. >> sullivan: wow. >> yeah. >> sullivan: what did you start seeing? >> we started seeing layoffs, not only management, but the workers. they started laying off, cutting hours. >> sullivan: what else started concerning you? >> you were always used to being able to just walking into the supply closet, reaching for what you need, and knowing it's there. and we find now that doesn't happen. you call down to the supply room and say, "we need more saline." "oh, we're out of stock." "it's on bk order." >> sullivan: you hadn't had that experience before. >> no, in all, in the worst of times, we always knew we h what we needed for the patients. >> sullivan: during this time, did you ask somebody, anybody at prospect, like, "what's the deal here?" >> we wanted to know what, what the story is. why are these things happening? "well, this is the system and this is how the system works, and this is how we're going to survive." and when we couldn't get the answers or we couldn't get the responses that we needed, then we started our own campaign. (music playing, whis

. >> sullivan: wow. >> yeah. >> sullivan: what did you start seeing? >> we started seeing layoffs, not only management, but the workers. they started laying off, cutting hours. >> sullivan: what else started concerning you? >> you were always used to being able to just walking into the supply closet, reaching for what you need, and knowing it's there. and we find now that doesn't happen. you call down to the supply room and say, "we need more saline." "oh, we'reut of stock." "it's on back order." >> sullivan: you hadn't had that >> no, in all, in the worst of times, we always knew we had what we needed for the patients. >> sullivan: during this time, did you ask somebody, anybody at prospect, like, "what's the deal here?" >> we wanted to know what, what the story is. why are these things happening? "well, this is the system and this is how the system works, and this is how we're going to survive." and when we couldn't get the answers or we couldn't get the responses that we needed, then we started our own campaign. (music playing, whistle blows) >> sul

sullivan: three things about this. first, russell's calculation vis-a-vis china, whether they will make beijing upset or not, that is between china and russia and president putin has to decide what you want to do on that. china also has its own decisions to make. to the extent they are giving a green light to a russian invasion of the ukraine for no justified reason, i believe that china will ultimately come to suffer consequences as a result of that in the eyes of the world, most notably in the eyes of our european partners and allies. finally, we do not believe china can compensate russia for the economic losses that would be sustained in the event of an invasion due to sanctions and export controls and the like. one more thing on the broader issue of china and russia, because there was quite a bit of hype about the statement they put out, and it was a notable statement that we have taken careful look at. i said this before, i want to say it again, but then i will leave. jen is standing up, and it is past my time to

sullivan: three things about this. first, russell's calculation vis-a-vis china, whether they will make beijing upset or not, that is between china and russia and president putin has to decide what you want to do on that. china also has its own decisions to make. to the extent they are giving a green light to a russian invasion of the ukraine for no justified reason, i believe that china will ultimately come to suffer consequences as a result of that in the eyes of the world, most notably in the eyes of our european partners and allies. finally, we do not believe china can compensate russia for the economic losses that would be sustained in the event of an invasion due to sanctions and export controls and the like. one more thing on the broader issue of china and russia, because there was quite a bit of hype about the statement they put out, and it was a notable statement that we have taken careful look at. i said this before, i want to say it again, but then i will leave. jen is standing up, and it is past my time to

sullivan saying that's not true. but he's out there giving this window where americans need to get out in an urgent way that we have not heard from before. i asked jen psaki about that, why would they give that window if that were the case. if putin does invade, it could be difficult for americans to get out. sylvan laid out that rail and road would not be accessible in the event of military action. we heard from jen psaki that the state department is not doing anything proactively to pull american citizens out of ukraine. they've been urging them to go on their own for several weeks now. certainly it had a lot more urgency, that meeting did. seemed more tense even though they continue to convey that the door to diplomacy was still open and that they did not believe or were not certain that putin had made up his mind. i also think that the president took off to camp david and did not speak to reporters, did not talk the opportunity to give a message to president putin despite everything that we just saw. >> martha: t

