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Diplomatic door open, with russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov, telling president vladimir putin the diplomatic options are, quote, far from exhausted. those diplomatic efforts continuing today, with german chancellor olaf schultz meeting with putin in moscow. nato secretary general jens stoltenberg was cautious about the apparent shift in tone from russia. >> there are signs from moscow that diplomacy should continue. this gives grounds for cautious optimism. but so far, we have not seen any sign of de-escalation on the ground. >> so, while the u.s. is hopeful of a diplomatic solution, it...

Were at this long table, they basically said, mr. president, i think we should continue with negotiations, and putin answered with one word good so that's a tea leaf, that, okay, negotiations are open and the fact that secretary blinken and lavrov talked today, that's a good sign, and then had you what richard just report on about putin where i didn't see anything that he said today that would suggest that he is now pivoting towards peace, so my assessment today is that he hasn't decide what had he wants to do. he likes the pressure that he has in place. it makes everybody scramble and fly to ...

Satellite evidence to support his claim. as far as we know, putin still has some 150,000 troops surrounding ukraine on three sides. there are warships conducting drills in the black sea and military exercises going on in belarus. within the past few hour, we learned that several key ukrainian websites including those belonging to two of the country's largest banks and its defense ministry were temporarily knocked offline today. what the ukrainian government is calling an attack. it is still unknown who is responsible. all that making for a highly combustible international situation with severa...

Yesterday, all of that may present an opening. whether or not it does, though, they are not at all sure of and making very clear that all options remain on the table. something the president will likely stress in a couple of hours. >> phil, u.s. officials have been expressing skepticism about the russian statements. what have they been doing to prepare for what could happen next? >> one of the most interesting elements about the last several months is just how forward the white house has been, the biden administration has been in terms of what they believe the russians have been doing, have be...

From afghanistan, and also defended himself against the criticism. but he's telling americans now, look, this might come, home it might get tough here at home, because we are a member of nato. it's part of his public facing messages. it's at the core of the white house strategy, and he's making it clear to russians, leaders in russia, just how dire the consequences would be there. and other thing that's happening is president biden is leaning on what he talked about when he was campaigning, and that is a number of highly experienced individuals within the administration being able to use the i...