what do you make of what they ve come out with today? what do you make of what they ve come out with today? this is exactly where we we come out with today? this is exactly where we we were come out with today? this is exactly where we we were expecting - come out with today? this is exactly where we we were expecting them l come out with today? this is exactly| where we we were expecting them to get to because they have been telegraphing it quite significantly. they put out this paper, written responses to the russian demands, something that the kremlin had been insisting on getting, they ve done that. it was delivered to the ministry of foreign affairs by us ambassador. in that paper again, the americans reject the main russian demands, denying nato membership to ukraine, pulling back the nato presents from eastern europe. at least that s what we understand. we can see the paper but mr blinken said there d been no concessions made in every principle had been upheld. he elaborate
have common ground here. you have some issues on arms control, on missile deployments, on these sorts of things, concerns that you have, and we can get to those, you know, discuss them. and this is in essence what president macron of france is coming to moscow to talk about with president putin. but there s also a sort of hurdle for president putin, and that is, you know, to get into this discussion in a meaningful way, to show serious commitment, the expectation is that he needs to signal a way that can be understood in western capitals that he is de-escalating the tensions around ukraine, that he is reducing that threat, not making it appear as if he s preparing for a potential invasion. whatever he says publicly about not doing that. so this track of diplomacy has an opportunity. president macron of france has said he s coordinating very carefully with other european and nato leaders and has spoken
demand of nato shrinking to what it was decades ago, although there is more flexibility, the u.s. and nato members have said they re willing to talk about missile deployments and different kinds of technical aspects that could potentially fit into that third demand. but he s digging in. and what was interesting, when you listen to putin, and also if you watch the dynamics of the press event he held with viktor orban, prime minister of hungary, it s clear putin is still very worried about covid. the two podiums were miles apart. in other footage of their meeting, they were practically shouting at each other from the opposite sides of the room. but aside from that note, what was interesting in what he said about why he believes that ukraine must never be a part of nato, it goes back to crimea, it all goes back to crimea for
to do so 2015 to 2017. the program officially launches on february 20th. i can t wait to see it i want to get in on it because i can drive fast. dana: we know that judge. we know that very well. that is it for us tonight. special report is up next. hey, bret. bret: dana, i just want to say that the glamour shot for raymond arroyo so strong. [laughter] bret: see you guys. good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight russia moving back from the brink or is it? vladimir putin says he is ready for talks with the u.s. and nato on limits for missile deployments and military transparency. the statement comes as russia says it is pulling back some of its troops from exercises that have raised fears of an invasion of ukraine. president biden saying today that would be good. but u.s. intelligence has not verified those moves. in fact, the nato secretary general is openly skeptical.
deployments in eastern europe since the annexation of crimea and the russian incursion into eastern ukraine in 2014. in part because it s important to reassure those allies that not only is hardware there, but there are americans on the ground. that is seen as an assurance that we really mean what we say when we say we ll come to your defense. i think to step back from this, katy, one of the things that s so complicated here is that the u.s. is willing to talk about those kinds of things. when you hear president biden say we ll talk about missile deployments in eastern europe, we ll talk about military exercises, transparency around those things, that s the conversation that the u.s. is willing to have. what vladimir putin is trying to do as mike suggested is bigger than that. he s trying to undo the entire security architecture of the post cold war world which means no more nato enlargement, nato pulling back all of its forces along the east. that s a much bigger strategic shift than