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Waging in ukraine, and their increasing desperation as they see ukrainians turn more and more to the west. this really isnt about, will ukraine join nato? its more about the ukrainian population is rejecting russia, even in parts of ukraine that are right on the russian border, i think the russian government understands that ukrainian is turning west because theyre rejecting the russian authoritarian model, so i walked into the meeting concerned. i left even more educated but no less concerned. ...

Access hollywood tapes broke right before the election, i knew this would help him with certainly people, not hurt him. >> ruth ben-ghat, and lauren leader, thank you both very much for being on this morning. and that does it for us this morning. chris jansing picks up the coverage right now. hi there, live at msnbc headquarters in new york, it is wednesday, february 16th. we have got a lot to cover. lets start with the fast moving developments in the standoff over ukraine. defense secretary l...

Needs to stop and president putin needs to pull back. this is likely to take a long time. theres an immediate impact of these sanctions. >> if russia feels to become cornered or desperate, do you worry they could become more dangerous and threaten nato countries? >> we have some very powerful called article v, an attack on one is an attack on all. >> john brennan, what ive been thinking about is that the question increasingly in my mind is whether this man is rational. what vladamir putin is doi...

His plans. president putin from carrying out his lans. ~ ,:, :, president putin from carrying out his lans. ~ :, :, �* his plans. well, so far, we dont see any military _ his plans. well, so far, we dont see any military at _ his plans. well, so far, we dont see any military at our - his plans. well, so far, we dont see any military at our border. l his plans. well, so far, we dont l see any military at our border. we are part of nato, part of the eu and we have article v in nato which says an...

Far, we dont see any _ carrying out his plans. well, so far, we dont see any military l carrying out his plans. well, so| far, we dont see any military at our border. we are part of nato, we are part of the eu. in nato, we have article v, which says an attack on one is an attack on all, so if any of the nato countries are attacked, it is going to be attacking nato as such and i think it is too big a fight for putin to take, even if he threatens, but, of course, we have to prepare and we also hav...

Cybercapabilities, shuts down the power in ukraine, does that somehow shut down the power in eastern poland as well? >> cyberattack is again, one of those areas where we have had strategic ambiguity, but if you see american troops get hurt because the power has been shut off our polish citizens die because the hospitals go down, youre approaching a violation. >> this is important. nato secretary general also said a cyberattack could trigger article v, and that says an attack on one is an attack ...

Operational capabilities. >> we keep hearing about article v where every member agrees it will consider an armed attack against any member state as an attack against all 30 members is an attack on one. article v has only been invoked once in the history of nato in response to the september 11th terror attacks on the united states. what scenarios do you think could trigger article v today? >> well, article v is essentially natos commitment clause. it is effectively the alliances formal mechanism ...

Threatened to walk out of nato. when he would not commit. pointedly, he took out of the speech the commitment to article v, the mutual defense pact. he wouldnt say it in brussels in front of the european leaders. he warred with the other heads of state over there, saying the eu was one of the united states biggest rivals and used the word "foe" to describe them. of course, he was impeached over trying to blackmail ukraine over the defensive missiles they are now using, the javelins and such, to ...

No u.s. troops on the ground in ukraine. and also that they are completely committed to article vs defense of nato. lets listen to jake as a result of jake sullivan on "meet the press" this morning. >> there are no u.s. troops operating in eastern or western ukraine. we will defend every inch of nato territory but united states forces will not engage russian forces inside ukraine. its no surprise the russians are trying to expand the number of targets in this war because theyre frustrated by the...

About putin going further. he telegraphed a lot of things with us. were we asleep? >> yes, the good news -- well, the good news -- were only here with 44 million ukrainians fighting hard. if putin is successful and fully conquering ukraine, its going to be a long and difficult and expensive occupation. so, i think theres breathing space in there before he can make his move. thats really important. right now, he has georgia, moldova, and the balkans, none of which were in nato and all he can do e...