any discussion has been had inside the armed services committee about possible aid if in fact russia decides to invade ukraine, of military forces? we certainly have committed $2 billion to ukraine, and $200 million is on the ground right now in terms of weapons systems and weaponry that they can use. i think the president s been pretty clear that he does not want to have boots on the ground in ukraine. so i don t think that s on the table. and we re going to have to look at other ways, economic sanctions that could be truly crippling for russia. and now that the president has done a good job of uniting nato and germany in particular, relative to the gas pipeline, i think it s all giving vladimir putin the opportunity to think twice before going on what is a reckless and vicious attack. let s talk about the ongoing
good in american values. but instead, putin is banking on the fact that he s got tucker carlson cheering him on and a former president cheering him on, and other people who want to be president cheering him on, appealing to the lowest common denominator and that is it is all about america, who cares about the ukraine people. so it is and i want to say too how much i respect colonel vindman and how much i want to agree with his optimistic view that this terror that is going to unfold will do what it takes to bring us back to sanity in this country. but i guess the silver lining i see right now is what a good job biden has done uniting nato. you can see these sanctions imposed today were among various nations and everyone took a different piece of it, trying to begin to encroach upon the wealth of trump s inner circle
united states and western europe, and if he further invades ukraine what he will accomplish is uniting nato and energizing the north atlantic community, and the nato partners closer than ever, and we can impose sanctions on putin and the close circle of oil oligarchs, and we can make it harder and harder for the russian economy to function, and we can do things covertly and overtly that would impose significant costs on putin s russia. he may decide ensuring ukraine never joins nato, that ukraine stops it s movement toward
thoughts are on this issue that i ve noticed. this happens during presidential campaign seasons in iowa, new hampshire, specifically where one party is doing all this negative didding against the party in power. but you re seeing this in a lot of key states right now, in pennsylvania, wisconsin, texas, where these primaries are very advanced, and there isn t a counter message. they re all sort of attacking biden too. do you think democrats should be responding more forcefully to this negative paid messaging that is all over the battleground states right now? you have to respond in a fulsome way. i think president biden is showing us that by uniting nato and our allies against russia right now. but there s a need to unite democrats behind an oppositional message to the tens of millions of dollars of misinformation that s being spread by republicans in state after
stories interplay? the major trip abroad for the president, but also some turmoil here at home? look, everything is up to donald trump. that s the way it always has been. there s strong agreement in washington that a lot of problems the president is confronting are problems of his own making. if he goes overseas and he is focused on the issues. if he is focused on turning the page in the middle east. if he is focused on uniting nato and fighting against terrorism then all that criticism will be set aside. the big difference between europe and the middle east is thaoeuz are a bunch of democratic countries. they re not just speaking to the united states. they re speaking to their own populations. they want to get re-elected and donald trump just isn t that popular rover there. that s part of their game. jenna: not only what we re experiencing but the perspective, the vantage point from overseas. i just want to go through the itinerary. saudi arabia being the first point of contact fo