The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Has gone through. You know, he worked for Ronald Reagan for years. He worked for bob dole. His firm worked for mccain. He worked for many, many people, many, many years. And i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. We are a long way from drain the swamp, unless you are Paul Manafort and you do what everybody else also does. The president was asked about Michael Cohen, his longtime attorney, somebody who worked for him for more than a decade. He is trying to distance himself now from Michael Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to eight Felony Charges and implicated the president in the Campaign Finance violations to which he pled guilty. This comes, of course, as the specter of Michael Cohen and what he could possibly say to prosecutors further, if
the russian president. this is about borders, sovereignty, a world order that existed for decades and decades. jim sciutto in lviv. thank you. putin s escalation drew a quick response from the white house. president biden planning to impose new sanctions on the two eastern ukrainian territories where the russian leader is sending in forces. but the white house, as bermen mentioned there, has stopped short of calling this an invasion. let s go to jeremy diamond who is live for us at the white house. what is biden prepared to do, jeremy? and why stop short of calling it an invasion? reporter: yeah, brianna. as you just said, the white house has so far has had a pretty measured response to what we have seen from russia thus far. yesterday we saw president biden signing an executive order, issuing these limited sanctions prohibiting new investment trade and financing by americans into those two regions in eastern ukraine, which president putin has now recognized as independent states
those forces are doing there. and whether or not they come into contact with ukrainian forces. at the same time, brianna, they are under no illusions here that what vladimir putin is doing here is some kind of peace keeping mission. they understand fully that this is a pretext for war, senior official yesterday saying that president putin s speech was meant to justify war to the russian people. so they re watching this very closely, but they are also beginning to come under some pressure from lawmakers, including some key democrats like chris coons, senator very close to president biden, saying that new sweeping measures need to come into effect now. biden said if any russian forces cross into ukraine that would be considered an invasion. coons saying that proportionality not on the table here. this is binary, you go in or you don t, russia. jeremy, thank you for that report from the white house. let s talk more about this with senior fellow at the
what are you trying to achieve? are you trying to replace the government? he refused to answer those questions. any details about precisely what they plan to do, beyond what president putin has said, calling this a going after military targets and in his words somewhat very misleadingly and erhone erhohon erro erroneously. their goal is not their stated goal, which is built on lies. nic, jeremy, thank you so much for the reports. as we said, at least 16 different locations across ukraine now reporting explosions. one of them is mariupol, the city very close to that separatist region. alexander marquardt is there. i do understand you have seen people there on the streets, we can see them there behind you, lining up, trying to get cash at this point. reporter: yeah, john. this city is quite tense right
all across the country and ukraine is saying at least 40 people including many civilians, several civilians have been killed so far. from jeremy diamond at the white house that s what we re hearing actually. let s go to jeremy diamond at the white house and nic robertson in moscow. jeremy, what can you tell us? reporter: well, listen, brianna, president biden overnight saying that this attack by russia on ukraine is unprovoked and unjustified, making clear that this is a war of choice by the russian president. and today you can expect that president biden will unveil a full range of severe sanctions against russia. senior administration official telling us that the president alongside u.s. allies will unveil that full range of sanctions that we have been waiting for in the event of a full scale russian invasion. you can expect that to include full sanctions on russia s largest banks, cutting them off essentially from the western financial system. you can also expect that that s goi