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Blinken also laying out in detail how he says russia could manufacture a pretext for an invasion. first, russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. this could be a violent event that russia will bring on ukraine or an outrageous accusation that russia will level against the ukrainian government. we don t know exactly the form it will take. it could be a fabricated so-called terrorist bombing inside russia. the invented discovery of a mask raid, a staged drone strike against civilians or a fake, even a real attack using chemical weapons. joining me now for some more on this, former california congresswoman jane harmon, a ranking member of the house intelligence committee and graham brooking, former adviser for strategic communications for obama s national security council. jane, thank you for coming in ....
I ve been saying for a long time that vladimir putin is playing a weak hand badly and i think it just got worse today. graham, let me bring you in on this. the biden administration is taking, it s a new approach to this entire crisis, putting the intelligence that they have as the congresswoman was talking about, putting the intelligence out there for everyone to see and it almost seems in realtime. it s deliberate and tony blinken seemed to address this today. let me play this. and here today, we are laying it out in great detail with the hope that by sharing what we know with the world, we can influence russia to abandon the path of war and choose a different path while there s still time. graham, what do you make of this strategy? do you see any signs that it s working? well, it s extraordinarily difficult to measure, but there is no alternative. this strategy of being extraordinarily granular about ....
Stage where russia could engage, where the osce where russia belongs to along with all of europe and could engage and where individual leaders talk to each other but also to be growing larger congressional delegations. this is year will be 40-plus members of congress, the largest ever. so i think this is another blown opportunity for russia, not only to miss this, but to be engaging in these provocative actions right now. people are now saying the attack will come the day after the olympics in deference to xi, but i think, if they come and if they which i m guessing, look, anything like what tony blinken is predicting, it will be a very foolish move on the part of russia. congresswoman, thank you. graham, thanks for coming in. coming up next for us, a controversial new way to prevent orphdo ....