>> OUR ALLIES AND PARTNERS
ACROSS EUROPE IN INTENSE WAY
OVER THE LAST WEEKS TO MAKE VERY
CLEAR THAT THERE WOULD BE
MASSIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR RENEWED
RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.
ONCE TRIGGERED YOU LOSE THE
DETERRENT EFFECT.
WE ARE PUTTING TOGETHER A WHOLE
SERIES OF ACTIONS THAT WOULD
FIGURE INTO PRESIDENT PUTIN’S
CALCULUS.
>> A FOX NEWS ALERT NOW.
PRESIDENT BIDEN CONSIDERING
DEPLOYING THOUSANDS OF TROOPS TO
EASTERN EUROPE AS NATO ANNOUNCES
IT IS SENDING ADDITIONAL SHIPS
AND FIGHTER JETS TO COUNTER
RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AGAINST
UKRAINE.
>> CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL WALTZ IS
A HOUSE ARMS SERVICES COMMITTEE
MEMBER.
NATIONAL GUARD COLONEL AND
FORMER GREEN BERET COMMANDER.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU,
CONGRESSMAN, IT FEELS LIKE THE
SITUATION IS QUICKLY
DETERIORATING, DO YOU THINK A
RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE IS
INEVITABLE AT THIS POINT?
AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE
UNITED STATES?
>> I THINK DOO THINK IT’S
IMMINENT AND VERY LIKELY THAT
PUTIN IS GOING TO INVADE.
AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE
UNITED STATES?
IT MEANS DESTABILIZED EUROPE.
PUTIN BELIEVES HE CAN
RECONSTITUTE THE OLD SOVIET
UNION AND CHALLENGE THE UNITED
STATES ON THE WORLD STAGE AND
RIGHT NOW HE HAS MORE TO GAIN
THAN HE BELIEVES HE HAS TO LOSE
BY TAKING UKRAINE.
HE WILL HAVE A HUGE INCREASE IN
INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY AND
AGRICULTURAL CAPACITY AS UKRAINE
IS THE BREAD BASKET OF RUSSIA.
AND ACCESS TO THE BLACK SEA WITH
PORTS AND TRADE AND OIL AND GAS.
AND HE BELIEVES THAT FAR
OUTWEIGHS ANYTHING THAT BIDEN IS
GOING TO DO OR THE WEST IS GOING
TO DO IN RESPONSE BECAUSE HE GOT
AWAY WITH IT IN 2014.
HE THINKS HE IS GOING TO GET
AWAY WITH IT AGAIN.
>> WE JUST HEARD IN A SOUNDBITE
LEADING UP TO YOU FROM SECRETARY
OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN, QUOTED.
>> ONCE SANCTIONS ARE TRIGGERED
YOU LOSED DETERRENT EFFECT.
BASICALLY SAYING IT’S TOO SOON
FOR SANCTIONS.
DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU.
>> NO, IT DOESN’T.
FRANKLY.
I WAS OUT IN UKRAINE A MONTH
AGO.
AND TALKING TO THE UKRAINIANS,
YOU KNOW, THEY VERY FRANKLY
SAID, LOOK, TAKING TOUGH ACTIONS
AFTER WE HAVE RUSSIAN TANKS
SITTING IN OUR CAPITAL DOESN’T
DO US MUCH GOOD.
WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING THINGS
ALL ALONG UP FRONT TO CHALLENGE
AND CHANGE PUTIN’S CALCULUS.
SANCTIONS NOW.
MORE LETHAL AID NOW.
AND THE TYPES OF LETHAL AID, THE
THING THEY MOST FEAR ARE
SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES AND
ANTISHIP MISSILES.
UKRAINIANS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR
THEM TORE MONTHS.
WE SHOULD HAVE ALREADY PROVIDED
THEM.
