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Starting to reconstitute and im sure the group is not going to go away. youre going to see theyll find somebody else to lead them. theres probably somebody es now. but sit a message from the biden administration that theyre still willing, that even though he pulled troops out of afghanistan, hes seen a little bit as something of a dove, is still willing to send in american assets to take people out. but i also think it sends a message to the world and vladamir putin of united states military mig...

Ukrainian military equipment theyre gonna shoot it like it was movie. theyre gonna use that footage as pretext as to why they needed to invade, to stop the ukrainian government from carrying out these fake massacres, fake atrocities, or whatever. the u.s., in a remarkable decision, has decided to go public with this allegation. basically as a counter intelligence operation that they are conducting in public. to inoculate the public against that fake pretext they say russia was cooking up. so at ...

Thats you saying it. thats not evidence, im sorry. >> thats got to be the frustration also. the intelligence officials are doing their best to warn of possibilities, and its very hard to message that when people want to see the evidence. >> it is very hard. its always very hard, especially when it comes to russia because the intelligence community, the cia tries to release as much information as possible without compromising the source and methods used to collect the intelligence. if you put out...

Abuses. russia plotted a false flag attack against ukraine using a fake graphic video as a pretext for invasion. cnn goes behind the raid in syria. the tense moments in "the situation room" and the deadly blast that killed a top isis leader. for the first time ever, facebook loses daily users. shares plummet. is this the sign of the beginning of a major downturn? good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, february 4th. and the beijing olympics offici...

Do you have details on when? >> no, we dont know when, sandra. but we certainly have indications of the what and the how. i tried to detail a little bit of that at the briefing. this is very much out of russias playbook. a false flag. some way to create an event or to manufacture a crisis that would be a pretext, a justification for them to move in. again, we think the information that we have pretty solid and we dont think this is the only false flag event that they might be trying to create. >...

One of the major hubs in southeast asia for the trafficking of african greys. we set up a meeting with faiz ahmed, a trader whose social media led us to investigate possible illegal activity alongside his legitimate business. we operated under the pretext of wanting to start a breeding farm. the conversation started over legal captive—bred parrots but faiz was also prepared to sell us wild african greys. he was confident that he would

It i this is a very serious claim. where are we on understanding whats happened and the intel on this. >> reporter: were told the administration has gathered intelligence suggesting russia has been preparing such a video, not that it has been made yet or the u.s. has this in their possession but all signs on the ground point to russia preparing to make this video in order to create a pretext for an invasion. for example, they have gathered evidence that russia has already begun recruiting actors...

With faiz ahmed, a trader whose social media led us to investigate possible illegal activity alongside his legitimate business. we operated under the pretext of wanting to start a breeding farm. the conversation started over legal captive—bred parrots but faiz was also prepared to sell us wild african greys. he was confident that he would be able to get around customs import restrictions, and also advised it would be a lucrative business.

Russia. but also gives him the pretext. now, what putin did over the summer, issued a manifesto saying the russian government, the russian country of greater russia has the right to intervene to protect ethnic russians anywhere in the world. there are a lot of ethnic russians in ukraine. a lot of ethnic russians in crimea. that was their justification to go to into crimea and georgia, they were just protecting ethnic russians. was there a challenge to the ethnic russians probably not. did the ru...

Kirby describing the alleged plot. >> as part of this fake attack, we believe that russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video which 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. >> natasha bertrand has been covering this. we have spoken a number of times about how part of russias plan, according to u.s. intel assessments is political disruption, it is the psychological operations,...