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But there are areas of possible u.s. compromise. like, reviving a treaty on missile deployments in europe -- abandoned in 2019 amid signs of russian violations. u.s. officials have also suggested there is room to scale down nato exercises in eastern europe if russia starts to withdrawal the forces it's been building up for months never ukraine. but as ever, it may come down to how president putin of russia wants to proceed. on the one hand, he's been undeterred by sanctions in the past and may decide to press ahead in ukraine. on the other, he likes to be seen as the leader of a global power. ...

>> there are two paths for russia to take at this point. for president putin to take. he can take the path to diplomacy. or there is a path of escalation. we are certainly hopeful that the path to diplomacy is the path that they will take. >> this comes, as cnn learns that the biden administration quietly authorized another $200 million in aid for ukraine amid growing fears about the russian troop buildup on the border -- hundreds of thousands of troops. matthew chance is out front. >> reporter: this is russia's leverage in crucial negotiations with the united states and its allies. more than ...

Feel like this should be a top priority issue. maybe he thought this would be handled over time and negotiations. but we don't have time here. we need to act now. we need to demand that these individuals responsible for this particular hack get arrested. the key gets turned over to the businesses that need to decrypt their data. >> biden has not called out putin publicly about this attack. but jen psaki said that biden officials are meeting to discuss ransomware. it is possible they will deliver a private warning. jeff? >> yeah. beyond the warnings, president biden, he warned putin that the u....

Russia, not necessarily from the kremlin, but you know, very little happens in russia that the kremlin doesn't know about, particularly across its borders, and i do think that the president needs to say, number one, you don't get to mess around in our domestic politics anymore, because of course, they continue to do that. and number two, look, we got to stop with the cyberattacks, and even if it's not you, you need to stop folks like darkside, which engineered the colonial pipeline disaster. you need to stop that or we're going to start exacting a cost from you. i've been disappointed with the...

Never been one to mince words. you're on the intel committee. have you been contacted about any sort of nefarious behavior with anyone, with you, your staff, family members such as we know happened with representative schiff and swalwell? i mean, they were told their records were seized. have you been contacted with anything like that? >> i don't think i have, alex. it turns out that apple was contacting people by email, and so everybody's frantically searching their spam folders and that sort of thing but at this point, it doesn't look like i was one of the lawmakers that was targeted. but th...