who the heck is jake sullivan? he gets a change all the rules and all the laws because he has a preference. okay, well i'm going to take a lesson on that cuz that, that quote right there, stuck out to my team as well when it happened. so here was, yeah, this is exactly what was said yesterday on jake tapper cnn show. first, we're not putting forward this intelligence to start a war which has happened in the past, jake, we're putting forward this intelligence to stop a war. and i think that fundamentally gives it at the outset a different level of credibility. secondly, this is consistent with the russian playbook. we have seen them do this before. many times you ask any russia expert, they will point to examples of where russia has used false flag operations as pretext to start military action. and then 3rd, if you look at the russian media, they are laying the groundwork for a potential pretext by raising the possibility of attacks by ukrainian forces. i know the russians themselves or rushes proxy, forces in the

who the heck is jake sullivan? he gets a change all the rules and all the laws because he has a preference. okay. well, i'm going to take a lesson on that cuz that's that quote right there, stuck out to my team as well where they happened. so here was, yeah, this is exactly what was said yesterday on jake tapper cnn show. first, we're not putting forward this intelligence to start a war which has happened in the past, jake, we're putting forward this intelligence to stop a war. and i think that fundamentally gives it at the outset a different level of credibility. secondly, this is consistent with the russian playbook. we have seen them do this before. many times you ask any russia expert, they will point to examples of where russia has used false flag operations as pretext to start military action. and then 3rd, if you look at the russian media, they are laying the groundwork for a potential pretext by raising the possibility of attacks by ukrainian forces. i know the russians themselves or rushes proxy, forces in

who to heck is jake sullivan? he gets a change all the rules and all the laws because he has a preference. okay, well i'm going to take a lesson on that cuz that's that quote right there, stuck out to my team as well, where they happened. so here was, yeah, this is exactly what was said yesterday on jake tapper cnn show. first, we're not putting forward this intelligence to start a war which has happened in the past, jake, we're putting forward this intelligence to stop a war. and i think that fundamentally gives it at the outset a different level of credibility. secondly, this is consistent with the russian playbook. we have seen them do this before. many times you ask any russia expert, they will point to examples of where russia has used false flag operations as pretext to start military action. and then 3rd, if you look at the russian media, they are laying the groundwork for a potential pretext by raising the possibility of attacks by ukrainian forces. i know the russians themselves or rushes proxy, forces in

that's jake sullivan, that's mark elias. so right now we are in a crisis in this country of dishonesty from the major sources, intelligence community and mainstream media leading the charge. but what are we supposed to believe? it would be one thing though. if we were just watching hillary, you know, and her people in sour, grapes and all, that's not what we're watching. we're watching them use their power. now, to start a war to destabilize europe. what i mean, and these are the same people in charge, it's amazing to watch on that time scratch. i have because they're allowed to be able to kept in power. and they're actually given more powerful positions on this. but you know, you go back to actually the campaign and this was going through and you have to work a one. how far up did it go? did the hillary clinton did have the hillary clinton herself know, did the obama administration? and now that i've seen that for these 5, the war, and so by the way, people like harder page and, and others have been screaming about that who

that's jake sullivan, that's mark elias. so right now we are in a crisis in this country of dishonesty from the major sources, intelligence community and mainstream media leading the charge. but what are we supposed to believe? it would be one thing though. if we were just watching hillary, you know, and her people in the shower, grapes and all, that's not what we're watching. we're watching them use their power. now, to start a war to destabilize europe. 2 what i mean, and these are the same people in charge, it's amazing to watch on that time scratch. i have because they're allowed to be able to kept in power. and they're actually given more powerful positions on this. but you know, you go back to actually the campaign and this was going through and you have to work a one. how far up did it go? did the hillary clinton did hello, hillary clinton herself now? did the obama administration. and now that i've seen that for these 5, the war, and so by the way, people like quarter page and, and others have been screaming about th

it was you, hillary clinton and you jake sullivan and you markleiace elias who under fined our democracy. >> final target is democracy itself. >> one thing we were trying to explain to the press was that not just about hacking and leaking e-mails this is about a larger information effort, by the russians. >> a president who rather than reassuring the american public in american democracy, is trashing democracy, of day. >> we know, thanks to these documents, factual background attached to a motion filed by special count john durham. against michael sis man that clinton campaign paid a tech firm to mind internet data to establish a narrative tying then candidate trump to russia, in durham's words that included: >> what is that? that is hacking, it means spying and look at their targets. quote, internet traffic, pertaining to one, healthcare provider, trump power, and donald trump central park west apartment building and executive office of the president of the united states, they hacked not just trump tower but the white house after trump became president. these people who pose as defender

