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military options including shifting thousands of u.s. troops to shore up eastern european and baltic allies. on state of the union blinken warned russia not to advance. if a single additional russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, as i said, that would trigger a swift, severe and united response, from us and from europe. we re following our top story this morning with correspondents in ukraine, moscow and here in the u.s. let s begin with cnn white house reporter nah tash tra ber tran in washington. this is a significant option the president was briefed on to move perhaps thousands of forces closer to the russian border. jim, while at camp david this morning, president biden met virtually with his national security team including senior defense officials who briefed him on these options they re weighing for a potential increase presence amid this russian troop buildup that includes anywhere between 1,000 and 5,000 additional forces to be stationed ....
and now the pressure in just hours president biden convenes a secure call with european leaders, and the president weighs on deploying military to europe. the hope that new pressure forces putin to back off a potential invasion, the risk that the are you familiar leader uses more forces as a pretext for invasion. reporter: this call will be president biden and the leaders of europe to talk about the standoff, that it it has escalated in recent days. you now leads us up to this call. it s equally important are now reporting that president biden is considering sending additional troops in the thousands to the baltic states, other allies in europe to increase the troop presence. you can see, of course, where it will be a big deal. he said this would seem to be a shift in how the administration is viewing this increasingly delicate situation. these were decisions that the president was briefed on while at camp david this weekend. 2 doesn t appear he s made a final d ....
jets to the region and they will reduce staff at the american embassy in kyiv, because of quote, continued threats of significant russian military action. so let s begin with kaitlan collins. so what is the plan for the video call next hour? well this is a call that has about nine leaders on there from europe. ukraine is not on this call. we just asked the white house about that. they poipnted to other conversations the biden administration has had with them, and including tony blinkent, but this is not on this call that will happen this afternoon from the situation room and a call scheduled as we know president biden is considering sending more u.s. troops in the sense of deterrence as they wait to see what the russian president is going to do and they don t know what move the russian leader wants to take next and they are watching. there was a report over the weekend after they believe russian was trying to install a pro-russian leader in ukraine. all of that is on ....
time in decades. he didn t govern the way he just described he wants republicans to do if they take over in the next election but he is now a trump accolade and he s speaking from the per sspective of what donald trump would want. if they do take control, are still going to have to question whether they will listen to donald trump or whether they are going to prove they can govern. the best thing democrats say they would have going for them, politically for 2024 is republicans to act like that in 2022. thank you. top of the hour. welcome to cnn newsroom. right now in the white house situation room, president biden is speaking with his european counterpart and the nato secretary general about the situation in ukraine and the announcement we just got from the pentagon that up to 8500 quote combat capable u.s. troops have been put on alert in the event that putin decides to invade ukraine. tens of thousands of troops have amassed along the border. with us is cnn pe ....
election fraud delusions and drew the line at the coup attempt telling the associated press publicly what he told people privately that there was no widespread voter fraud that impacted the outcome of the 2020 election. committee charnl thompson confirmed sunday the committee is in talks with bill barr and looking at a draft executive order to allow the defense department to seize voting machines across the country. we had conversations with the former attorney general already. we have talked to department of defense individuals. we are concerned that our military was part of this big lie on promoting that the election was false so if you are using the military to potentially seize voting machines even though it s a discussion the public needs to know. we have never had that before and so any of these individuals who are participating in trying to stop the election, the duly election of a president, and if we can document it we will share it with the public. the spo ....