skis. ambition is a good thing. aspiration is a good thing. that s how you motivate people. you should advance your policy agenda but the president was unable. not sure he could have in this social media age. unable to manage expectations in his party for how much they could do. and for americans who don t check their list every day they look at washington and say what the hell is going on there? and they look at the prices at the grocery store and they look at the prices at the gase station. we expect president biden to address a number of pressing challenges, including the standoff at the russian/ukrainian border. ginn joining us now, christiane amanpour. what can president biden say today to bring down the temperature of this standoff to convince vladimir putin that an invasion, again, is the wrong idea? well, jake, actually in the words of the state department official today, perhaps diplomacy is not dead. a very united and strong front led by the united states with
0 skis. ambition is a good thing. aspiration is a good thing. that s how you motivate people. you should advance your policy agenda but the president was unable. not sure he could have in this social media age. unable to manage expectations in his party for how much they could do. and for americans who don t check their list every day they look at washington and say what the hell is going on there? and they look at the prices at the grocery store and they look at the prices at the gase station. we expect president biden to address a number of pressing challenges, including the standoff at the russian/ukrainian border. ginn joining us now, christiane amanpour. what can president biden say today to bring down the temperature of this standoff to convince vladimir putin that an invasion, again, is the wrong idea? well, jake, actually in the words of the state department official today, perhaps diplomacy is not dead. a very united and strong front led by the united states with the nato
could be a call soon between presidents biden and putin. we had candid exchanges on our different perspectives and agreed to report those back to our presidents who may have the opportunity to speak directly in the near future. reporter: the two sides will continue to talk. a senior state department official today told reporters there would be intense diplomacy in the coming days with the hope that eventually russia would pull back its forces and agree to a cease-fire in eastern ukraine. for its part russia says it is acting in self-defense and its security is threatened as nato moves eastward toward its border. blinken says it is not clear whether russia has made up its mind to invade ukraine but that it has put in place the capacity to do so and to do so quickly. what the u.s. and nato are seeing right now is very similar to back in 2014 and that of course is when russia did invade ukraine and annexed crimea. thank you so much. coming up we ll take you inside the hunt for the
so a situation like this is even more difficult than it was before the taliban took over the country for them to find out exactly what is going on. they rely on media reports on local reports and in some cases the taliban are telling them what s going on but that isn t enough for them to verify exactly what s happening. we will hear more about this. there s an investigation that s going to take place, but, again, without people on the ground especially as last u.s. troops are leaving in the coming hours, it will be more and more difficult to get information verified there. matt bradley let s talk about the evacuees in germany. what is next for them? i was talking to a state department official today. it s a sprawling tent city at
that had been interpreted as a call to investigate the bidens. democrats emerged from the hearing yesterday raised serious concerns what their viewing as a clear shadow foreign policy carried out by the president s personal attorney. rudy giuliani has clearly been a leading force for the administration in defining a shadow foreign policy in ukraine. there was an official foreign policy which was attempting to counter corruption in ukraine. and then there was rudy giuliani, and you know, the gang that shouldn t shoot straight who worked for him who were involved precisely in connecting with corruption in ukraine and promoting corruption in ukraine. so, you had two foreign policies that were working completely against each other. now, one thing that the democrats are going to ask george kent who s a senior state department official today is