do you agree that jake sullivan should step down quick. >> yes. and now that a has the amount of detail from the filings they have about and through and regarding and the individuals involved, you have jake sullivan, he ought not to be speaking on behalf of the united states of america because you can see the ties and go back and look at the tweets they had during this period of time and you can begin to see the thread and the story they were weaving to just make it up make it up as they went along. steve: thank you for being clear about that. so now on the legal side, it is strange the way it emerged the filing connected to the other indictment called factual background. first of all what type of legal status does this have? why did it emerge this way? >> procedural wrangling is going on between the lawyers and in this filing that darren issued, he has indicated clearly there was a vast conspiracy, a dangerous conspiracy between sussman and others in terms of mining information and using it against president-elect trump. hillary clinton tweets ou

i asked jake sullivan is this is evidence that the u.s. didn't take action quickly enough to deter this. listen to what he said. >> did the u.s. wait too long to arm ukraine especially with respect to weapons that could defend against an air strike that you laid out? did they wait too long to move u.s. forces to nato countries hand does the president still view the idea of preinvasion sanctions as a stupid question? >> on the question of arming the ukrainians, over the past year, the united states has provided more than half a billion dollars, $650 million in defense to the ukraine. >> he did not answer my question on preinvasion sanctions which has been a really robust topic of discussion between lawmakers on the hill trying to hash out a sanctions package. there's disagreement if they should wait until after an invasion or ahead of time. this is what he said. >> we don't believe that sanctions are intended to deter. in order for them to work, they have to be set up in a way if putin moves, then the costs are imposed. >> so the president

jake sullivan said goat out now. the tone seemed ed drastically different. >> the warning does not get more stern than this. we just heard from the national security adviser and i just want to be clear one thing that he emph emphasized. he said the u.s. does not know and does not believe that vladmir putin has made a decision to invade but the posturing that we're seeing from the white house today is they are very much preparing for that possibility. you're right. the one thing that sullivan kept emphasizing over and over again was this message to americans that are in ukraine and that message is get out now. he said that there is no guarantee that if anything were to happen that they could get out at later time. he also emphasized something that the white house has made clear for a while. the u.s. troops would not be going into ukraine to try to rescue them again if military action started taking place. one thing that he also made clear, too, was diplomacy. he continues to talk about fact that the u.s. is continuing

national security advisor jake sullivan spoke earlier. mr. sullivan: we want to be crystal clear. we are not the saying -- not saying a final decision has been taken by president putin. we have a sufficient level of concern based on what we see on the ground and what our intelligence analysts have picked up, that we are sending this clear message. romaine: bloomberg chief washington correspondent anne-marie on the ground outside the white house within the building where there have been diplomatic efforts to bring this crisis -- this tension to some sort of an end. now, you have jake sullivan talking about a potential military response. is the diplomatic effort over? anne-marie: absolutely not and we are just learning from the white house this hour, president biden will speak with president putin tomorrow morning. the president left for camp david. the phone call will take place while he is there at camp david. he will meet with national security teams. the kremlin in russia saying president putin will have a call saturday as well with emmanuel macron of france, their second conver

jake sullivan has been promoted. jake sullivan is now president biden national security adviser. he's still screaming about russia. only this time it's not to bring down a presidential opponent, he's screaming russia to bring the world into a war with a nuclear power. this story is not going away. the author of a terrific book the plot against the president. he joins us tonight. lee smith, thank you very much for coming on. we're hesitant to pick up the story partly but a it seemed so complicated but when you dig in, it's not so complicated. they were spying on trump as a candidate and as president of the kwraoupbd from the white house. why is this not the biggest story of the year? >> right. it's an enormous national security scandal. i hear people comparing it to watergate and it does not compare to watergate at all. what we're talking about when we talk about the executive office of the president, this is some of the most secure communications that we have in the united states. the fact that these were, that these were being tapped, the idea that these were under surveillance.

