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As a given. the resilience of our democracy. trumps attempted coup didnt succeed, but that wasnt because of the inherent strength of our political system. it was because a select few number of people decided to do what was right. on thursday, president biden addressed those patriots during his speech while pointing the blame for the insurrection directly on trump. >> even before the first ballot was cast, the former president was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results. he built his...

Unrealistic but president putin might use their rejection as a pretext for invasion stop others say is threatening war to secure the concessions. us officials say they might discuss curbs on military exercises and missile deployments. both sides played down expectations of a deal over ukraine or european security, but these talks may show if mr putin is serious about diplomacy or war. james landale, bbc news, geneva. lets have more on our breaking story — a court in military—ruled myanmar ha...

Preparing a false attack on ukraine. it comes between diplomatic meetings with the russia, united states and nato after the russian troops near ukraine. those talks failed to achieve anything at all. now, the u.s. says theres evidence that russia will carry out acts of sabotage against its own proxy forces as a pretext for invasion. meantime, ukraine says russia is likely behind the cyber attack that hit scores of government websites. officials say as many as 70 sites were targeted, with a threa...

Important than his country than americas interests and because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy and our constitution. he cant accept he lost even though 93 united states senators and his own attorney general and own president and governors and state officials in every battled ground states have all said he lost. even before the first battle was cast, the former president was preemptively sewing doubts about the elections results. he built his lies over months, it was not ba...

Border on high alert. u.s. officials warn the russian military is in position to move quickly and potentially invade if putin says the word. with more than 100,000 troops already amassing at the border, this unverified social media video examined by independent researchers seeming to show russia moving even more troops and heavy equipment west. and the biden administration believes russian operatives are already inside ukraine and could soon be planning to stage an incident. a so-called false fl...

Ukraine. theyre saying russia has put a group in eastern ukraine to potentially launch an attack against russias only forces to make it look like the ukrainians started something with ukraines military and then create a pretext for russia to defensively then mount an invasion of ukraine. so thats kind of the level of tension right now with a top u.s. and diplomat in europe saying that the drum beat of war is growing louder, and congressman jason crow saying this last hour on your show. >> what w...

Excessive noise or safe drinking water, our rules that osha made in the past without any problem. so to say thats the distinction really seems like a technicality thats more pretext than legal. instead, what the dissent is saying that its not the policy, its who gets to decide. you say states, not teds. what youre really doing is you, the majority, you justices who dont know anything about public health are deciding instead of letting osha, which is a group of experts who have decided this is pr...

We have to be very, very aware right now about not just what happened on january 6th but where are we heading s? are we heading towards a civil conflict? that is extraordinarily scary. >> indeed. we just got a readout of president bidens call with the ukrainian president amid tensions with russia. says, president biden made clear that the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia goes any further and invades ukraine. how do you see this playing out? >> well, tal...

Even that were imposed in 2017 after russia annexed crimea. one thing that is important is putins stated pretext, and it is a pretext, for this military buildup is the idea he wants to stop further nato expansion. one thing thats virtually guaranteed is that, if vladimir putin does launch a military action of any kind in ukraine, that there will be additional nato presence in eastern europe which putin says he wants to avoid. theres talk now that even european countries that arent members of nat...

Russia, as well as more military assets moving into eastern europe and ukraine. while both sides emerged without any real victory, discussions did move forward on other issues. including the positioning of missiles that point at each other and how the two countries could carry out military exercises with more transparency. but it remains to be seen whether russia is taking this diplomacy seriously. or intends to invade ukraine regardless. >> we have to be prepared that russia was using this week...