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Administration now sanctioning the operator of the nord stream 2 gas pipeline between russia and germany. still tonight, theres no sign thats impacting president putins thinking lester >> all right keir simmons, thank you. for more on where things stand, i pleased to be joined by u.s. secretary of state antony blinken mr. secretary, thank you for being here do you have reason to believe before this night is over russian forces will be engaged in something akin to a full invasion of ukraine? >>...

So when we have when we when we allow the basically allowing the russians to run this war in a way that minimizes their risk and that will embolden putin and force him to hold out longer and basically just encourage him to commit war crimes because basically were giving them a pass on that. yeah, i just want to quickly just go back and what you said there. so youre saying this russian convoy has kind of fanned out because theyre in a defensive posture not because theyre about to to fire into kei...

And its hard to determine. >> melissa: that was our mistake, hes not a democrat, hes an independent. katie, what you think of this? you hear experts say we are not selling enough people to be in attack posture. clearly by the number of troops, this is about defense and of our allies. but you have folks in congress, ringing the alarm bells. >> katie: have just not clear on the argument. that if we respond to violent attacks, bombings against u.s. interests were allies in the region were trying to...

If this russian aircraft was in attack posture, it would have already painted, as we say, it would have already gotten a radar signature off that f-16 and the sue coy would have engaged but that didnt happen. there are options that could have been exercised that could have moved that aircraft off of turkish airspace. clearly, the conditions on the region is that russian military provocation is not unusual. turkey should have exercised a little bit of what we call tactical patience. >> davide, in...

U.s.-made missile fired by rebels on the ground. turkey insisting the shoot down was justified. today the turkish government releasing audio of what the turks say were ten warnings to the russian pilots. russia disputed any warnings were given, broadcasting an interview with the rescued pilot, his back to the camera, presumably to protect his identity. >> translator: not visual ri or by radio. there was no contact whatsoever. >> reporter: according to the turks, the russian jet flew just over a ...

Of nato shoots a plane out of the sky? is that protocol? it seems shocking. >> its not protocol. the issue is the attitude of the aircraft, what that aircraft is trying to do is whats paramount. obviously, the turkish f-16, u.s.-built f-16 had a position and had an attitude on that aircraft that it was able to pick it up, paint it, identify it as something other than a friendly aircraft. there are additional steps you can go through before you would engage to shoot to kill. in a situation like t...

Were given broadcasting an interview with the rescued pilot, his back to the camera presumably to protect his identity. >> translator: not via the radio, not visually. there was no contact whatsoever. >> reporter: according to the turks the russian jet flew just over a mile into its air space and was there for just 17 seconds before they shot it down. raising questions about the turks very quick action. >> was it an attack posture? was it really threatening? or was it simply violating the air sp...

Against cops. is police behavior a factor here? >> police behavior is unquestionably a factor. we are in an era of cell phone video that is ubiquitous, and so mistakes, heavy handedness by the police, we can expect to be collected and retransmitted many, many times. >> reporter: police advocates say a saturation of media coverage has contributed to the spite, and they believe civil rights groups bear some responsibility. that chant from black lives matter protesters this week in minnesota angere...

Police, we can expect to be collected and retransmitted many, many times, so the police have to be smarter. >> reporter: police advocates say a saturation of media coverage has contributed to the spike, and they believe civil rights groups bear some responsibility. [ chanting ] >> reporter: that chance from black lives matters in minnesota angered many. >> we heard the chants organizers, protesters just this weekend after the death of deputy goforth chanting in what sounds like a pro-police atta...