here is president biden's national security advisor jake sullivan. mr. sullivan: we continue to see signs of russian escalation including new forces arriving at the ukrainian border. as we have said before, we are in the window when an invasion could begin at any time should vladimir putin decide to order it. i will not comment on the details of our intelligence information, but i do want to be clear, they could begin during the olympics, despite spec addition that it would only happen after the olympics-- speculation that it would only happen after the olympics. as we have said before, we are ready either way. we are ready to continue results-oriented diplomacy that addresses the sacred concerns of the united states, russia, and eupe it we are ready to respond decisively along those allies and partners should russia choose to take military action. our response would include severe economic sanctions with similar packages imposed by the european union, the united kingdom, canada, and other countries. it would also include changes to nato and american for

intelligence believed that putin made the decision to go forward and do that sullivan said they don't know whether putin made that decision but that intelligence indicated that if he does go in that direction it could happen in days u.s. intelligence said by mid-february and now saying it could happen before february 20th shep >> we also heard from jake sullivan there that he anticipated that president biden would be speaking with president putin by phone it didn't sound like an offhanded thing and sounded like maybe there's a plan and further told reporters in the room if they wanted to go with the president as the president is leaving that they could get up to go with him we know that the president is headed to camp david which although not highly unusual could mean something. >> it's a site where the intense security discussions take place. the president flanked by the top advisers, many stay the weekend there with him that site in and of itself coupled with the fact of u.s. intelligence pinning mid-february as the possible deadline for president putin to make a decision, the align

i'm that it would then be followed by a ground invasion sullivan. now sullivan did also say that in that event, the us on the u. s. would act decisively and that would be changes to nato's eastern flank. but mainly the response would involve economic sanctions, coordinated with american allies. and so that's what we've been hearing from us national security advisor jake sullivan speaking very let's be to particle hanged cuz she was monitoring this as well. and patty wasn't clear to me if there was any new information in that briefing that from james sullivan, he seemed to say that is wanting is based on the continued build up of russian troops, equipment around ukraine, in combination with the large scale military exercise that is taking place and parts of that. a ruth, the caveat that no final decision has been made by the kremlin something is clearly up and something has changed the calculus for the united states government. and i say that because we started to see some tweets and some reporting from pretty well respected reporters in washington,

if you got on sullivan, you knew you could talk about it. did you see sullivan? >> my whole life i don't get no respect. no respect from anyone. >> as a performer, you couldn't get a place to sell your product. ♪ >> when i started out, they would say, variety is a man's game. it's dean. it's milton berle. it's jackie gleason, you know. it's the guys. but variety is what i know. i felt it was in my genes to do this. [ yelling like tarzan ] >> she had been so good on the garry moore show. she always knew she could sing and dance and be funny. >> on my show, i would do pratfalls and jump out of windows and get pies in the face, and it was heaven. >> you know, i still see a rerun of "the carol burnett show" and i think, goddamn, they're funny. [ laughter ] there's never been a better three-wall sketch show ever. >> she was great in bed, too, dickey. remember? >> you never went to bed with -- >> well. >> you're not supposed to curtsy. you're supposed to bow. >> well, i get dizzy when i bend over. >> when tim conway came on his goal in life was to destroy harvey. her

and a j sullivan pointed out. it's going to be quite a savage and i, you know, it's going to be preceded by aerial attacks by missiles. then they're going to march on to it. and then so that's the assertion. and now let's think of also about who is really behind is who's leading this propaganda campaign. why jake saw them. and now jake saw them was an absolutely key figure in roster gate, which is also very interesting because this meet with, you know, we've added found out more information about the russian gate folks and about how the clinton campaign and that means j solomon basically funding the spying on the trunk campaign, but the trump president that actually got into the truck service. this is a person, the sullivan, who is a master of manufacturing folks. this is created an absolute fool. he presents no evidence way any of these claims were the gift rushes building up, it was a rush of building up. it was the, the number they say think it's still 100000. i think what he's building up. it's all the same nu

but we are going to start with steve and jen psaki and jake sullivan -- live to the white house now. >> jake sullivan will give a brief update and then take some questions from all of you and with that, i will turn it over to jake. >> good afternoon. thanks, everybody for giving me the opportunity to be here. i would like to make a few comments on the situation in russia and ukraine and then happy to take your questions. we continue to see signs of russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the ukrainian border. as we have said before, we are in the window when an invasion could we gin at any time, should vladimir putin decide to order it. i will not comment on the details of our intelligence information but i do want to be clear. it could begin during the olympics, despite a lot of speculation that it would only happen after the olympics. as we have said before, we are ready either way. we are ready to continue results-oriented diplomacy that addresses the security concerns of the united states, russia and europe, consistent with our values and with the principle of recipr

