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I'm Wolf Plitzer in the Situation Room. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world

We're following this major major breaking news

President Bryden as you just saw speaking on the Russia Ukraine crisis right now as it's

escalating big time by the hour. Our correspondence are on the scene in Ukraine and

Russia here in the United States covering all the growing threats of a war in Europe.

Let's begin with our senior White House correspondent Phil Mattingly.

Phil, we just heard, we just heard the President say that he's convinced that Putin has made up his mind that he's going to invade he says in his words

This is from the president of the United States. He believes we have reason to believe he says that an attack on

Ukraine by Russia will happen in his words in the coming week in the coming days.

This is the first time he's said that Putin has actually made up his mind to invade Ukraine

within the coming days.

Well, if it's a significant statement that administration officials over the course of several

weeks have been unwilling to make, either saying that they did not believe he had made up his

...