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Adversary every reason to believe he will respond to a crises with weakness. has has done that for 50 years, but it rail counts now as president, vladimir putin been talking about pretext, red herrings, you cant let nato include ukraine there is no plan for, that he cant tolerate military exercises in ukraine we dont conduct those, vladimir putin wants to fulfill his long held ambitions, assemble greater russian empire since times of peter the great there is no russian empire without ukraine. he...

Rising on the border and to date russian jets rising on the border and to date russianjets made their rising on the border and to date russian jets made their way to joint military drills with neighbouring belarus. ukrainian ministers have welcomed the delivery of american military equipment and now theres a call for the uk to step up its own support. the british government has delivered 2000 anti—tank missiles this week and says it is open to sending more weapons. an sending more weapons. an ...

300 javelin antitank missiles and other munitions. this is just the latest shipment in $200 million worth of emergency military assistance from the u.s. russia still denies it has plans to invade, despite the roughly 100,000 troops its massed on ukraines border but the u.s. has warned russia may use unconventional tactics. >> paramilitary tactics, so-called gray zone attacks, and actions by russian soldiers not wearing russian uniforms. >> reporter: ukraines even suggested russia could stage an ...

>> laura, also tonight we are learning doj is looking into the trump supporters behind the fake 2020 election certificates that would have declared trump the winner in states that he actually lost. there it is up on your screen right there. do you think there is enough evidence here to file criminal charges? >> it is shocking to think people were so prepared to try to undermine certification process and undermine the will of the people. it wasnt just a hypothetical scenario reduced to a memo. th...

Interfering with elections. it is criminal to try to conduct fraud in elections. of course it is curious here, fraud is a pretext for why you have the clawing back of so many voting rights in this country because of perceptions of fraud. well, if thats the guard rail that needs to be put up some say then what about the guard rails in terms of accountability for those who endeavor to commit an act of fraud? it has to be dealt with. of course it just reminds people over and over again, don, just h...

Tracking what that pretext is. nina, thank you so much for joining us this evening. greatly appreciate your insights. >> my pleasure. joining me now is congressman david cicilline. hes a member of the foreign relations committee and just got back from an official visit to ukraine. thank you for joining us this evening. i greatly appreciate your time. you were just in ukraine along with senior members of the house foreign affairs committee. can you tell us about your trip and what you saw and con...

Ceremonies, vladimir putin and xi jinping stood side by side after meeting for bilateral talks. with more than 100,000 troops on the ukrainian boarder with russia, putin wants chinas support for whatever he chooses to do next. it sure looks like he got it. >> really does feel like putin is the guest of honor at the olympic games right now as the whole world is watching. this is the joint statement they released a short time ago, russia and china saying the chinese side is sympathetic and support...

Do, actually trying to potentially stage something inside ukraine that they could then use. and i think that we also really need to underscore here this is not just about getting a message to the russians particularly vladimir putin that the u.s. may know and the western alliance may know these kinds of things that they are working on, this is also about getting this information to the russian public. officials who i speak with say that there is a hope that they can get information to the russia...

Pretext -- vice president mike pence at the time a pretext for rejecting bidens victory on january 6th. we know he did not go along with it because of what we saw play out on that day but do we know any details, any thinking at all about where pence stood on this plan, because at the end of the day, this was all part of the plan laid out in that infamous eastman memo that was presented to pence. >> so, i had a conversation with the constitutional law expert in october of 2020, well before any of...

Its with an eye towards the future. its also courting countries in africa, countries in the latin america, saying, hey, you want to do business with russia and china because were the future. this, again, is a big rhetorical messaging exercise. >> so, what is your take regarding whats happening on the ground right now and, you know, what putins next steps might be, especially with so many troops amassed? if you look at the map, i mean, theyve surrounded ukraine, so the positioning seems like ther...