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Confirmation of this proposed summit that french president macron proposed between president biden and putin. pamela? >> certainly a bit of a development here on this sunday e evening as things continue to escalate with russia and ukraine. we'll wait to hear. arlet signs, thanks so much. joining me now lieutenant col col colonial. what do you think what we heard from arlet, the summit being proposed between biden and putin? waiting to hear from the white house on this but what do you make of that? >> until the first shots are fired and the russians cross the border, we should give diplomacy ...

We have just learned french president macron proposed a summit between russia and the united states during an hour long call with president joe biden earlier this evening. according to the readout, the french government says that both president biden and president putin agreed to the summit on principle. cnn has not yet confirmed that with representatives in the u.s. or russia. this as new satellite imagery shows intensified movements of russian forces near ukraine's northeastern border and amid a spike in violence that is hielgtenned fears that russia could launch an attack at any moment. we ...

To mislead the u.s. and allies. however, this intelligence comes as we've heard public statements from the president, the vice president and the secretary of state in recent days saying that the u.s. now believes putin has made the decision to invade ukraine. secretary of state antony blinken saying today in his words that the russian playbook is moving forward. pam? >> jim sciutto, thanks so much. now let's go to the white house. that's where we find cnn arlet signs. what's the latest from this, arlet? >> reporter: pamela, we have a very significant development when it comes to the discussion...

Macron. macron spoke to spuputin. susan, you're back. i spoke to one official today that downplayed macron as a key person with diplomacy but if in fact the french suggested this and if in fact a summit happens, this seems to be significant. >> yes, i think that's right. i think it would obviously be very significant but not without great risk for president biden. now, one thing that struck my ear was in principle loophole, which is a pretty giant loophole that suggests this is a summit that may never happen. when i loived in russia in principle covers all manner of things and really doesn't s...

Susan glasser. this talk of a summit between biden and putin, does such a summit play right into russia's hands? they had a summit before last year, of course, here we are with russian troops moving closer to the ukrainian border. what do you think about this? >> well, it's almost the very did definition of high stakes diplomacy if it actually comes off. it really feels like an 11th hour attempt to head off a war that's already setting in motion. it's very interesting and notable i think that the french president macron was making round of shuttle diplomacy phone calls today to putin and biden...