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All right. 28 minutes back here. just one day to go before the opening ceremonies at the beijing olympics. we are hearing from the president of china about what to expect in the next two weeks. cnn's steven jiang has all the details from beijing. good morning. there is another world leader making headlines at the games as well. >> reporter: that's right, laura. russian president putin is the most ab tis si pay theed guest of the games because of what's going on in ukraine of course. he is expected to get here on friday morning and likely spending less than 24 hours on the ground meeting xi. th...

Say what would be best. i'm sure he'll speak for himself. he did leave and come back to the munich security conference. today though the focus is how does the west respond to this russian move, not the large step that was an tisz si pay theed but still a gross violation of ukraine's sovereignty. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. let's get straight to cnn's fred pleitgen. what does vladimir putin want here? we know for some 15 years he has been laying the groundwork questioning the sovereignty of ukraine, the identity of ukraine. >> reporter: yeah, i am indeed near the border of ukraine an...

Somebody like scott pruitt in his post. >> let's talk about mike pompeo facing a number of tough questions during his confirmation hearing. do you think that his confirmation is actually shaping up to be tougher than what he personally expected? we know that it's obviously going to come down to a very close vote. do you think he's going to get the votes ultimately? >> reporter: i think he probably app tis si pay theed that he was going to receive a grilling on capitol hill. i don't know that he anticipated all of the questions about the mueller investigation or his own sitdown with the special...

What the reaction might be and then be forced back on our heels to say we hadn't than tis pay theed anticipated this. a lot more thought needs to go into this. >> the white house is saying they checked with the vurussian and they have not changed their position, so what is the point of having american hands tied by russian and u.n. time table of just dragging things out. >> don't let them drag it out. but say let's put to a vote. here is the evidence and we'll make this very clear. not only to russia, to china, but to the general united nations itself. here is the evidence, folks. and if you w...