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Taylor. bring us up to date on this phone call between the president and putin. what actually took place? what, if anything, were they able to achieve? >> well, yasmin, this call lasted just over an hour. it took place just a few hours after secretary of state tony blinken spoke with his russian counterpart, really just the escalating number of calls between top russian officials, top u.s. officials as well as our top allies has increased significantly. but think about the journey since december 7th. that's when president biden first had a virtual conversation with president putin. since then,...

Of its embassy staff in kyiv and the pentagon has ordered the departure of the members of the national guard that had been deployed to train ukrainian forces. biden warned americans in ukraine to leave earlier this week in an exclusive interview with lester holt, saying sending troops to evacuate them would be world war. >> what scenarios would you put american troops to rescue and get americans out? >> there's not. that's a world war. when americans and russians start shooting at one another, we're in a very different world than we've ever been in. american citizens should leave. should leave...

>> one of the things and i'm not saying there's apples to apples parallels but one of the interesting elements over the course of the last six to eight month, a lot of new elements have come out about january 6th that lead up to january 6th. there is a misconception that the kind of robert redford, the movie, this all happened in six months, it was done. it was a lengthy period of time where a lot of people thought it was done. do you see any parallels in term of that crisis or crises and what we have been working through on the last year. >> over the last five years. that led me to want to do...

This is -- this could well be -- it clearly is an attempt by president putin to intimidate president zelensky of ukraine but also an attempt to intimidate president biden, and to president zelensky's credit and president biden's credit, they are not intimidated. they are standing firm. they are not blinking at this poker table. >> when tony blinken, secretary of state, spoke with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov, lavrov accused the u.s. ambassador of provoking this flick. conflict. what do you make of that? >> yasmin, no one takes this seriously. let's take a look at the 130 or 140,000 t...

Defense under president clinton, william cohen. so much of what this administration has been doing is trying to front run this information. trying to take away the chance for putin to have a pretext like he has in the past. do you think that might work given how tense things seem to be right now? >> i think it may. there is still a chance as president biden said, there's an off ramp in this particular case. it was important i learned today through cnn that the chinese foreign minister or ministry issued a statement saying that they did not support russia attacking, moving in, trying to attack ...