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Tonight from the heart of times square, this is cnns new years eve live with appearances by usher, ellie golding, kevin hart, patti lupone, Patti Labelle, jean smart, john stamos, jennifer lewis, amy sedaris, tenacious d, nick cannon, ava max, samuel l. Jackson, plus more surprises. And now live from new york city, your hosts, Anderson Cooper and andy cohen. And welcome, everybody, to times square in new york city. Anderson cooper here. Im andy cohen. They brought us back for another year. They did. Yes, they did. With stipulations. Some stipulations this year. Well get into that. Yeah. Theres...

♪ tonight from the heart of times square, this is cnn's "new year's eve live" with appearances by usher, ellie golding, kevin hart, patti lupone, patti labelle, jean smart, john stamos, jennifer lewis, amy sedaris, tenacious d, nick cannon, ava max, samuel l. jackson, plus more surprises. and now live from new york city, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. >> and welcome, everybody, to times square in new york city. anderson cooper here. >> i'm andy cohen. >> they brought us back for another year. >> they did. >> yes, they did. >> with stipulations. >> some stipulations t...

Belarusian president's own staff suggesting that lukashenko intervened after speaking to putin and some sort of deal appears to have been hatched. i don't think we know the entirety of it. it may be that there are going to be significant changes at the head of russia's ministry of defense. but even if the ultimate targets of prigozhin's march on moscow end up being removed from their jobs, and that's the defense minister showing you, the head of the ukrainian campaign and chief of staff, still they've crossed the rube con, taking care of rostov, moving through, blockades put into lepepsk, and ...

You want to tell a story about him? >> sebastian is adorable. there's sebastian when he was first born. >> is that what you look like when you sleep? >> yeah, basically, yeah. like you don't know. >> okay. yes. oh, my god. look at that stink eye. wow. >> sebastian's great. he just this week crossed some sort of a rube con. he made some sort of leap. he's like a little person all of a sudden. i feel like he's -- >> there's ben meeting sebastian. >> for the first time. >> i brought -- you were in ukraine -- >> yes -- >> we brought wyatt and ben into the clubhouse. there they are. i love this pic...

Joining me with more on all of this, cnn national security analyst james clapper. he's the former director of national intelligence and also in that interview we saw this president zelenskyy warned that we could see putin use these tactical nuclear weapons throughout the cold war. the threat of this mutually assured destruction kept moscow in check when it came to nukes. what do you think the u.s. reaction would be now to the use of any nuclear weapons in this situation? whether you call them tactical or not? >> well, i think it would be just revulsion, a global revulsion on the part of the re...