thanks for watching. i'll be back tomorrow night. "don lemon tonight" with don lemon starts right now. >> okay, so how much did you eat yesterday, last night? >> why would you call me out for this? i may have had the nachos and the ribs and hot dogs. are you asking for a friend? >> because i'm surprised i'm not flying today as many wings as i ate last night. it was so, so, so bad. >> wait, hold on.

what kind of wings? dry rub? barbecue? was it sweet or spicy? i'll do the forrest gump thing right now? >> i had regular chicken wings. i love pop eyes wings. i got pop eyes wings, and then blondies is a place here, blondies sports bar, and they have buffalo wings. so i got buffalo wings but i get them extra crispy, all drums, sauce on the side. >> how is that a buffalo wing, sauce on the side? >> because you dim them in the sauce. i like to control the amount of buffalo sauce, of hot sauce. >> are you one of those people that puts dressing on the side? >> i like to control mine. >> that's wonderful. >> i woke up, though, with a sty. you see it. it's not like i didn't stay up that late. i got a sty and it's wicked. i don't think i've ever had a sty, but there you go.

>> maybe you should have put the buffalo sauce on the wing and then it would have -- >> and then dipped it in my eye. >> i didn't even see it you're as handsome as ever. >> thank you. coming from you, that means a lot because just look at you. >> okay, now i got to put on boots for the rest of us special. >> have a good night. this is "don lemon tonight." we have a lot. president joe biden faces what may be the biggest test of his administration. a source telling cnn a russian attack on ukraine sometime this week more likely than it is not. the pentagon is warning that russia could invade ukraine, quote, with little to no warning. the u.s. embassy in kyiv closed, remaining diplomats relocated near the western border with poland. that as sources say there are at least 130,000 russian troops surrounding the eastern part of it country. a kremlin spokesperson saying vladimir putin is willing to

negotiate. cnn's nick roberts explains to us. >> don, very interesting we should get this additional clarification from president putin spokesman late in the evening saying putin is willing to negotiate. now, earlier on in the day he had this sort of career sequence on state tv with the foreign minister down a long table, the foreign minister giving him an account of diplomacy that had been going on and putin asked, is there a chance for diplomacy to continue? and the foreign minister, sergey lavrov, said yes, there is. there will be counterarguments, but we can do this. we can pursue this and we should increase our efforts there. that wasn't very sort of, if you will, subtly handled on state tv and it really wasn't clear, you know, what level of commitment there was coming from president putin towards diplomacy, and i think that's why we heard this clarification late in the day from his spokesman. >> nick roberts, thank you very much. there's also big news from the committee investigating what

happened on january 6th and in the days and weeks before and after those blood-thirsty rioters stormed the capitol. rudy giuliani may be willing to testify after all, and under oath. but only about the bogus big lie of election fraud. the source said giuliani doesn't intend to waive executive or attorney/client privilege, so you got to wonder what has changed since just last month when rudy giuliani was subpoenaed and his attorney said he didn't intend to provide information. why is a guy who spread wild, wild accusations about hugo chavez, george soros, antifa, and black lives matter, why is he reconsidering testifying? >> you couldn't possibly believe that the company counting our vote with control over our vote is owned by two venezuelans who were allies of chavez, are

present allies of maduro, with a company whose chairman is a close associate and business partner of george soros, the biggest donor to the democrat party, the biggest donor to ant antifa and black lives matter. >> she got in the whole shebang. what is going on? what is happening when people start -- why are these people doing this? why do they do that? why do some of you watching believe this crazy conspiracy theory bs? it's frightening. you couldn't possibly believe that because it's not true what he said. but rudy giuliani sure would have a story to tell if he testifies. >> if we're wrong, we will be made fools of. but if we're right, a lot of them will go to jail. [ cheers ]

