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And at the flip of a switch, putin could turn off the lights there in germany. the u.s. trying to backstop it with supplies of liquid natural gas and other nations. putin has a big lever over germany right now. sandra: if russia cuts off germany, they have to get a source somewhere else. i m sandra smith. john: and i m john roberts. the story with martha starts right now. martha: good afternoon, everybody. i m martha maccallum at fox news headquarters in new york. breaking right now on the story, we re about to hear from president biden, the pentagon and the state department this hour on the big question of where we are. where do we stand with regard to europe, russia, ukraine, the president right now is in an extremely important meeting with the new german chancellor, olaf scholz that replaced angela merkel in december. so far germany has declined to