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General jack keane. russia has sent a written response to the deescalation proposal, talking about being engaged in more talks. does that tell you that putin is trying to resolve this, playing for time, something else at work here, general? >> no, i truly believe we are in the diplomatic phase here. two pathways that have taken place. one is the u.s., nato and russia and exchange of written proposals and possibly some areas to negotiate on, and those areas are likely having to do with offensive ...

Sit-down with the deputy attorney general later this hour. do stay with us for the administrations plan to tackle the major uptick also in violent crime in this country. >> yeah. other major story were following this morning, rapidly evolving crisis on the russia/ukraine border. kylie atwood is at the state department. nic robertson in moscow. kylie, lets begin with you. written response now by the u.s. to russias security demands. do we know in general what message the u.s. sent here? >> well, ...

Winter cold to rally in kyiv to show unity against threat. for latest we begin with cbs christina ruffini at the white house. christina, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, weijia. the white house says that call between two world leaders didnt produce any major breakthroughs, and a senior ranking official tells us theyre still not youre whether or not vladimir putin has made the decision to invade. but early this morning, the state department pulled most of its diplomats out of the e...

Authoritarian power that they had over what are now democratic countries, right? >> well, he certainly bullies those nations that were once incorporated into the soviet union. the three baltic nations that are part of nato and are thriving democracies, they get intimidate and bullied by russia on an almost daily basis. misinformation, cyber attacks, to intimidate and shake what those three nations think about russia and how they might react on a regional basis. yes, he wants to have influence on...

Russia, and tomorrow secretary of state antony blinken is set to speak with russias foreign minister when they will almost certainly talk about that new written response. norah. >> odonnell: weijia jiang with all the news, thank you. well, the northeast is still digging out from a weekend form that dumped nearly a foot of snow across nine states, parts of new york, massachusetts and rhode island got more than two feet from the noreaster and bomb cyclone. at least four deaths have been blamed on ...

Evidence apart from bogus narratives that russia is intending to attack ukraine. >> russia further invades ukraine, none of us will be able to say we didnt see it coming. and the consequences will be horrific. >> the kremlin also now saying theres been a mixup and that it is still preparing its main reply to the u.s. proposal for deescalating tensions at the ukrainian border. cnns kylie atwood live and nic robertson live in moscow. what is the state department saying about this mixup thing? >> r...

Options — capability. there are multiple options available to him, including the seizure of cities and significant territories, but — and significant territories, but also _ and significant territories, but also provocative political acts — but also provocative political acts like _ but also provocative political acts like the recognition of breakaway territories. indeed, we are — breakaway territories. indeed, we are seeing russian states military— we are seeing russian states militar...

Separatist in eastern ukraine are the instructors. russia vastly outnumbers ukraine in military forces. dont toll that to these people. >> its the only place where all of us should be. >> what do you think about russia? >> russia is enemy? enemy? >> yeah. >> we must win. >> we must win? >> we must win for our children. for our parents, our friends. for our future. that late word they are getting tonight department officials reportedly say that russia has sent back a written response to the u.s. ...

>> reporter: yeah, thats right. state department confirming theyve got this written response from russia in their hands. its their response to americas security proposals over ukraine. we dont know the contents of the letter but what we do know is that secretary of state blinken is speaking with russian foreign minister lavrov tomorrow and you have to imagine this is going to be the main topic of conversation. david? >> ian, thank you, again. back here at home tonight and to this political bat...

They didnt go much further. they didnt say it was substantive, they didnt say they were taking it seriously. they didnt characterize it, it demonstrates there probably wasnt a whole lot in there. were waiting this morning for secretary of state antony blinken to speak with his russian counterpart and well see if they can push the ball forward on diplomacy at all. russia did initially give some readouts of this initial written response that the u.s. gave to russia last week saying it didnt addres...