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Coming from the russian presidents mouth. do you see the ingredients there of this pretext that we have heard blinken and staltenberg and the president talk about as a possible set-up for russian military action? >> its what i anticipated. the kremlin playbook is in full action right now. disinformation, propaganda, cyberattacks, the threat, subversive use of energy sources and could recognize that by flanking ukraine and terrorizing the country, they have destabilized it, dramatically impacted ...

Diplomacy, a real hard ball version of diplomacy? >> right. and there is been an escalation of violence in eastern ukraine. the russian military is calling it ukrainian sabotage. ukraine is calling it disinformation. if you would, tell us what is really happening on the ground? >> well, this violence that weve seen spike over the last few days, pam, is now raising fears that putin could use that as a pretext for a larger scale invasion. of course, putin formalized the relationship tonight betwee...

The sanctions come, whatever the cost, that hes just going to do this, we dont have a button that we can push to control vladimir putin in russia. so, were negotiating in a very difficult and very dangerous situation. in that sense, its a disadvantage. one advantage you have over the rest of us is that as chairman of the house armed services committee, you see classified intelligence briefings. how likely, based on what you have been told, do you believe an invasion to be? well, in the first par...

America, we have to get the europeans credit with all of the sanctions that were pursuing. they are going to hurt from these sanction regimes, much more than americans are. its good to give them credit. i think whats changed is, its absolutely clear to the europeans who is at fault here. it is absolutely clear that mr. putins references to the second world war, as a reason for why he started fighting now, are not just not true but the opposite of true. russian propaganda has been seen for what i...

Ukraines military this afternoon. ukraine, very obviously, wants the world media to see this. there is clearly a sense of outage. now, ukraine has been fighting a war against russian-backed separatists here in the far east of ukraine since 2014. it is a bloody conflict. ukraine says more than 14,000 people have lost their lives. but now with more than 150,000 russian troops reported to be massed along ukraines borders, there are fears repeatedly expressed by the u.s. and its allies that russia c...

Ukraine. as clyde said, there is a david and goliath _ ukraine. as clyde said, there is a david and goliath reality - ukraine. as clyde said, there is a david and goliath reality to - ukraine. as clyde said, there is a david and goliath reality to this l david and goliath reality to this wire. we talked about the bravery of the ukrainian soldiers but all the evidence is that vladimir putin is going to push on im going to use default —— false pretext hes created and hes going to be conducted ...

Former officials who have been in previous administrations have been doing these kinds of tabletop exercises in preparation for crises. here youve got a real crisis, so the biden white house was doing exactly that, at least twice that "the washington post" reported on and updating these with possible scenarios. so we were relying on a nonprofit think tank, silverado policy accelerator, and they came up with scenarios that were very similar to whats really happening now in the run-up to a possibl...

In shelling by russian—backed separatists in the donbas region. international monitors say theres been a big increase in firing across the ceasefire line. the separatists have declared a full military mobilisation, saying they fear a ukrainian attack. ukraine says they are trying to create a pretext for a russian invasion. on friday, president biden said he had no doubt that vladimir putin and taken the decision to invade —— and kyiv could be attacked within days. concern that russia may b...

Theaters and shopping centers is more of the same. it wouldnt surprise us to see some major explosions in moscow set by mr. putins own people as a pretext for invasion. thats what were looking at right now. >> well, we know from our sources weve been speaking to that u.s. officials are saying there is this intelligence that orders have been sent to russian commanders to proceed with an attack on ukraine. now im told by a source tonight familiar with alml of this, thi information came in last wee...

The loudest group are the trumpists. you hear a lot about what-aboutism. and putin making statements like i dont care about ukraine. this isnt a luxury. the u.s. doesnt have the luxury to care or not care. we are invested. we helped create the international liberal order that has created 75 years have peace and prosperity after the second world war. whenever vladimir putin is trying to invade another country by whatever pretext, that is a threat to freedom and security and safety. so you think w...