ALSO THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO MAKE
VERY CLEAR THAT WE WILL CONTINUE
TO RESOURCE NOT U.S. TROOPS BUT
MILITARY AID AND SUPPLIES TO AN
ONGOING UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE.
LOOK, PUTIN THINKS HE CAN DO
THIS EASILY AND QUICKLY.
WE NEED TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT
WE’LL SUPPORT THE UKRAINIANS IN
RESISTING AND THIS WILL BE A
BLOODY ENDEAVOR FOR RUSSIAN
FORCES.
THAT’S THE ONLY WAY YOU ARE
GOING TO STOP PUTIN IS IF HE
THINKS THIS IS GOING TO CAUSE
HIM MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
>> Carley: LET’S TALK ABOUT
GERMANY FOR A MOMENT.
GERMANY IS HEAVILY DEPENDENT ON
RUSSIA FOR ITS ENERGY.
WILL THEY STAY IN THE WAY OF
MAXIMUM SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA
AND ALSO, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT U.S. ENERGY
INDEPENDENCE?
>> WELL, THAT’S A GREAT POINT.
I WANT AMERICANS TO UNDERSTAND
THAT BIDEN’S FAILED ENERGY
POLICIES ARE DIRECTLY LEADING TO
SNABLES AND THE WORLD.
WHEN BIDEN SHUTS DOWN AMERICAN
PIPELINES, AMERICAN DRILLING
PUTS REGULATION ON OUR FRACKING
AND MOVES US AWAY FROM ENERGY
INDEPENDENCE, IS HE MOVING THE
WORLD TOWARDS RUSSIAN OIL AND
GAS.
AND THEN YOU ADD ON TOP OF THAT
GREEN LIGHTING THE RUSSIAN
PIPELINE, WHICH BY THE WAY,
MOVES THE DIRTIEST FORM OF GAS
IN THE WORLD.
SO THE ENVIRONMENTAL ARGUMENT
DOESN’T EVEN WEIGH IN.
EVERY TIME THAT PRICE OF OIL
GOES UP, YOU SEE PUTIN GETTING
RICHER AND GETTING MORE
AGGRESSIVE.
AND THE SAME THING WITH IRAN.
THEY’RE ALSO GETTING RICHER AND
MORE AGGRESSIVE BECAUSE AMERICA
RATHER THAN EXPORTING OIL, BIDEN
IS MOVING THE WORLD TOWARDS
DEPENDENCY ON THEIR OIL.
AND THIS IS HOW YOU ARE SEEING
IT PLAY OUT.
AND FOR SANCTIONS TO BE
EFFECTIVE, WHICH IS THE
CENTERPIECE OF BIDEN AND
BLINKEN’S RESPONSE.
IT HAS TO BE EFFECTIVE IN EUROS
AND DOLLARS.
AND THE GERMANS ARE NOT GOING TO
GET ON BOARD AS LONG AS THEY ARE
DEPENDENT AND, LOOK, THEY JUST
HAD TO FIRE THE HEAD OF THE
GERMAN NAVY YESTERDAY.
FOR SAYING UKRAINE WILL NEVER
GET CRIMEA BACK.
AND THAT WE SHOULD BE SHOWING
PUTIN MORE RESPECT.
SO YOU ARE GOING TO SEE A WEAK
GERMAN RESPONSE HERE.
PUTIN KNOWS IT.
AND, AGAIN, THAT’S WHY HE KNOWS
HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.
>> Todd: ALSO FORMER SECRETARY
OF STATE MIKE POMPEO BASICALLY
SAYING, LOOK, RUSSIA DOES NOT
SEE JOE BIDEN AS CREDIBLE.
ALL THIS FIGURING INTO THE
CALCULUS PUTTING ON A PATH THAT
WE ARE CURRENTLY ON.
CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL WALTZ WE
APPRECIATE YOU COMING ON GIVING
INSIGHT ON CRUCIAL GEOPOLITICAL
ISSUES WE ARE FACING RIGHT NOW.