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Preparing to do so and trying to pin the blame on someone else. thats a classic play out of the russian page book. >> reporter: sullivan today reinforced president bidens comments earlier in the week when he said russia would pay a severe price if they used chemical weapons. sullivan said theyve relaid that message directly to russia. they have not outlined through what mechanism that has been delivered. >> arlette saenz, thanks so much for that. lets get more analysis now. phil mudd is a coun...

I think it would be a lot more efficient and straightforward if all English-language news media were just run directly out of CIA headquarters by agency officials in Langley, Virginia. This way news reporters could eliminate the middleman and...

CNN’s counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd said Thursday on "The Lead" that there will be "more" people charged with seditious conspiracy while reacting to the news 11 people, including the leader of the Oath Keepers, being charged for their roles in the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. | Clips

CNN’s counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd said Thursday on "The Lead" that there will be "more" people charged with seditious conspiracy while reacting to the news 11 people, including the leader of the Oath Keepers, being charged for their roles in the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. | Clips

Legitimacy of ukraine one way or the other. that is a very important factor. the politics in ukraine and the politics inside russia, too. putin is also distracting the west and the united states from a major political crackdown inside of russia, arresting russias leading dissident just this week, shutting down the leading human rights group, a very important group that was founded in the waning days of the soviet union. this sent a major signal to the russian population and right now it is being...

Trying to accomplish today? >> first of all, jake, in the russian system right now vladimir putin is the only international diplomat who matters and sees the kwifl ens this should be a leader to leader engagement and super power to super power engagement. notably not included in the conversations are ukraine about whose fate they are discussing. and so i think that is very typical of vladimir putins approach to international diplomacy. the ambassador is right. this is not diplomacy right now. th...

It is very hard for him to take for real sanctions that can actually hurt him. he is ready for his country or has been in the past for his country to take a hit but if they dont hurt him that is a pressure point that he seems ready to push through. >> nic robertson in moscow, thanks so much. we appreciate it. lets discuss this all with the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor, cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser and former cia counterofficial phil mudd. thank you all for being here...

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Jim. >> no question about it. especially during the busy holiday season. i mean, my goodness. thank goodness the tsa worker, whoever the officer was who detected this, did just that. nadia, thanks so much for that report. i want to go to phil, a former fbi senior intelligence adviser. phil, as nadia just rourted, its not uncommon for passengers to have guns. that number is staggering. 4,650 detected in the last year. i mean, its just mind boggling. but what do you make of the fact that passenger...

One witness saying people were so scared they were pushing to get on to planes that werent even their flights, so as law enforcement determines next steps regarding the person who set off this chain of events, airport officials have hundreds of passengers to re-screen on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year at one of the biggest airports in the world. nadia romero is live on the scene. also with us is cnn counterterrorism analyst, phil mudd. nadia, give us the latest on the situation o...