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>> listen, kate. what the secretary of state just did was tie it all together, right. we have heard this in pieces from senior administration officials about this troop build-up that russia has carried out along ukraines border, about the number of troops, but the secretary went even further and put it all on the record. under his name saying that russia is planning a pretext for an invasion into ukraine and laid out a number of things the united states believes russia could do as part of this p...

Supported it. >> this clearly was pushed and driven by the white house so senator cotton got his facts wrong and it was corrected. i want to ask you to put on your hat here, russian troops have not been withdrawn from the border despite russias claim to the contrary. we know it was false, said a senior official last night, adding that russia has added as many as 7,000 troops to the 150,000 stationed near the border in recent days. the official warned moscow could launch a false pretext to invade...

Also, president biden is moving forward with the sanctions on the nord stream 2 pipeline from russia to germany. this comes one day after sanctions were announced on russian banks, oligarchs and their families, including some close friends of vladimir putins. erin burnett is live from lviv, ukraine. this is a massive development coming from russian state media. it could be putins possible pretext for an invasion of the entire donbas, if not the entire country. what do you hear? what do you expec...

Theyve moved more troops in. my sense is it will happen within the next several days. >> reporter: underscoring the urgency, secretary of state blinken, on his way to europe, made a detour to new york to address the security council, suggesting in stark detail the countdown to an invasion has already begun. >> russia plans to manufacturer a pretext for its attack. it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of mass grave, or a fake or even a real at...

Military is under strict orders not to return fire unless it is absolutely necessary because they dont want to create a pretext for vladimir putin to send his troops over his berm and invade us as hes been threatening to do for weeks and weeks and weeks. thats a critical situation because we heard from the leader of con of those separatist enclaves that all able-bodied men should pick up guns and defend their self-proclaimed republic. thats very threatening. theyve called on thousands of people ...

Russias intent to, be including the pretext that putin would used to invade. and the idea is that it makes it that much harder for russia to come up with that legitimate excuse, for them to tell the story about why they have to send 100,000 troops into a neighboring country that they will overpower. does it say, nothing of the fact that, unlike, you, know whats trusting what colin powell said back then, with todays level of open source global surveillance, a gps satellites, its pretty darn diffi...

Was an attack, an explosion, a car bomb. the car belonged to the head of security for donetsk. again saying, this is a staged provocation. what you have here, what people fear you may have is the makings of some kind of a pretext for president putin to launch an incursion of sorts. we are also seeing now video of buses taking people, civilians, from these areas into russia. allegedly for safety at the urging of their leadership. its not clear at this stage that there is any actual reason for any...

Terrible consequences, not just for ukraine but for russia as well. putin, if he got his way, he would want to frame any military action as something he was forced to do by a ukrainian pretext he cooks up. once again, theyre trying to deny putin and making it clear to the russian people and the world that, look, this is the choice that vladimir putin is going to make. if he makes it, he could be committing a tragic mistake to not just the ukrainian people but the russian people as well. >> over ...

Attack ukraine. my sense is it will happen in the next several days. >> russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent, vent that russia will bring on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against the ukrainian government. we dont know exactly the form it will take. it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of a mass grave. a staged drone strike against civilians or a fake, even a real, attack us...

Without evidence that it is ukraine thats planning to attack. they also ordered all men 18 -- 55 to stay and fight. this is the russian state media outlet across the board are calling what is happening in the region a genocide. worried this could all be laying the groundwork to give russian president vladimir putin a pretext to invade but as for the front lines today you got a taste there of what it is like every single day for civilians and soldiers in the eastern part of this country. they are...