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Vladimir putins intentions are. do you have a better read than others as to why he would amass so many troops, heavy artillery, and do it, you know, so publicly? were looking at open, you know, open satellite photography. its very clear what hes got there. why would he do that? >> reporter: yeah, im sure whats troubling president biden and a lot of my former colleagues in the white house is putins had a clear trajectory for two decades. when it comes to ukraine and fwa georgia that they not be a...

Decides to massiveove forward w this invasion, the u.s. will impose serious costs, serious economic, financial ramifications but also a stepped up nato presence and increased u.s. assistance to allies at russias doorstep. on the other hand, the u.s. making clear and the president doing so in this conversation that the u.s. is committed to meaningful diplomacy. talks are set to take place between u.s. and russian officials beginning on january 10th. and lastly, one thing that that senior official...

Whats your read on the outcome? >> chris, i think calling the surprising is an understatement. you have to remember, this is the same city that refused to convict a police officer who wrongfully killed philando castillo. when you put it in that context, in my lifetime, this goes all the way to the rodney king case. the police resolve ways take in the case of, its a dirty job, if we make mistakes, were just going to have to look the other way. for the most part, that has succeeded. this verdict s...

On the united states and nato to get into conversations about its concerns. what are its concerns? well, pitting once water tight local guarantees that nato will stop its eastward expansion, that nato will not allow ukraine to join it and that nato will not put its troops and military hardware into ukraine. this is way too much for nato and for the united states to swallow, so i think what we can expect locking at the sequence of events and how russia has ramped up the pressure on the united sta...

Talked about universal health care. a very inefficient and that is very true so as long as the government runs health care and some conservatives think that might be a better way to do it. it will give power to people with bad intentions. new york city is proving that. new york city will allocate life-saving medical care according to skin color. they will withhold some colors and give it to other colors. the citys guidance with the distribution of monocolonal antibodies, consider race and ethnic...

Any european leader will accept some of the maximalist demands in these treaties that vladimir putin has floated. but i do think its a good sign he wants to talk before the more formal substantive negotiations start in a couple of weeks time and i think its highly unlikely before those talks are concluded that you will see military action. >> and, ambassador, i mean, aides often spend days, even weeks preparing presidents for calls with advair yall leaders like putin. whats the type of prep work...

Purposes, such as diagnosing an infection. when should people get tested in your mind? >> yeah, thanks for having me. i want to say off the bat these are my personal opinions. they dont represent any of the hospitals or employers im affiliated with. its a really hard decision to make because testing has been pushed appropriately throughout the pandemic for pretty much everyone. you know, asymptomatic people can transmit the virus, symptomatic people. so weve been told, you know, test, test, test...

You see an escalating situation east that could lead to an un-intended consequence. also, arming ukrainians even more than we already are. weve sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons, but theres obviously demands for even more. and that could escalate things as well, and thats a choice that the biden administration would have to confront. >> so take us to the mind of putin. whats his cost/benefit analysis on this, on the crisis. and even cost/benefit analysis on an actual invasion...

He would do. >> they need to be planning gres aggressively and i trust that they are. hopefully they are looking back to see what the carter administration did with dr. brzezinski back in the 1980s when the soviet surrounding pole land and about to go in. they made it clear it would be against their best interests to go into poland at that time. we are not hearing enough from this administration on what aggressive they are taking. we learned over the past 20 years that there are no good intentio...

Officials beginning january 10. and lastly, bone thing that official was not able to say is what vladamir putins intentions were following this call. instead, the u.s. instead of trying to judge his intention, focused on russian action. we have seen stepped up u.s. surveillance missions, two u.s. spy planes flying over even ukraine in just a matter of days. jeremy diamond, cnn, delaware. from brazil, 2021 has been a devastating year. the covid pandemic left more than 600,000 dead. parts of the...