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that includes my colleague john berman. g his heartache in between anchoring newscasts. you'll notice his coat and tie have been replaced by his brady patriots jersey. and a fellow broadcaster is starting to get a little worried. >> one last thing before i go here, allison and victor. somebody's got to get john berman on a therapist's couch. i'm worried about that boy. >> yeah. >> in the aftermath -- i'm just worried about him. >> we are. we all are. we're working on it behind the scenes. don't worry about it, bob. >> good. >> and john berman is here to talk about his feelings. john, this is a safe space. there's no judgments here. are you okay? how are you doing? how are you really -- how are you really, really doing? >> i'm confused a little bit. i feel a little bit lost. >> sure. >> but i'm pulling through. with the help of friends and family and colleagues like you. and i really do -- i really do appreciate the check-in. >> so what's going on? why is this such a big blow to you? a big deal. to you and to many people in b

i'm john berman alongside brianna keilar. i had to check.an't keep track of what day it is. >> i know. >> center stage this morning on two continents, frantic diplomacy as world leaders race to avert a russian invasion of ukraine. happening right now, the french president emmanuel macron has arrived in kyiv to speak with the ukrainian leader zelensky. this is continuing his shuttle diplomacy efforts. he was in moscow just a few hours ago where he met with vladimir putin urging the russian leader to deescalate the tensions on the border with ukraine. >>> in washington, president biden and germany's chancellor olaf scholz tried to present a united front, but that front has a few cracks in it. biden made it clear that if russia invades, the nord stream 2 pipeline will not go forward, that's biden's view. the pipeline, which is built but not yet operational connects russia to germany. this is what the president said at the news conference. >> if russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of ukraine again, then there will be -

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and i'm brianna keilar along with john berman.dian border. now the u.s. is on high alert for protests to begin here at home. demonstrators have been occupying critical roadways between the two countries for several days. this morning crossings in michigan, north dakota and montana are now choked off. and today marks the fifth day that protesters have halted traffic on the ambassador bridge, which connection detroit to windsor, ontario. that bridge is the busiest international crossing in north america. nearly 30% of all trade between the u.s. and canada crosses the ambassador bridge with 10,000 commercial vehicles carrying $325 million worth of goods every day. 50 million of that in auto parts alone. the blockade is hurting majo

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.t any point, vice president kamala harris is expected to speak at the munich security conference. she will meet with the leaders of nato and 13 heads of state while russian forces stand poised to invade ukraine. president biden saying -- let me make it clear. saying russian could invade ukraine within the next several days. this afternoon, the president will speak to global allies about the russian troop buildup and how to deter it. >> overnight, new video from russia's defense ministry. this is 23r9 state, consider the source here, claiming to show tanks and armored vehicles returning to home base after completing military exercises. western officials say this overall is not true. they're dismissing this as propaganda. ukraine says there have already been 20 violations of the cease-fire in eastern ukraine today so far and its forces have suffered two casualties along the front lines. natasha betrtrand is joining us live from munich. so much happening and such a critical time for the s

new day continues with john berman and brianna keilar. you're watching cnn. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is monday, february 28th and i am brianna keilar with john berman. we are beginning with breaking news. day five of the russian invasion of ukraine and kremlin forces are encountering stiff resistance from not only the ukrainian military, but from ordinary citizens as well. ukraine says the intensity of the russian offensive may be slowing. in the last hour a meeting of delegations from russia and ukraine got underway on the border between ukraine and belarus. ukraine is calling f

congressman john berman, number of the house on services committee will join me live. but first, from tiktok to twitter stories, connected to the ukraine crisis maybe flooding your feet. how is this sparking information from the propaganda? we'll be right back. rmation from the propaganda? rmation from the propaganda? we'l manager) how do your clients know that? (naj) because as a fiduciary, it's our responsibility to always put clients first. (other money manager) so you do it because you have to? comfortable retirement. (other money manager) sounds like a big responsibility. (naj) one that we don't take lightly. it's why our fees are structured so we do better when our clients do better. fisher investments is clearly different. >> welcome back. so russia's war with ukraine also unleashing a wave of misinformation on social media. and that's on top of russia's disinformation and propaganda campaign to justify their invasion of a sovereign country. nbc's julie and ken has more. >> reporter: the way we observe war has forever changed, as the invasion of ukraine unfolds

i'm john berman with brianna keilar and the breaking news.l kyiv is under siege with major developments within just the last few minutes. moments ago the ukrainian defense ministry says russian reconnaissance troops entered the oman district just a few miles from the city center. they tweeted out

