attack on ukraine is still unclear. moscow continues to deny it plans to invade ukraine. meantime, the diplomatic efforts continue, with french president emmanuel macron visiting kyiv today, to talk about with russia's president -- with ukraine's president about a plan to end the russian threat, one day after macron visited moscow, where he met with russian president vladimir putin for five hours. after that meeting, putin said some of the proposals macron put forward could form the basis of future discussions. as macron and putin talked in moscow, president biden and german chancellor olaf schultz were meeting at the white house. the german leader said his country was absolutely united with the u.s. and other nato allies, and that, quote, we will not be taking different steps, but the president made it clear the nordstream 2 pipeline that would carry natural gas from russia to germany will not move forward if russia attacks ukraine, something the german leader did not take a stand on.