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International order and how issues between countries are resolved and that is a big long-term problem that's going to be around a lot longer than the ukraine problem biden meeting with the german chancellor, there's a question of where germany stands on the threat to cancel the pipeline project if russia invades and also a question of what kind of sanctions against russia germany would really support. i want to play for everyone how the chancellor kind of answered this question with jake tapper last night. >> why won't you explicitly say, russia, if you invade ukraine, we're cancelling the pip...

A clear insight in the way president putin thinks about all of this. >> nic, thank you so much. let's go to ukraine now where french president emmanuel macron is projecting some optimism actually after meeting with ukraine's president, but does president zelensky feel the same i think is a good question right now. cnn's melissa bell live in kyiv for us. melissa, what else did macron and zelensky say this morning? >> reporter: well, they were talking about the need for deescalation and grasping for any hope or sign that conversation or dialogue might be possible at this stage after the heat we'...

For the 21st century. macron's strategy in dealing with the russian president. here's what president zelensky and macron had to say at that press conference that happened a short time ago here in the ukrainian capitol. >> translator: generally, i don't quite trust words. that's why i think every politician can show his or her openness by concrete deeds. in our case, those are steps towards deescalation. we had an exchange with the president who told me he would not be the cause of an escalation. france, since the beginning of the crisis, has never made excessive statements on the judgment, but...

Does putin leave his intermediate missile forces in belarus where they could easily destroy ukrainian cities? ukraine is worried about the fact that belarus is in discussion of changing the constitution next month in a way to allow russia to phase nuclear weapons there. are we in for sort of a long grinding haul here in which the ukraine crisis becomes a longer putin crisis that threatens to upend the fundamental order we've seen in europe and i think people in washington are just now beginning to sort of think about s what that might mean for biden in the focus in china. >> what do you think ...

A quick programming note for you. cnn has a new original series focused on the complicated presidency of lyndon banks johnson. don't miss the premiere of lbj, triumph and tragedy, february 20th at 9:00 p.m. >> if you don't know a lot about him, it's worth watching. thank you for joining us today. i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm bianna golodryga. "at this hour" with kate bolduan starts right now. hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. here's what we're watching at this hour. pipeline diplomacy as russia continues to build up troops on the ukraine border. president biden tries to make clear an invasion wo...