credentials and record and real record of ruling on both sides? brings anything to question. and i think she really deserves bipartisan support and deserves a shot at that. well, i hope senator graham takes you up on her invitation to my show. white house press secretary jen psaki, thank you, as always, for coming to the sunday show. thank you, jonathan. coming up, remember that time donald trump was impeached for withholding military aid from ukraine while asking president zelenskyy to dig up dirt on joe biden? my next guest certainly does. don t go anywhere. t guest certas don t go anywhere.
news, and you hear from people like madison cawthorn, and marjorie taylor greene, and steve bannon. why would they be doing this? when we think back to trump s ties with putin, and ties with russia, they come long before they were president. he s trying to build trump tower and moscow, they had miss america there, and it is tucker carlson, and madison cawthorn? it was authoritarian s attract them, and said that there is a brand. even though the world is rallying around ukraine, and with madison cawthorn said that president zelenskyy was about, and keep in mind, russian denialism has been in the republican dna about the last four, or five years, under donald trump. donald trump has been impeached for trying to extort ukraine, and to dig up dirt on joe biden.
be the republican nominee, and could be president again. republicans have to decide, who speaks with them? the international, we re standing with ukraine? or, these voices that, are right now, for the moment, in the minority, that are on fox news, and you hear from people like madison cawthorn, and marjorie taylor greene, and steve bannon. why would they be doing this? when we think back to trump s ties with putin, and ties with russia, they come long before they were president. he s trying to build trump tower and moscow, they had miss america there, and it is tucker carlson, and madison cawthorn? it was authoritarian s attract them, and said that there is a brand. even though the world is rallying around ukraine, and with madison cawthorn said that president zelenskyy was about, and keep in mind, russian denialism has been in the republican dna about the last four, or five years, under donald trump. donald trump has been impeached for trying to extort ukraine, and to dig up dirt
remember, russia assisted donald trump s campaign in 2016. donald trump then responded by trying to shield russia by suggesting maybe ukraine was responsible, and he also tried to pressure the ukrainian president who vladimir putin is now trying to destabilize to dig up dirt on joe biden. the president refused, and of course that resulted in president trump s impeachment. so a big political backdrop to the call in addition to the national security issues. it certainly is. you set it up well for us. ambassador, i want you to weigh in. the u.s. is weighing new sanctions against putin s inner circle if russia invades ukraine. how likely do you think it is that russia will invade, and how would you describe the threat level at this point, at this moment? so i d say the threat level is very high because in answer to your first question, it s hard to say. no one can get inside to mr. putin s mind. he s invaded ukraine before. we know he can do it. he can make that decision.
that s why they re talking about extremely severe economic sanctions, including unplugging russia from the global financial system, which would be a very serious step to take, and you don t know how russia would react to that. but we ve seen that it s very difficult given the fact that the united states is not prepared to commit troops to resist russian aggression in ukraine, it s very difficult to stop. george w. bush couldn t stop it. barack obama couldn t stop it. donald trump didn t want to stop it. and by the way, that s part of the political backdrop of this call. remember, russia assisted donald trump s campaign in 2016. donald trump then responded by trying to shield russia by suggesting maybe ukraine was responsible. and he also tried to pressure the ukrainian president, who vladimir putin is now trying to destabilize, to dig up dirt on joe biden. the president refused, and of