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Moscow. russia sick nalling this morning openness to another meeting between biden and putin. i wonder if they were hearing, nic, a comment from yesterdays press conference from biden that got less attention than maybe it deserved where biden seemed to say that ukraines potential membership in nato is a long time off, right, as perhaps a diplomatic off-ramp here. is that how you heard it? >> reporter: there certainly seems to be something in dmitry peskov, president putins comments today, that c...

>> it is up to mr. putin to decide whether he has to do. my own reading of mr. putin is he misjudged the u.s. response. hes leaning forward and he massed more than 100,000 troops. i dont think he anticipate the relatively strong response the united states has put together. so he may well feel quote on quote "the need to do something," our policy goal is to accept the diplomatic offering for him and agree some sort of arms control arrangement in europe, security architecture in europe. we dont wa...

Lukashenko in belarus. it includes not just tanks and heavy weapons but logistics, medical supplies, blood, the things you would need to sustain an invasion and the kind of things that have nothing to do a military exercise of any kind. while putins been doing that, there have been ongoing diplomatic channels, the one with the united states which has not yielded results because united states is not going to concede and france and germany have been in the lead in recent years in discussions about...

Seems to me that the biden administration is seeking to do this, is to raise the stakes to say this is what it would cost you to invade ukraine and while raising the stakes, as richard said, offer him an off ramp so that at least he spends some time thinking about it, he decides maybe not to do it right now. but raising the stakes involves military investment in ukraine, it might eventually involve military investment in nato or at least the threat of that, but thats -- but understanding that th...

Busy freeway. police say the body of 16-year-old tioni this is theis was discovered and hope the reward will yield information that leads to an arrest. >> cnns stephanie elam joining us live from los angeles and just heartbreaking when you see these images of her as well. steph, what can you tell us about who this young lady was and why it took so long to get the publics attention? >> youre talking about january 8th, beyiana and jim, she was discovered on the side of the 110 freeway on an off-ra...

That is the worst result and, by the way, in many ways, may be the worst result for russia because what this is doing right now, this build-up and this threatening of an invasion, is doing the exact opposite that russia wants. it is strengthening the united states. its strengthening our allies, its strengthening nato. its producing the exact opposite result of what putin really wants. so the challenge here is to try to figure out if there can be an off-ramp where putin can feel that he can get s...

Russian leader has spoken publicly about the situation in ukraine and the standoff with nato and the united states since late december. lets get straight to the white house and kaitlan collins. if youre looking for a diplomatic off ramp that does not leave you optimistic. >> no indications the russian president is ready to back down and he seemed to be making a forceful argument for why hes amassed those over 100,000 russian forces on the ukraine border, something thats been the number one conce...

Mobilisation going on, - that people are running away. we dont need that panic. theres a lot of posturing going on at the moment, moscow saying natos ignoring its security concerns as it continues its troop build—up on the border. the response from the west is increasingly alarmed and alarming. this is perilous geopolitical terrain, and ukraine is trying to chart a course through it. there may yet be what they call an "off ramp", a way of defusing the crisis, but theres a danger that talk of a...

If thauts the case, and i think thats a perfectly plausible argument that that is the case, then he doesnt really want to deescalate. do you think he really does want war? >> i mean, he certainly wants conflict, he wants to undermine ukraine, yes. what the u.s. can do and it seems to me that the biden administration is seeking to do this, is to raise the stakes to say this is what it would cost you to invade ukraine and while raising the stakes, as richard said, offer him an off-ramp so that at ...

Joining us live from moscow mbss ins -- nbcs, matthew, and lets look at the standoff, and how concerned are they in the administration that diplomacy might not be working and were coming closer to some kind of possible military conflict? >> that is certainly the sense here in washington and among national security officials. you know, if you were to step back, or rewind to a week ago, the tone from the administration really was one of we want to choose the diplomatic off-ramp, we are giving pres...