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Tomorrow, he could pull it next week. >> this is still, i think, a very dangerous not just the ukraine but for the world. >> bret: it seems we have been talking about this, katie, for a number of days and we have that we are on the brink here. now tonight a u.s. official telling reporters that russia has not subtracted forces along that border. has, in fact, added as many as 7,000 troops to the ukraine border. just in recent days. despite claiming withdrawal and pullback. and they have added fie...

President warned russia against any such attacks on the u.s. or nato allies. he said claims of a russian pullback have not been verified. and used a higher figure, 150,000, for the number of russian troops threatening ukraine. and invasion, he said, that remains distinctly possible. his words. which he also tempered with his appeal to the russian people. >> to the citizens of russia, you are not our enemy. and i do not believe you want a bloody, destructive war against ukraine, a country and a p...

Give up on diplomacy, taking his case directly to the russian people. >> were not targeting the people of russia. we do not seek to destabilize russia. to the citizens of russia, you are not our enemy. and i do not believe you want a bloody, destructive war against ukraine. >> so this morning, the kremlin is responding to president bidens comments for the first time. the spokesman said it is positive that the u.s. president is noting his readiness to start serious negotiations. and vladimir puti...

Added risk? thats in the calculation for. molly: it seems nato has done what you think, president putin does not want, and enormous buildup including american troops in europe, not ukraine of course but f-16 fighter jets, this incredible buildup in the nato community across eastern europe, he wouldnt think that would be what he would want. >> you want the opposite, we can nato and divide and is been asking nato forces pullback from being fully deployed against the border. as you pointed out, the...

Happening based on what they are seeing. they had antony blinken come out, talk about what they are seeing instead. thats in addition to nato officials saying they are not seeing pullback but russia to only increase forces. we thought it was closer to 130,000 russian forces on the border surrounding ukraine. that has given concern to the white house as they are watching and wait to go see what happens next and making clear the ball is in the russian presidents court and it is his decision to mak...

Negotiation process when which should lead to an agreement of providing equal security for everybody, including our country. >> president biden said there has been no verification of any pullback by russian forces. that the threat of an attack in ukraine remains high and that the threat also remains to the u.s. economy, which could pay a lot higher fuel prices if there is a war here. and biden tried to speak directly to the russian people. >> the citizens of russia, you are not our enemy. and i ...

Flat, and im ready to defend my country. >> its two different countries, and they must understand that its two different countries. >> reporter: ukraines president, volodymyr zelensky, also says hes seen no sign of a russian pullback. he observed ukrianian military drills today. if theres an invasion, it will be a david and goliath battle. ukraines military is estimated to have roughly a quarter the manpower of russias and less than a tenth of russias fighter aircraft. do you still think its pos...

Americans by increasing gas prices, why, phil? >> well, basically because we have a global energy market and if you cut off supplies to europe, if russian decides to do that, youre going to see an energy priced shock. because the biden administrations pullback on u.s. energy weve been more dependent on russian oil. and weve been more dependent on russia when we could have been making this at home. this is a global market. its like a highway, if you shut down one part of the highway its going to ...

John berman here in for anderson. the president spoke at the end of a tense and somewhat confusing day with mixed signals at every turn. on the one hand, vladimir putin claimed a number of russian troops are pulling out of the region. on the other, he accused ukraine of creating genocide against ethnic russians which many believe could be a pretext for invasion. on yet another hand his flurry of high profile diplomacy continued today. it was the turn of german chancellor olaf scholz and then the...

Look what the russians are saying is something you cant believe, were looking at the hard evidence, were looking at the troops on the ground and were not seeing any signs of a pullback. instead what were seeing is a continued effort by vladimir putin to set up his forces for an invasion that would be an offensive operation by russia, not a defense. >> so that the biden white house is aggressively countering this russian strategy, right, but i guess i wonder, does it, to an international audience...