharing what we know to the world russia would choose a different path while there s still time. we don t usually hear that much detail. secretary blinken said a biden administration official said
are there. reporter: so trying to bring some clarity to the fog of war is one of the challenges that president biden and his administration team is facing. we re going to hear him lay out the steps. it is encouraging from the white house point of view that they got 3,000 people out yesterday. still not reached the 5,000 to 9,000 per day airlift capacity that the administration is shooting for. the president said he would go beyond august 31st at least for those american citizens. so huge challenges ahead. they re just now beginning to try to get their arms around it and the president will talk about that today. john harwood, we ll be listening. joining me now to discuss this is james clapper, former director of the national intelligence. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks, jim, for having me. so as you know, often in situations like this, you ll hear policymakers say well the intel we got was wrong. i remind people intelligence is a tool, it is not a policy
i think it is a question of time and it is going to be sooner rather than later. because i think a lot of terrorists who fled afghanistan now will return. wow. president biden s answer to that is that, and he was asked about this, is that well afghanistan is not a primary threat to the u.s. and that al qaeda and other groups are more of a threat outside of afghanistan than in it. is that assessment, is that explanation wrong. that is true and that is the situation now. and it is precisely because we saw to it that it was difficult for terrorists to operate from afghanistan. so, now they re going to have another home base in effect? is that your view? i m quite confident of it. i think it is going po be very difficult from the intelligence community over the horizon without on the ground presence to watch this. they re going to do their best, no question about it.