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of cnn's "state of the union." she joins us now from washington. >> candy, we've been talking about the winter olympics starting in sochi next friday and the state department. this is something we always hear about security but we haven't heard it to this extent where they're warning americans not to act too much american. >> don't wear too much red, white and blue outside the ring of steel. you have an exclusive interview next hour with the russian ambassador to the u.s. what do you hope to hear? >> well, i'm interested in knowing how russians feel about this. you know, these olympic games, the bids for them are so competitive. set aside president vladimir putin's desire to be a world player and wanting to show off with these games. think of the average russian who's so excited and so proud that these olympic games are coming to their country and all anyone talks about is how afraid they are to go. so i want to hear from the ambassador how they're combating that. we're now hearing stories that tickets may not be selling to well.