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International order and how issues between countries are resolved and that is a big long-term problem thats going to be around a lot longer than the ukraine problem biden meeting with the german chancellor, theres a question of where germany stands on the threat to cancel the pipeline project if russia invades and also a question of what kind of sanctions against russia germany would really support. i want to play for everyone how the chancellor kind of answered this question with jake tapper la...

A clear insight in the way president putin thinks about all of this. >> nic, thank you so much. lets go to ukraine now where french president emmanuel macron is projecting some optimism actually after meeting with ukraines president, but does president zelensky feel the same i think is a good question right now. cnns melissa bell live in kyiv for us. melissa, what else did macron and zelensky say this morning? >> reporter: well, they were talking about the need for deescalation and grasping for ...

For the 21st century. macrons strategy in dealing with the russian president. heres what president zelensky and macron had to say at that press conference that happened a short time ago here in the ukrainian capitol. >> translator: generally, i dont quite trust words. thats why i think every politician can show his or her openness by concrete deeds. in our case, those are steps towards deescalation. we had an exchange with the president who told me he would not be the cause of an escalation. fra...

Does putin leave his intermediate missile forces in belarus where they could easily destroy ukrainian cities? ukraine is worried about the fact that belarus is in discussion of changing the constitution next month in a way to allow russia to phase nuclear weapons there. are we in for sort of a long grinding haul here in which the ukraine crisis becomes a longer putin crisis that threatens to upend the fundamental order weve seen in europe and i think people in washington are just now beginning t...

A quick programming note for you. cnn has a new original series focused on the complicated presidency of lyndon banks johnson. dont miss the premiere of lbj, triumph and tragedy, february 20th at 9:00 p.m. >> if you dont know a lot about him, its worth watching. thank you for joining us today. im jim sciutto. >> im bianna golodryga. "at this hour" with kate bolduan starts right now. hello, everyone. im kate bolduan. heres what were watching at this hour. pipeline diplomacy as russia continues ...

Fentanyl kills tens of thousands of americans every year. our exclusive interview with the d.e.a. administrator. we begin with urgent diplomacy to prevent russia from starting a war over ukraine. french president emmanuel macron in kyiv this morning to meet with ukraines president, one day after macron met with vladimir putin in moscow and the russian leader continues to keep the world guessing about his true intentions. the kremlin announcing that russian troops would leave belarus after comp...

The document review. there will subsequently be candidate interviews, not at that stage yet but this is something that promises to produce a win for president biden and one that he is very much looking forward to. >> thank you, john. also new this morning, retired pope benedict is asking for forgiveness for his handling of sex abuse cases in the catholic church. but hes also denying any personal wrongdoing. benedict responding to an independent report that criticizes actions in four cases whil...

Hour. what should people make of this statement from the kremlin today? >> reporter: i think taken into context that initially the kremlin was replying to something that came from president macrons office saying they believe that russia had committed itself to withdrawing its forces from belarus. talking here about belarus, not that 100,000 that are in around other parts of ukraine. withdrawing those after the military exercises, but the kremlin essentially saying what theyve said all along that...

>> david, is that clarity? >> well, its close to clarity, kate, but its not quite clarity. it was notable to all of us that during the press conference with president biden, whenever the chancellor was asked about nord stream 2, he managed to answer the question without ever uttering the words nord stream 2. so he did say we will act in lock step. so you could do the math and say the president of the united states said nord stream 2 will and if acting in lock step, it will end but i thought it w...

Seems it is joe bidens race to lose. the emerson poll has kamala harriss performance, doubling her support in the process biden has a 15 point lead in the democratic primary thanks to bernie sanders dropping 12 points and elizabeth warren holding steady. according to ari fleischer biden is in trouble. >> the real question is joe biden, hillary clinton 2020. i think all evidence will point that is going to be the case for him. he feels like yesterdays senator and that is his problem. >> the bigge...