so let's have trial by combat. >> all of the above, is there one for that? you'll be made fools of and you'll go to jail. maybe. there's no agreement yet for giuliani to cooperate, by the way, and we got developments to tell you about on two trials we have followed very closely on this show, two cases that say a whole lot about the state of justice in this country. the prosecution resting in the federal civil rights trial of three ex-police officers in minneapolis in the killing of george floyd. multiple witnesses testifying the ex-officers made no attempt to get derek chauvin off george floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. the teenager who recorded george floyd's death on her phone and without that evidence we might never have known what happened to him, darnella frazier broke down when she was sworn in

testifying today saying i can't do it. she took the stand after a short break and testified george floyd repeatedly said he couldn't breathe. the federal civil rights trial of three ex-officers resumes tomorrow morning. meanwhile in georgia, prosecutors in the federal hate crimes trial of three men convicted of murdering ahmaud arbery say that he would not have been killed if he were white. his mother, wander cooper-jones, saying this. >> i think it's going to be a long, long, hard trial, a whole lot of hard evidence is going to come into play, so i got to be prepared for that. >> it is a big show and we got a lot more to come on all of this, so make sure you stay tuned. our clarissa ward will join us in a little bit. generally wesley clark, thank you so much, we appreciate you joining us. >> good to be with you. >> let's talk about russia has

an estimated 130,000 troops along ukraine's border and putin has added at least a half dozen landing ships in the black sea with the purposes of putting troops on shore. they are talking diplomacy but advancing into attack positions. >> right. this is a moment of maximum pressure against ukraine. so he's got the military machine moving, he's moving it to its attack position. the world is on edge. people in ukraine are starting to take this seriously. it could be very damaging to the collapse of the government in ukraine or president zelensky says we give up on nato and please accept us as your friends, russia. i don't think that's going to happen. president zelensky stood very firm and mr. putin's running out of time. that was the reason why, i believe, foreign minister lavrov did a public conference with putin was to sort of extend the

clock to increase the diplomatic pressure as the forces approach readiness. >> part of russia's plan according to one u.s. official is that they would begin with air and missile attacks on key military infrastructure and then further stay awinvade kyiv with or two days of military action. sounds like if it happens it's going to happen very fast. >> well, i think that would be the military logic behind this, get it over with. the longer it delays, as you drag an operation like this out, the more resistance might rise and the more nato and nato nations might do something. so obviously if you can create -- present a fait accompli to nato, a night of devastating missile and a morning of air strikes and jamming and nothing works and there's a seizure of the ukrainian government and somebody pops up and says, no, i'm the real president,

pres president zelensky as abdicated, it's enough confusion that in that they think perhaps that would be the most desirable case. they'll come at it from, i think, from all directions. that's what we have to assume in any case, that it would be quick, as large as possible, and over as rapidly as possible. >> general, i want to put up a map for you showing u.s. and nato troops along nato's eastern border, the u.s. troops are marked in red. 5,700 u.s. troops in poland, 450 in lithuania, 900 in romania plus nato troops. talk about the role u.s. troops will play in this region. we're not going to see americans fighting russians. the u.s. is not getting directly involved here, right? >> absolutely not going to happen. if you look at all those forces, those forces are trip wire forces, essentially, except in

romania where there are some missiles that are directed against potential iranian attack. but the rest of it is simply a presence. now, the additional forces that have been deployed to romania and poland would be there to assist in handling refugees that might come out. but mostly this is about the united states reassuring our east european allies, members of nato, that if they are attacked, then the united states would be with them. but this is not a attack into ukraine in support of ukrainians or even defend. they're not organized. there's not sufficient of them. don, let me give you an example. during the cold war when we were defending a 400-mile stretch from the north sea to the alps, we had in europe about 500,000 americans. we had the equivalent of almost five divisions of force.

