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He has done it since then. and thats ultimately a lot of what led to the first impeachment of donald trump is two bogus allegations that were completely shams. they were not accurate. yet donald trump parrotted them and wanted to use them to benefit himself and the re-election. and so, the parallels have created serious unrest in this country. but its also created a lesson and i think that the biden administration has done a fabulous job of pulling the sting on the disinformation. of undermining...

A pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will bring on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against the ukrainian government. >> martha: the fighting in the east has picked up the past 48 hours. ukrainians are battling separatists. its been a low level war for the past eight years. now the shelling on both sides has picked up. on the ukrainian side, a kindergarten was hit by a shell. there are no children in the building at the time. two teachers ...

There was a piece today -- >> it sounds like this would be iraq on steroids. why would he do it any way? >> joy, let me say a couple of things. i take offense at the comparison to the runup to the iraq war. the iraq war had intelligence that we thought was accurate. turns out it was not. colin powell did not lie. russian officials are coming up with lies to create a pretext to go in. so a completely different situation i would argue. where there are parallels, its always easier to go in at the

>> first, russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will bring on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against ukrainian government. second, in response to this manufactured provocation, the highest levels of the russian government may theatrically convene emergency meetings to address the so-called crisis. next, the attack is planned to begin. russian missiles and bombs will drop across ukraine. communications will be j...

Explosions along with air raid sirens. cbs charlie dagata is in the city of kyiv with the very latest. good evening, charlie. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. there has been a dramatic rise in tensions here in the last 48 hours, due largely to those developments in the east. exactly the kind of move the u.s. and nato allies have feared moscow might use as a pretext to invade. women, children, and the elderly papacked on to buss in eastern ukraine tonight, part of a mass evacuation of citizens...

That happens, communities here are already trapped in a war of attrition. and across the front line, in the breakaway capital of donetsk, sirens wailing after the authorities announced women and children would be evacuated to russia. separatist leader denis pushilin said the operation was arranged on friday the 18th, because ukraine would soon attack. but a bbc analysis of the metadata shows this footage was recorded two days earlier. video has emerged showing small numbers boarding buses, appar...

A phone call with president zelensky. and theres another meeting scheduled for later. between sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, and the u.s. secretary of state, anthony blinken. that means it will only happen if theres no invasion. >> and. one of the conversations i was happening with the quality. are you under some sort of orders to try everything they cannot to engage and provide that pretext but the russians need? as the violence on the borderline, starts to increase, what are they...

Warned about, this concern over potential operations and false flag attacks that russia could create and russian supporters could create in order to justify an invasion. so the russians are now saying some 10,000 people have fled e eastward into russia. there is a significant level of concern were seeing in the east, the cease-fire operations combined with these accusations of disinformation and false flag attacks coming from the east could provide president putin with that pretext to invade ukr...

Putin made his opening gambet and he will want to see the response from the u.s. and its allies. heres from a military perspective what we can expect to see if a full scale invasion begins. electronic warfare will disable the ukraine government and military. gps or magnetic spectrum will go dark. this is a period of of preassault fire that would then be followed were told by salvos of ballistic missiles, missile units based in belarus. attack aircraft will flood the airspace. think of a blitzkri...

Ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy appeared unwilling to bend to the threats. >> translator: we are on our land. we are not afraid of anything or anyone. we do not owe anything to anyone. we are confident of this. >> meanwhile, the u.n. just wrapped up an emergency meeting of the security council to discuss the crisis with the u.s. ambassador accusing russia of creating a pretext to invade ukraine. >> he has since announced that he will place russian troops in these regions. he calls them p...