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2002. why do you think your son was stopped so many times? >> because he was black. because he was black. i mean, nobody can be that unlucky. and nobody is that horrible of a driver. it wasnt he ran a stop sign or was in a car accident, its none of that. its what they call now pretext stops. >> for the most part, equipment violations are used as a pretext to pull somebody over, tends to be people on the poor side of town, often times with minorities, those are stops where the officer first decid...

And summoned an international military force led by russia. >> translator: we prevented dangerous threats for our countrys security. as part of the counter terrorist mission, we are trying to identify people who committed those crimes. >> reporter: the government says things are now largely under control. and there is evidence of that across the city. life is almost back to normal. the russian-led military force started its withdrawal, although the process is said to take another nine days. but ...

In the donetsk and luhansk regions. ukraines defence ministry said russia was plotting to stage similar operations in the disputed moldovan region, known as transnistria, on the ukrainian border. the kremlin has denied the reports but the pentagon says its intelligence showed the plans were well under way. we do have information that indicates that russia is already working actively to create a pretext for a pot — for a potential invasion. and, again, weve seen this kind of thing before out of...

This year unprecedented levels of violence in 2022 because of the volatility of the threats. >> my goodness, never mind our own domestic situation. lets turn a little to russia here. id like to finish this conversation there. andrea, it is pretty clear the u.s. is trying to prepare europe and the world this is going to happen. is this whats happening there? >> absolutely. we gave them the intelligence, the intelligence we were all briefed on on friday, which is there are saboteurs in eastern ukr...

For them? and a second question. you said time and time again the pretext that russia gives is false. im curious if if he looks you in the eye and tells you lies to your fece and why humor him with written response next week if thats the case? >> thanks. first, again, were not waiting to take action to counter r russia. as i said a moment ago, weve committed more security assistance to ukraine in the past year. i think something like $650 million than at any previous time going back to 2014, whe...

Be subtle here. is this sending a message to our other european allies that this is real and this is serious? >> chuck, its mostly making clear, first of all, to the russians that we know all of the tactics and techniques that they can bring to bear. theyre massing a huge number of forces on ukraines border. people rightly are very focused on that but there are a whole series of other actions theyve taken in the past and are preparing to take potentially in ukraine. its important they be put on ...

Away, and right now you have, in the russian parliament, discussion, should we recognize them as independent entities? so i think its very important to keep our eye on that, too. there are a lot of balls to keep our eyes on, but i think this constant saying that kyiv, the kyiv regime, is presenting a threat moving in more and more forces, getting closer and closer to attacking, in effect, taking some action against those two regions is very, very important. why? because, again, it could be a pre...

Intention is to invade and you consider how they have to sell that to the russian public, they are looking for a pretext and a reason to blame the ukrainians, and so if it is intenting to launch an operation of the scale that everybody fears. >> is there a sense theres a diplomatic off-ramp that could be still available? dick durbin was here and he said the u.s. would not take membership off the table for ukraine, but if ukraine does take it off the table, that could be something the russians co...

Exacted on a country like russia. we have worked with the british, i think, to front some of what we know about their efforts to create a pretext for invasion, about their efforts to create a puppet government in ukraine. we have made it clear to putin were going to move nato assets closer to russia not further away if they go through with this so it will defeat his objective. i think in every way we can, the administration and now the congress is working to try to deter putin. he still may not ...

Of the obama administration until that moment where you start talking about locking up political opponents or from locking up political opponents to an executioners wall? whats the further journey? when we look at this in its totality its staring us in the face. we have an autocratic movement thats headed while former president of the united states thats completely consumed one of the two political parties thats abandoned any pretext of the fidelity to the american experiment that both political...