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49 oh fresh has more on ukraine getting new information and confirmation about atrocities committed in the key suburb of bucha. griff jenkins with the latest live from lviv, wednesday morning donning there, hello, griff. >> good evening, shannon president biden is calling putin accusing him of carrying out genocide. president putin is causing atrocities in bucha fake. peace talks have hit a dead end. watch. >> you could hear the major issues created problems with final agreements acceptable for ...

Another military intervention in ukraine, but generally thinking, i dont think theyre that related and today as they go into the negotiations, i dont think as zach stan is a particular influential factor as to whether we get a negotiating track or we march to a more confrontational track. >> okay. ambassador mcfall, thank you for your insights. america lost a legend this past week. up next the impact of a civil rights legend. what made sidney poitier the remarkable man we remember today? e rem...

Troops," but he was cryptic about what lies ahead. how will russia act next? "according to plan," putin declared, adding he did not consider the crisis over, and that his security demanding, to bar ukraine permanently from joining nato and to roll back the alliance to 1997 positions, had not been met by the west. but putin did say again he was "ready to continue on the negotiating track." new satellite images over the past 48 hours show increased russian military activity among the 150,000 troop...

Where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. michael crowley is here. the diplomatic correspondent with "the new york times." also mark jacobson, a combat veteran who served in afghanistan in 2006 and was former senior adviser to ash carter and kimberly is back. boston globe senior columnist and msnbc political analyst. i want to read something to you, mark, that top friedman writes today. is sleepy joe biden making putin blink? putin has been on such a run about man...

Tower, this is the area of aby lar a horrible atrocity, 30,000 jews killed in 1931 there and the place of that tower if i remember correctly, is an old jewish cemetery, its just horrible. i think putin will try to double bound, they, we will see probably more horrible things than weve seen already, i hate to say that. we have friends, its tragic. im hopeful that the ukrainians will get the supplies in the arms they need to resist and that this negotiating track, which has been opened, which hasn...

If if he has a secretary of defense that leads more toward pompeo, that could help trump have a more balanced approach among his advisers and help him potentially go into a negotiating track. the other small detail here ifz heard, the former secretary of state henry kissinger, who negotiated the grand opening to china, has been at the pentagon the next two days. im not sure who hes meeting with. but there is a tid bit here, if trump decides to pursue, he has more leverage here. president trump...

>> this is the importance of the to track strategy the us has put in place, the pressure campaign that prevents north korea from being a threat to the united states and its allies, nuclear return, missile defense, heavy sanctioning. it limits his capacity to threaten is that limit his capacity to build a substantial nuclear arsenal that could threaten us so that is in place, that is the safety blanket that protects us and allows the united states to pursue this negotiating track with some degree...

>> well, it is, first of all an unprecedented meeting. this is so much more than the photo opportunity in the oval office between bill clinton when they were in the midst of negotiating -- there was a negotiating track with north korea. they were working towards normalization. it signalled that madeleine albright was going in october of 2000 as we went to pyongyang for those first talks, which would have led to a possible normalization of diplomatic relations and an end to the korean war had al ...

That have been reported about iran. i think the negotiating track is especially important not necessarily because we can get the north koreas to slap their heads and say, okay well stop this. but rather to keep china engaged, work closely with china and make sure theres no daylight between us and the south koreas. >> you talked about missile defense. does the u.s. have interceptability to shoot down should north korea take such attack? >> we have the capability. but the technology is developing ...

That will lead to a transition that includes -- on this one, the u.s. lost a lot. >> you mentioned four years. this war has been raging on for four years. you think about what the world has been preoccupied with. with iran and the nuke talks and ukraine and russia and of course isis. why do you think kerry right now pivots to mention assad? >> i think that when pushed by margaret brennan, i think he was trying to say that we need to go back to the negotiating track and there has been some rumors...