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>> is there a possibility at all, and i bring this up also because of barry mccaffrey, someone i spoke to a few weeks ago, of something like this happening, that putin is essentially wanting their soldiers to believe they want to invade, he wants the united states to believe that moscow is going to invade, to raise the stakes here, but he actually still has no intention of doing so. >> that looks less and less likely with each passing day. if you look at what's been taking place, it's exactly what would happen in the scenario of an invasion. first of all, in addition to the positioning of all ...

There is still this possibility of secretary blinken meeting with lavrov if the invasion doesn't happen between now and then. is there still, in your estimation, been any opening here for diplomatic efforts to be successful here with putin? >> as of now, there's not really a substantive opening. lines of communication are open, that's good. you always want to hold open the door to a diplomatic off-ramp when you're in thisesque laer to cycle we're in. again, the two positions, the two sides, the u.s., ukraine, europe and russia, are so far apart on the core issues putin has made the center of t...

The tea leaves in president biden's schedule, which is something we do a whole lot here in washington, biden had been scheduled to stay here in washington throughout the weekend, not going back to his wilmington home, as he often does. we just learned the white house has put out an update. president biden now planning in just a couple hours to head to his home in wilmington, where he's expected to remain tomorrow for presidents' day, yasmin. >> all right. let's dig further into this. colonel, that is the question of when we receive this intelligence, when the president actually said on friday ...