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On that, but diplomacy, theres always a chance for diplomacy, but i do believe that president putin has made the decision to invade and is going to invade. >> richard, let me go to you here because weve been showing this map of these -- these pro-russian separatist regions. im going to pull this up again. you are posted not far from that, just south i believe of where this is, to the east of crimea. does putin, is there any chance in your view as somebody who has also watched this region for a w...

Stacey abrams. and she fully supports all the masked mandates for kids. but she cant be bothered to be a good example of where on herself because of her age alone. never mind maybe any comorbidities she may have. abramss att a much higher risk for covid-19 and any one ofny those kids with their maskhe on in that room and yet shes the only one not wearing the mask. here is a 70 year old lady jill biden. also no mask surrounded by kids all wearing masks. and here is sixty four year old teachers un...

Incursion is when ukraine ib vaded russia after hundreds of years of war which the united states were drawn into. st that is the power of our alliances. and part of the difficulty that we have had in the situation and were all working -- we would all love to find an off ramp for putin to make this horrible mistake that he is thinking about. but the difficulty were having is were looking at this from two very different angles. russia wants to have a spear of influence. they want to have control o...

Action and to keep the pressure up and keep the diplomacy going forward. i think the big thing we need to see now is what is the off ramp here. if putin decides not to invade, what face-saving thing can he say about what he accomplished by doing this, even though he doesnt militarily go forward. i think we can talk about arms control treaties. we can talk about nonaggression pacts. what we cant do is we cant sacrifice the sovereignty of sovereign nations in eastern europe because putin threatene...

Zone. id think of it as the kremlin throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks. and this is what the cell len does. they put out as much false and conflicting information to try to sow confusion. so i think that weve seen this uptick is concerning and is creating the ground work for what could be a significant military incursion into ukraine. >> i know that you dont have a crystal ball and you are not living vladimir putins head, but is there any chance that he could take the diploma...

Possible? or are there additional sea-launched ballistic missile carrying subs that have deployed? so you would be looking for those sort of physical manifestations of a heightened alert. this could maybe meant nothing more than a heightened state of command and control. ensure that your communications are -- are up to snub so you can actually transmit orders. it may -- it may have been nothing more than that but the fact that he said it is, uh, for me at least, raises a concern. >> do you see a...

This white house and this administration are attempting to play the role that they dont want the ukrainians to play, which is to be the people that are warning an attack is imminent. they say to putin, we have called to say in advance, if you move, it looks like the onus is on him. the ukrainians dont want to be in that place. they want to remain calm. theyre not willing to play the role of raising the alarm bells about imminent invasion. you know, this is high stakes. if this happens, it will b...

Get into a solvent nation which we could not stand for. it is a threat to democracy everywhere if we just allow that to happen. >> you talked about plan b., of what would happen if vladimir putin does not, in fact, take that diplomatic off-ramp, you have a number of sanctions bills out there, from your committee, from the senate, from the republicans, are you confident if the worse case were to happen that congress would align behind those sanctions. >> absolutely. i think was important that the...

Forcing putin to end the illegal invasion quickly remains the best way to prevent disaster. that could truly open up a level of risk not seen since the worst days of the cold war. arent we about here? >> yes. remind me of the saying never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. i cant understand how this is part of the war plan. and of course, a bunch of stories today about putin having the back against the wall and doubling down and of course what he does. so we need to...

The minute? >> i think its fair what they say. take the idea of off ramp literally. youre driving down the turnpike and no one can force you to turn off. i think theyve given putin about limits and the likelihood of ukraine ever coming into nato, new european security arrangements, arms control. all that is there. the question is whether putin wants to avail himself of it. we cant predict it and given what mr. lavrov said, theres no sign theyre interested in an off ramp. >> you mentioned the wit...