what's going against ukraine on the russian side is larger than that right now, and those five divisions, we don't have them in europe. we don't have a single division in europe right now. we have one brigade of about 100 tanks there, that's it. and so there's no way we would ever be able to in this scenario do anything, but vladimir putin knows it, and that's why all the nato threat is just an excuse, a pre-text to do something to ukraine for war. >> just a quick question. the shorthand is people everyone says, oh, we're going to war. that shorthand is wrong, right? >> absolutely wrong. >> okay. >> we're not going to war, but russia may be going to war. if they do, don, this is an illegal act. this is not 1930 where adolf

hitler can just do things. we have a united nations, we have international law. it's a criminal act to invade another country. vladimir putin becomes a war criminal. >> yeah. >> that means no business with him. >> i want to show this video. there's also images of ammunition arriving in kyiv after being donated by the united states. you see that there. and then we know russia has amassed troops in belarus, or a few miles away as the area now known as chernobyl exclusion zone, the site of the worst nuclear disaster. now ukraine security forces are there. that area is a direct way for russia to get to kyiv. what are your thoughts on the dangers here, general? >> i think it's a very dangerous avenue of approach that kyiv has to be prepared to defend against, if possible.

in the eastern part around the old reactor itself, it's marshy, damp, and it hasn't frozen solid. so there are roads that go through there, but you're talking about vehicles moving single file. to the west it's more open and it's more maneuverable. but it's definitely a dangerous avenue of approach. if you look at the map, on the far, far east and the southeast, that's where the current donbas forces are. that's not the most optimum forces for the russians to attack from, although they might do that. the most optimum place is this chernobyl exclusion zone. >> thank you very much, we appreciate it, general. >> thank you. the kremlin says vladimir putin is willing to negotiate. but could there be auto diplomatic solution with troops amassed on the border? i'll talk to the former ambassador to ukraine, next. nice suits, you guys blend right in.

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department warn russia could invade krukraine at any moment. the kremlin saying today vladimir putin is still having willing to negotiate with western nations. william taylor, former ambassador to the ukraine. ambassador, i really love having you on and general lesley clark to get your takes on this, so thank you so much for joining us. the kremlin saying earlier today that putin is still open to negotiations, but roughly 130,000 troops on the border, he's coming to talks with a gun pointed at ukraine. which do you think will prevail? >> so don, this is up to president putin, as you say. he says he's willing to negotiate. he's got all this on three and a half borders with ukraine. negotiations can't be serious, can't really get anywhere, can't be productive with all that force on the border.

so the idea of making plans to negotiate is good. in order to have serious discussions, though, he's got to send the troops back to the barracks, move the troops away from the border so that there can be serious negotiation. there could be serious negotiation. there are areas that russia has expressed concern about, that nato expressed concerns about. there are areas where both nato and russia could be better off after these negotiations, so there could be this diplomatic off-ramp if president putin wants to take it. it would be a bad mistake as general clark just said, for him, for president putin to make a decision to abandon ukraine. it would be very bad for ukraine, for russia, and for european security. >> talk more about that. why do you say that? >> think about the cost, don. the cost that putin would bear if he were to go over the

precipice, i think he's inching up to the precipice. if he goes over, first of all, general clark can tell you this much better than i, but when you invade a neighbor, when you invade someone, when you initiate military activities, you can't tell, things are unpredictable in war. so he doesn't know what's going to happen. what he can be sure of is he'll ruse luis some russian soldiers, probably thousands of russian soldiers will die. ukrainian military is much tougher than it was in 2014. ukrainian military will make it very painful and very bloody for russia to move toward kyiv as you just talked about. but they will be able to do that, and as they're doing that, even in the first couple of days, there will be the sanctions that we've been talking about for months that will be imposed on russia's economy. now, don, these are serious sanctions, the likes of which putin has not seen.

