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Heightened tensions. and of course they have taken steps responding with an urgent matter, ordering all nonessential employees to evacuate, depart that embassy in kyiv, ordering all americans to leave, urging them to leave the country before any type of assault potentially happens. so we are going to hear more about america's posture after that call in just a few hours, as national security adviser jake sullivan joins cnn's "state of the union" in just a little bit. but, again, i just have to stress that this comes at a critical time in president biden's presidency, probably one of the most cr...

Romney, a moderate republican from utah, he said he hopes that whoever biden ultimately nominates could possibly get some republican support. he said he felt, quote, the nation is divided on many front, it would be nice if this was an individual who garnered a number of republican votes and that will depend, in part, on the nature of the person who is chosen. and unlike some more conservative members of mitt romney's party, the republican party, who do not support nominating a black woman, which is what president joe biden has said he will do to the supreme court, romney said diversity is impo...

Administration officials throughout the day. what else are you hearing about the critical call, and perhaps more importantly, what happens next? >> reporter: the president wakes up this morning ahead of a very critical week. i cannot stress that enough. this past week we have seen both he and his administration engage in a full-court press trying to dissuade russia from invading ukraine and that really reached a height yesterday during the hour-long call that president biden had with president putin while he was at camp david. now white house officials told us that the president made clear to ...

Putin to get him to back down. according to my sources, these include ukraine returning to the minsk diplomatic agreement with some concessions for russia that include things in terms of sequencing, what ukraine will do that russia wants. and, also, the biden administration has quietly told the ukrainians if they wanted to go ahead and compose a self-moratorium on joining nato, not imposed from us, but if that was their decision, the united states would go along with it. these are things seen in kyiv as non starters. they're not in a position to give any of these things. these things would be ...

Presence in ukraine. that begins the clock in terms of the downfall, lack of independence in ukraine, and putin gets a win. that's a win-win. >> josh rogan, general marks, you give us so much to think about. i always learn from you. thank you so much. and don't forget to watch "state of the union" today at 9:00. cnn's jake tapper speaking with national security adviser jake sullivan. >> still to come this hour, protests in canada over covid-19 restrictions continue for a third weekend, and now there are concerns the fight may cross the border. why one u.s. senator is backing the charge to, q...