January 20, 2022. NPR
“I think what you’re going to see is that Russia will be held accountable if it invades. And it depends on what it does. It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do.”
I remember when he said that, basically giving Putin the green light. Funny but it seems the media has stuffed it down the memory hole.