buckle up, let s get smarter. in just one hour, president biden will hold one of his most consequential calls of his president with russian president vladimir putin on the other end of the line. there s a ton at stake. i want you to take eye look at satellite photos, those are russian troops, thousands of them literally on the door step of ukraine. and there are fears of invasion and it could be imminent. and biden is advising putin you must stand down. the question is does putin have any interest in listening i m bringing in peter alexander, matt bodnar in moscow. and the big guns, richard engel from ukraine. peter, this seems pretty simple. biden wants to tell putin don t invade or else. and here s the thing, what exactly is or else? yeah, it s a big issue that the urs has been confronted with over the last decade dating back to that annexation of crimea in 2014. as you said, this is a call taking place at 2:00, the president will do it via video conference in the situa
Ali, let s get to the big question about cooperation with the january 6th committee. there s big news on that front and it s not news about bannon cooperating. reporter: well, it s certainly not news about bannon cooperating. but also the word cooperation here not necessarily means it s yielding what the committee wants. that s what they re trying to figure out, this man marc short who you see on the screen, he s cooperating with the january 6th committee, our sources tell us, but they are at this point trying to figure out what kind of information he can give them. what one source said to us he is cooperating and they added, so far, steph. aneesh, remind us who marc short is in terms of cooperating, in the world loyal
Fall? for months we ve been talking about mike pence where he was hunted down and he s not saying anything. where is marc short in all of this? marc short is not a traditional trump loyalist. he used to work for the koch brothers. he was legislative director for the trump white house and went on to be chief of staff for mike pence. and the vice president s office and the people who work in that office, they have a different view than the trump loyalists. they really did see the vice president being pressured to overturn the election as a great, great problem. they saw this as disturbing. marc short falls into the category of people who possibly, possibly, would be able to tell the committee sort of what bothered him and what concerned him. he was in a lot of news. he is one of the people in the room who would have information about former president trump s pressure campaign, when it comes to what he was saying what he