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Proposals within a week. now yesterday putin told biden that russias posturing along ukraines border is purely defensive. thats not how the u.s. is seeing it. the white house says the president was crystal clear. they described economic punishments so strong they opted not to use one of the options in 2014 when they took cry mia. it is on the table this time. they will beef up regional allies and giving ukraine additional defensive capabilities on the table right now. national security advisor j...

Of course joe biden has set as his goal and he told putin this directly on this two-hour video call, to raise the cost to vladimir putin if he chooses to take that step. perhaps unplugging russia and its energy companies from the international financial system. that would, of course, impose big hardships on russia. it also would impose some hardships on people who do business with russia. the one thing that were especially thin on details, though, don, is what is the diplomatic off-ramp that the...

Putin certainly. the question is, is it an effective message, again, as youre trying to find an off-ramp here? >> actually, i think that putin thinks that thats exactly his view. he feels like the united states is trying to tell him how to act. he feels like the united states told russia a long time ago how to change his borders. putin and other people in the kremlin in the last year have repeatedly made statements indicating that they no longer recognize the redrawn borders of the russian empir...

Latest. fred, how are ukrainians viewing this biden/putin call and how important is that for an off ramp in these tensions? >> reporter: i think they view it as something that is of the utmost importance. you can see that from some of the statements weve been hearing from ukrainian officials the past couple of days. you heard the ukrainian defense minister warning that russians would be killed if there was an invasion. one of the interesting things that he told our own matthew chance in that int...

Options for potential evacuation of americans in the event of an invasion. were tracking this with two of our senior correspondents, phil mattingly and what are we learning so far? >> still learning details about the actual call itself. we should see more in an hour when they are celebrated to see the transcript of the phone call. president biden went into the call with two real clear coles. one, to make clear that this is -- that there are diplomatic options for an off-ramp as the buildup has c...

Use but youre exactly right, victor. its been since 2014 when putin illegally annexed the crimean peninsula from ukraine and essentially ban supporting the low-grade conflict in eastern ukraine that continues to this day. there have been sanctions by the united states and its european partners ever since then. i remember so vividly, you know, officials back in the obama administration hoping that they would find some sort of off ramp. that was the phrase they kept using, for putin at that time. ...

Going to do about your algorithm because thats ultimately what feeds people the garbage whether its about the election or eating disorders or other conspiracy theories. >> donie, thank you. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. the most critical zoom call of the pandemic era so far. "the lead" starts right now. president biden today virtually staring down vladimir putin as russia licks its chops, gazing at ukraine across the border. can president biden help find an off ramp for russi...

Action that he means what he says when he says hes different from donald trump than he wants to have a different approach it these issues. i think going back to the situation with putin in the call tomorrow, he said on friday and they have made clear considering these sanctions that hes talking very tough sand willing to take tough action to try to push putin back and try to discourage him, as you said, raise the price of any action that he might take. i think the other question, too, though is ...

Borders. obviously theres been conflict between ukraine and russia for the better part of seven years at this point but the troop build up with the potential to be 175,000 russian troops, according to u.s. intelligence, has drawn major concern inside the administration over the course of the last several weeks. this phone call highly anticipated, extraordinarily high stakes, where the president is going to make clear that there are options for an off ramp here. however, if those options arent ta...

Ukraine? that is the question at this point. president biden set to speak with vladimir putin tomorrow. u.s. intelligence officials warn russia is planning to deploy 175,000 troops to the ukraine border. many already deployed. we could see an invasion early next year. how is the white house responding? welcome. im sandra smith in for neil cavuto and this is "your world." jacqui heinrich has more. you were able to get some questions in the briefing today. hello. >> good afternoon to you, sandra. ...