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Trying to contain russia and create a pretext for nato to make moves on russia. more fundamentally it all comes back to the idea that the west is hyping up zelensky. russians are not being told the truth entirely about their troops. theyre aware theres movement going on and theres a general sense out. again, we all take this for granted but the state has incredible control over narratives here, over the media here. theres just burnout. people are not sitting there fact checking and theyre not al...

>> kayleigh: let me just underscore that about cm diplomacy. they laid out the december 17th demands and said how extraordinary they were, no expansion of nato, not allowing troops and eastern european countries that are already need on members, they were so extraordinary that a russian journalist said, it was the equivalent of saying dear father christmas, send me a live uniform. that was how extravagant prudence demands demands were and it led some russian to say he might be rejecting the unit...

>> yeah. >> all of this comes against the backdrop of, remember, the president being under a lot of scrutiny over the summer for the withdrawal from afghanistan. hes now embroiled as you mentioned, in a new crisis with russia threatening to invade ukraine. you have a moment where the administration and the pentagon specifically say this was an operational success as you just heard from courtney. >> kristen welker and courtney kube, thank you both for your work. you heard kristen mention whats ha...

See that happen, which is why we continue to pursue a diplomatic path. he continues to add to the military capabilities and can use them any day. thats why were continuing to flow assistance to the armed forces and to natos eastern flank. >> now, john finer was on the program yesterday laying out the alleged russia plot to create a video that could mean staging a false ukraine attack on russian speakers to create pretext for russia to invade. the russia foreign minister is calling it nonsense. y...

Of the isis raid and confirms what russia could be planning as a pretext for invading ukraine. well seek with john kirby in just a moment. first to jennifer griffin with the very latest. hi, jennifer. >> hi, sandra. officials say the two-hour raid was incredibly complex and dangerous. planned for months. with characteristics reminiscent of the bin laden raid. the mission was to capture the isis leader who instead decided to blow himself and his family up. >> a massive explosion occurred on the t...

Jake, tonights european diplomats tell cnn that those russian troop deployments near the ukrainian border inside belarus are a big worry and would be a crucial piece if russia intends to make a quick strike here, the ukrainian capital is less than two hours away. back to you. >> matthew chance reporting live in kyiv, ukraine. thank you so much. joining us live to discuss, democratic senator mark warner who serves as chair of the select committee on intelligence. cnn has learned that the u.s. h...

Would include corpses and actors depicting mourners and images of destroyed locations as well as military equipment at the hands of ukraine or the west. >> john: the u.k. is very concerned as well, the statement from the u.k. foreign office saying we have high confidence that russia is planning to engineer a pretext blaming ukraine in order to justify a russian incursion. how concerned should we be about this, k.t. whats the reality here? >> i think its going to happen. the russians are good at ...

That nancy pelosi is weapon icing that u.s. capitol police to investigate me to try to silence me, intimidate me, and quite honestly to destroy me. >> laura: we talked about this on the podcast earlier today, but do you agree with that? >> absolutely. she has been using the capital police commissioner use them on january 6 and as they were attacking protesters in other instances they were writing hundreds of them into the building, congress over about $2 billion to them in emergency supplemental...

Crisis is coming to a head. here is the prime minister. this crisis is coming to a head. here is the prime minister.— crisis is coming to a head. here is the prime minister. this is probably the prime minister. this is probably the most dangerous _ the prime minister. this is probably the most dangerous moment - the prime minister. this is probably the most dangerous moment i - the prime minister. this is probably. the most dangerous moment i would say in _ the most dangerous moment i would sa...

Said ukraines biggest enemy is panic. white house officials say he and president biden are speaking this morning as russian forces essentially surround ukraine for the biden administration has been sharing more u.s. intelligence about russias buildup that it claims shows a very credible threat of an invasion soon and one that could begin with a staged incident to prompt a russian attack on ukraine. >> to do so this coming week. but of course it still awaits the go order. and so therefore we cann...