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i'm john berman with brianna keilar.reaking overnight, a major development from inside china as that nation tries to portray a clean image to the world during the olympic games. chinese tennis star, peng shuai, who disappeared finally emerged for a french newspaper. it was a controlled chaperoned exchange with reporters with the goal of sending the message, nothing to see here. she called the all the allegations a huge misunderstanding and she said she she deleted a post because she wanted to. >> both seemingly in effort to defuse global concerns about peng's safety that seemed to have threatened olympics. this is something she seems to have full agency over. >> reporter: this meeting with thomas bach, they do not lessen t the. she basically denied ever making srault allegations calling the whole situation a, quote, huge misunderstanding. now, this is the second time she's walked back her original claims but first time she has spoken to a media outlet. she posted a long emotional story about how she had coerced into sex

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i'm john berman with brianna keilar.en agreed to meet with russian leader vladimir putin. this is in response to the french president, emmanuel macron. unclear how real of a possibility this is. the white house says in theory the president would do it, but only if putin holds off on invading ukraine. new satellite images show activity intensifying among russian units close to ukraine's northeastern border. the u.s. says it has intelligence indicating orders have already been sent to russian commanders to proceed with an attack. >> a white house official says secretary of state tony blinken and his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov will discuss a bossable biden-put tin summit on thursday. there are concerns an invasion can occur before that. russia has 75% of its conventional forces positioned there ready to attack ukraine. >> sam collie joins us near kharkiv in ukraine near the front lines. give us a sense of what's going on there this morning? >> reporter: john and brianna, yesterday we were down on the front line in a

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.the munich security conference. she will meet with the leaders of nato and 13 heads of state while russian forces stand poised to invade ukraine. president biden saying -- let me make it clear. saying russian could invade ukraine within the next several

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.it encapsulates almost all the global challenges facing the united states in one place. so this is just prior to the olympic opening ceremonies. and russian leader vladimir putin and chinese leader xi jinping, side by side, policywise, figuratively, right next to each other. with 100,000 troops on the ukrainian border, putin wants support for what actions might follow. and he sure seemed to get it. >> so a joint statement just released by russia and china says this. the chinese side is sympathetic to and supports the proposals put forward by the russian federation to create long-term legally binding security guarantees in europe. right now russian forces are poised at the ukraine border for a possible invasion. u.s. officials are alleging that the kremlin is preparing to fabricate a pretext for an invasion by staging a fake attack by ukraine against russia. >> all right. more on that in just a moment. i want to bring in cnn senior

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.his is cnn's special coverage of the escalating crisis in ukraine. breaking moments ago, ukraine's national security and defense council announced a state of emergency is to be introduced across all government-controlled region across the entire country. this comes as vladimir putin is getting more aggressive, and the world applies pressure. putin announced that russia's interests in security are nonnegotiable, though he does insist he's open to dialogue on the most difficult problems in the region. the russians adding logistics near the ukraine border, including a field hospital and sheters. . >> the pentagon is moving f-35 and apache helicopters to the baltic states and nato's eastern flank. about 800 u.s. troops are being repositioned from italy to the baltic region. nato secretary-general announced there's evidence russian troops moved into the donbas in eastern ukraine. ukraine is calling on all of its citizens in russia to leave the country. they say diplomacy is still plan a, bu

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. and we do begin with breaking news. just moments ago, in an incredible moment here on cnn, our matthew chance was on the front lines of russia's attempt to take the ukrainian capital of kyiv. he's on the ground after ukrainians pushed back this russian assault. you can see matthew pointing to the ground there, still live grenades littering the ground there. russian killed in action on the ground there, leaving their troops behind, which u.s. military officials will tell you something americans don't do. we're going to go back to the scene and show you just what matthew found in a moment. this is where things stand overall. we have new reporting overnight that the russian forces are encountering fierce resistance all over the country, not just from the ukrainian military but civilians as well. they are being turned back in other places beyond this site north of kyiv. there are talks between russian and ukrainian delegations close to the border with belarus. ukraine calling for immediate cease-fire and russian troop withd

