and jake sullivan, the national security adviser, said they are going to stay in touch with their russian counterparts to go through detail by detail what the consequences would be if russia did invade ukraine. kaitlan collins, thanks. let s bring in under secretary of state for political affairs, victoria newland. secretary newland, thanks for joining us this afternoon. national security adviser jake sullivan told reporters that the u.s. does not think that president putin has yet made a decision on whether to invade ukraine. why not? well, among other things, i think that president putin wanted to talk to president biden, wanted to better understand where we are and where our allies are on some of these issues. and that was why it was extremely important for our president and for other leaders in europe to be very clear about the extreme consequences that will result for russia if they move aggressively against ukraine again. in the previous hour, we interviewed congressman m
i want to bring in fred fliess, he served on the house intelligence committee. he s travel to lebanon, syria, saudi arabia and now president of the center for security policy. fred, thanks for being with us. as i said, we ve been seeing the last several minutes something that general mckenzie told us that they were worried about. a continuing threat stream and now reports of another large explosion heard in kabul. i think this was a sophisticated attack. there will be more attacks like this. what really struck me two things struck me from mckenzie s news conference. we know the threatened environment is of the airport. why did one ied kill 12 service members? has to be some type of mediate evaluation by the u.s. military to protect our soldiers that are at stream risks. they re sitting ducks at this airport. we have contracted out security
take months to manifest. it s a serious problem. we didn t get the answers that we wanted or need. i sit on the house intelligence committee and we re certainly going to have a lot of questions that we really need answers to. getting your intelligence bank account, did you see what happened here as an intelligence failure or operational or some combination of both. . that is what we need to find out. we need to know. and we talked about this earlier. you have libertarians in one party, and liberals in another that are weak on national security, people that serve over there understand the threats. it could have take an limited
that there was nothing there. so, again, this is 1 million miles away from legitimate prosecution. which is why it s important that every last fact, every last statement, name what was said to a grand jury, needs to see the light of day. so that we can understand the full scope of what happened here. congressman, good to see you. thanks for joining us tonight. congressman jim himes is the member of the house intelligence committee. thanks for joining us. coming up, the republican effort to stop people from voting and to stop votes from being counted is reaching new levels insanity. with republicans flocking to view the fraud it in our zone. and trump supporters issuing death threats against elections officials. cliff from albright, black voters matters joins us next. oins us next
this concept is not new. in fact, if you were paying close attention you might think that this segment was from 2018, or 2020. but it s not. this is actually life. it s june 11th, 2021, and the threat posed by donald trump continues to grow. just look at the bombshell reporting from the new york times which details trump s efforts in 2017, to investigate media leaks about contacts between trump associates and of the russian government. trump ordered his own justice department to secretly sees phone data from democratic congressman adam schiff and congressman eric swalwell, aids on the house intelligence committee. and members of their families in order to further his investigation. today, senate majority leader, chuck schumer, and senate judiciary chairman, dick durbin, starting to subpoena jump attorney general william barr and jeff sessions to testify before congress about trump s undemocratic order. and under pressure for democrats in congress, the justice department announced today