pretext for russia to invade ukraine. similar to the play book in 2014 when they annexed crimea, and you are hearing some pretty serious warnings about this, that it could happen some time between mid january and mid february. officials warning of widespread human rights violations and war crimes should diplomacy fail. we are told this intelligence has been shared with u.s. allies and there have been high level conversations happening around this issue for weeks now, but we have not seen russia deescalating yet, which has been the act from the biden administration. also one other point that s interesting, they are using social media. there s an effort on social media to blame ukraine for this. 200% increase in basically false information so that s their big concern right now, sandra. sandra: ok. jacqui heinrich live at the white house, keep us posted from there. john. john: all right, sandra. next, a cop in los angeles is
um, it came out feeling somewhat unbalanced, john. any sign that macron, if his goal was to get putin to deescalate, that he immediate any headway at all? you know, no. it was hard to sort of come away wa that kind of read. they used the hang here rather than reducing tensions, the language that that macron and putin are using is sort of bing bring a broad security guarantee or new security dispensation to europe. this is something that gives russia what it wants, and europe gets what it wants. um, but on that key point of russia deescalating, which is something putin said he rather macron said he was going to come to moscow to do. that didn t seem to hand. look, the talks they had were in private. lasted over five hours. he may have said it behind closed doors but in front of the cameras, he did not want to appear to be derailing everything. he wanted to appear as if there
um, but on that key point of russia deescalating, which is something putin said he rather, macron said he was going to come to moscow to do. that didn t seem to land. look, the talks they had were in private. lasted over five hours. he may have said it behind closed doors. but out in front of the cameras, he did not want to appear to be derailing everything. he wanted to appear as if there was reason to be optimism, reason to keep the process going, rather than rather than, um, you know, put putin in a corner which he didn t do, john. significant. nic robertson, thank you very much for that. perspective now from two experts on the situation in eastern europe. jill dougherty, former cnn moscow bureau chief and now an adjunct professor at the wall school of foreign service at georgetown. and retired general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander. general clark, as you know, u.s. intelligence estimates now say that putin has about 70% of the military personnel and weapon
location, we don t have any agreement about the details of what it would even look like. the only thing we have right now is an understanding that if there is no invasion and secretary blinken has a successful meeting with foreign minister lavrov of russia on thursday in europe, it could pave the way for the two leagues to meet. but both the white house and the kremlin making clear this is not some massive break through. it is not like this crisis is over. in fact, u.s. officials, they do not want to get played here by making it look like there s some type of opening for diplomacy and suddenly russia invades, catches the u.s. off guard because it let its guard down. officials say there s been no change whatsoever in terms of russia deescalating. they still think russia is poised to invade at any moment, even possibly while the u.s. is discussing with russia a possible meeting with president putin.
the driver will take them for free to western ukraine, where maria hopes her sister can safely recover from her injuries. john, they are like many eva evacuees. they come to zaporizhzhia. it is safe. it is only 30 miles from russian tanks. many of them try to move on if they have the resources. and the talk of russia deescalating to focus on the donbas in the southeast, those are ominous words for this region. this is the southeast. this is a city that could potentially be drawn in and has so far been spared from the grinding deadly conflict. john. it means the situation there might only get worse. ivan, to hear maria say i have my arms, i have my legs, i m okay. so many ukrainians you meet when