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The administration months ago for a science-based outcome for masks. do you think it is true? >> no. she said we all want schools to own. no one wants them open more than we do and we learned from documents and emails that when there would be reopening guidance from the cdc the teachers unions last year got a sneak preview and decided we dont like this and changed the science. >> dana: remember that was when the head of the cdc spoke in her personal capacity. >> randi weingarten shot down a plan...

An off ramp for him that hes going to be able to save some political face, among his advisers and inside of russia if he doesnt do something, is he able to extract some type of concession hes going to be able to point to he doesnt give the go ahead for a full scale invasion. i must tell you in recent days with the intelligence that and jake and others are providing, its ominous, and the intentions of vladimir putin is going to change the calculus when it comes to ukraines position between the un...

This time it might be true. we got a read-out from the presidents call with the trans atlantic leaders. they continue to deescalate tensions while ensuring ready any to impose swift coordinated economic costs to russia should they choose further conflict. the leaders discussed efforts to assure defense and security of the eastern flank. your thoughts on that. >> theyre driving to give putin and off ramp, trying to keep diplomacy alive and hoping to remind him of these very strong sanctions that ...

Trying to do false flag operations. they a doctrine using deception in their military operations. so exposing that helps us to get them to hesitate. hopefully that hesitation leads to a different calculation about whether diplomatic solution is more optimal for the russians. >> do you remain optimistic that diplomacy is still an option? or are we simply past that point? >> yes. i still think diplomacy is an option. i dont think that russians will initiate hostilities during the olympics which la...

He doesnt understand in a personal way how brutal combat is on his own troops, let alone on the enemy and civilians. so you have to ask what might he do to the city? and a lot of people are asking that question right now. and facing the grim reality of just a brutal toll on ukrainian civilians, not to mention these brave volunteers in the army. but you also have to ask if that doesnt even go well, if his troops continue to get stalled, remember, theyre stalled outside the city right now. what ha...

Plan we are seeing is for something that could be the biggest war in europe since 1945 and just in terms of sheer scale. lucas: this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the soviet union, another anniversary which perhaps wants to take advantage of, arthel. arthel: by most accounts experts are saying the likelihood of ukraine joining nato at this time, we are far from that, the door is open. most people in the meantime, the world is hoping for a way around war here and from where ...

>> beyond dangerous and destructive decision that could be made by vladimir putin, there is an expert on these kinds of issues who is quoted in "the new york times" saying this, the thing you worry about is an ignorant soldier who is scared and fires off a rocket or mortar that causes a calamity. as we see indications that russian troops are moving toward a second nuclear facility in ukraine, is that a legitimate concern as well, beyond putin? >> certainly. some of the greatest accidents in war ...

Masking kids. the parents got together. elected another one. he said make it optional and what these schools are not doing is following the executive order or in other cases they are shaming. i know some kids who go to that school district and i know their parents and the parents say they are separating them. putting them in separate rooms. there is a lot of shaming going on. they are politicizing something that shouldnt be politicized. i look at that mom and say she is the queen. good for her. ...

Essentially the metro station they dont have electricity, there theres no, food there is no heat, so shes having to stay put in this apartment. and she scared. i asked, or what is your message to president putin to the russian people. she told me that she said that she doesnt have a message for vladimir putin, she thinks, crazy chic appeal to the russian people to try and put as much pressure on the government as possible to make it stop. there is no signs that this is stopping. there was negoti...

The eastern european countries it expanded to in the 90s and 2000s. you have the ukrainian president saying he wants to speed up nato membership and you have the united states and other nato countries moving more forces into those eastern european countries. in order for there to be a diplomatic off ramp, somebody would have to climb down massively from their current position, and nothing about what the russians are doing or what president biden is doing or president zelensky is doing suggests t...