which brings us back to j. sullivan, and indeed, why would we believe the one time clinton adviser now president joe biden's national security adviser on sunday sullivan made the media rounds, insisting that an eminent invasion of ukraine by russia is only days away and could happen. this week, and of course, once again, no evidence was provided by sullivan as to why he believes that the russian invasion of ukraine will take place. sometime this week though, he did say that he believes that russia is timing out the invasion with the end of the beijing olympics. of course he didn't saying why that's happening. reform for news use use. i've been swan and we need to discuss this a little more, and i want to bring an ed martin, president, phyllis shefly, the eagles ahead. an ad. wow. we now, well, we knew this and they said what a day. but we knew this all along. we talked about it on the show starting in 2018, but even in 2016 now is that were on the campaign trail said that campaigns being spied on trump was marked in the media for it actually slandered said, no, we can't put that fake n

and a j sullivan pointed out. it's going to be quite a savage and i, you know, it's going to be preceded by aerial attacks by missiles. then they're going to march on to it. and then so that's the assertion. and now let's think of also about who is really behind is who's leading this propaganda campaign. why jake saw them. and now jake saw them was an absolutely key figure in roster gate, which is also very interesting because this meet with, you know, we've added found out more information about the russian gate folks and about how the clinton campaign and that means j solomon basically funding the spying on the trunk campaign, but the trump president that actually got into the truck service. this is a person, the sullivan, who is a master of manufacturing folks. this is created an absolute fool. he presents no evidence way any of these claims were the gift rushes building up, it was a rush of building up. it was the, the number they say think it's still 100000. i think what he's building up. it's all the same nu

and a j sullivan pointed out it's going to be quite a, is going to be preceded by aerial attacks by ms tiles. then they're going to march on to it. and then so that's the assertion. and now let's think of also about who is really behind is who's leading this propaganda campaign. why jake saw them. and now jake saw them was an absolutely key figure in russia gate, which is also very interesting because this meet with, you know, we have found out more information about the russian gate folks and about how the clinton campaign and that means j solve it basically, funding the spying on, not only the trunk campaign, but the trump president actually going to be trump. so this is the person, the, some of them who is a master of manufacturing process is creating an absolute who it presents no evidence way of his claims. when they keep telling what ross is building up his forces building up, it wasn't on the number. they say it's 200000 and i think so they said it is building up. it's all the same number i think was 2 months ago. so, you know, these are basically in the business of generating h

out more information about the russian gate folks and about how the clinton campaign and that is j sullivan. it basically funding the spying on, not only the trunk campaign, but the trump president, that actually goes into the trump so. so this is a person the, some of them who is a master of manufacturing process is created an absolute. it presents no evidence where any of these claims will they keep telling what ross is building of the building. busy up, it's wasn't normal, they think it's still a $100000.00 and i think it is building up. it's all the same number i think was 2 months ago. so these are basically in the business of generating hysterical and do russian global propaganda campaign. gotta have very dangerous consequences. you know, begin demon is working because i'm sure you know the, the, the parable, you know, the boy that called, well, i mean, how much longer can you play in the us saying, invasion is emanated before people don't stop taking them seriously. as i pointed out in my introduction, go ahead. oh, i think that basically what we see is that the connection of all pro

while the jake refers to the j sullivan, the national security advisor was also speaking the course of the day saying exactly the same as the pentagon spokesman. clearly, this is a coordinated response by the u. s. to the current situation, making very clear, its belief that an invasion is imminent. sounding the alarm bells, but at the same time keeping itself some wiggle room, saying that the door to diplomacy remains open. good stuff, mike. hannah, reporting from washington d. c. now over to kiff and natasha butler city there, you know, under the shadow of war for so long now, but still to the, the diplomatic efforts go on and indeed, you know, there is a lot of unpredictability here, a lot of uncertainty in the ukrainian capital. but you know, life does go on for most people who have been out to day in the sunshine, shopping meeting up in restaurants. but all as you say, in the shadow of what may or may not happen on one side, the u. s. warning of imminent invasion, imminent attack from russia. on the other side, of course you have russia saying that it has no intention of invading

in fact, this is something that the national security advisor j sullivan has been saying for weeks. the latest warnings will be issued to members of congress on capital hill. he will be briefing members of the house of representatives this morning here in washington, and then later on he will be briefing members of the u. s. senate. so we're watching carefully to see what more the white house might have to say about that invitation by the ukrainian leader. but so far, very little. that is that white house correspondent, kimberly how could thank you. kimberly finally, step boston who is in penske. this is on the board of bella luce, ukraine, border. what have you been seeing there today with regards to, i guess, any military action or drills that have been ongoing? well, it was very interesting. today we've traveled to several areas where the battle ocean authority say these joint drills with russia are ongoing. we went to one location near by where as 400 missile defense systems and so quite fighter jets were reportedly been transported to from russia, but incense. interestingly, it

but j listen carefully to what jake sullivan said. i don't have a line into the fbi on this. >> everything i know is from public reporting. so you'll noticehi is that sulln went out of his way to say that we should have been a very clear sign that it was a lie and indeed it wasas a lie. in fact, the hillary clinton for president campaign was coordinating directly with the fbi. a clinton lawyer called michael sussmann had been feeding false claims about trump s and russia once again from that crack team of nonpartisan computer ot to the general counsel of the fbi, a man called james baker. but sussmann didn't stop there in february of 2017 after the election, sussmann also met with the general counsel at cia . so at this point you may be wondering about the identity of those nonpartisan computer scientists who dug up allci this new information about donald trump's direct connection to vladimir putin. who are these peopleec? ed we may not be shocked to learn they weren't nonpartizan once again jake sullivan was lying to us . in fact, a

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j jen. so give it a bit on birth, which is hearing now from us national security advisor, jake sullivan ration in russia and ukraine. and then i'd be happy to take your questions. we continue to, to see the signs of russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the ukrainian border. as we've said before, we are in the window when an invasion could begin at any time, should vladimir putin decide to order it. i will not comment on the details of our intelligence information, but i do want to be clear, it could begin during the olympics despite a lot of speculation that it would only happen after the olympics. as we've said before, we are ready either way. we are ready to continue results oriented diplomacy that addresses the security concerns of the united states, russia and europe, consistent with our values and with the principle of reciprocity. we've continued to make that clear to russia in close coordination with our european allies and partners. we are also ready to respond decisively alongside those allies in partners should russia choose to take military action. our response would

intelligence which sullivan declined to go into details to share of the he says, there appears that russia does have the military forces amassed now at the ukrainian border to launch and eminent assault p j currently is an ortho, and fully united states assistant secretary of state for public affairs, he says biden has made a deliberate choice to make this confrontation public. many times you, you try to quietly resolve the crisis behind closed doors. in this particular case, you know, the administration has taken its concerns about russia, you know, very publicly, very earnestly, very forthrightly. and there's a potential reward here. if putin eventually takes an off ramp and begins to de escalate. there's also the risk that putting russia on the spot putting, put on the spot, requires him to do something to say face, but it is going to be ministration. has decided that it's going to public confront putin both to prepare the american people for the prospect of something happening in ukraine and also preparing europe. that should that happen, they'll need to be this aggressive response. i still think it's more likely that putin will hold off, you know, given the emerging alliance between