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Center, virtual, with the president this week. >> well, he does. how they played their hand or whether they overplayed it is going to take a little while to know. whats missing right now, paula, from all of this is understanding putins intentions. i think thats what the president wants to try to get at in the tuesday meeting. right now we know that putin has, you know, just roughly 100,000 troops only the border. the unclassified u.s. intelligence that could go up to 175,000 in january. i have s...

It does not end up in the hands of somebody who is absolutely exhibiting signs that he is not okay, that he wants to harm somebody. i mean, the nation has looked at the statements -- >> can i ask you, karen, besides and i dont know it needs more than this but obviously its important in the case that youre building, aside from the search for ammo, aside from the social media posts where hes referring to the gun as his own and his moms media post, aside from the drawing that was incredibly disturb...

Attacks like the ones they have done before on the ukraine electric grid, simply seek to destabilize president salinski. >> at this point, though, in terms of the president confronting putin on this, this week, do you think hes coming to the table with good intelligence that tells him what putins true intentions might be? >> i dont think so. i mean, i think understanding intention is very difficult. and what we have learned about putin is that he mays pretty much for the short term, and occasion...

Something theyve managed to keep, but at a high price, like the western sanctions imposed seven years ago. i think at this point what you will see happen in the conversation is that joe biden is going to try to flesh out putins full intentions and put putin will be trying to figure out what the united states means when it says it is fully committed to the independence and sovereignty of ukraine. does that mean we would send american forces? i doubt it. that we could really crank up sanctions? pr...

Georgia, when he attacked portions of georgia. still has remnants of power there. what is his history in attacking crimea and annexing crimea? and so i think in what he is now doing in ukraine, we should not trust his intentions or what his declared intentions are. president reagan used to say with president gorbachev, trust but verify. i would invert that. i would say verify and not trust. verify what equipment, manpower, et cetera, he is amassing on that border, looking at the opportunity to, ...

Presumably if you had a great source inside the kremlin, but what theyve seen is, you know, heavy artillery. they see combat troops in the numbers they havent seen since 2014. and by the way, we should point out that blinken is going to speak with ukrainian officials before this call like today and the president will be calling, president zelensky afterwards. what do you think is happening? >> first, i think we ought to disregard the notion that we can determine what president putins intentions ...

About in recent days. obviously weve been look agent this buildup for a few weeks. there was a buildup earlier this week as well. their demands crystallized in the past several days, last last week when we heard several russian officials basically say what they want is some kind of agreement that nato wont expand one inch east, and ukraine wont join nato. i just -- its hard to imagine whats the actual structure of that agreement theyre envisioning would look like. but i think thats a kashlgtizat...

Note that vladimir putins intentions are unclear, perhaps putin will not carry out the war plan, nevertheless, a meeting is schedule between putin and president biden tuesday, a russian invasion of ukraine would ignite a major security crisis for europe and create more instability in what is already an increasingly unstable world. president biden said that u.s. has a quote iron clad commitment to ukraine sovereignty. what does that mean? president biden to to issue more sanctions against russia ...

Well as trying to figure out what the russian presidents intentions are preparing for the possibility of anything that would come and that is where you get this sanctions package being drawn up. sources and administration officials making clear it is a substantial sanctions package, driven by the idea of deterrence, trying to lay out what might come to russian officials do not take the step of moving further than just massing troops and decide to back down and move some of the troops away. it is...

Information so i think it would be unfair for me to comment on it, but from what i hear from what it appears from the facts that they are known, if they are a fugitive of justice, charges that could be additionally added, it seems like its appropriate. at least thats the circumstances. but thats up to the prosecutor mcdonald, and i trust her discretion. >> what about the man who helped the crumbleys at the detroit warehouse. his attorneys say he didnt know what was going on. but should he face c...