we know he's bothered by it. we know he's concerned about these sanctions. he said as much to president biden in a phone call in december. he said if you put those sanctions on me, you'll disrupt our relations for generations. yes f he invades, he will disrupt it for generations. but there's one other thing, don, about why it would be so painful for him, so risky for him, and that is the russian people are not particularly angry at the ukrainians. the russian people by and large have a good attitude towards the ukrainians, and they're going to wonder why president putin is sending their sons and daughters and fathers and brothers into combat and are getting killed and going back to be buried in russian towns. that could have -- that could disrupt president pupnt's regim. so he has a lot to think about,

and i think he will -- he will look for the off-ramp. >> ambassador, let me jump in because you keep saying -- everyone saying he has a diplomatic off-ramp. we've been saying that for weeks now. it's not months. and so far, you know, his gps seems to be saying keep straight ahead, do not kpiexit. doesn't look like he's looking for an off-ramp. how long can you say that, until something happens? when does he miss the turn and is unable to do it? >> he misses the turn when he goes across the border. when he sends tanks and troops across the border, when he fires across the border, sends missiles across the border, that's the precipice. that's what he falls off. up until then -- and we don't think -- i don't think, most people don't think that he has actually made the decision yet. he's still, i think, evaluating the costs and benefits. the benefits are that somehow --

benefits is what he wants, what he's trying to get from this is control of ukraine. president putin has indicated in things he's written, said, and done, that he wants to regain control. he wants to get ukraine back under russian authority, dominance, and he will do it in any way he can. if he makes that, if he does that and decides to invade in order to get ukraine, he can get in. he can get to kyiv, as you and general clark just talked about. he can't get out. we remember when russians went into afghanistan. we have our own problems with afghanistan, but the russians went into afghanistan very confirmation very easily, and they had to leave with their tails between their legs and it led to the end of the soviet union. >> ambassador, thank you. we'll have you back, of course. we'll see if this escalates or if he does take the diplomatic off-ramp that everyone is suggesting he does.

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my question is, everyone is, like, rudy's going to testify. he said all of that -- i mean, is he just going to say the same thing to the committee? what kind of nonsense should the committee expect to hear? >> you know, don, when people talk about testimony, they see it as this sort of all or nothing thing where either someone will come testify or get hauled off in handcuffs. there's a world of ways that rudy giuliani can engage with the committee from interviews in private or depositions, transcribed interviews, or so on. there's a lot they can get out of him, even if it's not specifically -- they can press him on these statements made at the four seasons hotel, i believe. >> no, no, four seasons landscaping. >> oh, pardon me, pardon me. >> four seasons is nice, but four seasons landscaping, i'm not sure, i don't know. >> they can press him on that, but there's a world of other information they can get to him,

namely about the president's whereabouts, conversations the president had and so on. so, frankly, it is in his interest and the committee's interest to negotiate and work out some terms for his testimony? so he does not intend, i understand, to waive compexecut or attorney/client privilege. what can he make based on his role as trump's lawyer slash voter fraud vigilante? >> we got to be careful about how we talk about the privilege because ultimately it rests either with the president or the holder of the privilege, which is the client. it's not really up to the attorney to be the one who waives it. now, he can speak about anything outside of the scope of his representation of the president as his attorney. look, rudy giuliani gave any number of public statements, including the two that you put there, don, where he can speak to those -- to those things. anytime he gave media interviews, anytime he went down and spoke with georgia election

officials, all of that's fair game because those were not conversations with the president. they were not legal advice or executive advice he was giving to the president. >> okay, there's a separate trump legal issue, the former president's longtime accounting firm mazers informed the trump organization last week that it should no longer rely on nearly ten years worth of financial statements and that they would no longer about their accountants. okay. so it was only just last month that the new york attorney's office alleged that it has found significant evidence indicating that the trump organization used fraudulent or misleading asset valuations. >> that information is at the heart of both civil and criminal investigations into the trump organization in terms of how they were alleged to have elevated the values of properties for getting loans. but deflated values of properties for paying taxes, right? and so it all speaks to the same allegations, which is that they

