with as many as 175,000 troops. ukraine's defense minister warning that would lead to a bloody massacre. it has been a crucial 24 hours as the president also infuriated china by announcing a diplomatic boycott of the beijing winter olympics. matthew chance live for us on the ground in ukraine with our top story. this is a hugely consequential day in u.s. foreign policy. matthew, can you hear us? all right. i think we're having, obviously, some technical difficulties. we're going to try to get matthew back up there from ukraine on what is a huge day for president biden. this phone call, this video con consequence call that he is going to be having with vladimir putin. january 6th was practice. donald trump's next coup has already begun. that is a warning in a