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Along ukraine's border, and pentagon spokesperson john kirby says that putin has added at least a half dozen landing ships in the black sea with the purpose of putting troops onshore. they are talking diplomacy but advancing into attack positions. >> right. this is a moment of maximum pressure against ukraine. so he's got the military machine moving. he's moving it to its attack position. the world is on edge. people in ukraine are starting to take this seriously. it could be very damaging. what he wants is the collapse of the government in ukraine or president zelensky say, we give up on nato...

Making the actual decision and saying you will attack. >> reporter: today, president biden, convening an urgent meeting with his national security team in the situation room, many just back from europe, where they were reassuring allies and doubling down on the consequences for putin if he attacks. >> we are talking about the real possibility of war in europe. >> reporter: more than 150,000 russian troops are thought to be amassed on three sides of ukraine, although one u.s. official telling abc news that number could be as high as 190,000. u.s. officials claiming 50% of those forces are now i...

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Ukrainian, launched a new members state borders. [end of translation] >> russia, for its part, is still spreading the lie that they're open for democracy, to diplomacy. but the numbers speak for themselves. they've amassed over 200,000 troops at the border, as many as 50% of those troops are now in an attack position. this is a story that's evolving by the moment, and who better to discuss this with that former u.s. ambassador to russia, and msnbc international affairs analyst, michael mcfaul. ambassador mcfaul, thank you so much for joining us. don't start just right out of the gate, getting ...

Russian forces surrounding ukraine are in attack position. all of the signs are there. all the danger of a russian invasion. very real. here at home more bad news for the former president a federal judge ruling civil lawsuits to hold him responsible for what happened at the capitol on january 6 can go forward and saying and i quote here the president's january 6 rally speech can reasonably be viewed as a call for collective action. the judge going on to say we used repeatedly in this context implies that the president and the rally goers would be acting together toward a common goal. that as t...