militia. tonight russia is pushing back american contractor last week. calling the vikes unacceptable. today what we did was take a and deadly church shooting. decisive response that makes chilling new details of an clear what president trump has attack inside of a texas church said for months and months and that killed two people as we months, which is that we will learn the identity of the not stand for the islamic security volunteer who took out the gunman in a matter of republic of iran to take actions to put american men and women in seconds. wolf blitzer is off today. jeopardy. reporter: pompeo andes per i m brianna keilar. you re in the situation room. joins by mark millie stopping in palm beach for roughly three hours on sunday briefing trump and reporters on the attacks and vowing to continue exerting tonight the man accused of using a machete to attack five people at a hanukkah celebration maximum pressure on ukrainian, in new york city in a suburb of reviving conce
security council senior director for european and russian affairs. but she is perhaps best known for her testimony during the first trump impeachment on his efforts to strong-arm ukraine s president into helping him win re-election. fiona hill is also the author, by the way, of a very important book there is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the 21st century. fiona, thanks so much for joining us. you hear president biden s vow to unleash what he says would be unprecedented sanctions, economic sanctions, diplomatic sanctions against putin s government if russia invades ukraine. is that going to be enough to deter putin, in your view? because you also heard the president rule out, at least for now, direct u.s. military action. well, it really, wolf, depends on how this is structured. it certainly won t be enough if it s just the united states taking action. so i think what s significant
soviet union. i was in moscow and witnessed that historic moment. the question tonight. how to handle a russian president who seems to rue that day. joining us now, fiona hill. she served during the last administration as the national security council senior director for europe kwaan and russian affairs. but she is perhaps best known for her testimony during the first trump impeachment on his efforts to strong arm ukraine s president into helping him win re-election. fiona hill is also the author, by the way, of a very important book there is nothing for you here, finding opportunity in the 21st century. fiona, thanks so much for joining us. you hear president biden s vow to unleash what he says would be unprecedented sanctions, economic sanctions, diplomatic sanctions against putin s government if russia invades ukraine. is that going to be enough to deter putin, in your view? because you also heard the president rule out, at least for now, direct u.s. military action.
to do things like providing lethal aid support to the e ukrainians. there is context here for what president biden has advocated for in the past and there are some very intense things the biden administration is considering. is president putin emboldened knowing that direct u.s. military action is certainly off the table? frankly, i don t think direct u.s. military action was ever on the table. so that would be a surprise at the end of this video conference call. but i think the suggestion that this was a test of to what extent united states and its allies will stand behind ukraine. it s been to potentially in the future join the nato military alliance. so at least to provide military support in the interim before potentially in the future reaches that point is absolutely correct. i think there will be some signs