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We ought to talk about it. we ought to brag about it. we ought to tell people about it. if we do those kinds of things, well end up with a better outcome. i promise you. >> james carville, always a pleasure, sir. i know you got a kick out of those lsu boys winning up in cincinnati. i know youre happy about that. >> yeah. go tigers. hes on the right track, too, dude. i tell you. up next, the u.s. says theres new evidence that vladimir putin is establishing a pretext for a russian invasion of uk...

Planning. >> so at this point, what should we be looking for, what are the possible signs any type of invasion is about to happen? >> right now, there diplomacy is still ongoing. the members of what is called the normandy format are scheduled to meet next week to continue negotiations over the state of play in ukraine. one thing thats important to note is that the build-up of forces all around ukraines borders continues. one of the things that were watching very, very carefully is a buildup of f...

That crack was painted on by activists in a few on by activists a few years ago as relations between the two countries deteriorated. and as talks intensify about a possible invasion, the hope is things dont break down completely. tensions are still rising on the border. today russian jets made their way to joint military drills with neighbouring belarus. ukrainian ministers have welcomed the delivery of us military equipment, and now a call for the uk to step up its own support. the british gove...

So the u.k.s foreign office issued a statement saying russia has plans to install a pro kremlin leader in ukraine. they have evidence russian intelligence officers have been in touch with a number of politicians as plans for an invasion, going so far as to name one ukrainian lawmaker. now, the world is watching nervously, i should emphasize, to see vladimir putins next moves. u.s. officials accusing them of sending an act of provocation to provide pretext for a possible invasion. all of those th...

Happen. there are still diplomatic off ramps for this and youre going to see the united states and nato offer back to the russians some written responses in the coming days that i think are going to make some proposals, but theres clearly been a pivot under way here in washington because i think a week or two ago, people were saying, lets not do anything militarily that would give the russians a pretext for invasion and now i think they think that moments kind of passed, that the russians, they ...

Particular state and sequence that was under taken in ordinary tore get mike pence to be able to say as a pretext, there are competing electoral college slates im going to return the electors there by lowering bidens electoral college vote total from 306 to below 270 kicking it into the house of representatives contingent election where i would be voting not one member one vote but one state, one vote and the gop had a majority. 27 state delegations although, i think the at large elector from wy...

Russian playbook. and they are not fooling us. we remain focussed on russian disinformation, including the potential creation of pretext for further invasion or strikes on danbas, or further incursion into ukraine would not only ignite conflict, but violate the bedrock principles of national sovereignty, territorial integrity, and self-determination. so this is something that we are taking very seriously, both as a strong partner of ukraine and as 1 of 30 members of nato. we are unified in oppos...

And it also means that theyre worried about the economy, theyre worried about investors pulling out their money. thats already started to happen. and a lot of ukrainians are really very annoyed by the america and europe stance on this, because they think that it means that theyre actually quite literally paying for the price for a war that hasnt even happened yet. because investors are leaving. theyre having to boost up their currency. the other reason is because if they start moving troops, if ...

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 vladimir putins side for two decades. one of his closest aides. i talked to him on friday in an exclusive interview. mr. peskov, pleasure to have you on, sir. >> its my pleasu...

Ukraine. the problem obviously is, is that we have to find ways in which we deter russia. russia is incorrectly stating that nato is a threat. theres no threat from the defense alliance. this is totally a trumped-up allegation coming from russia as a pretext for invasion. certainly it would be -- if president zelensky is right and russia backs down again, that would be great. they have amassed troops on the border before and left. we have never seen anything of this level and this level of prepa...