i know jake sullivan has briefed the house. he's briefing the senate this afternoon. my hope is that the senate, at least the house is out of session but the senate at least leadership, democrat and republican can act in a unified voice to say we stand with the people of ukraine, that we stand with our nato allies, and reemphasize the fact that there is no democrat or republican position in terms of the level of sanctions that the russian people, the oligarchs and vladimir putin himself will face should russia invade ukraine. >> senator warner, thank you very much. really appreciate your coming on today. >> thank you. >>> and the super celebrations in l.a the rams bring the lombardi trophy back to l.a. after their big super bowl win. on the olympic stage, all medal ceremonies honoring one russian athlete on hold indefinitely, what it means for team usa. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. sa this is "andrea mitchell this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ ancestry's helped me really un

this is what jake sullivan talked about on friday. right before our eyes what we're seeing with russia. we're seeing new russian forces have been arrived at the ukrainian border every day. as we have said before, we are in the window when an invasion could begin at anytime. we will not comment on any details of our intelligence information, except to say that it could begin this week, despite a lot of speculation it would happen after the olympics. again, something that jake sullivan said right here on friday. it remains unclear which path russia will choose to take. the u.s. is ready for any situation. you know, president biden has made is very clear on his call with putin this weekend that if russia undertakes a further invasion of ukraine, the united states together with our allies and partners will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on russia. president biden reiterated that a further russian invasion of ukraine would produce widespread human suffering. and diminish russia's standing. so, we are continuing to coo

jake sullivan did not ask questions. jake sullivan take slate .comesn very seriously. atat the time jake sullivan was working for the hillary clinton campaign, he cited the slate s story as evidence that trump was indeed colluding with vladimir putin. quote, the secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of trump's ties to russia. know what a tool we can only assume if federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between trump and russia. so there was a bat phone in tower that rang directly in the kremlin. jake sullivan stuck to that line for months. >> here he is on cnn in march of 2017. what we learned duringer the campaign was that very seriousy computer science experts, people who work closely with the united states government had uncovered this secret hotline between the alpha bank, the russian banksi and the trumpw organization. now, of course, we didn't know for sure if in fact that wereld the case, but we knew that it should be investigated and we knew that given how serious these computer scientists were, they weren't just making up

s. national security advisor jake sullivan had to say. well, you heard jake sullivan, very much sounding the alarm in, in specific ways that we haven't heard before about what may be coming just in the next few days. he was also careful. i'd to to say that there don't know for sure that this is going to happen. that of russian president vladimir putin has given the order to move ahead with an invasion. but certainly the rhetoric is much, much stronger than we've heard in recent days. and that's why everyone is, is very much on alarm, not just in washington, but here in brussels with nato calling its ambassadors into an emergency meeting last night to just expand a little bit more and why the u. s. seemed show, convinced to so certain that to russia is in fact going to evade into in vedo ukraine. michael, we don't know that they're certain, in fact they said that they're not certain that there's going to be an invasion in the next few days. what we have seen in recent months is that they have assembled all the capabilities to invade if the

to be clear, what jake sullivan said today is actually the same thing. he said on that point they still don't know whether putin has made a decision. but clearly, the information that they are trying to present today was of increased urgency. one, on the timeline. they said that, now, the intelligence is that this kind of invasion could actually happen before the olympic games end. remember, prior to this, the intelligence coming out of the u.s. was that it was unlikely that russia would invade ukraine while the olympic games was happening. and then, we, of course, heard the very dire warnings from jake sullivan directed at americans that are still in ukraine. they essentially said, look, you need to get out right now because we cannot guarantee your safety. we are certainly not going to be sending in american troops to rescue you, if you are still stuck there. so, we have certainly seen here from the white house, over the last 24 or 36 hours or so, a very, very increased sort of urgency in the tone that we have heard from all levels of the government. >

jake sullivan? hillary herself? should both be indicted in sullivan fired immediately. he's present biden's national security advisor now, eating the war complaining russia ukrainian invasion is imminent after office from all nonsense focusing despite establishment with nauseating back can we trust anything out of jake sullivan's mouth? after that his wife works at counsel for the u.s. attorney general merrick garland with direct access to the durham probe. conflict of interest spreading like ship bug and this is one of many reasons hillary clinton can never be allowed presidential politics. she was fired and internalized dirty tricks could easily political fortune if they were executed properly. nothing about this is proper or right and if they could spy on the president, imagine for they could do to your you become the enemy. i don't even want to think about it so we've got to stop them while we can best the memo. >> you would think that this would get proper chart and right, right? now. mostly sign on this corruption but when they tried to downplay the investigation?

