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to richard haass, president of the council on foreign relations and the author of the world: a brief introduction. welcome back. i want to start with the expulsion of bart gorman, the deputy chief of mission there at the u.s. embassy in moscow. the decision by the administration to tell us three weeks after the expulsion and now they re considering a response. if they re trying to de-escalate tensions should there be some reciprocity? it s a fair question. i never thought that removing diplomats or cutting off diplomacy was a sanctions. i don t quite understand it. so to kick out russian diplomats out of the united states, i m not sure how it sends the message that we re interested in a diplomatic outcome. it s not that the people working in embassies are going to be that critical. it will have to take place at a higher level.
unprovoked and an escalatory step. bart gorman was ordered out and left russia s capital last week. cnn s erin burnett is in ukraine. the u.s. is detailing these types of false flag operations russia could use and quite vivid pictures. what can you tell us? reporter: they are offering this level of detail and this is the consensus view. as senator tim kaine said there are some allies who don t fully agree putin is eminently going to attack. that is firmly what the u.s. government believes.d tantony b could blame the ukrainians, could say they find mass graves, for example, in the donbas region and blame that on ukrainians for some sort of a
house for a trip to ohio, president biden said the threat of a russian invasion is high. they have not moved any of the troops out. they ve moved more troops in, number one. number two, we have reason to believe they are engaged in a false flag to have an excuse to go in. every indication we have is they re prepared to go into ukraine, attack ukraine. also breaking this morning, the state department said russia expelled deputy u.s. chief of mission to russia, bart gorman, the second most senior official. news of the expulsion came after russian-backed separatists and the ukrainian military accused each other of mortar and artillery attacks in eastern ukraine, including an attack on a kindergarten building. they say no children were in the building but several people including a ukrainian soldier were hurt.