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Military troops across the border, that is an invasion. if they go in, that is an invasion. there will be severe economic consequences. >> dana: white house press secretary jen psaki talking about russia and ukraine reacting in a statement tweeted out by the ukraine president. you were quite gracious, we know you havent seen this yet and you can imagine the president of ukraine was very frustrated. russia, china, north korea were watching yesterday and parsing every word. >> bill: the initials r...

Diplomacy and dialog may be fruitful and areas where we are sincerely and steadfastly interested in engaging in that diplomacy and areas where its a nonstarter. >> one of your colleagues at the white house on a background call said that if if it gets down to the point youre going to impose sanctions, quote, well start at the top of the escalation ladder and stay there. im just wondering, is that a wise thing to do to start at the very top so that only thing -- only thing more you could do would ...

Earlier this morning who said it is past time to leave ukraine for those americans that are in ukraine. you are seeing pictures of embassy in kiav right now. a lot of diplomatic staff have left the embassy to move to the western ukrainian city of leviv, does not mean that the embassy is closed or evacuated per the state department official but it does mean they are certainly taking a different posture. griff, right now the white house is holding a background call on the meeting with president pu...

Georgia. under barack obamas administration he annexed crimea, still in possession of crimea. this would be a repeat of what putin has done before what joe biden has tried to do is rally allies, rally the ukrainian leader, assure him that the united states has his back and is going to, if in fact russia invades, theyre going to provide more military equipment to the ukrainians. president biden has spoken directly to president zelensky of ukraine. yesterday, secretary of state blinken had another...

Hell take it against. a defense official did say a couple days ago in a background call this will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. meaning it could be the soldiers who decide not to get vaccinated who will face consequence for this and not their commanders who refuse to enforce the vaccine mandate. right now it is a wait and see game of who will take a step. defense secretary lloyd austin didnt address this when he held a presser earlier this week, so well see what statement he says. penta...

Conversation happening within the biden administration. part of their overall goal to control. so how do they sell this type of -- i know you cant get in their head. but you are an expert at communication. it didnt seem like he campaigned on this. but he got elected so how are they going to put this out. >> i can tell you exactly how because we saw jen psaki do it from the podium. she was asked earlier what are you going to do about the crime problem? her response was we have a gun problem. so t...

Closing bell just about four minutes away. there were reports that chinese officials are a little doubtful about the possibility of a long-term trade deal with the united states, worrying about the degree to which president trump seems to change his mind about stuff. imagine that. all three major markets are lower. but we are in record territory, just to be clear. all right. lets move on. senior trump campaign officials held a background call this afternoon to discuss their digital strategy for ...

Of things that people think are important in terms of reform. now, that said, many of these steps in bidens plan would undo things that joe biden did. joe biden wants to get rid of his mandatory minimums and his crack and powder cocaine distinction. he says im going to background call, one often his advisers was saying that he wants to get back to the police investigations that were spearheaded by legislation that joe biden pushed. that was the crime bill. and so joe biden does have a really dif...

Substancive things the president plans to accomplish? an official told us we should expect substance, substantive things but never laid out was it on trade, north korea, reaif firming the relationship? so they do have these calls but theres not actually a lot of specifics they want to preview or layout. >> one of the things i doubt was on the background call was reuping an insult the president cant quick, that was about john mccain. >> i didnt know about it, somebody said it happened, theyre pai...

Some way hell make a statement, give an interview, send a tweet that will lead to an area of diplomatic clean up or news in ways they werent expecting. so they go in prepared for that, in as much as you cant prepare for how its going to happen or whats going to go on. >> in the bush presidency, there was a backgrounder with the national security advisor, sometimes the secretary of state and sometimes experts from the state department, did they have objectives, do they do those for these trips fo...