mindlessly compliant. i wonder, when you hear president biden say, as he did within the last hour as folks watched unfold live here on msnbc, say that he is willing to personally sanction vladimir putin if he goes in, what more of the consequences would be for russia, do you believe vladimir putin is hearing that message and internalizing that message and taking it seriously? i mean, i think that sanctions overall matter and i can t speak for vladimir putin, but certainly it is a shot fired, if you will, across the bow. it really is aimed at the entire leadership that when i look at this, when we look at this, has set the risk of war. i don t think anybody even in russia we don t have a sense of the how horrific a major war in europe, in ukraine, would be today with tens of
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renewed russian invasion of ukraine and the stakes of that, as we talked about yesterday, are important in the context of ukraine, of course, a close partner of the united states, a sovereign independent country itself, and that, of course, is important to us, it s important beyond ukraine as well. the what should be rules of the rules based international order would come under assault and be undermined. they would be potentially eroded. if the international community were not to take drastic steps to show vladimir putin, to show the russian federation, that this is not the kind of action that can be tolerated in the 21st century, these are the actions we sought to relegate to the dust bin of history after the second world war. if vladimir putin think renewed aggression won t be met with severe, swift, united response, he would be wrong.
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we heard from president biden who was clear about the potential consequences for vladimir putin if russia invades. talk us through this. this was not an expected news conference from president biden. these were off-the-cuff remarks to a group of reporters traveling with him today. that s exactly right. there was nothing on his public schedule but they added this unannounced stop at a small business and when the president was doing some shopping he turned to reporters and said you may have some questions. it was clear he had a message he wanted to communicate on ukraine, and it sounded like it was focused on the idea he would be willing to move some of the 8500 forces put on this heightened state of alert further to their positions in advance of any action from russia. he here is what the president said when pressed on that topic today. what would lead to that is what s going to happen, what putin does or doesn t do. i may be moving some of those troops in the near term, just becaus
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meetings in yurps, classified briefings in washington, even though lawmakers are out of town right now. fill us in on the latest. congress is going to be reactive here by nature but trying to make sure they re up to date on russia and ukraine every day this crisis continues. classified briefings for committee level staff, leadership aides, the folks in the most need to know position and are here in washington. there will be briefings for all lawmakers house and senate when they get back to town next week. some of this is so that members of congress can be up to speed as possible should they want to go the route of perhaps sending more aid to ukraine in the future. some of it is to make sure everyone in the u.s. government is singing from the same hymnal. we saw mitch mcconnell in kentucky get asked about ukraine and thinks the biden administration is basically doing everything right so far. that is important to present a unified front in these international situations. that s what we
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