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. and we do begin with breaking news on the russian invasion of ukraine. new reports that the russian forces are encountering stiff resistance, not only from the ukrainian military but ordinary civilians as well. even being turned back in some places. at this moment, there are talks under way between russian and ukrainian delegations close to the border. ukraine is calling for an immediate cease-fire. president zelenskyy making it clear he expects little out of these discussions. we are expecting new reporting about them very shortly. there are growing fears this morning that belarus is prepared to send soldiers into ukraine in support of the russian invasion. that is according to ukrainian intelligence. president putin has placed nuclear deterrence forces on high alert. the white house calls it another manufactured threat. >> now, there are visible signs of russian setbacks in kharkiv, which is where russian military vehicles have been going in reverse, retreating from ukrainian forces

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. is there a new path to diplomacy this morning?vernight president biden agreed in principle to meet with russian leader vladimir putin if putin holds off on invading ukraine. that does appear to be a big if. new satellite images show activity intensifying at ukraine's eastern border. and u.s. has intelligence indicating orders have already been sent to russian commanders to proceed with an attack on ukraine. >>> a white house official says secretary of state anthony blinken and sergey lavrov will discuss a possible biden-putin summit on thursday. russia has close to 75% of its conventional forces positioned to attack ukraine. let's begin with chief national security correspondent jim sciutto live on the ground in ukraine. they are poised to or war, jim. >> reporter: well, brianna, you have two things, right. you have the talk of diplomacy and the facts on the ground. let's describe the facts on the ground as per u.s. intelligence. it's our reporting that the latest u.s. intelligence assessment has found, as you mentioned, orders ha

i'm brianna keilar with john berman. we are beginning with breaking news this morning. new and explosive scandal threatening to blow up the premier event. a russian figure skater failed a drug test, and that person is a minor, which is a key clue here. the six-person russian team has not yet received their gold medal for winning that team event this week. >> we are being very precise with our language here. it's important but you can get the implications. it's unclear exactly when the positive test was taken. the only minor on the russian figure skating team is 15-year-old kamila valieva. she made history on monday, becoming the first woman to ever land a quad at the games. coy wire joins us now. and christine brennan, "usa today" columnist. christine, i want to start with you. because you broke this story. where is it this morning? what new have you learned? >> reporter: john, where it is in a state of confusion. for the second straight day, the international olympic committee, in their press briefing, basically didn't answer any questions. they said it's a legal matte

john berman here in for anderson. this comes at the end of a day that also saw the last american diplomats in kyiv shut down the amba embassy there, the kremlin's signal, a willingness to talk while continuing their build up. we're going to have live reports from kyiv and washington. we begin, though, with stunning news for the accountants who kept the book for donald trump's empire. they're saying count us out cutting ties with trump. not only that, the accounting firm mazars is warning the trump organization and warning others not to rely on nearly a decade's worth of those financial statements. this comes as you know in the middle of an ongoing civil and criminal probe into whether the former president illegally inflated the value of his assets to obtain loans or has his formr attorney michael cohen once said, nearly to boost his status. >> it was my experience that mr. trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes. such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in forbes and deflated his a

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. >>> were toer miami dolphins coach brian flores, who was fired byhe team last month, fired after a winning season, by the way, filed the lawsuit. flores, who is black, claimed he was forced to sit for a sham interview for a new job even though a white coach had already been chosen, he says. and he insists he was used in order to satisfy league rules on interviewing minority candidates. >> attorneys for flores write, in certain critical ways, the nfl is racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation. its 32 owners, none of whom are black, profit substantially from the labor of nfl players, 70% of whom are black. leyla santiago with more on this developing story. what can you tell us? >> reporter: you know, brianna, when brian flores was in miami, he was known as a coach who showed a lot of promise. in this lawsuit, he acknowledges he could be putting his career on the line, something he thinks is worth it because he says the nfl has a problem with racial discrimination and it's time to take it to court. he is suing three teams alleged raci

