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Recently as either today or just a few days ago, this administration, the biden administration, has said no, there wont be american boots on the ground in ukraine. you have nato partners saying, well, you know, maybe we shouldnt be militarizing and mobilizing as quickly. maybe we should keep going harder with the negotiations and diplomacy and sort of avoid a war. and you have others, the americans primarily and the uk, saying we need to be more aggressive and assertive, and the ukrainians are s...

It? >> i think its pretty important because, again, vladimir putin is sitting back and trying to read all the tea leaves that are hanning in the west, just as were trying to figure out whats going on in moscow. you have a couple different sort of messages that putin is hearing. in december, and i think as recently as either today or just a few days ago, this administration, the biden administration, has said no, there wont be american boots on the ground in ukraine. you have nato partners saying...

Extraordinary that it has taken until this point to even have them nominated at this level. >> laura coates there. president biden may be on the verge of a win at home, but he is still facing a major international crisis with ukraine, with russian troops on the border with ukraine. the u.s. is waiting for an answer from moscow after it sent a written response to russias request for security guarantees. secretary of state antony blinken said there is a serious diplomatic path forward if russia ch...

B.a.-2, sometimes called the stealth variant, because it can be trickier for scientists to pinpoint its exact version. but for anyone infected with the new subvariant, those pcr and rapid tests will still work at detecting infection. our mireya villarreal is in dallas, where researchers are hunting for b.a.-2. >> were not sure if its going to change the symptoms or change the severity of disease, it seems unlikely. it seems most likely it will just outcompete the original omicron strain and prob...

Ukrainian government to a degree when president biden suggested that a minor incursion would meet a limited response or a different kind of response as compared to a full scale russian invasion. and you saw the ukrainian president issue an angry tweet, saying in english, so the audience was not -- would not be mistaken that to the great powers, he wrote, there is no such thing as a minor incursion like there are no minor casualties when suffering a wound with the loss of a loved one. so he was r...

Territories. indeed, we see the russian — territories. indeed, we see the russian state media spouting out now about _ russian state media spouting out now about alleged activities in eastern ukraine — about alleged activities in eastern ukraine. this is straight out of the russian _ ukraine. this is straight out of the russian platelet and theyre not fooling — russian platelet and theyre not fooling us —— playbook. we remain focused _ fooling us —— playbook. we remain focused on �...

Is he playing for time? because his diplomatic track sergey lavrov his russian foreign minister opened up by saying that he will accept the united states to present a written response to what russia has been demanding for some time, in answer to their questions, they already know the answer is no. nato and the united states will allow ukraine to become a member of nato if it should so desire in the future and nato will not roll back its troop deployments and presence to pre-1997 levels which is ...

Country continues to be our fight against this raging pandemic. the white house making an announcement that they are going to be rolling out a phone number to help with that. what more can you tell us about that? >> craig, when you hear the white house talk about covid response, often they also talk about insuring equity in the response. of course, you have the announcement by the white house earlier this week, the launching of the website where americans can request four take home tests to be s...

In trying to avert some type of larger conflict in ukraine just as the u.s. and russia are engaged in really a last-ditch attempt to avoid that type of an escalation and to try to calm tensions. this after the secretary of state antony blinken met in geneva with his russian counterpart, the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov, and after that meeting the secretary of state said that the u.s. has now agreed to respond in writing to russias one-sided draft proposal for a security treaty with the...

>> thats right, the us gave a written response that they wanted. they offered areas of cooperation, never never allowing ukraine to join nato. did you must refuse. here is the secretary of state. >> right now the document is with them and the ball is in their court. we will see what we do, whether they choose the path of dialogue or if they try to stripe against the train. the brush and foremost are saying has not been a positive response from the west but the resident people will decide the nex...