joe biden met with russian president vladimir putin and typically instead of signs of decisive action from our commander-in-chief to keep a hostile actor in check what we are seeing from the biden gang is a reflex to appease our enemies while abandoning our allies and abandoning the reality of how biden set this dangerous table. the withdrawal from afghanistan which was widely criticized how do you respond to that criticism of president biden being too weak with putin. vladimir putin standing behind then president medvedev in 2008 invaded georgia when we had 150,000 or more troops deployed in iraq and afghanistan. so, the connection between our deployments in foreign wars and will calculus of soviet leaders when it comes to the post russian space not effort to support that. what does that mean? clearly a deflection from jake sullivan. the question was about the impact of our embarrassing afghanistan retreat on our national security not about troop levels in the middle e
evening to you, bret. the call lasted two hours. according to the kremlin president putin told president biden that russia s posturing is purely defensive. the white house says biden was crystal clear about what would happen if russia takes additional steps and offered an alternative deescalation. president biden looked president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014 we are prepared to do now. in a high stakes call, president biden laid out economic consequences russia would face if they move forward with an invasion of ukraine. video of the meeting came from russian state media. good to see you again. i unfortunately last time we didn t get to see one another at the g-20. i hope next time we meet we do it in person. white house did not divulge sanctions package. biden made no concessions including on president putin s request to block ukraine from joining nato. instead the u.s. is preparing economic punishment with european allie
Republican senator marco rubio will be on freedom hosted by tammy bruce starts right now. tammy: thank you. and cocoa looks like a mini baier. i swear to god. thank you again, bret. and welcome to freedom. i m tammy bruce and tonight joe biden s weakness and failure or not world stage as undeniable as ever. we discussed the through policies and legislation, that s not the only front of destruction we are facing reputation standing an influence on the world. as american adversaries like russia and china intensify their aggression, the biden administration is retreating to the same political platitudes, the same tired washington tropes and the same tepid.
The f-35 as a way to say we have arrived there is a way of showing on the big stuff a threat to our security, to our presence, to our navy, and to our standing, protection our allies in the pacific rim, they are rising and their intent is to chase us out and they are having some success. bret: we will play more, i promise. next we have a question from tyler any advice to my freshman son in college in making it in the journalism business? i will tell you what, tyler, stay on the road keep driving and get in the game. basically, you have got keep going after it. even if you can t see where you are going to be at the end. last, but not least, we have char, does the baier family have a family pet dog, cat, et cetera? we do. we have cocoa mini. pete: golden doodle and she is the love of our family. there she is. yeah. cocoa.