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i'm john berman with brianna keilar.do begin with a cnn exclusive, advisers to donald trump drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines during the former president's final weeks in office. there was one order for the pentagon, we knew about that. and another for homeland security. we are just learning about the homeland security request for the first time. in addition to that, this eye-opening reporting from "the new york times" breaking overnight that trump himself was directly involved, quote, president donald j. trump directed his lawyer to make a remarkable call, mr. trump wanted him to ask the department of homeland security if it could legally take control of voting machines in key swing states? >> some of the white house records that were turned over to the january 6th committee arrived torn up. reports indicating that it was trump who personally ripped them to pieces. they had to be taped back together by national archive staffers. sources tell cnn that mark short, the former chief of staff to

and i am brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. we're beginning with breaking news. staff members of the white house residence discovered wads of printed paper in a clogged toilet on more than one occasion during the trump administration, and believed that it was the former president himself who was trying to flush documents. that and other explosive revelations in a new book by maggie haberman who joined us moments ago. >> i learned that staff in the white house residence would periodically find the toilet clogged, the engineer would have to come and fix it and what the engineer would find would be wads of, you know, clunked up print -- wet printed paper, you know, meaning it was not toilet paper. this was notes or some other piece of paper that, you know, they believe that he had thrown down the toilet. what it could be, brianna, could be anybody's guess. it could be post-its, notes he wrote to himself, we don't know. it adds another dimension to what we know about how he handled material in the white house. we have known for several years since my colleague annie

i'm john berman alongside brianna keilar. we do begin with breaking news. staff members at the white house residence discover wads of printed paper in a clogged toilet and believe that former president trump was trying to flush documents. that and other explosive revelations in a new book by "new york times" washington correspondent and cnn correspondent maggie haberman. we have been waiting with baited breath for this book. >> this certainly adds a new dimension. a source telling cnn the national archives has asked the justice department to investigate how trump handled white house records. it's also seeking a review of whether the ex-president violated the presidential records act, including the handling of classified information. and maggie haberman is with us now. she is the author of "confidence man, the making of donald trump and the breaking of america." maggie, we start with the toilet. tell us what you learned. >> reporter: good morning, guys. thanks for having me. so, as i was reporting out this book, i learned that staff in the white house reside

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. and we do begin with a cnn exclusive. donald trump's advisers drafted more than one executive order to seize voting machines during the former president's final weeks in office. there was one order for the pentagon, we had known about that. overnight, cnn reporting on another for homeland security. and we're just learning about the homeland security request right now. so "the new york times" also reporting overnight that trump himself was directly involved, quote, president donald j. trump directed his lawyer rudy giuliani to make a remarkable call. mr. trump wanted him to ask the department of homeland security if it could legally take control of votinging m imachines in key states. >> some of the white house records turned over to the january 6th committee were torn up, we're told, and it was trump who ripped them to pieces and they had to be taped together by national archive staffers. and marc short testified before the house select committee last week in response to a subpoena. it is the most significant sign to date

i'm brianna keilar with john berman. we do have breaking news.germany announced big news, it is halting development of the nord stream 2 pipeline with russia. this is about the largest penalty that any country could levy against the kremlin. and also moments ago, new questions about whether russian officials are opening the door to further troop movement into areas controlled by ukrainian forces. about 25 to 30 miles from the donbas region in ukraine, our team on the ground saw several pieces of self-propelled artillery and infantry, fighting vehicles in a field and vladimir putin already ordered his forces into two regions of eastern ukraine, just hours after he signed decrees recognizing their independence. secretary of state tony blinken calls the move a clear attack on ukraine's sovereignty. >> so the administration's language has been tempered, at least so far. the white house has yet to call the new russian troop movements an invasion. the united states has promised swift sanctions, but we are waiting to see exactly what they are, and if th

i'm john berman with brianna keilar. any moment the fate of a russian skating sensation could be determined. it was revealed that she failed a drug test before her olympic performance, the one she has already done, she's got some keen ones coming up. and this is important also, russia knew she failed this test. we're talking about russia's superstar figure skater, 15-year-old kamila valiyeva, she was allowed to compete by russia in the games, even though she had failed a drug test that they say was taken in december. valiyeva led russia's figure skating team to a gold medal in the team event. that ceremony is on hold. >> the russian olympic committee is fighting for valiyeva to remain in the competition, and keep what it calls her honestly won gold medal, insisting their star skater repeatedly passed doping tests while already in beijing. her right to keep skating in the games is being challenged by the international olympic committee. selina wang is in beijing, with our top story. good morning to you. what can you tell

