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Like be afraid and wait for the worst. that was what the message was in many of those websites last january. i havent heard any reports that there was a similar kind of messaging this time, but, john, its really interesting because this cyberattack, if it is anything to do with russia, which it could well be, although officials havent made any pronouncement. it comes as mixed messages coming out of russia about what their intentions could be. on the one hand, were seeing russia pull back for the...

Give up on diplomacy, taking his case directly to the russian people. >> were not targeting the people of russia. we do not seek to destabilize russia. to the citizens of russia, you are not our enemy. and i do not believe you want a bloody, destructive war against ukraine. >> so this morning, the kremlin is responding to president bidens comments for the first time. the spokesman said it is positive that the u.s. president is noting his readiness to start serious negotiations. and vladimir puti...

That. they frame bidens pick as discrimination against white people when white people have made up vast majority of the court since its inception. do they actually believe bidens pick it racist or is this rhetoric? >> one of the things i sought to understand is less about whether they believe it, more if it works. >> its worse if they dont believe it, frankly. >> could argue its disingenuous, i dont try to get inside the head of these folks, but i am trying to understand whether or not it resona...

Later in the day you hear foreign minister lavrov say theres still hope for flomcy and those two are saying they will return to their bases afterwards. if you look at the official rhett, you broaden it out and see a lot more akations of western hysteria. u, the kind of stuff we saw in 2014, for example, the accusation that the ukrainian government is committing atrocities in eastern ukraine against russian speakers in eastern ukraine. its difficult to understand from the rhetoric. theres a few t...

Connections across the border into russia. everybody here has a cousin over there. >> sam, thank you for your reporting. appreciate it. all this have as russian ministry of defense says some troops on the border of ukraine are returning to their bases. fred pleitgen has the story. is putin pulling back or what do you make of this? >> reporter: i think its too early to see whether or not its any sign of pull back but the messaging weve been getting from the kremlin over the past 24 hours or so ...

Us about that? for example, how many and from where?— and from where? at the moment, we dont have details _ and from where? at the moment, we dont have details about _ and from where? at the moment, we dont have details about exactly - and from where? at the moment, we dont have details about exactly howl dont have details about exactly how many. there seems to be a ref assessment that this is closer to the donbas region rather than up towards belarus near to kyiv. we know there are also milit...

You cover everything. i really appreciate you being on to talk about it, david. thanks. >> always a pleasure. thanks so much. a gunman firing multiple shots into a campaign headquarters of a louisville mayoral candidate. and the candidate narrowly made it out. going to join us live next. and the breaking news this morning, russia announced that some forces surrounding ukraine are returning to their bases. what does this really mean, though? because major military exercises do continue. well ...

To bases after completing drills. this was the response from the head of the nato military alliance. so far, we have not seen any de—escalation on the ground from the russian side. over the last weeks and days, we have seen the opposite. continued military build—up with more troops, more battalions, more high—end capabilities, artillery and missiles and a lot of support elements. it may be several days until we know for sure whether russian troops are being withrawn. what we do know is tha...

Saying that russia moves its troops all the time. sometimes they go closer to the border, sometimes they pull back, and that it has seen this kind of maneuver before. this is the third time since december that russia has said that it has done a partial withdrawal of forces. so something does appear to be happening. russia is certainly going to great lengths to show that it is de-escalating and actually when an official in moscow, peskov, the spokesman for vladimir putin was asked, is this a russ...

More information coming out from the ministry of defence in russia about what is happening with these military drills. lets take it back to last week, that is when the kremlin spokesperson said when these deals were finished, those russian troops would go back to their bases. plenty of people said, we will believe it when we see it and now russia providing footage of what it says are these troops moving back. yesterday we had some footage, it wasnt clear that geographical location, the russian s...