were just not being candid about what the values of the property were. the problem, don, here, is that at the end of the day the valuations of properties are subjectivity. i might believe my house is worth $10 million and i can say that to my accountant, but at the end of the day it's just an opinion, right? and it's hard to charge someone criminally sometimes on the basis of what they say in statements like this. >> even if you're trying to use it for leverage? >> but that's the heart of the investigation. is it just puffery and is it just beefing up the values of properties? or is it systematically trying to bilk lenders out of their money? it's taken a long time and, you know, it's at a certain point either we need to find out nothing's happening. the public needs to find out that nothing's happening here or they're coming forward with

skb charges. >> they did respond. trump org statement says that what mazer says does not contain any, quote, material contraceptions and it renders the investigations moot. is that really the case? >> no, it's not the case. it's not the case. that's what they're looking into. so the idea that somehow the statement moots all these months of investigation smg not accurate. >> where did all of these crazy legal theories come from in the trump era? >> how much time do we have, don? you know, it is striking how sort of across different areas of conduct, whether it's election fraud or fomenting insurrection, frankly, or val valuing properties. there's a consistent threat of dishonesty, and then the threat of, well, maybe, that makes it hard to criminally charge and

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the proximate resting in the federal trial of three ex-minneapolis police officers charged with violating george floyd's civil rights. the defense set to begin their case tomorrow. that as in georgia opening statements begin in the federal hate crimes trial of three men convicted of murdering ahmaud arbery. asia's mother wander cooper-jones speaking today. >> i think we'll get another

victory out of this. i think it's going to be a long, long, hard trial, a whole lot of hard evidence is going to come into play, so i got to prepare for that each and every day. but i'm grateful that we're here, that we made it this far, and we'll get a good victory as well. >> these moms in these cases are always so strong. joining me is joey jackson, good evening to you. good to see you. >> always, don. >> let's start with the arbery trial. gregory mcmichael, his son, travis, and neighbor all on trial again after having just been found guilty of murder in the state trial. the prosecution actually pulling out social media posts from the mcmichaels with really crude language, so be fore warned. travis mcmichael referred to black people as criminals, monkeys, and subhuman savages. he also said in a text message zero n-words work with me, they

ruin everything, that's why i love what i do, not an n-word in sight. do you think evidence like this is going to convince a jury? >> yeah, i think that's very compelling, don. it's important to make a very critical distinction. the defense is going to acknowledge as they did in opening statements the horrific and colorful language that was used by their clients. at the same time the defense is going to try to distance their clients from that. how? they're going to try to suggest, the defense, that is, that they were in no way connected to this specific incident on this specific date at this specific time. it's a very hard argument to make. the prosecution, of course, introducing that to the jury, don, because in this case, unlike the state case, racism is at the core. you have to demonstration show, and establish if you're the prosecutor that the actions of the defendants were motivated by racial hatred. that is, they were the underlying basis and reason to

demonstrate why they chased ahmaud arbery and why they engaged in the act of killing him. that's why you heard the call for language openings. you'll hear more in testimony. the defense trying to distance, the prosecutor saying believe what you heard, believe what you see, that's why they did this. yes, it will be compelling to that jury. >> it's interesting because, listen, they have to put on a defense. to me i'm a layperson. it sounds ridiculous to me, but the defense is arguing that these posts are old, not from the time of the murder. i mean, how does a jury take that into consideration? doesn't that show part of who you are? >> i think the prosecution will turn that not only who you are, it's the fabric of what you are. the bottom line is that you established that these were -- you thought that then, you continued obviously for the prosecutor to say you thought that now, why? because they said if this was a white person jogging in the neighborhood, he would have been