john berman here in for anderson, what's more, and far darker than that is this, his word suggests the administration now considers war a matter of when, not if. >> yes -- my sense is it will. in the next several days. >> secretary of state antony blinken addressing the u.n. security council no less blunt and remarkably specific about how he would start. >> first, russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. second, in response to this manufactured provocation, the highest levels of the russian government may theatrically convene emergency meetings to address the crisis, next the attack will begin. we've warned the ukrainian government of all that is coming and here today we are laying it out in great detail with the hope that by sharing what we know with the world, we can influence russia to abandon the path of war and choose a different path, while there's still time. >> secretary blinken went on to say his case is validated by what has been unfolding in plain sight for months and certainly saw more of it today, specifically in the eastern region that ukraine's president zel

it is monday, february 28th and i am brianna keilar with john berman. we are beginning with breaking news. day five of the russian invasion of ukraine and kremlin forces are encountering stiff resistance from not only the ukrainian military, but from ordinary citizens as well. ukraine says the intensity of the russian offensive may be slowing. in the last hour a meeting of delegations from russia and ukraine got underway on the border between ukraine and belarus. ukraine is calling for an immediate cease-fire and cnn is monitoring these talks. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy making it clear that he doesn't expect too much to come of these talks, but he says they have to try. and there are growing fears this morning that belarus is prepared to send soldiers into ukraine in support of russia's invasion. that is according to ukrainian intelligence. meanwhile president putin increasing tensions. he is placing his nuclear deterrence forces on high alert. the white house calling it another manufactured threat. >>> there are visible signs of russian se

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jon, it is great to have you on this morning, author of "betrayal," one of john berman's favorite new wouldn't believe. >> he files book reports and he was very excited about yours, jon. >> well, thank you. it is awesome to be on "new day." i am, you know, a huge fan of both you, brianna, and john, my former colleague. >> i came first, berman. >> oh. >> all right. jon karl, love it, thank you. >>> a u.s. counterterrorism operation in northern syria left at least 13 people dead, this is according to authorities on the ground. what are we hearing from the pentagon? there are so many questions here. who may have been the target? get help managing your money for the life -- and years -- ahead. with fidelity income planning, we'll look at what you've saved, what you'll need, and help you build a flexible plan for cash flow designed to last. so you can go from saving... to living. king c. gillette is a complete lineup of tools and facial hair care products. this is the style master. designed to style your stubble in one stroke, a pivoting metal head that defines every edge, and three comb l

john berman here in for anderson. this comes at the end of a day that also saw the last american diplomats in kyiv shut down the embassy there. we're going to have live reports from kyiv and washington. we begin with stunning news from the accountants who for years kept the books for donald trump's business empire. now they're cutting ties with trump. not only that, the accounting firm is also warning the trump organization and telling it to warn others not to rely on nearly a decade's worth of those fie financial statements. this comes amid an ongoing civil and criminal probe into the president. >> it was my experience that mr. trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes, such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in forbes and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes. >> three years later, here we are. what did mazar say in this letter to the trump organization? >> telling the trump organization they should no longer rely on nearly ten years of financial statements. these we

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. >> my colleague john berman asked flores if he feels he's putting his career in jeopardy with whatn this lawsuit. i want to play for you what he said. >> i understand the risk. i love coaching football, i'm called to coach football and i still want to coach. let's be clear about that. but this is bigger than coaching, this is bigger than me. the numbers speak for themselves as far as the hiring and firing and the lack of opportunities for minority and black head coaches and executives in the national football league. we need to change. we need things to change. >> he's had interviews the past few days with the texans and the saints, but do you think flores will coach in the nfl again? it's a key question, because as you're talking about the colin kaepernick example, how do you show progress if you don't show progress, right? >> correct. to answer your question, no. it's a wrap for brian flores and for the people watching this and having this conversation, they'll think, oh, no, let's be hopeful. if this situation changes, let's hope he gets a job. stop thinking that. because hoping

here's what petro poroshenko told cnn's john berman on friday on "new day" as he took to the street withcome here to kill ukrainians. >> joining me now to discuss is andrea taylor on the national intelligence council. she's currently season fellow at the transplantic security program at the center of new america security. andrea, you've watched him for a long time. do you notice changes? >> yeah, i think we do notice changes and there's speculation about his health and state of his mental health. it's hard to note from a distance exactly what's going on, but there are a few things we do know. as you talked about in your segment, putin has been very isolated recently and that's been amplified by the covid-19 crisis. the other thing that we know, it doesn't appear that there's really anyone in his inner circle and work that can consc constrain him. we saw him dress down his adviser in a very theatrical performance. that's a dangerous thing. there is a large body of literature that talks about the regimes and they send to produce the most belligerent foreign policies, they're the most likel