kelly o'donnell noted earlier in the day that jake sullivan doesn't just drop by the press briefings just to say hello, when he comes he has news, and certainly today this is the most serious we have seen this administration on the threat from russia. what they believe now seems to be an immediate threat from russia. >> absolutely. first of all, i think he wanted to clarify and deny published reports on two other networks that there had been intelligence showing a decision by vladimir putin to invade. he said they have not seen that final decision, but what they have seen from the information they gathered in the last few days, and information obviously can be intelligence, as well as what you are seeing from your own eyes on the ground, the massive escalation that continues day by day on all sides, land, sea and air, all sides of the -- three sides of ukraine as well as the black sea. what they are seeing literally is enough for russia to be capable for a significant military action which would advance with artillery and bombing as well as a march on kyiv, and taking kyiv and other

jake sullivan making it clearer than any official before him has that the u.s. now believes that this could start before the olympics is over. meaning some time in the next nine days. sullivan also saying that the americans need to get out of the country immediately but putting the finest point that we've seen on that saying at the latest they need to be out of the country would be the next 24 to 48 hours. and while sullivan pushed back on some reporting throughout from other outlets suggesting that president putin has made a decision in the u.s. is aware that he's made a decision about whether to invade, he said among the possibilities that u.s. military and intelligence officials are now aware of is the possibility of a rapid russian assault on the ukrainian capital of kyiv. it's a fairly remarkable to hear the national security adviser say out in the open. take a listen to what sullivan had to say just a few minutes ago about the consequences russia will face if it does invade. >> if russia proceeds, it's long term power will be diminished, not enhance by an

hundreds of millions of -- >> let's get right to the white house where jake sullivan, the national security adviser is giving an update on ukraine. >> in the situation on russia and ukraine and then i would be happy to take your questions. we continue to see signs of russian escalation including now forces arriving at the border. as we've said before, we're in the window when an invasion could begin at any time should vladimir putin decide to order it. i will not comment on the details of our intelligence information but i do want to be clear, it could begin during the olympics, despite a lot of speculation that it will only happen after the olympics. as we've said before, we are ready either way. we're ready to continue results oriented diplomacy that addressed the security concernsch united states and russia and europe consistent with our values and the reciprocity, and we've made that clear to russia with our allies and partners. we're also ready to respond alongside those allies and partners should russia choose to take military action. our response would include severe economic sanctio

joining us now, national security advisor jake sullivan. welcome back to "fox news sunday," good to have you here today. i'd like to start with this. sources are telling us that russia is now "70% ready" to launch an invasion in ukraine. because they are now or will soon be upwards of 130,000 troops and significant new presence of jets, missiles, antiaircraft equipment in russia and in belarus, north of ukraine. but the u.s. and ukraine have sent mixed signals on whether or not they think and invasion will actually happen, so what can you tell us this morning? is an invasion imminent? >> jake: well, what i can tell you, martha, is that we are in the window. any day now russia could take military action against ukraine or it could be a couple of weeks from now, or russia could choose to take the diplomatic path instead. the key thing is that the united states needs to be, and is prepared for any of those contingencies in lockstep with our allies and partners. we have reinforced and reassured our allies on the eastern flank, we have united th

i think the sullivans and the, and the blinking. and the bit of the victoria new and they haven't thought this out . they never have thought about go ahead church. no, i didn't get sorted out of it. but from their perspective of what would work very nicely for the west would be this russian invasion. russia will be seen to be this monster in the eyes of the world. and with the finally that we have the evidence that they convinced is true, which is, you know, put in is hitler. russia is not germany. and there was, you know, what the, well, the terrible things other options for these looney military scenarios. i just got an extra margin to clear. they got to see if they know that you're in reality, all that is likely to happen. they do, the worst comes to the worst, is that the russians will step in and secure the dumbass. because then the consequence will be that eventually, you know, the dumbass will be re incorporated within russia. ukraine loses a big loss of ukraine, but the nato and sullivan. ok, that's great. great, george. you

