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At 4:00 p.m., top of the next hour, he will speak to the cnn matthew chance joins us now. now you have the state department accusing russia of staging this car explosion. how are you ukrainian officials reacting to all of this? >> reporter: well, theyre agreeing with the state department assessment of that explosion in a car in the center in eastern ukraine. they say this -- nothing to do with them. they are saying it was a false flag operation, if you like or an attempt to create even more tens...

From his military lead rs saying this is not a good idea. we do not have forces that can execute this mission but unfortunately, hes a power of one that makes the decisions. >> were seeing the troop build up. could be up to 190,000 troops at the border. u.s. officials have been saying they are trying to put false dplag operations in the pretext. now it apypears we are seeing signs of that. thank you very much. have you seen this video? shocking images caught on this video. a helicopter crashin...

Forces and mostly its weapons in countries that he considers part of the russian sphere of influence. its most lit former soviet state, some of which now, of course, are members of nato. the second theory is that they really just wants to push and test president biden, figure out whether or not the sanctions that president biden is threatening to impose if he invades would really that be crushing and whether or not he could sort of push back and say to president biden, you know, youve sanctioned...

>> right, and, you have to go back to -- remember the other big revelation this week, which is the 36-page power point presentation that was circulating up on capitol hill and, you know, the most chilling part of that is the idea that trump could declare a national security emergency and, again, there has to be a pretext. it could have been -- it could have been street fighting. it could have been the two pipe bombs that didnt explode at the dnc or the rnc, but, you know, we dont know what would...

Russian troops invading the ukraine. thats the whole pre-text. president biden is dealing with coronavirus and other national security threats, hes dealing, frankly, with pretty tough domestic politics and bad poll numbers. he doesnt want to have another concern of a global conflagration at the ukrainian-russian border. thats what theyre hoping got through to putin. >> john carl, vladimir putin has worked very hard to become a player in our domestic politics. russias reach into our life and time...

Being treated like political prisoners of war. >> so if there were federal agents that were involved on january 6th, we really need to know what the fbi knew and when they knew it. >> we know what this is about. this is about the democrats attacking the president again -- president trump again, what theyve done for five years. >> no reasonable person thinks that what happened on january 6th was as biden said, the worst attack on the capitol since the civil war. >> since 6th is being used as a pr...

Mainstream media and even strzok s attorneys said no he wanted to get to the bottom of leaks, he was worried about getting to the bottom making sure nobody was leaking. what was happening here and this should scare american people, it scares me, to know that the fbi and doj would go out and leak fake news stories in many cases, plant them in many cases, and then pick up those fake news stories and thats the word they used in their text message, a pre-text to go out and interview american citizen...

People are lawyer up. we see the consultants come in. people trying to hold on to their job. moonves, how long? six weeks. so i think were in this new phase of me too, where lawyers are involved, its so complicated. and in this case, cbs said, we now have proven youve violated a policy. even though our lawyers are trying to get to the bottom of the harassment allegation, a pre-text to fire him and those lawyers are still working. moonves is out, baker is out, still working on this. of course, th...

Inflamed fbi empployees working to accelerate an investigation into donald trump before election day. at heart of this peter strzok who landed the russia investigation from the beginning and promised his girlfriend they could stop trump. they did their best. in september 2016, carter page wrote a letter to the director of the fbi jim comey about false leaks about him. strzoks reaction: at a minimum this letter provides us the pretext to interview carter page. in other words an excuse. in another...

Had, pre-text. the pre-text was outrageous. its ridiculous and out of control. i cant imagine what i would be charged with. >> tucker: do you know after all of this, what exactly the suspected crime was? you were the subject of a fisa warrant. the federal government turning its surveillance powers on you. we have a whole court system to keep that being abused. why would the federal government want to read your emails and spy on you. what did they think you were doing? >> as we learned with the f...