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john berman here in for anderson.ized his party's decision to censure congresswoman liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger for serving on the january 6th select committee. he also made how he sees january 6th abundantly and unambiguously clear. >> is it appropria

i'm john berman with brianna keilar and the breaking news. ukrainian capitol kyiv is under siege with major developments within just the last few minutes. moments ago the ukrainian defense ministry says russian reconnaissance troops entered the oman district just a few miles from the city center. they tweeted out a request to make molotov cocktails, take down the occupiers. those devices received the name from the finnish sources. overnight the capitol city, kyiv, was hit by missile fire. ukraine's foreign minister calls it the worst attack on its country since the nazis invaded in 1941. zelenskyy say he is russia's number one target. number two is his family. overnight a ukrainian fighter jet was shot down over kyiv setting an apartment building on fire. ukraine has inflicted 800 casualties although cnn cannot independently confirm that. >> the ukrainian forces blew up a bridge to keep russian forces from advancing towards the capitol. li listen to this audio clip. russia ordered 13 guards to surrender on a strategic island but they refused

i'm john berman with brianna keilar.his is cnn's special live coverage of the news that vladimir putin has launched a multipronged large scale military attack against ukraine. this is an attack across the entire nation of ukraine. you can see there explosions reported in at least 16 different locations. all over. you can see the range of cities, kyiv, odessa, kharkiv, including far from the border. we have brand-new images that show damage done by a bombing operation in the kyiv region. they have grabbed their belongings and are fleeing west, leaving the capital. cnn has obtained this exclusive video showing russian military vehicles entering the country from the north from belarus. president putin going on state tv to announce this military operation to do what he calls protect the donbas region. the goal, he claimed, was the demille demille tearization of ukraine. ukrainians have been told to stay in their homes. we saw them kneeling and praying on the streets of kharkiv. president zelenskyy pleading for peace in a nat

it is monday, february 28th 679 i'm john berman with brianna keilar. we do begin with breaking news. moments ago, an incredible moment on cnn, matthew chance on the front lines of russia's attempts to take the ukraine capital of kyiv. it was a failed attempt in this case. matthew saw blown-out russian tanks, unexploded ordnance, dead russians. we'll show you what he found in just a moment. first, new reporting overnight that overall, not just where matthew is, russian forces are encountering fierce resistance from not only the ukrainian military but ordinary civilians as well. the russians even being turned back in some places. talks are under way between russian and ukrainian delegations close to the border in belarus. ukraine is calling for an immediate cease-fire and russian troop withdrawal. president volodymyr zelenskyy says he doesn't expect any breakthroughs. there are growing fears that belarus is prepared to send its own soldiers into ukraine in support of the russian invasion. that's according to ukrainian intelligence. the united states just

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." >> hi, john berman. always nice to see you especially. thank you all.ura coates and this is "cnn tonight." alarms are being sounded metaphorically in the loudest ways yet by the west. the president, our defense secretary, our secretary of state, the head of nato and others all putting russia on blast for sinister intentions, in hopes to somehow stave off an invasion of ukraine, which they keep warning is imminent. >> every indication we have is they're prepared to go into ukraine, attack ukraine. my sense it will happen within the next several days. >> our information indicates clearly that these forces, including ground troops, aircraft, ships, are preparing to launch an attack against ukraine in the coming days. >> we see them add to the more than 150,000 troops that they already have a radar on that border, and i know first hand that you don't do these sort of things for no reason. >> they don't do these things for no reason. well, they're also laying out putin's playbook for the world. the russian leader isn't known for his honesty, shall we say. he

john berman tonight in for anderson.espond to european allies, all to make the case that vladimir putin is not getting away with a slap on the wrist. >> who in the lord's name does putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbors?