staring down putin, and president putin just exactly as colonel leighton said, he would like to have president biden and president zelensky fold, cave, compromise. and they haven t done that. they have stood together, um, and and they are staring down president putin. all right. well thank you, both, very much. i appreciate your time. and next, the january 6th committee is zeroing in on those phony electors as part of trump s push to overturn the results. and there is a whole slew of new subpoenas out tonight to tell you about. plus, a warning from a high-ranking chinese official over taiwan. most likely involve china and united states, the two big countries, in a military conflict. those are stunning words. meanwhile tonight, 75 million people on the east coast of the united states should brace for storm impact. potential bomb cyclone about to strike, slamming some areas with white-out blizzard conditions, hurricane-force winds. we have a live update.
send his troops across that border. he would like for us to blink. he would like for president zelensky and ukraine to blink or president biden in washington to blink and give him, give president putin what he wants. and what he s after is ukraine. and he would like to have ukraine without that expense, without the cost that is clearly enormous of an invasion. and that cost comes in terms. financial costs of sanctions, but also, the real cost to his army. the russian soldiers will die. ukrainian soldiers will die, ukrainian civilians will die. president putin will be an outcast if he does that. he would not like to pay that cost. he would like to get ukraine without having to pay that and he s waiting for president zelensky and president biden to blink and so far they have not
blinkled. he can be deterred. jacqui: when you say that he want ukraine without having to, you know, basically shed any blood, are you suggesting that you know, ukraine publicly in the scenario gives up on n.a.t.o.? is that what you think he s seeking here? i do. i do, jacqui. i think he would like to see president zelensky fold and say, okay, okay, i won t try to join n.a.t.o. or okay, i won t try to join europe. so far president zelensky has not said that he does want to join n.a.t.o., he does want to join europe, he wants to join the european union. he has not blinked and his supporters in ukraine have all made it very clear that they are not eager, they re totally unwilling to go back under the russian thumb. they want to be europeans. they are europeans. they want to be everything that europe has. jacqui: so, if putin does not