Government and the Justice Department, thats the perfect way to raise an issue with the ukrainian president , correct . It is appropriate for the Justice Department and the prosecutor again to cooperate and exchange information, yes. To the extent the president had concerns and the Attorney General is having u. S. Attorney durham looking into that. Is that entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for should be in touch with our official challenge . I dont know the precise appropriateness of these kinds of relations. Now, were you involved, either of you involved in the preparation for the 7 25 call . I was not. I was not. How do you account for that . I mean you were the two officials responsibility with ukrainian policies. If the president of the united
states having a call with the leader of ukraine, why would you not ordinarily be involved with the preparations. In preparations for a president ial phone call that lies within staff of the National Security council. If ther
running on the air, particularly pictures of young children, very emotive pictures of young children being hustled away, media officials saying now the border area from the russian border into the separatist part of eye crane has been controlled by the russian security services, and they re allowing people to leave the area of donbas but not go back into it. the image here from russia is one of deny being what they are being accused of. colonel layton, i want to get your perspective on this concept of a false flag operation, the united states openly accusing the creme limb essentially orchestrating a reason to invade ukraine. we ve seen nic outline the videos coming from the donbas region, a reported explosion and
it s clear that the russians have put a target on his hid. i certainly don t envy a position. reporter: by friday night, his warning to the nation was dire. translator: this night will be very difficult and the enemy will use all available force to say break the resistance of ukrainians. reporter: is he in over his head? you need a churchill type of leader to excel. i think his s scrambling and trying to find the right tenor and message. reporter: even top russian officials won t do you intend to decapitate the leadership? sergei lavrov didn t say no, but say, quote, nobody will attack the people of eye crane. brian todd, cnn, washington. and our thanks to brian. we ll be right back.
russia is planning to do all along. let s talk about what is happening with cnn military analyst, retired colonel cedric lleyton. colonel, tell us about the military activity of what we are seeing on the border. this is really the map that is important in this particular case. you have ukraine, you ve got russia, and you ve got crimea. crimea is the area that approximate if we go to the next slide, it actually shows us where the russians took over back in 2014. they also took over this area through proxy forces. this is luhansk, donetsk. they are critically important to the economy of eye crane and frankly to ukraine s military and the ability to keep that country an independent country. so where are we seeing troops and weapons systems concentrated? if we take a look at the next slide, we look at this area
investigation in 2016 into the biden and the oligarchs. was that your sunday. that was my sunsing. when you said your staff over heard this call between ambassador sun land and the president, that call, the president brings up investigations, does he not? in immediately after the after gets off the phone with con grand. what is the president think of eye crane. his answer is he s entrust interested in the buy dens. he was more interested in the bidens. things that happened 70 years ago. he was interested in the bidens. you also testified that,