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now on bbc news, it s time for click. this week, it s pure box office. we ll find out how to buy in to the latest blockchain blockbuster. we ll talk to the titanic talent behind terminator. we ll give a vfx artist a ring.orten. and did someone mention box office? well, i m in a box at least. los angeles, the place where anything is possible even the weird stuff that i ve got up to here over the years. it s a town that revels in the new, and right now, that town seems to be talking about nfts. now, as a reminder, nfts are a way of recording who owns what mainly digital art and music. frankly, the mind still boggles every time i remember that this image by beeple sold for almost $17 million at auction. so, i thought i d jump on the bandwagon. now, anyone can create or mint an nft. in fact, i have minted myself, which was refreshing! that means that this mini animation now has a unique identifier which has been recorded on. ..the blockchain! an indisputable record ....
that will be within a month. as on the hill, democrats get ready to control a nominee s path for the first time in more than a decade. with most of the drama coming not from whether dems will hang together, they probably will, but how many republicans, if any, will get on board. new reaction coming in this afternoon. developing at the white house right now, president biden and the leader of ukraine may be still on the phone. what we know about what they re saying with the white house worried about a russian invasion of ukraine. plus, back here at home new polling out of georgia and spoiler alert, things are not looking quite so peachy for democrats. what the numbers say for people like joe biden and stacy abrahams going into the midterms. with reporting we broke here on the expensive lifeline to save vulnerable house seats. i m hallie jackson along with the rest of the team. ali vitali on capitol hill and peter is our justice correspondent and let me start with you. ....
i may be moving some of those troops in the nearer term. this would be the largest if we were to move in with all of those forces the largest invasion since world war ii. it would change the world. mr. biden is willing to impose sanctions on putin himself. bipartisan talks are underway should russia invade. more on that in a moment. in less than an hour top diplomats from europe, ukraine and russia will sit down in paris for talks about how to avoid war. cnn has reporters around the world covering this story. melissa bell in paris, nic robertson in moscow. let s start with sam kiley live in ukraine. sam, good morning. the white house is calling an invasion imminent. officials in kyiv is saying it s not imminent. why aren t they on the same page? reporter: i think it s a very different approach in terms of national reassurance from the perspective of the foreign minister making statements to reinforce his own president s statement. there is an exitent threat of i ....
, laura coates. cnn broke this yesterday. lisa monaco confirming there is an investigation, an active investigation into these fake electoral college certificates, which were something we know that rudy giuliani and others, senior players in trump world, were involved with. so how significant is the fact that we now know such an investigation exists? this is extremely significant. and one that should actually be happening. remember, it is not just the hypothetical conversations happening in some back room or war room about i wonder what it would look like if you tried to overturn an election or derail a certification process. you would actual steps, actual overt steps in the action and trying to create the perception that the lawful, the real legitimate slate of electors were not actually that. and so you had but for the actions and decision of the then vice president mike pence to not follow the advice, not to go through this, even having him on the floor that day, ....
can all move on now. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 25th. with us we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico , jonathan lemire. and president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is with all of us this morning. i m in warsaw, poland, again this morning where there continues to be grave concern over what russia will do with its troops on the ukraine border. the pentagon says it has put thousands of u.s. troops on high alert as fears increase that russia may invade ukraine again. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, has the details. reporter: with fears rising that russia could invade ukraine, president biden centering a major show of force near russia, putting up to 8,500 u.s. troops on heightened alert, mostly as part of a nato force. military action could come at any time. reporter: the president at camp david this weekend, reviewing pentagon proposals to ....