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The white house is monitoring reports that some russian troops are back at their permanent bases after training near the border with ukraine. now russias defense ministry said more than 10,000 military personnel have completed their combat training. the troops presence has raised western concerns moscow is planning to invade ukraine. u.s. and russian officials are set to hold security talks on january 10th. meantime a supreme court hearing in moscow is set to resume on whether to liquidate rus...

Omicron, but if you put another mask underneath it, that can help, and also those n-95 masks as well. >> thank you very much. ahead, a new year, a new phase into the investigation on capitol hill. house select committees plan to hold public hearings in 2022. amid escalating tensions over ukraine, the u.s. and russia will sit down for security talks. what we can expect in that high stakes meeting set to take place in a matter of weeks. first, body cam video reveals the chaotic moments setti...

Of security talks between the u.s. and russia set to begin next week, political pressure is also building for president biden on multiple domestic issues including his handling of the covid pandemic and spiking inflation senior national correspondent rich edisons life in delaware where the president is spending the weekend. >> good evening john the biden administration is trying to deter another russia invasion of ukraine the last one was in 2014 the president spoke with ukrainian president a sh...

Happen, yes, republicans are against it, but democrats are against it, too, and joe manchin and kyrsten sinema will shoulder a lot of the blame, when in reality, the white house understands the reality on capitol hill that this isnt going to pass, but they have to show a fight. its an unenviable situation for the white house to be honest with you to have to get into and lean into a fight that it knows it has absolutely no chance of winning in any time in the near future. >> jake sherman and caro...

Cant take care of a kid with appendicitis because they are so overwhelmed. that will happen in many places. i worry about that immensely, and thats the major reason weve got to keep this under control and stop it from spreading wildly, because we need a functioning health system. >> dr. jha, thank you so much for starting us off this hour and being part of the mental health conversation as well. im really grateful. matt dowd and katty kay are sticking around. when we come back, the disgraced ex-...

And 8 per person, 32 for a family of four. the problem is right now you cant get them. they are saying theyre coming. but, we are going from trying to get tests and analyzing the effectiveness of tests to everybody gets a test. bret. >> brit: look, not only you cannot get the test, even if you do get the test, they tell you on one day whether you have it. the next day you might have it. so you do, what, 8 tests 8 days maybe? then what? i mean, are we going to test ourselves every day in perpetui...

Do and they will understand that. >> ashley, lets turn now and talk about the russia situation. how worried is the way house about it? >> if you look at just this first day of security talks, both sides, on the one hand were a little bit cautiously optimistic. this way house is incredibly chloride. a number of the things that russia is asking for, are simply non starters. the idea that ukraine will never join nato. thats a nonstarter for the united states. the idea that nato would go back to its...

>> certainly looks like the russians are continuing to pile the pressure on the u.s. and on its nato allies as well. the russian foreign minister, he said that russia wants answers soon in written form from the united states as to russias security demands that the russians, of course, made in those security talks with the u.s. that happened in geneva last week. now, at the core of what the russians want, there is, of course, the fact that they want written guarantees there will be no further nat...

Emily horn said this call would cover a range of topics including upcoming engagements with russia and they are looking for russia to show signs of de-escalation before any diplomatic end game which is a point they hammered home and this comes before the u.s. and russia delegations are expected to sit down for security talks on january 10th. >> i want to ask you about another big story. you have an article in the daily beast on the ghislain maxwell verdict. fantastic article. i recommend it to e...

Aimed at trying to defuse the ukraine crisis. heres the latest from cnns jeremy diamond. >> reporter: weeks after joe biden and russian president vladamir putin sat down for a videoconference, the two set to speak once again on thursday afternoon, eastern time here in the united states. the two leaders will get on the phone to talk in particular about the tense situation at the russian/ukrainian border. were told this call came at the russian presidents request and it comes less than two weeks b...