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In keir simmons from london. our friend katty kay described watching that scene in parliament as shakespearean. >> reporter: yeah, willie, one senior political reporting in the uk describing downing street as more like a medieval court than a government office, a modern government office. look, here are these extraordinary split screen right now in the uk. the prime minister boris johnson is on his way to ukraine to meet with president zelensky with this report still in his inbox, a report that ...

President, calling him out by name and saying trump is wrong. that was definitely a first here. >> uh-huh. really interesting to hear what the mood was inside. and so this split screen. weve been talking about the split screen of vice president mike pence saying that, finally today. and then the same day the rnc cents urg kinsinger and cheney. that they now say the political discourse, thats why theyre censuring them. thats what the january 6th committee is investigating. the violence at the cap...

Possible attack on the 16th. >> reporter: you know, john, its really just like watching a surreal split screen. there is a huge discrepancy from the alarm, the concern, the warnings, that are coming from washington, and the way that people are behaving on the ground and the way that ukrainian leadership is handling the situation as well. you referenced president zelensky jokingly referring to the fact that, you know, he had been told or there had been reports, rather, that there would be an inva...

The one who told people to go to the capitol. of course, the trump administration, the trump officials say oh, they wanted him, people to go peacefully. that being said, i think this really underscores a rift in the gop but the power, the sort of ability to affect the official rhetoric of the party, that continues to be in the hands of former president trump. i also am very interested, though, in the fact there was a little bit of changing of language here according to the "new york times." >> y...

Claiming that the fact that democrats are now trying to change that law, the electoral count act to alter the way those electoral votes are counted was proof that pence could have intervened and the former vice president felt like he needed to set the record straight. you know, its remarkable when we look at how the former vice president really towed the party line for four years, was so loyal to former president trump, even, frankly, alex, as protesters on january 6th were shouting hang mike pe...

Movement. they dont say how long thats expected to last. we should note it does come amid some criticism from the ukrainian president where he said he believed that nations were moving their staff closer to poland that they believe that was a shortsighted decision. they dont believe it makes a difference to move the embassy staff to where theyve been moving them. >> i want to go to kyiv and clarissa ward. whats the atmosphere there right now given the u.s. decision to close the embassy in kyiv a...

Mother keeps asking where is the video? its not out yet because it doesnt come out until march and thats going to be march 9th, to be exact, so mark your calendars because it will be a disgrace. so, he is on there, and he gets revealed, rudy giuliani, in the first episode, and robin thicke and ken jeong, two of the judges on the show, they walked off. i can confirm, they walked off in disgust that he was there. they eventually came back. i dont know what words but there was some banter exchanged...

So that is sort of the mood here. >> its just so interesting to think about that split screen as you describe it, erin. possible impending war and people out for valentines day on dates at restaurants. its just so -- it scrambles the brain to think about all of that. kim, speaking of technology, you just heard press secretary john kirby there asked about cyberattacks and whether they are seeing that because the impression is that would precede any physical attack, and he was coy and vague about ...

This is what happens in live television. alex, obviously a very significant day on the diplomatic front. you have a nato ally. macron meeting with putin. still quite far apart. >> reporter: yeah, thats right, erin. you really had this extraordinary diplomatic split screen. the press conferences happened at more or less the same time. it did put out to see where the countries stand. it made clear that germany is not talking a tough as stance against russia as the united states would like. preside...

Provided to the ukrainian people and also saying that he was working with the military to try to sort of improve their territorial defense systems. so i think youre seeing slightly bizarre split screen between the rhetoric coming out of washington and the messaging that were seeing here on the ground from ukraines leadership. but still, as i said, despite the talk of keep calm and carry on, there is definitely a sense that preparations are being made should the worse case scenario come to be. >>...