long table thanks to covid restrictions. macron beliefs russia has a right to ask questions about its security and seek guarantees, a statement that seems to be add odds with the united states, and putin did not offer to de-escalate in the meeting with macron, and russia does continue to deny any plans of an invasion, but should russia decide to invade, russia intelligence warns there s enough work done for a full scale invasion, and they offer a look at what it could look like of an invasion, and kyiv would be taken within 48 hours, and 50,000 civilians could be killed or wounded in just the first week and 5 million people could be refugees. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, josh letterman, and erin mclaughlin in kyiv. read off what could happen if russia decides to invade, it s scary. what are you hearing and feeling inside the capital right now? is anything changing despite the reports and all of the intelligence we keep getting snippets of here in the united sta
ukrainian border. and first elements of a 3,000-strong deployment sent to support nato allies, poland and romania. this afternoon president biden was asked if war troops could soon be on the way. not yet i m not going to speculate on that. in particular thing that vladimir putin is looking for, sir in order to make i think thing hs he cannot g. u.s. intelligence estimates paint a bleak picture of what could happen if russia invades. one estimate says ukraine s capital city of kyiv might fall in 48 hours if poutin were to unleash his full military power and tens of millions of casualties and up to 500,000 refugees. don t believe the apocalyptic predictions they re called. putin could conduct the largest military operation on land in europe since world war ii. cnn s senior internationaliley ukraine and also joining us from fort bragg, north carolina. sam, ukraine doesn t seen worried. rye not? reporter: two reasons, jim. first, as they regularly point out govern
the country. more on that story a little bit later this hour. we re going to start this hour with what is expected to be the first public appearance for carlos de oliveira, the mar-a-lago property manager, luis just added as a third defended in the superseding classified documents indictment. he scheduled to be an arraignment in miami tomorrow morning. he s facing for charges including obstruction of justice and he is accused of being part of an attempt to delete subpoenaed security footage on we half of the boss. joining us now to discuss it is jordan reuben. jordan, good day to you. we expect this arraignment to happen tomorrow giving the delay we saw with walt nauta and him claiming not to have local council. do you see this happening with de oliveira? so, i actually do. earlier this afternoon not long before i am getting on air now, i reached out to john irving, the known eloy or for mr. de oliveira. i asked if he expected to have a local florida council ready to go by
that was on twitter. everything on twitter gets backlash. i ve seen twitter tell labradoodles to [ bleep ] themselves. jon stewart last night joking about how not everyone is thrilled he is back at the daily show. we have a lot to get to this morning. that was good. labradoodles, yeah. donald trump making the death of russia s opposition leader all about himself and trump s resistance to condemn vladimir putin has him isolated from even far right republicans. well, willie, it s just extraordinary. we re going to be reading a few op-eds from people who are the conservative s conservative. also, some reactions, not just to navalny but what s happening in nato. you have, i mean, everybody from gerard baker to mark lavin saying, what are you people doing? do you know what the stakes are here? not just in the navalny death. you know, this grotesque comparison talk about big lies this comparison, people like newt gingrich comparing joe biden to vladimir putin. it is
have not and of course, measures that have been used to address that have not gotten very far. we are going to talk momentarily with the two congressmen from texas, both named gonzalez, spelled differently and what it takes to improve the situation, right now bad to worse. casey stegall with stunning numbers out. what happens now. he s at eagle pass with more. good to see you. governor abbott, as you know made a stop here in eagle pass this past week on thursday along with more than 20 state lawmakers where they touted the success of operation lonestar. as you know, operation lonestar is the state s border enforcement and security mission, a mission, by the way, with more than a $10 billion price tag so far. the governor essentially saying texas will continue to take matters into its own hands until the biden administration or congress takes steps to slow the migrant surge. abbott says they re currently working on a plan to add more national guard troops in and around eagle