i mean, we have jake sullivan, one of the originators of the, of the russia gate hoax. i mean, and unfortunately, russia gate is bled into policy needlessly. but that's the case here. so, i mean, is this just saying, you know, the show biden is strong because even when he's trying looks to you've got gap left and right and center. go ahead sir. well, this is another point, a different time in history. and us political and economic position is entirely different now than it was in 1990. and just to go back even to, to bankers agreement and whether it was in writing or not means nothing to the us of the agreement is and writing. look, a treaty they broke with a ran means nothing, the beijing of core, and this is the 50th anniversary they weren't going to arm taiwan. recognize their agreements. you mean nothing along with literally hundreds and hundreds of trainings with the indigenous peoples of their you know, of the american. so they a little they a break. any treaty in writing or not? i jump in here. we have to go to heartbreaking out about heartbreak. will, will, can

sullivan. startling predictions this morning. abc and others being told that putin has 70% of his troops in place to possibly launch a full scale attack on ukraine. the ukrainians may not believe that. how likely is that? >> we believe that there's a very distinct possibility that vladimir putin will order an attack on ukraine. it could take a number of different forms. it could happen as soon as tomorrow or it could take some weeks yet. he has put himself in a position with military deployments to be able to act aggressively against ukraine at any time now. we are working hard to rally our allies, to provide material support to the ukrainians, to reinforce our eastern allies in particular poland and romania, the baltic states. at the same time to send a clear message to russia that we are prepared to walk the diplomatic path, to address our mutual security concerns if they're prepared to do so. either way, martha, we're ready. if they choose to go down the path of escalation, it will come at enormous human cost to ukrainians and

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and it was very interesting that during jake sullivan presser, last friday, and he was off this very question. well, why should we believe your intelligence are we, you know, we had a bad experience with intelligence such as, they're run up to the iraq war. and it was very different because before iraq that we were presenting intelligence in order to start a war, we are trying to avert a war. we try to prevent them. we try to stop war. so imagine that with such cells was good. people were trying to stop a war. well, how are you stopping a war by was this hysterical denunciations, likening, obviously, for contemporary russia to hitler's germany. how are you stopping a war by pouring in military hardware into ukraine? how are you stopping a war? by encouraging ukrainian or your a c, a sleep number bed to make any concessions at all. so you're, you're essentially in gendering a wall and then you're trying to boston, this phony as you're trying to store and list trust and the rest are most deescalate. that's the only way we could have peace in. well, today's profit, deescalate, but bradl

do we know what sullivan is telling lawmakers? >> well, adam smith, the chair of the armed services committee, part of that briefing this morning said the main focus of it was really on their efforts to deter russia. the steps they're taking to try to tamp this down to pursue that off ramp that you heard officials talk about so much. but, of course, this briefing is coming and jake sullivan visiting the hill and you're seeing the defense secretary and secretary of state here briefing president biden. it is coming as you heard from the pentagon spokesperson earlier saying that russia only continue to add forces throughout the weekend. and not only are they adding forces, he was saying don't just look at the scope of these 130,000 troops that they've amassed on the border but also the capablilities they have because that's the main concern here for the white house who is continuing to offer these warnings saying that it could happen really at any day now. it's pretty difficult to pinpoint exactly when that could happen. and, of cour

