ahead of vietnam if, afghanistan and iraq. edward: so where s your sense of where congress is related to sanctions that go forward and the president s power to do that? should russia decide to act. reporter: he could certainly do some things unilaterally, on a unilateral business. chuck schumer indicated that this bill has to be bipartisan, so there are divides there. you know, just a couple of weeks ago, mind you, bob menendez, the chairman of the foreign relations committee, said they were on the 1-yard line, and, i tell you, i don t know how many downs they have, they keep running these plays [laughter] would not commit to having this bill done before the presidents day recess on capitol hill at the end of next week. and with all this saber rattling, there s talk this could happen in the next couple of days in terms of an invasion, it looks like they ve missed their mark on capitol hill. ed that was my next question, where do we go from here then? reporter: yeah.
the summer, ukraine was not really even the top topic of that meeting. but things have certainly changed. russia wanted this specific call today with the president to take place monday, the white house insisted today to underscore the urgency. yesterday here at the white house national security adviser jake sullivan underscored the urgency of the situation. listen. if you stay, you are assuming risk with no guarantee that there will be any other opportunity to leave. and no prospect of a u.s. military evacuation in the event of a russian invasion. if a russian attack on ukraine proceeds if, it is likely to begin with aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard to their nationality. reporter: americans are told to levey ya private commercial aircraft or private vehicle, and even though russia continues to say there are no definitive plans to invade
that might actually intensify the resolve to do something ex post facto, if that s possible, but again, you know, i asked chuck schumer straight up, i said, what about doing this right now before there s an invasion. the purpose of the sanctions are to be a deterrent, but so far this doesn t seem to have deterred anything because congress is [inaudible] edward: thanks, chad pergram. your reporting excellent as always. thank you very much. so u.s. destroyers that were off the east coast of the u.s. now in european waters all as a russian invasion of ukraine could be imminent. stay right here, we re on it. h p just because of this. (woman) wow, that s something. (burke) you get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. [echoing] get a quote today. we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum
the western europeans on edge. or he could do something with the natural gas, of course, and we ve discussed nord stream 2 and the dependence of europe on russian gas. so there are a host of issues here. edward: so as you look at this with the forces that he has in place, does it look like a full scale invasion to you, or does it look like the crimea situation where he just carves out a little bit? you know, you heard jake sullivan say yesterday they re talking about bombing kyiv. that could be a possibility. so what are you seeing from what you know? well, he has the pieces, you know, to do a full scale invasion. you know, we ve heard about nine different routes. certainly, the first guards tank army could now outside of the ukrainian border, could take one of those routes directly into kyiv. now, if, in fact, they do that, as was mentioned moments ago, you know, there ll be effort to knock out air defense
my husband grew up under communism in the soviet union, i grew up in brazil. we just feel so blessed to be able to raise our kids here in new york city. edward: and now you d like to change it from within, to change some of those ideals. i appreciate that. thank you, danyela. we ll see when all the kids can finally see each other s faces in school. thank you very much is, appreciate it. with new warnings as a russian invasion of ukraine could begin at any time, where does the sanctions bill in congress stand? veterans.ore than at newday, you can buy a home with no down payment. and they re holding the line on purchase loans with rates in the twos. already own a home and need cash? with the newday100 loan, you can get up to $60,000 or more and lower your payments $615 a month. no bank, no lender, no one knows veterans like newdayusa.