carley: back with a fox news alert, lawmakers are set to receive a briefing on the russia ukraine tension later today as the pentagon says there was no sign of de-escalation during president biden s saturday phone call with vladimir putin end. todd: alexandria hoff in washington with the latest, alexandria. thank you, todd, the congressional leaders with drinking house and members expected to be briefed by phone 9:15 headed up by national security advisor jake sullivan. here is what he said yesterday. as far as we are concerned, the united states of america diplomacy is still open and available. we are trying to dispel any notion that the united states is going to deploy thousands of forces to ukraine to fight in
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