there. and the military needs to establish back channels. relations. todd: great point. carley: congressman michael waltz we have to lee it there. thank you for joining us this morning and sharing your perspective. so appreciate it. todd: they call it the red phone. that s what waltz was talking about. get it up and going now. fox & friends starts right now. [siren] ukraine s second largest city rocked by a russian airstrike. thousands of bracing for the worst. all eyes are on this convoy now estimated at 40 miles long. this is a david vs. goliath situation. mr. president, should americans be worried about nuclear war? no. and this part of military doctrine escalate to deescalate by using tack tackle nuclear weapons. hundreds of thousands of
and if you sanction the entire energy sector, that s really its only way this country and this economy of raising funds for the war effort. yes, i think the guiding principle here is that we want the russians to lose but we don t want them to lose by too much. um, you know, we otherwise, we set up something far worse from from happening as i said in my previous answer. so, one thing i think that that perhaps needs to be signalled right now is that if certain conditions are met, then the sanctions regime can be slackened off. now, arguably, i think the economists would say that all a lot of damage has already been done and that s not reversible by by turning off the sanctions. you don t you don t turn it up and turn it down like you would a tap. but nevertheless, that could have an importance. yeah, there is discussions need to be happening through back channels, right? they can t the western countries can t come out and publicly say if you deescalate
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that zelenskyy wants him to be got between, interesting back channels vrment . thank you for breaking this down. today marks one month since invasion of ukraine began. there are so many people here in the united states who are directly impacted by this war and this week i spoke with local ukrainian leaders inside the ukrainian museum in downtown manhattan to hear what they had to say. take a listen. ukraine has the drive, will, determination and reason to fight. peter, how do you think this war understands? i think we will get our entire country back. it will be us ukrainians standing their ground and wearing down the russians, i don t think you realize what freedom does to an individual and country. we ve had a taste of it. we had a taste of evil also.
internal white house phone calls obtained by the washington post and by cbs news found a chunk of time missing between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m., which includes the duration, of course, of the attack. as the post reports, that gap contradicts extensive public reporting on phone calls the president had with allies during that time. we know he was on the phone. not included in the logs, calls the president made to senator mike lee and to house minority leader kevin mccarthy. the post quotes who people with knowledge of the investigation, saying the committee is looking into whether trump communicated by back channels, former aides, or burner phones. trump released a statement. quote, i have no idea what a burner phone is. to the best of my knowledge, i ve never even heard the term. according to the washington post, his former national security adviser, john bolton, disputes the claim, saying in an interview, he recalls trump using the term burner phones in