us on this interactive show getting answers. we will be here every weekday at tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the pentagon tonight saying on vladimir putin and russia, we believe they are ready. that there are signs a full-scale russian invasion of ukraine is imminent. my interview just moments ago with secretary of state antony blinken, what are they seeing in ukraine right now? a senior u.s. defense official telling abc news russia now has about 80% of its fors in forward positions, ready to move in. more than 150,000 russian troops amassed among ukraine s borders, the north, the east, the south. and late today, in the middle of the night moscow time, russian state news now reporting that those two accept are cyst regions inside rue crane have now requested help from vladimir putin and the russian military in taking on ukrainian forces.
meeting on this. critic wills say of course that this is retaliation. it is because of his involvement in the investigation into the 2016 election, the trump campaign and russia, that that is why he has been targeted and they will point to the recent acquittal of the white house council for president clinton and obama, he was acquitted for something very similar in his false statements about his work in the rue crane. all of this together means people will see these very differently. they have seen mccabe has someone that was part of the same breath at comey. he was out for the president, and he is in the same scope as someone like peter struck and lisa cage. and that jeff sessions was wrong to fire him and 2016 just days before he would have qualified for his pension. a very polarizing story that can
expectations that this is is going has been very rocky offer a couple issues. they creme benuppers in the russian establishment have got a very different view, one leading senator here saying that this conversation will give a new beginning to the fight against the islamic state and a solution to the crises in syria and rue crane. of all these diplomatic phone calls being made today by president trump, this is by far the most important one. i don t think anyone is expecting this phone call to result in all of the sanctions that were imposed by the united states against russia to be lifted, tykely after and exat n
supplies? russia is a huge supplier of energy. talk to us ow russia is the gateway to energy to europe and what could not a lot of margin for error on that either. it s very simple. you have russia. you have rue crane. look at map. makes it clear. you have russia, western europe, eastern europe, ukraine and the line goes through ukraine, and russia can turn off gas turn off the caps that will not only hit ukraine because of transpayments, but also western europe, and some countries, finland, belarus, germany, all the way down they can get up to 60%, 70%, 80% of their gas from russia. so, yes, there is a but the other side, of course, is russia switches off the taps. and they don t get paid. they don t get money and russia s economy is not in a particular healthy shape at moment. they re not, either. they depend tremendously on this money. so it s sort of mutual
scud missiles. the news agency reported the missiles flew about 300 miles. which means they are capable of hitting targets in south korea or japan. this is the second launch in less than a week. decked out in a suit and a tieimmy fallon does the polar plunge to benefit the special olympics. he made a deal with rahm emanuel he would take the plunge if emanuel appeared on his show. he agreed to do that. now you sepal lon is taking the dip. 3200 people participated this year. it is at great cause. 39 minutes after the top of the hour. chaos in the rue crane where russian forces have taken over the region of crimea. how does this conflict affect you? the disturbing financial