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With the. even acknowledging that you can never game out from everything. tell us what you know about the preps? >> that's exactly right. there are two tracks to think about this. the first is what's playing out in public, these information wars. and the second, which i reported on with my colleague today, is this tiger team that the white house has stood up internally in the meanwhile is to say, everyone is focused on preventing the worst case scenario. we are going to plan for the worst-case scenario. it's an inter agency effort that synthesized dozens of keepers and intelligence community a...

Internally for months to try to be prepared if russia does decide to invade which, of course, we know we were hearing from officials and despite the skepticism of what we're hearing today, we were hearing from officials they believed an attack could happen this week. but we have learned from the national security council that since last november when they first became aware and recognized an attack could happen, that russia could go into ukraine, they formed this so-called tiger team of officials across all of government involving the state depa department, pentagon, treasury, intel officials ...

Gain this out in the entire team. >> let's talk a little bit about that tiger team, actually, because that reporting is important. part of this is the messaging, that's what we saw from the president today. but there is also knowing that if a happens, we're ready with b, if c happens, we are ready with the. even acknowledging that you can never game out from everything. tell us what you know about the preps? >> that's exactly right. there are two tracks to think about this. the first is what's playing out in public, these information wars. and the second, which i reported on with my colleague ...

Biden meeting with lloyd austin and others. give me a flavor of the day and the white house backgrounding on, on the nature of the sanctions and what they hope to get from the sanctions and if they will be taken seriously. what's the kind of gist of how they put them forward and the expectations? >> expectations are that they're still dealing with a russian president to do what he thinks is in the best interest and may not be a rational player in this. there's that tiger team of experts working on this and gaming out scenarios. they understand that there might be consequences to the sanctions ...

In everyone's analysis. >> well, that's right, nicolle. it's interesting to me that biden white house has been open about the amount of planning it's doing. they have these, they call it a tiger team that has been running scenarios of how they would respond to different actions putin would take. they've been happy to talk about that with the media and you know, here i see a little bit of a correction from how things happened with afghanistan where at least there was the perception that there had not been adequate planning. they had not anticipated all the things that could go wrong and how qui...