Editor Nic Robertson in moscow. And, nic, what is your assessment of what were seeing. It almost looks like russia is in its final stages of combat readiness. Yeah, of course, for weeks now weve been hearing from u. S. Officials and other officials, british officials saying, look, if russia is really serious about wanting a negotiation, a diplomatic track to open up here, then it should reduce the tension. If it really wants to have a discussion and get its issues addressed, then why the need for troops and russia keeps insisting it has no intention of invading ukraine. But as the British Foreign secretary said today, russia is creating completely the opposite impression because it continues to build up its forces, presenting a very clear image of an ability to invade should it so choose. So i think you have to take it as read that this is clearly what the kremlin intends. This is clearly how they intend to negotiate, not from a position where theyre walking away from a buildup of forces but one where they project a real threat. That has been fairly clear from the beginning, but theyre doubling down and emphasizing it now, again. And enter that the french president Emanuel Macron comes tomorrow to essentially see if there is room for negotiation, a diplomatic track with President Putin. Completely far apart on the central issue of what putin wants in terms of nato and what nato is willing to give. Macron doesnt really have room for maneuver to bridge that. Indeed what he says is coming to moscow to do, in part, the specific part for President Putin is to get him to agree to reduce the tensions. You know, this track of this opportunity for diplomacy tomorrow, macrons office says its not going to happen in a day and the reality is, you know, the kremlin is sticking to exactly what its been doing all along and putin really, on this, playing his cards very close to his chest. Not even yet responding to the u. S. And nato, letters to him. A week and a half ago now. Yeah, he definitely has the entire world paying a lot of attention to him, im sure, as he wants. Nic robertson in moscow, thank you so much. This comes as russian president Vladimir Putin and chinas president xi jinping held a summit in beijing. A preolympic summit just before the games kicked off. The two called for an end to nato expansion in europe which could potentially include ukraine. Joining us now is max baucus, former u. S. Ambassador to china and former democratic senator from utah. Ambassador, always great to have you on. First off, i want to get your take on, i guess, the strategy of the biden administration. Is there one by making these intelligence assessments public and calling out russia, warning the public of potential fake videos from russia, staging an attack as a pretext for invasion of ukraine . Well, first of all, my apologies to the people of utah and montana. I represented the state of montana. I dont think apologies. To answer your question, putin because hes one tough cookie is just pushing as strongly as he can in many, many fronts. Not just military. But its also psychologically with nuclear maneuvers coming up. Its also meet with president xi in china. Hes doing all he can to get concessions from europe with respect to nato. So this is all a huge orchestrated piece on the part of President Putin. And i apologize for that. So sorry about that mistake. Well correct that next time, ambassador. Talk more about that, you know, deep Strategic Partnership that was announced, you know, right after their preolympics summit. What do you make of this putin xi new, i guess, alliance and should the world see it as a threat . Well, i dont think its really an alliance at all. Its a marriage of convenience. That is of president xis putting on the olympics. He wants the olympics to be very successful. Hes doing all he can. And President Putins applying all the pressure he can to ukraine and doing all he can and going overseas and having a conference, a meeting with president xi is another opportunity for him to exert more pressure on europe. So this is just, i think, a meeting of convenience. Its both an opportunity to kind of embarrass the United States. A lot of this comes down to, frankly, how we are perceived. That is the United States is perceived by the world. Not only president xi and President Putin, but the world. Many people are wondering, is america in decline . Is america as strong as it once was . How strong is america . And really all this comes down to, how well we americans turn that around. How well we americans show that, no, were not in decline. We passed the infrastructure bill. Were getting other legislation passed. Were focusing more on producing technologies that are so important to us like semiconductors. The big problem here is that the partisan divide in our country. And if we can somehow reduce that partisan divide in our country, and show that we are unified as a country, thats going to go a long, long way in pushing putin back and also pushing back urgently by china. The reality is were not united, and it seems like were quite far from projecting that kind of unity, especially with the polarizing politics thats continuing to play out in realtime. You talk about the era of america as america as a Superpower Being tested right now. How important is the olympics right now for, you know, xi jinping, especially as hes going into his unprecedented third term. Is this about more of his image and cementing that authoritarian power . I think thats a lot of it. I think hes holding his breath. Hes hoping that nothing bad goes wrong at the olympics. He wants the olympics to be a showcase where china can put on something very, very well in very difficult times, during covid, for example. Its very hard to put on olympics under those circumstances, especial he when hes under when china is under lockdown. Thats