putin. i was at that trump/putin summit when trump sided with putin and not his own intelligence community. a very embarrassing moment indeed. democrats are more likely than republicans to see russia as the biggest threat. have the two sides done a flip flop on russia? i think they have. democrats are soured on russia because of putin s role in the 2016 election. many democrats blame putin for trump being president frankly. trump s coziness with putin is one of the main reasons why some republicans but not all. some republicans are echoing trump s comments and also questioning the u.s. stake in the crisis between ukraine and russell. you mentioned, wolf, the summit
this is important, very much believe that russia is preparing for an invasion. they say it could happen in the coming days, even hours. the question right now is whether any of these sanctions, even if the united states decides to issue more severe sanctions that president biden has been threatening, that whether this will hurt vladimir putin. today, he just brushed them off, saying that the west has continually threatened to issue more sanctions. we know right now that as for that biden/putin summit, david, the white house says it s not ruled out, but it s not going to happen if an invasion occurs. cecilia, thank you. i want to bring in abc s james longman in moscow. he was on the air with us late today. and james, what s been playing out on russian tv has, of course, been framed to make it look like ukraine is the aggressor. and late today, night time in russia, it was vladimir putin who came on russian television to make the closing argument, if you will, to the russian people.
ukraine this morning. nick, what are the ukrainians supposed to make of this? will they or won t they business? all these increasingly certain predictions of a u.s. invasion, but coupled with all this very high-level diplomacy? reporter: yeah, i mean, it is diplomacy that s on the forefoot today. it seems french president emanuel macron optimistic he can engineer this biden/putin summit. the kremlin said there are no concrete plans for that at the moment, and russian president vladimir putin will be talking to his security council today. so here in ukraine, certainly i think the longer the number of days that we see these incessant drum beat of warnings continue, people do grow in grej l incredulous. satellite images show some of the forces moving from their garrison areas towards the
concepts like right or wrong, true or false, autocracy versus democracy. he values people who help him. russia helped his finances. they helped his campaign. he helped russia as president, did the opposite of all the things that joe biden is trying to do now. donald trump weakened nato. he squeezed ukraine for personal advantage. that got him impeached the first time. and he cozied up to vladimir putin. vladimir putin is somebody, wolf, who wants to re-create a modern version of what ronald reagan once called the evil empire. ronald reagan would not recognize the party right now, the republican party that has followed trump increasingly into a warm relationship with vladimir putin so that they re more interested in criticizing joe biden than they are in standing up to vladimir putin. yeah, i was at that trump/putin summit when trump clearly sided with putin and didn t side with his own u.s. intelligence community, including dan coats, who was the head of the intelligence
place. the only one they said who went toe to show with vladimir putin. in june a world class idiot in the washington post said the biggest winner in the biden and putin summit. democracy. a few month later she said biden sent a redline to putin. this genius wrote: no, joe is playing checkers and it s already been checkmate. joe doesn t know it yet. 3 days ago one fake news cnn analyst tweeted.