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Along ukraines border, and pentagon spokesperson john kirby says that putin has added at least a half dozen landing ships in the black sea with the purpose of putting troops onshore. they are talking diplomacy but advancing into attack positions. >> right. this is a moment of maximum pressure against ukraine. so hes got the military machine moving. hes moving it to its attack position. the world is on edge. people in ukraine are starting to take this seriously. it could be very damaging. what he...

Making the actual decision and saying you will attack. >> reporter: today, president biden, convening an urgent meeting with his national security team in the situation room, many just back from europe, where they were reassuring allies and doubling down on the consequences for putin if he attacks. >> we are talking about the real possibility of war in europe. >> reporter: more than 150,000 russian troops are thought to be amassed on three sides of ukraine, although one u.s. official telling abc...

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Ukrainian, launched a new members state borders. [end of translation] >> russia, for its part, is still spreading the lie that theyre open for democracy, to diplomacy. but the numbers speak for themselves. theyve amassed over 200,000 troops at the border, as many as 50% of those troops are now in an attack position. this is a story thats evolving by the moment, and who better to discuss this with that former u.s. ambassador to russia, and msnbc international affairs analyst, michael mcfaul. amba...

Russian forces surrounding ukraine are in attack position. all of the signs are there. all the danger of a russian invasion. very real. here at home more bad news for the former president a federal judge ruling civil lawsuits to hold him responsible for what happened at the capitol on january 6 can go forward and saying and i quote here the presidents january 6 rally speech can reasonably be viewed as a call for collective action. the judge going on to say we used repeatedly in this context impl...

50% of its military at the ukrainian border in attack position. president biden convinced putin will attack. there are new details to report on this. and back in the states a mall fight sparking controversy and protest. in the next hour, youll hear from the teen tackled by police as the teen he fought sat and watched. the teen he fought sat watched. with downy infusions, let the scent set the mood. ♪

Russia and ukraine. u.s. sources say they believe russia has now amassed close to 200,000 troops at the ukrainian border. one u.s. defense official told nbc news that that accounts for 40 to 50% of russias entire military forces, that right now are poised in an attack position around ukraine. the secretary general of nato said today that he believes there has not been a larger concentration of military forces in europe since the end of the cold war. vice president harris was in germany today, wh...

An estimated 130,000 troops along ukraines border and putin has added at least a half dozen landing ships in the black sea with the purposes of putting troops on shore. they are talking diplomacy but advancing into attack positions. >> right. this is a moment of maximum pressure against ukraine. so hes got the military machine moving, hes moving it to its attack position. the world is on edge. people in ukraine are starting to take this seriously. it could be very damaging to the collapse of the...

Messaging from the president, who for weeks has said they did not know whether putin had made up his mind. initially, the president did not reveal that assessment in his initial prepared opening remarks. it was not until reporters asked him whether he believes putin has decided to invade that president biden said yes. now, sources have told us that this is based in part on intelligence that has showed that half of russian forces have amassed around the borders of ukraine ready for an attack posi...

Fracturing. angela merkel is now gone. you have a new chancellor, internal politics, very cold winter, nord stream 2 coming in. and fractured nato. you look at the imagery on the ground where forces are deployed. when you look back at january, they are all lined up in an atonement area, deployment area, if you will. what we saw a week ago is these forces are now deployed else elsewhere. this is ukraine. this is the area where this piece of imagery exists right now. what was in place is beginning...