really hard. Our athletes were complaining about how tight the lockdown is. And those poor athletes, frankly. They want to compete, yet they have to compete under very, very difficult circumstances. President xi is doing what he can to project power, help shore up strength internally in china to get that third term. This is very important to him. Do you think if russia were to launch a full invasion of ukraine, would China Support that . China certainly would support it as a friend of russia, and china would support it by saying, sure, they are doing the right thing. That is nato is too much of a threat. That nato is trying to if not contain russia, nato is trying to push back on russia just like other countries are trying to contain china. So he would be very speak favorably of any potential invasion. There would be no Chinese Military forces in ukraine. None. None whatsoever. Frankly, if you look at chinese history, they do not show that they are a country that is militarily invaded other countries. They just dont. Many people tend to forget that. Frankly, we, americans, send troops to afghanistan, iraq and iran and have more of a history of sending our troops into other countries than do the chinese. The chinese will not send troops to ukraine. And i do have to ask you about north korea, ambassador, before we let you go. Theyve been launching a new round of missile tests. Just this weekend a United Nations report accused them of continuing to produce Nuclear Material for potential Nuclear Tests or missile launch. Have we, i guess, is the world not prioritizing north korea as it should in terms of it being a threat . Well, i think the answer to north korea very much depends on whether we can get an agreement with china. There will be no north korean solution until let me put it this way. Any north korean solution will go through china. Would have to have chinese acquiescence. China cares deeply about the peninsula. China does not want the peninsula to be controlled by north korea. China does not want the peninsula controlled by south korean government. China likes the status quo, but china does not like kim jongun. I was talking with president xi, very much impressed me how irritated xi was with kim jongun. He doesnt like him. So any solution we try to impose on north korea has to be through china. Were going to leave it there, former ambassador to china and former u. S. Senator to the great state of montana, max baucus, thank you so much for being with us. Apologies once again. Thanks for joining us. Here in the u. S. , President Biden is attempting to build off a very good week of momentum for his administration. On friday, the news that the economy added nearly 500,000 new jobs in january. Covid cases are continuing to drop. And biden ordered a successful attack on the leader of isis in syria. And the president is poised to name a new Supreme Court nominee. Despite the positive developments, bidens social agenda remains stalled. Today senator joe manchin said the president s build back better plan is all but dead, but he and gop senator murkowski, Lisa Murkowski, say parts of it could be revived. The build back better, as it has been presented over, what, the last, seven, eight, nine months, that bill no longer will exist, okay . Should there be parts of it . You want to talk about Different Things . My biggest concern, and my biggest opposition, it did not go through the process. Whether lisa votes for it or not being a republican, she should have at least the opportunity to have input. It should have gone through the committee. These are major changes thats going to change society as we know it. Those changes should be a hearing, a mark up and then youll have a better product whether you are friends on the other side or not. But they have to have input. Have you talked to President Biden . We can work on energy and climate if we went through the committee. Cnns john harwood joining us from the white house. Hi, john. So how is the president hoping to build momentum build on his current momentum . Where is he going to put his focus . Hes got a lot of good things happening, amara, as you just suggested. Opportunity to choose a Supreme Court justice. A very strong economy. Yes, affected negatively by inflation, but nonetheless, great job market, helping people in particular at the bottom end of the scale. He did have that successful isis raid and, in addition to that, theres the reason to hope for better news on the pandemic. As omicron recedes, there seems to be a growing awareness and desire on within his party, as well as among more conservative americans to move beyond the pandemic, try to get into that endemic phase with less restrictions where people recognize that vaccinations are the principal thing we can do. Masking in isscertain situation but trying to get more back to normal. That could have an effect of lifting the public mood. Hes also got a chance for a bipartisan legislative accomplishment on this bill to invest 50 billion in new Semiconductor Manufacturing which is something that has fed a lot of the economic problems we had. Shortage of chips. Makes it harder to make automobiles and that makes the price of automobiles go up. Some of the build back better elements that joe manchin and Lisa Murkowski were talking about are going to be revived. So hes got a better story to tell in 2022 than the latter part of 2021. The question is is that going to help him politically . Theres no guarantee of that whatsoever. Its more going to be over the next several months, if we see the public mood lift, people see themselves getting past the pandemic. Thats going to be the key to Potential Revival for President Biden. Yeah, a lot having to do with how the people feel about whats going on. John harwood, appreciate you. Live for us at the white house. Thanks. Coming up, an incredible rescue caught on video as a s. W. A. T. Team arrests the man accused of kidnapping an employee at Mike Bloombergs ranch in colorado. Later, a u. S. Born chinese Figure Skater is under attack on chinese social media after falling on her olympic debut. Your Dell Technologies advisor can help you find the right tech solutions. 