unprovoked and an escalatory step. bart gorman was ordered out and left russia s capital last week. cnn s erin burnett is in ukraine. the u.s. is detailing these types of false flag operations russia could use and quite vivid pictures. what can you tell us? reporter: they are offering this level of detail and this is the consensus view. as senator tim kaine said there are some allies who don t fully agree putin is eminently going to attack. that is firmly what the u.s. government believes.d tantony b could blame the ukrainians, could say they find mass graves, for example, in the donbas region and blame that on ukrainians for some sort of a
secretary has said, quote, we ve said for some time the russians might do something like this in order to justify a military conflict. so, we ll be watching this very closely. another concerning move? russia expelled our second most senior diplomat in moscow without any justification in what the state department is now calling an escalatory step. so, these tensions, they aren t easing, shall we say. though, the drum beat of war seems to be growing louder and louder, the u.s. is still holding out hope that russia will change its course and abandon the path of war and choose a different path. that, according to secretary blinken, who addressed the u.n. security council today. and despite all of the danger, despite all the threats the people of ukraine, it s pretty remarkable the streets in the capital kyiv still appear to be relatively calm. so, have ukrainians developed a resistance to russia s aggression, the omni presence since the 2014 invasion of crimea?
was knocked out in the village. ukraine s president is calling it, indeed, a, quote, provocation. while the u.s. is gathering details, our defense secretary says, quote, we ve said for some time that the russians might do something like this in order to justify a military conflict. so, we ll be watching this very closely. another concerning move? russia expelled our second most senior diplomat in moscow without any justification in what the state department is now calling an escalatory step. so, these tensions, they aren t easing, shall we say. though, the drum beat of war seems to be growing louder and louder, the u.s. is still holding out hope that russia will change its course and abandon the path of war and choose a different path. that, according to secretary blinken, who addressed the u.n. security council today. and despite all of the danger, despite all the threats the
unprovoked and escalatory step. on the domestic front, the senate passed a short term funding bill, avoiding a government shutdown that would ve taken effect friday night. that bill keeps the government running through march 11th. over in the, house republican leader, kevin mccarthy, has endorsed harriet pagan meant, the trump backed candidate that is challenging liz cheney in the primary. cheney of course, is vice chair of the january six committee, and was removed from the number three post-gop leadership last year after voting for trump s impeachment, and is being openly critical of the president. with that, let s bring in our, the former president, with, that let s bring in our leading guest, jackie elementary, a political reporter for the washington post. author of the warning newspaper, the early 202, she was a law clerk for my aura on before the nomination to the supreme court.
barrage or a smaller tranche which reflects how this is not a full scale invasion that has been warned about? it could be an escalatory step. the russian troops might find themselves too close to the army and they may be in combat. they may have wider goals. the issue is the level of the western response and it looks like an incremental or lesser move. sources are telling cnn that the u.s. has had private conversations about zelenskyy s personal security. what more do we know about that? reporter: certainly warnings if there was a russian move towards kyiv, he would be best served by not staying in that capitol. until we see some sort of military move towards the ukrainian capitol, it s hard to