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griners case disgusting. lets go "outfront." and good evening. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight above the law. federal prosecutors making a simple case tonight against steve bannon who they say is guilty of blatantly defying the january 6 committee. if convicted hes looking at jail time. the man once dubbed donald trumps brain, bannon leaving court after the first day of testimony, lashing out at the january 6 committee and at its chairman, bennie thompson. >> hes too gutless to c...

Luhansk in the east, in the donbas. and in kherson in the south. and will install new puppet governments and institutions, which is exactly what they did in 2014 and crimea. now, ahead of all of this, today, president biden and his fellow g7 leaders are holding virtual leaders with ukraine zelenskyy. earlier today, as part of her eastern european trip, first lady doctor joe biden met with refugees and slovakia and then traveled to the slovakia and ukrainian border to see the situation up close. ...

This is not a response to any specific intelligence threatening uk staff as a result of anything the british government has done in terms of warning about russia trying to set up puppet governments in ukraine are anything like that, it is the generic, growing threat of a russian military incursion into ukraine that has led to this action and i think there are two factors, if anything happens it could happen quickly, there are now increasing numbers of russian troops in belarus, just on the north...

Adversary every reason to believe he will respond to a crises with weakness. has has done that for 50 years, but it rail counts now as president, vladimir putin been talking about pretext, red herrings, you cant let nato include ukraine there is no plan for, that he cant tolerate military exercises in ukraine we dont conduct those, vladimir putin wants to fulfill his long held ambitions, assemble greater russian empire since times of peter the great there is no russian empire without ukraine. he...

Given every that -- that he will respond to crises with weakness, it counts now that he is president. it you look at how we got in this situation, it frames question well, vladimir putin talking about red herrings, he cannot let nato include ukraine. we dont conduct military exercises in ukraine, putin wants to fulfill his long held ambitions, to reaccept russian empire. he wants buffer states without democratic governments with puppet governments like in belarus and ukraine and third he does no...

Understandings that have gathered over time to regulate how donations deal with each other. putin has up and overturned all of that all of a sudden, two days ago when he recognized the puppet governments and then sent his troops across the border, of course those troops gone across the border earlier, but he never acknowledged it, this time it was explicit. so yes, we watched him do it and we put some sanctions on for the first instance, and apparently we are ready to put some. and we will see i...

Warfare. but if it is a march to kyiv, this is going to be like nothing we have seen really since the second world war. >> yeah. its imminent. she kept saying that, bill, ambassador taylor, she kept sayings in imminent. the -- ukraine right now, thanks to russia, is on the brink of war. >> and wolf, she also said that theres no justification. president putin seems to be desperate to find a justification. hes encouraging these puppet governments, these two lnr and dnr puppet governments to give h...

Here, the russian military has kidnapped the mayors of both of these cities and installed puppet governments that are now saying they are going to be broadcasting nothing but russian tv into those areas. this is a tried and true russian tactic, isnt it. not allow the current government to continue to function under russian control, its boot them out, put in a puppet. >> and that was the tactic for kyiv as well. at least three attempts on the life of president zelenskyy. russia would very much li...

Federov was kidnapped by armed russian men. the surveillance video claims to show him being marched away. cnns salma abdelaziz back with us now. ukrainian officials say there has been a second mayor kidnapped by russian troops. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: christine, this is a very worrying capture. because the ukrainian government says that russian troops are trying to overthrow the democracy of ukraine, remove by force democratically elected officials, install puppet governmen...

And they also know that even though the russian forces may take cities, may surround them that in the long run they will not win. there is just no appetite here for any sort of russian oversight. and even if there was a russian puppet government put into place here, they have overthrown puppet governments in the past. there is no way in the long run that russia can control this country. that is a given. if russia tried, it would bleed them dry. death toll would rise. public opinion would definit...