deter. griff: representative nicole malliotakis, thank you for your time. >> let's bring in democratic congressman jim hines, a member of the house financial and services committee. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. jacqui: preparations are underway for possible evacuations are americans. the white house has framed this as standard contingency planning, but we've heard monday for evacuation of embassy personnel. what does it say to you about where things stand? does it indicate that u.s. officials are hedging toward a belief that the diplomacy phase might be over here? >> yeah, look, i can only state for myself not for the officials, but on the intelligence committee, i think there's a better than every chance that putin invades ukraine. we don't know exactly what that