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Ensure alliance unity. so i think that this face, what we call phase zero before the shooting starts, which is really the most consequential phase sometimes in a war. this phase zero of information, and misinformation, and counter misinformation, i think the united states is exactly right. i think we have done two things with respect to intelligence. number one, we have been very quick to classify intelligence, and call out the regime intentions of the kremlin. and second, as we have seen, they ...

Out this utter nonsense for lack of better word? >> deplorable. , disgraceful. contrary to logic, orwellian. this is why its been so important for the biden menstruation to do what is been doing for the past several months. which is to publicly share information with the world, so that the world knows that this regime, this russian leader and his people are trying to gaslight the rest of the world into believing different from the facts on the ground. and i believe that that worked. so, were see...

Future. all levers of diplomacy in action. from the u.s. standpoint, still not willing to concede to any of his core demands. its a risk theyre willing to take. even though we seem to be potentially at the precipice of a military conflict. >> i want to play sound from secretary of state on meet the press this morning. getting into the mind set of putin. lets take a listen. >> one of the challenges that we have i think we put our own frame of logic on what president putin is doing. that may not b...

Cannot be like the western area. he wants to have it not like his neighbors. we see putin precipitating everything he wants to prevent. hes caused nato to bolster itself. well continue to do that and nato is now closer to russia than it was and so in terms of what would appear to us logically to be his interests, hes -- everything hes doing runs counter to it. in his own logic, there may be a rationale. >> he goes to the kyiv and is president zelensky right that the security architecture of our ...

And persuade russia to accept a diplomatic resolve to the conflict. but the us has a different view on chinese diplomacy. heres the former us national security adviser, and former us ambassador to the united nationsjohn bolton. bringing china in two mediate this or to try and resolve it is like figuring out how to enhance chinas power in europe. i dont see the logic to that at all. here in london, britains prime minister borisjohnson has met his canadian counterpart justin trudeau and the dutch ...

More significant thing, although it didnt seem to be really going anywhere. >> no, except open the door to military technical measures which seem to be intentionally vague. clarissa, if the logic for lack of a better word is that any military response from the ukrainians to the shelling could be used by the russian government as a pretense to begin an invasion, how then does ukraine respond? if at all? >> well, this is the conundrum that ukraine finds itself in, on the one hand, huge uptick in s...

Saying, the guy we build out needed our support. the other thing is that in louisville they said that nobody deserves to be in jail whether they are violent or not. >> greg: wow. he went on joy reid to talk about gun control. apparently he wanted to make sure everybody else didnt have guns bear the only difference between a political nation and this is that he was a lousy aim. think about this logic here. i will never understand while we treat attempted murderers and murderers differently when t...

Situation, and a final decision will be made in the coming hours. meanwhile, tensions are escalating in eastern ukraine, with fears that progressive groups are trying to provoke a war. nbc news chief correspondent richard engel has the latest from ukraine tonight. >> while russian ships conducted drills in the black sea, in eastern ukraine, russia may be building a case for war through a crisis that does not exist. today, russian separatists on sympathetic social media channels put out a barrage...

That, maybe the larger question is, when you are talking about vladimir putin, does logic have anything to do with it? >> well, the rushes typically are very methodical, intelligent, calculate the risks, only act when they think that they can pull off their operation. this one looks so improbable, it defies my imagination. there is a quarter of 1 million ukrainian troops that will fight back. in 2014, ukrainian navy came apart, so they only had militia units fighting, so these people are reasona...

Russia, women, children and the elderly first, because he claimed the ukrainian army is about to launch an all-out war. >> defies basic logic to believe the ukrainians would choose this moment with well over 150,000 troops on its borders to escalate a year-long conflict. >> reporter: instead, ukraine accuses the separatists, who are armed and led by the kremlin of firing on ukrainian territory in an attempt to bait the ukrainian army into a response. the separatists control an enclave about the ...