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Authorities say this began on wednesday at around 10 15 in the morning. Surveillance video showed beacher arriving to the ranch belonging to the bloombergs and he got out of his truck, assessing the front gate. Then he got back into his truck and rammed it through that gate. Was able to get inside the ranch and thats when he found this employee that is not being named in many of the documents weve been going through. But once inside, those documents say that this man began to ask the employee where the bloombergs were, specifically asking for his daughters by name. Going on rants about Michael Bloomberg and saying that he would shoot her face off. He said he wanted to create an international scene. But then he realized that the bloombergs were not at the ranch and so he asked this employee to get into her truck and drive him around. So thats exactly what she did. They had to get out in a gas station, put in some gas and then went to an atm and she had to get out and get money. She says she tried to mouth the words help me so that if authorities watched the sur Surveillance Video from the atm theyd be able to help her. Eventually, though, what was key in all of this was her ipad. Authorities were able to track that ipad to wyoming, to that motel where the s. W. A. T. Team arrived. And thats when they were able to arrest him. He is facing a number of charges, including a federal kidnapping charge. This is, of course, extremely serious. Were waiting to hear who his attorney will be to hopefully get more information on that. But we did hear from a spokesperson from the bloombergs who said that they are just thankful to authorities for bringing this employee back to her family. Amara . Its incredible that she was not injured. Thank goodness. Camilla bernal, thank you for that. Now to just a horrific story. A navy s. E. A. L. Candidate has died and another hospitalized in san diego after completing a Training Phase known as hell week. 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Wednesday Minneapolis Police s. W. A. T. Team uses a key to enter a city apartment. Police, Search Warrant reporter then bursts through the doorway. Searching the apartment, police say, tied to a st. Paul Homicide Investigation. Instead, they found 22yearold amir locke, appearing to be sound asleep on a couch. Locke then seems to wake up when they kick the couch and Body Cam Footage shows him holding a gun. You can see along with an individual emerging from under the blanket, the barrel of a gun. The involved officer was just outside the frame in the direction that that barrel is emerging from the blanket. Reporter cnn has not been able to confirm where the officer is but as locke begins to stand, three shots. The officer had to make a splitsecond decision to assess the circumstances and determine whether he felt like there was an articulable threat. That the threat was of imminent harm. Reporter lockes family said he was in legal possession of a firearm when he was shot. The family and their attorney criticized police procedure. No lawful gun owner could have survived this situation. This is the definition of noknock. Seven seconds. Seven seconds. Thats it. And amir had no choice. Reporter its unclear if this particular breach was originally designated as a noknock warrant but attorneys also took issue with the timing before the shooting. Police, Search Warrant theres no announcement prior to entering that threshold. And they give amir no time to save his own life. And thats something that we dont see white citizens encounter. And the fact that its happening in minneapolis, again, is beyond tragic. Reporter after the shooting, police say they immediately provided aid and officers carried locke to the lobby to meet paramedics. 1280 ambulance on the second floor. Reporter locke was taken to a local hospital where he died. Police now say he was not named in any Search Warrants. But this point is unclear if or how hes connected to st. Pauls investigation. Reporter the subject of the warrant wasnt found in the apartment and the Minneapolis Police officer who fired his weapon, mark haneman, is on administrative leave, per department policy. Locks mother spoke out today, expressing outrage over her sons killing. I believe that he was executed by the mpd, and i want the Police Officer that murdered my son to be prosecuted and fired. Reporter police say theyre now assessing whether proper procedures were followed and the mayor of minneapolis is promising a full Criminal Investigation of the shooting. This video raises about as many questions as it does answers. Truth and justice must be our guiding principles. Reporter as the interim chief and mayor left the room, activists expressed frustration. When will you release the Search Warrant . How is walking out of a Press Conference Transparency . You are a murderer this is what weve been fighting against since george floyd was killed. Running away from accountability and transparency. My son. Reporter lockes father trying to control his emotions said his son was a lawabiding citizen from a Law Enforcement family. And wants the officer to be held accountable. He forced amir to respond to protect himself as any lawabiding citizen would do. And has the right to do. Reporter now the officer has been placed on routine administrative leave, but there are also questions about what put him in this situation in the first place. Mayor jacob frey issued a moratorium on noknock warrants unless theres an imminent threat and its been signed off on by the chief of police. Separately, the st. Paul Police Department announced no arrests have been made in the Homicide Investigation that prompted what became the shooting. Omar jimenez, cnn. Coming up, why a u. S. Born Figure Skater competing for china in the Winter Olympics is under attack on chinese social media. Whats your favorite f . Avocado. You can fill a bathtub. I love it. With guacamole. All over. Helps the skin, helps the body. 