biden threatens serious consequences over ukraine invasion. after critics tells him to be tougher on russia. kayleigh: here with reaction is former secretary of state and fox news contributor mike pompeo. welcome secretary pompeo. good morning, kayleigh, great to be with you lawrence and joey, happy new year. kayleigh: happy new year to you, too. secretary pompeo, there were two calls this month, one was on december 7th with vladimir putin and president biden, what was interesting to me is after that call happened, it was the action that vladimir putin took. it was to add 10,000 more troops to the border of ukraine so clearly he didn t get the message and then there was a report this week that he was going to pull back 10,000 troops. it s unclear whether that happened. but what is very clear is he is still mounting troops on the border. i don t think he is getting the message from president biden. your thoughts? well, kayleigh, think about the messaging, don t forget the earlier co