home in time for dinner, not withstanding the fact he was jogging through area and a person was milling about at that construction site. it's a very difficult argument for the the wednesday to distance their clients from the statements they've made not only at the scene, but with respect to social media posts, with regard to things they told other people, and, of course, the colorful language that you used at the outset demonstrating what they believe people of color to be. and i think if the prosecution is able to establish that that was the basis for them showing and running down ahmaud arbery, i think they get their conviction. difficult argument to make if you're the defense. >> that social media will do you in every time. it leaves a trail. joey, i want to turn to the federal civil rights trial of the three former minneapolis police officers in george floyd's death, darnella frazier, the teenager who videotaped the murder of george floyd testifying today after initially breaking down in the courtroom. she said that she didn't see

george floyd resist at all. her video is everything in this case. how big of an impact will her testimony have? >> i think it's huge. you have a teenager who broke down because it's difficult to watch, difficult to see. and i'm sure more difficult to record, particularly as people in the crowd, they realized, right, bystanders and laypeople without training realized that mr. floyd needed medical attention and assistance. why didn't you? you're trained to do this, right, with regard to providing medical assistance, which they are of course charged with failing to do. you are in charge of the person who's in your custody, how did you allow this to happen? how did you not see the warning signs? and more importantly, don, how and why did you not intervene? so i think her testimony is compelling. in addition to all the training officers who testified that they are trained to know what to do, they simply didn't do it. the manuals, the policies,

directives, and procedures, why didn't you preserve life here? >> let's talk about the defense. they're set to pick up tomorrow morning. two of the officers on trial intend to testify in their own defense, j. alexander kueng and tou thao. the third isn't sure yet. do you think that it's a right move to testify? >> i think all three will testify and i think at this point -- i think there's little choice. why? in opening statements, lane was holding the legs of george floyd and that was the one who actually said, hey, should we turn him over and really did intervene. the attorney is arguing he helped him into the ambulance, he provided aid in the ambulance. the defense opened, gave an opening statement on lane saying, hey, i'm going to testify. if lane testifies and the other two don't, that looks pretty bad and he's already committed to. and i think the other ones are

going to have to explain why didn't you do more? the crowd was yelling to help. you didn't hear the crowd? you didn't see the condition that george floyd was in? you're not trained, you're not experienced? but of course what they will do, i think, is throw chauvin under the bus. he's the senior officer. it was really him who was engaged in this activity. we were just there. i just don't think that cuts. you have an obligation, you're a law enforcement officer, you're wearing a badge, protect and preserve the sanctuary of life, don't just allow it to happen. for that, i think they have a lot of explaining to do, don, should they testify. >> mr. joey jackson, thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> always. thanks, don. >> if you didn't see this, then what were you doing instead? legends taking the stage at the super bowl, making it -- take this -- their stage. ♪ ♪ ♪ come on everybody get on

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banned substance is allowed to compete. >> the athlete is under 16 and is a protected person under the world anti-doping code. >> also ahead this hour, six foot 3, 240 pounds, a man confronts crew members outside a cockpit. two flight forced to divert. we are going to go live to ukraine. cnn international correspondent michael homeles holmes is live tonight. russian tanks are lining up 15 miles from the ukraine border. the u.s. saying an attack could happen at any moment. are people in ukraine ready? >> reporter: hi, don. yeah, welcome. ukrainian leaders say yes. they say that they are ready and they united. but in a military sense, of course it's a one-sided affair. if it comes to actual conflict. there is a booklet out now for citizens advice like know your

blood type, know where there are shelters and hiding places near you. and information also and plans on evacuations and stuff like that. i will say, as for the people, there is a sense of anticipation here. you know, created by, you know, russia's troop mobilization of course, but the dire u.s. and other western nation warnings of what they call possibly action on the ground. perhaps this week, although they have offered no hard evidence of that. i will say day to day ukrainians are getting on with life. usual daily routines they are continuing given the language and the troop movements and people here i would say are concerned, but not by any means panicking or showing anything like fear. they are aware. they are concerned. they are worried, but getting on with it. as i said, ukraine's leaders continue to urge calm while at the same time they are emphasizing their own preparedness for whatevemi