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Heres where all of this gets really personal. Zhu, who was born in the u. S. To a chinese immigrant family, decided to compete for china in 2018. She gave up her american citizenship. She even changed her name from beverly zu to zhu yi. She was eager to prove herself to the chinese public. Instead shes facing this firestorm of backlash because of her performance. On chinese social media zhu yi has fallen gained 200 million views in just a few hours. Many online questioning why zhu was picked to represent china at the expense of an athlete born in this country. Shes faced criticism for not being able to speak fluent chinese. One comment on sunday reading, please let her learn chinese first before she talks about patriotism. Now let me show you what zhu had to say before the program smeep was crying, wiping away tears. She said, quote, im upset and a little embarrassed. She goes on to say, i guess i felt a lot of pressure because i know everybody in china was pretty surprised with the selection for ladies singles and i just really wanted to show them what i was able to do. But unfortunately, i didnt. This highlights the huge pressure chinese athletes face to get results at the olympics. The olympics are a big deal for the chinese, especially when theyre hosting. Medal counts have long been touted by the Chinese Government as a sign of national strength. In fact, china has recruited at least a dozen foreignborn athletes, including zhu, hoping to bolster its medal count at the olympic games. Zhus experience very different from the hugely popular californiaborn eileen gu. The freeskiing prodigy also competing for china but at 18, she has really charmed the chinese public. Shes fluent in mandarin, spent summers here in beijing and knows Chinese Culture and thats earned her major endorsements here in china. Gu is due to make her olympic debut in just a few hours. But amara, interesting to note this stark contrast between these two and how theyre being received here amidst what is a rising nationalism that weve seen living here 50 firsthand. Im sure a lot has to do with these culture wars and the fact that she does not speak the language and, of course, is also americanborn. Just feel bad for her. It was her debut. We wish her the best. Im sure shell recover from this. David culver, thank you. Well, we are one week away from super bowl lvi. Just one week away . Well, the Cincinnati Bengals and l. A. Rams are gearing up for the game. But the bengals say theyre bringing a secret weapon with them. The bengals Viral Sensation Mike Cart is on the way to l. A. For the big game. The threetiered medal cart started gaining attention in october when it was used to conduct interviews because of covid restrictions. Initially mocked, its now become a beloved member of bengal nation. 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So that Human Connection piece and being able to respond to one another, just human to human, that was something that some of our kids lost out on. Reporter the process is different for each age group. For these kindergartners, Red Light Green light is a lesson in what to do when emotions bowl boil over. When we play games like this, we might feel those strong feelings like mad, maybe if we dont do it the right way. Or nervous. What can you do to help yourself stay calm . Take a deep breath. Yeah, stop. Name your feeling and take a belly breath. Reporter down the hall in third grade, show and tell as students share what was good and bad about the day before. Show of hands. Who likes Morning Meeting . And can somebody tell me, what do you like about it . What i like about the Morning Meeting is the good things. Whats the secret to getting a third grader to open up about how they feel . I think waiting is important. So making sure that they know they dont just have to share a good thing. Just making it very open. Reporter this is called social, Motional Learning or sel, and can be controversial. Take Emergency Action to remove it now reporter in some states, parents have criticized over masking Andex Tracurricular and are mad about sel. They call it a distraction or even indoctrinaindoctrination. What is your response to people who say this isnt real school . School should be books and phonics, why am i talking about my feelings . Talking about feelings is a great place to start, but we have to teach people how to rnt act. We are really arming them with life skills to be successful and to talk about what were going through right now because we have to be ready to learn. It was hard to be online for so long . Yes, i hated it. I failed all my classes. I failed my sixth grade year. Jackie revis experiences the problems theyre having firsthand. Our sixth graders were in fourth grade when they were last in school. And so meeting the bar that is kind of expected of a sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth grader, they are being asked to meet that behavioral and developmental bar and that academic bar, and they missed out on both of them. Its hard to meet the academic one when still trying to figure out, how do i stop being a fourth grader . Reporter its 1 45 p. M. On a thursday. Hi. Hi. Im evan. Hi. Cnn. Nice to see you. Im anna. What usually goes on in this room . So i teach Language Arts and i teach english language development. But we also do advisory. Today