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That wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. craig melvin picks up with more news right now. >> a good monday morning to you. craig melvin here. this morning there are new questions and new restrictions in our pandemic fight, but also thankfully some progress. this morning president biden's newly announced winter covid restrictions are officially in place. the new rules coming as concerns over that omicron variant pushed vaccination rate levels to highs not seen since the spring. we're going to dig into that. plus what dr. fauci said this morni...

On this frozen landscape in eastern ukraine. with russian-backed rebels on one side and ukrainian troops on the other. this is the front line. the skarps from this conflict are everywhere across eastern ukraine. although there's supposed to be a peace agreement here, artillery shells are being swapped by both sides and every few minutes, we hear the sound of small arms fire. today, as many as 100,000 russian combat troops are thought to be massed on the border near here. the u.s. fearing they could be preparing for full-scale military assault into ukraine. the white house has been saying for d...

Presumably if you had a great source inside the kremlin, but what they've seen is, you know, heavy artillery. they see combat troops in the numbers they haven't seen since 2014. and by the way, we should point out that blinken is going to speak with ukrainian officials before this call like today and the president will be calling, president zelensky afterwards. what do you think is happening? >> first, i think we ought to disregard the notion that we can determine what president putin's intentions are. what we do is measure capability, measure opportunity, and measure history. what capability ...

President biden says tomorrow's video call will be a, quote, long discussion. the white house says the two leaders will likely engage in a range of topics, but the most crucial perhaps being russia's deployment of more than 90,000 combat troops to the ukraine border. according to "the washington post," u.s. intelligence officials are warning putin's military has drawn up plans for an offensive involving some 175,000 troops. nbc's senior international correspondent, keir simmons, joins me from london with more on this story. keir, also important to note here diplomatic sources in russia and the...

And mommy always keeps her promises. oh, no! seriously? hmm! it's not the same if she's not here. oh. -what the. oh my goodness! i don't suppose you can sing, can you? ♪ the snow's comin' down ♪ -mommy? ♪ i'm watching it fall ♪ watch the full story at www.xfinity.com/sing2 president biden will hold a high-stakes call with president putin on tuesday, and these talks come as russia is building up combat troops along its border with ukraine. potentially planning to invade the former soviet state. the white house is now warning russia of serious consequences if they engage in a military ...