we put to zelensky s office, zelensky s spokesman confirms that while they had planned on coming, they are now going to make a last-minute decision, a last- minute call tomorrow morning because of what they call the dramatic events going on, and they re going to decide whether or not it is safe for them to come to munich, and let me just point out that in talking to former national security officials like jeremy bash and ben rhodes, you know, others whom you know, they point out that right now putin in effect, with those s-400 missiles that have been placed in belarus have been turned on according to the pentagon correspondent. they now control the air space. they can knock out air defenses. they can knock out airplanes, and so they re concerned, these former national security officials, echoing what is being told privately that if zelensky flies out, he may not be able to
among the u.s. and its allies relating to turning up the heat on russia to dissuade it from invading ukraine so there s a focus on the u.s. and allies after just having that call with the other world leaders and will talk about the diplomacy and the deterrence. expect him to mention that meeting between lavrov and secretary of state blinken that will happen next week with no invasion by russia at that time and talk about the fact they still see a path to diplomacy but obviously this is a window that s closing. why is the president speaking again? this will be his second time speaking this week. it underscores the urgency of the situation to update the american people and send a message to world leaders and the
happen at any minute now and so the president wants to look like if it happens he is updating the american people with information before it does happen. if it doesn t it s an opportunity to say, look, i was ahead in the diplomatic talks. either way based on the conversations with administration officials they are aware of the weight his words hold and speaking about this crisis twice in one week i think really underscores the crisis intensifying and every hour is urgent. andrea, as we heard in that white house briefing press secretary jen psaki didn t address the reporting on the concerns of ukraine s president heading to munich. reporter: that is exactly the
intelligence with ukraine and our european partners. and we also heard in that briefing a little bit more of a window into what these sanctions could include. one of the officials said that they would include things like export controls that would make it essentially impossible for russians to get access to certain types of u.s. technology and products. also moves that would make it a lot more difficult to do foreign borrowing and foreign financial transactions. look for the president again to reiterate that, to reiterate the steps that they re taking, but to also again provide this increasingly grim assessment of the potential that we are now looking at for a conflict here. increasingly grim as you put it, shannon. erin, what are you hearing and seeing on the ground there with the west concerned about these signals that russia as shannon laid out, as we had actually talked about right before coming on the air, this seems more and more potentially like a matter of when and not if.
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