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i hope heard jake sullivan moments ago. there is a commitment to put troops in the region which is not in ukraine which i think a lot of people agree with your colleague josh hawley agrees with that. but how far are we willing to go is the question? >> i think putin has not made his final decision yet. think were one 100% right. he does use energy as a weapon. we can talk more about that. we ought to have biting sanctions in place now not later. have a bipartisan piece of legislation that we have been working on. i will tell you what is happening now is the administration has meant weak kneed on this for the been dragging their feet they want democrats to water it down. we need pressing a biting sanctions now not after innovation. what putin is talking about has been putting together the old soviet union. ukraine is the first part of that. he wants to swallow the whole thing. it is the second largest country in europe. we need to prevent that through letting him know it's going to be very painful if he tries to do it. if he

what more did jake sullivan have today? well, we're seeing even more indications of just how concerned the u. s. is little bit of breaking news. we're just hearing from the russian spokes and that they expect russian president vladimir putin and us president joe biden to speak on the phone on tomorrow. so on saturday here. so that is an indication that they think that they need to up the communication. we've also just now heard from the pentagon that an additional $3000.00 troops from the 2nd airborne are going to be sent to poland. and briefing with press secretary john kirby. he said, what those forces would possibly do. they haven't started doing it. we don't believe. but they set up tents and processing facilities on the border of poland to help with any evacuation who might come so more concrete steps that the us thing. so something is potentially going to happen. and really the stark is warning yet. we heard the secretary state anthony blink and say, we don't think that innovation isn't going to happen if the olympics

chairman, sullivan -- jake sullivan, the national security adviser, says there is a real possibility russia will seize a significa nif can't amo ukrainian territory and could launch an assault on the capital of kyiv. what would a full-scale invasion mean for the u.s. and the rest of europe? because this has the potential to be just very destabilizing for the entire region, and -- and have a spillover effect, i would assume, in a number of countries. >> that is absolutely right. i think it would have huge consequences. you know, first and foremost, obviously, for the people of ukraine because there could be very substantial casualties. the russians may think that they can get in and get out, you know, the history of invasions, including our own, demonstrates that is seldom the case. so this could be prolonged and it could be bloody. if the russians expect, as i think putin bluntly does, that he can stop ukraine's, you know, trending away from russia, its desire to be more integrated with the west. this is more likely to push ukraine more into the arms of the west, bring nato closer in

jake sullivan was a senior policy advisor for hillary clinton in 2016. propagated a bogus story about trump's secret lying to russia. naturally, sullivan's wife, to make it more interesting, works for the attorney general of the united states, merrick garland, who oversees the durham pro. he would need to recuse himself. she needs to recuse herself. republicans need to demand the ag takes her off anything involving the durham investigation. jake sullivan, he needs to answer questions about his role in the clinton campaign's illicit activities as of now. in other words, what did he know? what did hillary know? when did they know it? mitch mcconnell, by the way, where are you in all of this? is spying on the president and presidential candidates, is it okay with everybody in washington? think about what we knew before this filing of john durham. what we've known for a long time we spend nearly three years investigating right here on the show. we knew about christopher steele's debunked, dirty russian disinformation dossier bought and paid for by henry cont

nsa biden, nsa sullivan working on the hillary campaign. other clinton campaign officials trucking this story out to the media. they never, they hardly ever reported it came from the clinton campaign. the sources close to the matter, right? that was the line. that's why you can't trust the u.s. media. they demean themselves in this, right? i was at a newspaper, "the wall street journal" you had to report who the source was. they didn't do that. so now they're denouncing the durham probe right out the bat as just conspiracy even though they have no evidence of that. cnn's don lemon is saying that. even cbs reporter lesley stahl saying there is no real evidence, this is at the outset of the durham probe. we can't put on things we can't verify. oh, but you can put on things the clinton team say they verify but not name them as the source. really? that is where we're at in this country? how ma tip lated were they? -- manipulated were they? >> look, a anonymous sources have a long tradition in journalism and so does skepticism, cynicism being us

so did jake sullivan know it was a hoax or was he duped? elizabeth: yeah. that is an important question. >> if you were rachel maddow liz, you might say the walls are closing in. elizabeth: well i don't, i'm also not saying that i have trump's tax returns when it is only two pages that she had. by the way you know, she is a great broadcaster but there are so many mistakes and lack of coverage and hunter biden and what happened there and what john durham is looking into with the botching of the trump-russia probe. durham's team specifically referred to sullivan in one of the indictments. jake sullivan testified to congress under oath in 2017 that he did brief reporters and the media about collusion between russia and the trump campaign. he was spearheading, helping to spear led the push to connect trump organization computers alfa bank in russia. fbi debunked it, it was hotel marketing email spam. the question whether he helped plant that information in the fbi. looks like durham is going after that angle, what do you think? >> i think that's right. we see b