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We do have information that indicates that russia is already working actively to create a pretext for a potential invasion — for a move on ukraine. in fact, we have information that theyve pre—positioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a "false flag operation" — an operation designed to look like an attack on them or russian—speaking people in ukraine, again, as an excuse to go in. and we already have, in addition, indications that russian influence actors are already start...

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A moment of crisis. that is how a senior administration official describes the situation right now in eastern europe with 100,000 russian troops amassed on the border with ukraine. they appear poised to invade at vladimir putins command. that was the alarming pretext for a high stakes phone call this afternoon between the russian leader and president joe biden, a call that we understand is still taking place as we speak. the white house releasing this photo just a few minutes ago. of course the ...

However? will the u.s. have to give more concrete concessions or incentives to make this process move to a peaceful resolution? >> the united states and our allies have been clear that there is a lot to talk about when it comes to reciprocal interest-based security parameters in europe we can talk about missiles and missile placements as we have historically with intermediate nuclear capable missiles we can talk about the size and scope of exercises. we can talk about greater transparency and ri...

The question then arises would the u.s. acted alone if it didnt? thats a good question. >> bret: kimberly? >> kimberly: i think from vladimir putins perspective, he went and he figures one of two things. either he uses this threat to invade ukraine as leverage to get some sort of concessions from the united states or he says that he doesnt get those concessions and then he uses it as a pretext to invade. and he is betting that the biden administration, which has a lot of leftovers from the obama...

If you look back to a year ago, only about 35% of people were willing to do that. >> reporter: coming off this challenging week for president biden, press secretary jen spsai did confirm hell hold a press conference next wednesday at 4:00 p.m. where hell face questions on this from testing to whats happening in ukraine. that will come one day before he marks one year in office. >> that will be during a special edition of "the lead" next wednesday at 4:00. the pentagon says it has very credible...

Biden regime. here is what we know about this at this point they were trying to shut down parents showing up at school board meetings who were upset about the critical race theory teaching among other things going on and referred to domestic terrorists it seems as now cardona may have wanted a pretext. this reminds me of, i dont know, the russian collusion dossier or the fbi look to the media for a pretext or to some spy who was paid for a bunch of rumors. thats what has been pulled together her...

The two sides are no closer to compromise over de-escalation on the ukrainian border. the russians express frustration that the united states has not responded to a series of demand that include ukraine never joining nato and rolling back nato activities in eastern europe. washington says these demands are nonstarters and that russia could be laying the groundwork to fabricate a pretext for an invasion. so what exactly is moscows end game? kremlins longtime spokesman, dmitry peskov, has been by ...

Intelligence, which had since been downgraded in classification level, indicated that this could be happening right now even as these talks have been under way, diplomatic talks have been under way. so clearly there is a lot of daylight here between what the u.s. and the russians are thinking about in terms of finding a diplomatic solution to this conflict. russia now apparently taking steps to create that pretext to launch an invasion of ukraine. they have of course been building up their force...

Giving any sort of incremental instructions to wendy sherman and the team about things he would like introduced into the talks or is he leaving that to be on the ground sort of discussion for those who are in the room and handling it physically there? >> well, he is in regular touch with members of his national security team and they are in touch with team members on the ground. so i would say we are looking again at this week as a set of conversations and we will see and able to assess where th...