until it settles, until the tanks are rolling and the planes are in the air, that we re going to try everything we possibly can to get president putin to reverse the decision we believe he s made and dissuade him. until the last minute, there s still an option for him to pull back. we re trying to prevent a war. as soon as you trigger the sanctions, any deterrent effect will be gone, they get absorbed by president putin and he moves on. i have josh letterman and colonel jack jacobs, msnbc military analyst. thank you for joining us on this. josh, let me start with you. tell us what else we know about the intelligence provided to the president and the timing of this intelligence. reporter: yeah, yasmin, there was a whole lot of question and interest in what gave president biden the confidence on friday to go in front of cameras at the white house and make that
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the tea leaves in president biden s schedule, which is something we do a whole lot here in washington, biden had been scheduled to stay here in washington throughout the weekend, not going back to his wilmington home, as he often does. we just learned the white house has put out an update. president biden now planning in just a couple hours to head to his home in wilmington, where he s expected to remain tomorrow for presidents day, yasmin. all right. let s dig further into this. colonel, that is the question of when we receive this intelligence, when the president actually said on friday he believed putin had already made up his mind, it s now sunday afternoon, 3:00 p.m. eastern standard time, no official invasion has been launched at this point. any clues as to why? are two things we look for. the first is we listen all the time to electronic transmissions going from one headquarters to
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eyebrow-raising declaration that he believes president putin has already decided to invade. now we are learning some of what led into president biden s confidence. two sources telling us that by the time president biden made those comments, you can see him right there as he was speaking from the west wing, that the u.s. had picked up intelligence showing that russian military troops had already been given an order to start rolling out their invasion plan and moving ahead with an invasion. and then the u.s. was able to see on the ground a russian military units taking the exact kind of steps that would follow such an order. so, seeing actual events playing out that corroborated the idea that a ball was now in motion towards a russian invasion. this information coming to us as president biden is holding this urgent meeting today in the situation room, pretty unusual, rare for the white house national security council to be
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orbit incomprehensible. do you fear for your sister s safety? yes, i certainly do. i m not a conspiracy theory person, but if you were a conspiracy theory person, things happen in threes, and no doubt, ghislaine is going to be taken out for whatever fantasy reason people seem to think about. reporter: but for brunel s accusers with his death as well as epstein s death, many victims say they feel they ve been denied that closure and accountability. reporter: blayne alexander, nbc news. thank you to blayne alexander for that. we just got this photo into msnbc of president biden s national security meeting. the latest from the white house is straight ahead. plus, what is putin thinking? insight from a woman who knows the impact of a russian invasion firsthand. has maga moved north? the effort from the far right to promote the canadian vaccine.
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