Hey, everybody, im yasmin vossoughian. If you are just joining us, welcome. If you are still with us, thanks for sticking around. Wrong and unamerican. That is how mike pence is now characterizing his former boss in a takedown from ticket mates that weve never seen, really, in american politics. The former Vice President finally saying, enough is enough when it comes to donald trump. President trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American People, and the American People alone. And frankly, there is no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. In a moment, im going to talk to olivia troye, former top aide to pence about why hes choosing this moment to break with the former president. The republican infighting does not stop there, though. It includes the gop censure of the two Republican House members who refuse to bow to trump when it comes to january 6th. As the party tries to recast t
Diplomacy isnt dead yet. We are engaging in dialogue and diplomacy just as we pursue the path of defense and deterrence. Reporter even as we see the troops head over, one thing we will not see, or rather hear, the word imminent coming from the administration. The white house says it seems to imply that Vladimir Putin has made the imminent decision to invade ukraine, and that they say is a decision they dont believe hes made yet. Thank you. Lets bring in cnn corn matthew chance. How are the ukrainians and how to russians responding to these deployments of u. S. Service members to Eastern Europe . Well, ive just been speaking to senior ukrainian official, and there is been no sort of formal reaction here in ukraine yet. This official said, look, ukraine welcomes this bolstering of natos Eastern Flank by the United States. But you know, there is a little bit of reticence in their comments. Obviously, the troops are going to poland, germany and romania. Theyre not coming to ukraine. What u
Diplomacy isnt dead yet. We are engaging in dialogue and diplomacy just as we pursue the path of defense and deterrence. Reporter even as we see the troops head over, one thing we will not see, or rather hear, the word imminent coming from the administration. The white house says it seems to imply that Vladimir Putin has made the imminent decision to invade ukraine, and that they say is a decision they dont believe hes made yet. Thank you. Lets bring in cnn corn matthew chance. How are the ukrainians and how to russians responding to these deployments of u. S. Service members to Eastern Europe . Well, ive just been speaking to senior ukrainian official, and there is been no sort of formal reaction here in ukraine yet. This official said, look, ukraine welcomes this bolstering of natos Eastern Flank by the United States. But you know, there is a little bit of reticence in their comments. Obviously, the troops are going to poland, germany and romania. Theyre not coming to ukraine. What u
Are you in the path of the storm . More on when and where were going to see the snow and ice coming up. Also this morning, the Washington Football Team just revealed its new name. Its commanding attention. Im going to talk with the group spearheading that movement. We have our team covering the crisis in Eastern Europe. Courtney kube, Richard Engel and michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia. Courtney, let me start with you as you were in the room for the pentagon briefing. We know french troops are also being sent to the region. Talk you through what more we learned today during that briefing. Theres even some other allies that are considering sending some troops, the british, theyve sent assistance, the dutch, among others. We heard from press secretary john kirby a very key words. The military and pentagon are making it very clear that they look at this as a temporary deployment, not a permanent deployment and the ultimate goal is to deter russia from making an incursion into uk
Eastern and northern borders. Cyber, Electronic Warfare grand and control, Logistics Engineers and other capabilities along ukraines borders, putting russia in a position to move quickly if Vladimir Putin wants to. Joining me is Erin Mclaughlin in kyiv, and Courtney Kube at the pentagon. This is not the totality the pentagon had at its disposal but they are moving them, and there was a moment in the News Conference today where they talked about how they would protect the pentagon, protect u. S. Nato allies. You mentioned that caught your attention during the last pentagon briefing. What did you make of that today . Right. Theres two groups of troops that would be moved here. The 3,000 we heard about today, 2,000 from the United States and 1,000 already there in europe. Its important to point out, the u. S. Military has between 75 and 8,500 troops to move, and this is the u. S. Moving these troops into poland, romania and germany at the request of those governments, so to go in and try