makes the sanctions the first tranche, appropriate to where we are in this scenario. until you have kinetic activity, you still have some possibility for vladimir putin to pull back. does it look like that s what he s doing? he s laid out the justification and the angry argument for why russia thinks it can seize more territory and you have to assume that is the likely scenario, but we don t have that in detail yet and the president clearly left the path to diplomacy open. general zwack, you have laid out for us at the beginning of this conversation a chilling scenario of what happens next as putin pushes towards that contact line and possibly beyond. you know, president biden has said for weeks, i mean more than a month, the u.s. is not going to go to war with russia, the u.s. is not going to go into ukraine. we already have troops in theater, but we re positioning them, you know, in nato countries, but what happens if we start to watch, you know,
under. she also had a warning about the swift and severe consequences that russia would face if it moves forward with an invasion. she spoke about that a little bit as she met with the ukrainian president today. if russia further invades your country as i mentioned earlier today, we will impose swift and severe economic sanctions. if russia takes aggressive action against ukraine, we are prepared to implement and to do that work in a ewaunified way w a our allies around the world. even as the warning of an attack, president biden is still keeping the door for diplomacy open. there s supposed to be a meeting between blinken and lavrov on thursday, though president biden said if there s an attack, that door will be shut by russia. it s going to be a long five days waiting to see if that meeting actually happens. arlette saenz, great reporting
crimes trial of the three white men convicted of murdering 25-year-old black man ahmaud arbery. we ll get the latest from outside the courtroom. and later this hour, a spotlight on bullying after another family loses their 12-year-old son to suicide. we ll talk to a top doctor from children s national hospital about what families need to know. we begin with the very latest on the increasingly escalaing tensions between russia and ukraine. right now, russian president vladimir putin is holding an unscheduled meeting of the security council at the kremlin. these are live pictures from that national security meeting in moscow. this comes one day after president biden held an emergency meeting with his national security council. you see a picture of it. meantime, both nations continue to leave the door to diplomacy open, with putin and president
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