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Matt bodner in moscow, stay safe. on the phone with us is the former deputy national security advisor to president obama and an msnbc contributor, ben rhodes. ben, what do you make of what has happened in the last hour? and that is the president has said that u.s. intelligence has concluded that vladimir putin has made a decision to invade ukraine? >> well, it certainly feels like we are in the final act of the onset of that russian invasion. and if you step back and look at whats happened over ...

Thats unpredictable. i would hope there would be a lot of relack six on restrictions. people would be able to travel much more freely and feel safe. thats what we hope happens. >> reporter: as for those benchmarks for relaxing restrictions, fauci acknowledging there is no single number. >> theres no magic number, but what you want to make sure is that the trajectory keeps going down and down and down. >> reporter: and david, in the next phase of the pandemic, dr. fauci is saying even more import...

Ukraine stands together against this russian aggression. meanwhile, john, as you heard from many of our colleagues, life is continuing normally for many ukrainians. there is not a hint of panic. people continue to go to work, they continue to go to school, even continue to come out here and walk along the beach, even though it is the dead of winter and pretty darn cold. >> it is ukraine. alex mar qquart, thank you for being there for us. julia loffe has long been covering this threat. give us ...

What do you think could happen? >> well, john, if you look at the cdc that tracks the metrics in this case, the metrics being cases, although they are coming down rather sharply, which is really very good news, both hospitalizations and cases are coming down in a rather sharp decline, they have the coating of either substantial or high degree of viral activity and well over 90% of the country is in that area where its recommended by the cdc to keep going on with the masks. we would hope that if ...

For the department of transportation. incredible video. for those of white house dont understand -- of us who dont understand the dynamibs at play, does anything stand out from what youre seeing right now? >> absolutely. you know, helicopters, everybody wants a helicopter because they go up and down, but this one was traveling in a downward trajectory, much like a plane. and that gives us a clue that it appears they were losing power in the engine and were doing whats calmed auto rotation to the...

Its been a while since ive walked a dog around here. i know. do you remember you used to walk the dog when you were little? yeah. yeah, and you used to bring your camera and take lots of pictures. yeah, he was my test subject a lot of the time. yeah! i rememberyou being upset you couldnt get in to see one of your favourite bands and you were telling me how you were going to do everything you could do to get in there. yeah, to get a pass. and look where youve ended up now. it completely changed t...

Availability, soon, and more and more as the months go by of anti viral drugs, testing, that hopefully will continue that downward trajectory and keep it at a level where when we look at what we are trying to make the parameters of how we can start to get back to normal, much more, how do we protect against severe disease and hospitalizations as opposed to the number of cases. but right now, where we are, there is a big heavy, chris, i dont give anybody false optimism except to say it is good ne...

Correspondent mark meredith starts us off tonight. good evening, mark. >> bret, good evening to you. federal health officials say omicron cases are on the decline, thats the good news. the cdc says its also still not quite ready to change its masking recommendations, officials stress though changes are likely coming sooner rather than later. >> cases are declining. we are all cautiously optimistic about the trajectory we are on. we all share the same goal. to say get to a point where covid-19 is...

Chairman of the white house council of economic advisers or under president trump. kevin, welcome. so you, sir, predicted this. you said it would happen when a lot of other people said is it wouldnt with, and you also predicted that prices might go into double-digit increases on an annual basis. is that where were headed here after youve seen the reports? >> yeah. you know, were already there because if you look at the trajectory of the recent months, the numbers that youre citing are year-over-...

Smaller, and you will have seen the fatality numbers we are seeing which is different from the experience on their previous waves, so it is clear that omicron is very different, and milder in the way it behaves. that is one of the reasons, in addition to the vaccines, that we have, the high level of vaccine induced and other immunity, that is one of the reasons we can do what we are doing. chris. two things acknowledged, it is certainly the case that there are hospitals in the uk which are still...