its military forces around ukraine while publicly denying any plans to attack. in a joint statement, xi offered strong support for russia s security demands, saying, quote, russia and china stand against attempts by external forces to undermine security. and then putin opened the olympics sitting expression list as ukraine s athletes were introduced. the u.s. is deploying additional troops in eastern europe to support our nato allies who are very meche fearful of the russians. and new intel says russia is plotting a mission as a pretext for war. keir simmons who has interviewed vladimir putin joins us from