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Kremlin tonight. >> reporter: the kremlin came up quickly after the announcements coming from the white house, to say, look, we repeatedly get this accusations that we intend to invade ukraine, we see it as a prove kag, ukranian forces are going to attack the ministry of foreign affair, the spokeswoman there, tends to be a little bit stronger, if you will in the criticism. was again tonight. saying this was hysteria from the white house. this is provocation disinformation and threats from the un...

Whether youre prepared to say to me, you know what, the four years of donald trump, the way he handled vladimir putin and, indeed, xijinping was a disaster for us foreign policy making. because, on both fronts, we saw that donald trump wasnt really about principle. he was about transactional politics. and he thought he could conduct transactional politics with both putin and xijinping — and we see the results today. would you agree? laughs well, if i could answer that, we saw kim jong—un sto...

Brace for this invasion. but the outward signs for the administration are this is likely, it could come this week, and could come at any moment. and if they are -- if they actually dont believe that, they are doing a pretty good job of convincing people thats what they think. they say they dont know that putin has made a decision, but they think that all the signs point towards him moving. >> ron, i want you to weigh in. republicans like lindsey graham are slamming president biden for not imposi...

Russia might start a war. this is actually a very effective information operation on our part to preempt any kind of maneuver that the russians might make. >> max, the pentagon says russia has well over 100,000 troops on the ukraine border. president biden telling americans to get out of the area. uh, listen. i -- i dont know whats going to happen but had a bad feeling about this all along. is diplomacy failing here? >> clearly, diplomacy is failing. and i think its failing for one reason only, ...

On the disputed archipelago. the mauritian government has warned britain not to remove the flag from the indian ocean islands, saying it would be a provocation. 0ur africa correspondent andrew harding sent this report from the chagos islands. is this idyllic archipelago still british territory? today, the government of mauritius said no. a mauritian delegation, visiting the remote chagos islands for the first time, put up a flagpole and then raised their nationalflag, politely but provocatively ...

Western alliance unity, constraining the ability of putin to claim that he was invited in where there was pretext or provocation and necessitate his military invasion, and in so doing i think its deterred putin and given the west time to get organized, time to prepare sanctions, time to close embassies, arm the ukrainians and time to move troops to the eastern flank, this is been a master stroke by the biden administration and winning this decisive phase zero. >> you served as moscow bureau chie...

A few minutes ago in the interview with lester holt. >> what scenarios would you put american troops to rescuer and get americans out. >> there is not. thats a world war when americans and russia start shooting at one another were in a very different world. >> not even on behalf of simply evacuating americans. >> how do you do that? how do you find them? this is not like im hoping that if in fact he is foolish enough toth he is smart enough to not do anything impacting american citizens. >> have...

They think. they say they dont know that putin has made a decision, but they think that all the signs point towards him moving. >> ron, i want you to weigh in. republicans like lindsey graham are slamming president biden for not imposing sanctions on vladimir putin right now. take a listen. >> he has 100,000 troops amassed on the ukrainian border and he is paying no price at all. i would like to hit him for the provocation and have sanctions spelled out very clearly what happens to the ruble and...

We just saw china, and really the entire world in shock that he had that capability to orbit the globe with accuracy, pinpoint with a nuclear payload. we didnt see putin do this provocation on the border of ukraine. infact... well, forgive me, but we saw putin do all sorts of things. we saw putin, according to almost every independent analysis, use poison against a former agent in the uk, against his main opponent in russia, alexei navalny. we didnt see donald trump make a big noise about that. ...

Provocation in donbas, false state media reports which i think you should all, everybody should keep their eyes open and aware of that potential, of fake video, false accusations about chemical weapons, or accounts of attacks on russian soldiers that have not actually occurred. >> in a bid to back up its claims of withdrawal, the russian defense ministry released more video this morning, youre seeing some of it here, showing tanks being transported by train, which the ministry says they are retu...