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At 4:00 p.m., top of the next hour, he will speak to the cnn matthew chance joins us now. now you have the state department accusing russia of staging this car explosion. how are you ukrainian officials reacting to all of this? >> reporter: well, they're agreeing with the state department assessment of that explosion in a car in the center in eastern ukraine. they say this -- nothing to do with them. they are saying it was a false flag operation, if you like or an attempt to create even more tension that could be used potentially as a pre-text for russia to escalate its armed con flikts in tha...

From his military lead rs saying this is not a good idea. we do not have forces that can execute this mission but unfortunately, he's a power of one that makes the decisions. >> we're seeing the troop build up. could be up to 190,000 troops at the border. u.s. officials have been saying they are trying to put false dplag operations in the pretext. now it apypears we are seeing signs of that. thank you very much. have you seen this video? shocking images caught on this video. a helicopter crashing into the atlantic near crowded miami beach. miles o's brien joins us next to help explain what h...

Forces and mostly its weapons in countries that he considers part of the russian sphere of influence. it's most lit former soviet state, some of which now, of course, are members of nato. the second theory is that they really just wants to push and test president biden, figure out whether or not the sanctions that president biden is threatening to impose if he invades would really that be crushing and whether or not he could sort of push back and say to president biden, you know, you've sanctioned me before, and it hasn't made as big a difference to my life as you think. the third is that he's...

>> right, and, you have to go back to -- remember the other big revelation this week, which is the 36-page power point presentation that was circulating up on capitol hill and, you know, the most chilling part of that is the idea that trump could declare a national security emergency and, again, there has to be a pretext. it could have been -- it could have been street fighting. it could have been the two pipe bombs that didn't explode at the dnc or the rnc, but, you know, we don't know what would have happened if there had been some kind of pre-text that the white house could have blamed on t...

Russian troops invading the ukraine. that's the whole pre-text. president biden is dealing with coronavirus and other national security threats, he's dealing, frankly, with pretty tough domestic politics and bad poll numbers. he doesn't want to have another concern of a global conflagration at the ukrainian-russian border. that's what they're hoping got through to putin. >> john carl, vladimir putin has worked very hard to become a player in our domestic politics. russia's reach into our life and times and media, especially of the social elevator is extensive. a lot of it goes unchecked. do yo...