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We disagree on most things but once the biden administration leaked this trip in an effort to deter her from going i thought it was essential she go, that she show the united states will not be pushed around by chinese communists. they are not telling any american citizen, much less an elected member of the united states congress when and where we can travel. >> the tone from the white house today is while congress is an independent branch of government and pelosi is free to travel where she see...

Conflict. and that conflict within a conflict has the risk of triggering a wider war. when russia talks about ukraines provocations, it is talking about that. when the ukrainian government says that russia is trying to provoke it into a war, it is talking about eastern ukraine. that is where many of those trenches that become so high-profile in recent weeks are dug, in order to keep the pro-spraitists from expanding deeper into ukrainian territory. the ukrainians are now saying, they want peace,...

>> thats right. exactly. and youre not going to see that from kiev and the government and president zelensky, that doesnt mean there wont be some kind of justification or pretext the russians come up with rationalize sending in some troops in some form or another. >> peter, thank you so very much. appreciate your time. >> still ahead, high-profile voting rights groups are skipping president bidens voting rights speech in georgia. well ask one voting rights activist why she is not attending. and ...

Moscow. i know that russian state media is depicting all of these moves very differently than the press here. how are russians viewing all of this? >> reporter: state media earlier this evening they were sort of depicting sound bites from jen psaki, the president, john kirby at the pentagon and saying theyre all saying different things. this deployment of troops to the east side of europe, the russians see that as destabilizing, as raising tensions as part of what they consider a western pre-tex...

Peninsula. south korea said the north had another round of missile launching a hypersonic missile. the u.s. responded to the test with sanctions. after the break, we head to the ukraine and russia border where trenches are dug as quickly as tensions are rising. moscow is establishing a pre-text for invasion. pre-text for invasion. with chase security features, guidance and convenience, banking feels good.

>> we heard there are administration sources who believe that the russians may use a false flag propaganda, fake video to try to use that as some way to get a pre-text to invade and ned price at the state department was asked whats the evidence of that. here is a bit of the exchange in his answer. >> you just come out and say this and expect us to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence that its true. >> if you doubt the credibility of the u.s. government, of the british government, o...

The ones from nato, thats not to say theyre dismissing this. theyre taking it seriously but fought speaking with the same ominous tones as nato officials are. ukraine is soon to be facing russian military action on three different flonts. the ukrainian foremaign ministe is they are demanding what they are up to. russia will say we are carrying out exerciseing. some of the biggest exercises since the cold war. ukraines national security council says they are on instances of provocation, which rus...

Whats going against ukraine on the russian side is larger than that right now, and those five divisions, we dont have them in europe. we dont have a single division in europe right now. we have one brigade of about 100 tanks there, thats it. and so theres no way we would ever be able to in this scenario do anything, but vladimir putin knows it, and thats why all the nato threat is just an excuse, a pre-text to do something to ukraine for war. >> just a quick question. the shorthand is people eve...

This is language that president putin has used before. hes banded around this word gen genocide. there isnt evidence that russian official vss have complained about human rights violations in that eastern area. president putin has said and his spokes m s spokesman said that its going to be up to them, up to president putin wornds hether o they move on this vote. the moment the kremlin is saying it wants to follow the talks that it cares and is concerned about the people in that eastern region. t...

Onto buses and being taken out of ukraine into russia. in other words, they are looking more at the possible pre-text for russia to take action to go in and help those people protect and rescue them, whatever. its not -- i dont think russia would say because they deny that want to attack. what they would say is we need to protect the people in there and that theoretically could give a pre-text for an attack. >> today vladmir putin over saw a russian strategic weapons exercise. why are these exer...