up shop in the you nighted arab emirates, for example. that s supposed to be an ally of the xwrunited states. i don t love about hearing india stepping up purchases of russian oil or russian diamonds being laundered through the gulf states or israel to reach the united states. all of these things have been sanctioned on paper. it s hard work to actually enforce them and make sure that all of these third countryiies around the world are chooses the right side. congressman tom malinowski, thanks for being with us today. thank you. russia is going to great lengths to downplay the sink of that russian warship. on russian state media, there was no mention of the sinking of the ship, and they were fed lies about what happened. reporter: russia s biggest naval loss in a generation
why [speaking foreign language]. back here in the u.s., there are impacts, democratic congressman tom malinowski said i m getting tweets those that watch charleston and are upset that we re not siding with russia in its threats. tucker seems to have some sort of larger pattern here with tyrants who learn to the right. he famously went to hungary last year and had a fawning visit with the strong man there, victor and suspended elections in his own country. now, there are as i mentioned valid debates about overseas interventions and this may be a time many people want to stay away from any reactionary hawkishness but to continuously seemingly echo the views of dictatorship by charleston may be debating as american
today, members of the biden administration will brief congress about the decision to deploy 3,000 u.s. troops to eastern europe amid the threat of a russian invasion of ukraine. a kremlin spokesman told cnn that russia is worried by the move, it accuses the u.s. of stirring up the tension. joining me now to discuss the situation there in new jersey, congressman tom malinowski, he visited ukraine last week as part of a bipartisan delegation of u.s. lawmakers. thank you for taking the time this morning. thank you. congressman, i know you ve been watching the situation very closely in addition to your visit there, briefed on the latest intelligence and watching the words coming from the kremlin. where do you stand today on the likelihood of further russian military invasion of ukraine? i say further because they already invaded ukraine as you know in 2014, but further military action, a fait accompli
are. but, at the same time, the united states is still not saying that those troops, those russian troops headed into the donbas are a new step because they say that there have been russian troops in that region for the last eight years. so, what russia has done up until this point does not seem to be the full-blown invasion, that new invasion, that would take this diplomatic meeting completely off the table. but the state department is also being very clear in saying just last night that in order for diplomacy to be successful, russia is going to have to change its actions here and we clearly haven t seen that happening. so today is an incredibly important day to watch to see if the biden administration keeps this meeting on between the secretary of state and the russian foreign minister. kylie atwood, please keep us posted on any thing new you hear. joining me is tom malinowski from new jersey.
coming up, obviously the state of the union, and that meeting happening today between ukraine and russian delegates. we ll see if we see progress. this economic pain hurts here but it s devastating in russia. stephanie, kelly, thank you very much. a programming note, stephanie will anchor a special report tonight, beyond ukraine s border. 11:00 p.m. eastern time on msnbc. let another continue this conversation. let me bring in new jersey democratic congressman tom mall malinowski, and former assistant secretary of state for human rights and labor. so good to see you, congressman. we learned the house will get a classifying from the president s national security team later this afternoon. what are your big questions right now? look, i think the administration is doing everything that any of us could