invade ukraine a. western intelligence report said senior chinese officials told russian officials in early february not to invade ukraine before the end of the beijing winter olympics. the times also reports chinese shared with russia sensitive information they received from the u.s. to get china to per swat putin to stand down. nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. this comes as the justice department is set to seize the assets of russian oligarchs who have been sanctioned. with me, rick stengel, former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, and andrea kendall taylor, senior fellow at the center for a new american security. former deputy intelligence officer for russia at the national intelligence council and former cia analyst who worked on russian political dynamics. as the u.s. and other countries