senator, thank you for being here. good evening. bret: what did you make of the press conference yesterday overall. if i were the president i don t think i would have a two hour press conference again. but, look, let s just focus on the one thing that was the most disturbing that was already covered in your set-up piece. and that was potential signal to the russia that it s okay to take some of ukraine. now, i m really glad the white house walked that back today. i hope vladimir putin doesn t misunderstand the message. no incursion into ukraine is acceptable. what should would he be doing about it right now? first, we ought to be sending tank, weapons to the ukrainians, helping them learn how to use them and ground-to-air missiles to go after the helicopters that might be a part, obviously, of any iteration incursion as well as being ready to level a sanctions the russians have
because last year we did covid confusion, our special half-hour on the faulkner focus. we might be in a completely different place, and these are the people that worked for him. he is still cleaning up those moments about russia invading ukraine. after a suggesting that present hooton of russia could get away with minor incursion. watch, next. more and lower your payments $615 a month. no bank, no lender, no one knows veterans like newdayusa.
all we know to himself, but that minor incursion, along with the idea that republicans are purposely trying to make it harder for minorities to vote, those are the takeaways and they are going to leave a, that, a long time. bret: right. was it a minor incursion when russia went into crimea in 2014? does that qualify? i see here where you are going. ari, what else struck you from this news conference? well, i think if he were a liberal democrat, the president may have been successful in a holding pattern where you your support no longer erodes there were feisty moments by joe biden that base of the party will enjoy. the problem joe biden has he is cratering among independence and he certainly has lost republicans. it s that damage among independents. i get it s caucus of the white house in off lehr election cycle they have got to run toward the base. which shows that peter doocy s question about why are you governing from the left was a very valid question. joe biden rejected it.
right. i mean, listen, the white house has spent the better part of the last couple of days look to go clarify or clean up president biden s comments in that news conference on webs when he suggested this minor incursion by russia into ukraine, which would draw maybe a less severe response. he has since said any line crossing is going to draw a major consequence. how do you see that moment? do you think that that clarification has helped and has brought the u.s. past the diplomatic difficulties of that moment? i think what president biden said in a sense inadvertently is express something which is true, depending on what happens we may or may not get the europeans or all europeans along with us for retaliatory measures. if there were, say, a limited military incursion into the southeastern region of ukraine, the donbas where it is now, take a little bit more territory, you re less likely to get all the europeans to agree to massive sanctions on russia than if it was a full scale in
in for stephanie ruhle, it is thursday, january 20th and we have a lot to get to. this morning a major loss for former president trump after the supreme court denied his request to block the january 6th committee from seeing hundreds of his white house documents. we will break down what information the kbhe got handed within hours and is now pouring over. also, when could the public see it? plus overnight the senate slamming the door on voting rights legislation. president biden says without it he can t guarantee the midterms will be legitimate. and with the world on edge waiting for president putin s next move the white house now doing damage control after the president seemed to open the door for putin to do a, quote, minor incursion. we will take you inside ukraine. but i want to start with the president officially kicking off his second year in office today after marking that occasion with a nearly two hour long press conference. while he took some criticism for things like