jim saki issued a statement saying, quote, president biden urged russia to de escalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear that the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invades ukraine. president biden also expressed support for diplomacy. she went on to say that the president reiterated that substantive progress in these dialogues can occur only in an environment of de escalation rather than escalation. then we have the response from the russian side assistant to president vladimir putin. uri you shock, i've said one conclusion was underscored if the security negotiations are successful, it should naturally lead to certain normalization of relations and perhaps an improvement in bilateral relations. the conversation with entirely focused on issues of security guarantees instead. and he went on to say that these conversations will continue at a lower level in europe in january. the russian position is clear. it wants to, once i legally bindings guarantee that ukraine will never enter nato when it wants to make sure that later weapons ar

on the pandemic press secretary jim saki site's gun violence has a root cause of crime. but when questioned about recent mass looting highlighted cove, it as a major factor when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go lu, pay store, and cbs to nordstrom, a home depot until the shelves are clean. you think that because i think a root cause in a lot of communities is the pandemic. yes, now jen sock his remarks come as almost 70 percent of retailers see crime rising in the u. s. with mass looting devastating stores in major states over the last month . prompting some politicians to blame defunded the police policies. let's have a recap of some of those incidents. ah. for more on this let's cross now 2 are retired police officer dominic is oh, thanks for being with us here on our to international. it's good to get your perspective on this. so does it surprise you to find that the white house has named cove it as a factor in the recent rise in crime? no, it's just embarrassing that they're not admitting what it is. it has nothing to do with co, but

and i also think -- and that statement from jim saki calling him essentially a liar -- the audacity.en -- based on what the promise during the presidential campaign. remember back on the campaign, barack obama got involved. after behind the scenes with joe, he forced pete buttigieg outcome of global out, because they were afraid that someone like socialist bernie was going to get the rights. so they forced all these people out because joe was the guy, but joe changed what happen. he went from being moderate joe to say and look at my thick we can actually be progressive. bernie flipped and said he may be the most progressive president peer the whole squad left behind joe biden. but they didn't do that with manchin. i think what you are looking at right now is the political confidence of joe biden used to be joe manchin. and now he's trying to pretend like josh when he really was the one that changed. i think the voters see this and i think this is why the biden agenda is dead, because he never really had it. >> dana: where do we go from there? president biden is ready to play the blam