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And we are waiting on him and what he will do. so the president has done everything that he can to thread the needle here. working with our allies very closely as i saw when we went to the ukraine as well as visiting our friends in nato as well as e.u. friends. were locked in closely together. so, i dont know if putin knows what hes going to do yet either, but the president has done well in making sure that it is a diplomatic off-ramp for him to take and were ready for plan b. and russia will fi...

Border. an invasion remains distinctly possible. if russia attacks to ukraine, it will be met with overwhelming international condemnation. the united states and our allies and partners around the world are ready to impose powerful sanctions on export controls, including actions that did not, we did not pursue when russia invaded crimea in eastern ukraine in 2014. >> the president did indicate that the diplomatic off ramp is still very much available for putin saying, quote, we should give the d...

Before i let you go, we referenced at the top of the show that we think it was supposed to start around 2:30, this call between president biden and the new leader of germany, no update on that yet, right? >> reporter: not that we have. but as soon as we get something. we certainly will read that out broadly. >> i hope to see you in front of a camera before 4:00. kristen welker, thank you. and i want to bring in chairman of the house foreign affairs committee congressman gregory meeks. thank yo...

Mobilization of military-aged men in separatists population in ukraine and the ramp hes building to convince his people that a war would be unpopular with the russian public is absolutely necessary. i think the other issue is the diplomacy doesnt seem to be leading anywhere in the sense that russia provided answers to the u.s. answers to their proposals and russias positions have not changed at all. ukraine cant join nato. meanwhile, nato is beefing up its presence in europe and the ukrainian pr...

Lot. he has a bunch of off ramps. he could say we want negotiations. this exercise is finished. the normal training process is over. the west is committed to discussions. that was an off ramp that he pushed away. the ukrainians have given him another off ramp saying lets have the discussion under the procedure set up by the oscc, the european security con for instance to allow resolution through diplomacy. hes not taken it. well see if thats another ramp that he takes advantage of? vice presiden...

Defense under president clinton, william cohen. so much of what this administration has been doing is trying to front run this information. trying to take away the chance for putin to have a pretext like he has in the past. do you think that might work given how tense things seem to be right now? >> i think it may. there is still a chance as president biden said, theres an off ramp in this particular case. it was important i learned today through cnn that the chinese foreign minister or ministry...

Responses now. the sanctions are about as tough as we could have done at this point in time to keep this alliance altogether. what if it doesnt work and it goes into a full invasion, then what? >> i was listen to go ambassador mcfaul before i came on. i agreed, im afraid to think about whats next. we havent unleashed the full force of sanction opportunities. it is worrisome to think of what will happen when and if pughle did make that final move. i would like to be hopeful that we still have tho...

What did putin say? macron called me and said you should take a minute with president biden. so what will he give me? and putin answered the question by saying, macron could not tell me. he said, you know, maybe this was something that could be worked out between sergey lavrov and secretary of state antony blinken. but what were seeing is anything that could have been put on the table in those last-ditch conversations over the weekend was not even there. there is nothing really that would seem t...

Minutes. >> charles: thanks, bret. with me now, general jack keane a four-star general and chairman for the institute of the study of war. that is the big question, general. we keep hearing the administration and others saying dont give up on diplomacy. is there a chance that it might still work? >> well, i think its pretty remote at this point. the senior government officials are saying that russia is going to attack. the off ramp for diplomacy, the only way that that could happen at this point...

Saber seems unbalanced at this point. >> what about president zelenskyy who said he would send a delegation to meet with a russian delegation on the border with belarus? is there any viable off-ramp for putin and would he take it? >> well, look, you can always take an off-ramp if youre an autocrat like putin, you can define it any way you want, you can say i achieved whatever i wanted to achieve and theres no independent media of any consequence to challenge you, you could basically sell that to...