were going to do some gratitude and some goal setting for academics but also mindfulness. We are one [ bell toll ] do breathing and then do a little meditation or visualization. Your breath softens and connection with peers which theyve been missing so much during the pandemic and remote learning. Want to cooks it to have 20 minutes within there to really focus on the social emotional piece. Fascinating piece by evan mcmorris. Thanks for that. Bring in sal cohn, founder and ceo of cohn academy. Sal, thank you for your time. Youre no stranger to online learning, obviously. But we also know that kids learn more than whats just in books at school. Right . There are social lessons to be learned in the school setting, how to interact, disagree, how to debate. What struck me was listening to that teacher. That Eighth Grade Teacher who told evan that, you know, there are sixth graders in denver who had not been in a Classroom Setting since fourth grade. A huge difference. Fourth grade to sixth grade. Just kind of parachuting in now, unfortunately. What kind of impact does that have on these kids . It has a hugely negative impact if they dont have a chance to build some of mees mefls. A lot of these muscles happen implicitly when you and i were in school, sometimes not ideally. Time to invest especially going whatofthrough what we went through a important. Not a resource for profit, for people to learn. Efficacy studies put in 20, 30 minutes a day even 30 minutes a day can grow them, accelerate them. The reason students arent able to do that has everything to do with social eMotional Learning. How do they deal with anxiety, frustration, Label Emotions . Not just skills a as student but thing ice struggle with. W things that i struggle with. Absolutely. Critical part of learning that, growing up. Right . Reminded during the pandemic especially, the beginning of it. I was, at least. How critical it is to have Human Interaction and connection especially for these grows minds. Do you think these children will be able to make up for all of this lost time . Talking about an entire generation. Right . Yeah. I dont want to sugar coat it. Theres been damage done over the last couple years. Definitely we see it on the academic test scores. Unfortunate thing we cant meshal social emotional the same way measure math or reading proficien proficiency. The segment show, the damage is real and heartening to see people invest in in this ways. Not just in schools but adults who otherwise very successful, but like i just need to get my head in order. Seeing a trend of mind if the n mindfulness, not phrasaleding a everybody and getting to a point of stillness. I medicate every day and find it invaluable. Yes. So important to focus on the whole child. The whole human being. Right . Were also seeing this crisis among teachers, i have to bring up. Shortages of teachers across the country as a lot of educators are walking away from their profession because of this lingering pandemic. Of course, several other issues, confounding the fact. What happens when theres no one left to teach . How do you address this problem . This is a crisis. It is a crisis, and i think as a parent, weve all recognized just how muchest it is working with our children. Not just to get them to learn but to help get them to selfregulate and to do their work and stay focused, all that. We all have appreciation for the day and day out that teachers do every day, and thats why a lot have been getting burned out. I think we have to look at ways to prevent that burnout. Have to look at ways to continue to attract or even attract more folks into the profession, and what i tell educators all the time. Its like in the airplane. Put your own oxygen mask on before you worry about others. Teachers need to be in a good place. At our academy, people think its off brand for us associating us with practice in math and academics. Weve been Makingeing Meditatio for teachers. Get them in a good place. If not, harder for students to good there as well. How do you bring these teachers . How do you attract them . Especially when theyre wages are low, and also confounded by the fact were dealing with a pandemic and theres quarantines, and many tage teachers feel helpless, vaccine mandates, or know vaccine mandates. How do you attract teachers, especially quality ones . One of the central questions. There are many incredible folks despite the hurdles and friction becoming an educator. Majority of them are strong and passion ate about what theyre doing. Also hard to stay in the profession in many, many cases. I do think we have to look how to make more sustainable. Make sure teachers are in a healthier place. Im on a board of a School Started looking at the same questions. How to make the profession so that, i dont think anyone goes, a teacher can become a millionaire but a solid middleclass life, be able to provide for their families. Theres ways to do it. Look at the average per student cost for a lot of School Districts it could bes 20,000, 30,000 in certain states. But very little of that is going to too mucher. Might be ways to look at it in terms of becoming more efficient in terms where resources are going. An important conversation impacting our future. Thank you for your time and what you do, sal khan. Im amara walker. Jim acosta continues after the break. When theyre sick, they get comfortable anywhere and spread germs everywhere. Wherever they rest protection nothing kills more viruses, including the covid19 virus, on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. Lysol. What it takes to protect. Newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Begin with a dire warning for two u. S. Officials. Russian president Vladimir Putin now that 70 of the troops and weapons in place for a fullscale invasion of ukraine. These are new Satellite Images of a massive