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Forces that they have amassed at the border and just leave a fairson almost indefinitely to keep their guns and missiles pointed at kyiv, as a threat of psychological warfare and likely a scenario in the short term and as you pointed out and as i have been reporting, ukrainian officials have almost unanimous in thinking this whole thing was a bluff. they believe they understand russian president vladimir putins psychology a lot better than we do. they think this is just his way of conducting bri...

Many ukrainians simply thought it was a bluff by vladimir putin. perhaps there would be some military action going on in the east of the country but it seems like nobody expected what were seeing here today in terms of the bombing and shelling and things youre seeing inside of the country, erin. >> reporter: yeah. thats what weve seen here, as well. people heard the intelligence. they knew the intention. they simply did not believe that such an incomprehensible and counter factual thing could ha...

They have inflicted on us in the last four days. >> vladimir putin has included nuclear weapons on high alert. do you see this as a credible nuclear threat, or is it a bluff to putting pressure on ukraine ahead of these talks? >> you know, after the full-fledged invasion and after four days living in basements and all of our people, not only military forces, but our farmers and bread growers and business analysts, putins unrest and taking arms to our country, from this attack its difficult to an...

Have been killed by ukraine rebels sympathetic to russia . biden administration is still holding out hope for a diplomatic solution but the prospect of war seems likely. >> i dont believe it is a bluff. i believe he assembled the right kind of things you need. >> until we know the tanks are rolling, planes are flying and aggression has full begun. well do everything we can to prevent them, but were prepared either way. trey: president biden said russia would face swift and severe consequences if...

Cluster of munitions being used to devastating effect on the civilian populations, and two days in a row, this nuclear threat could be a bluff but you dont want any kind of bluff with nuclear weapons. you dont want them backed into the corner, theres a careful balancing act there. >> thats exactly right, and by the way, i fear well see these really terrifying thermal barrack munitions on rockets launched. you know, they literally suck the oxygen out of a room or an area in which they explode inc...

For nuclear, we are peers and he is doing this because he is weak in all of the areas of national power. and we can allow him to use his bluff threat to ignore our interests. so we need to stand up strong helping ukraine. we need to stand up strong making sure that russia does not attack any of our allies. if we do that, putin will not use his nuclear weapons to commit suicide. >> ambassador john herbst, thank you very much for your time this morning. >> thank you. when we come back, the russi...

Today hes talking about putting his nuclear forces on high alert. sounds like hes throwing a tantrum and throwing the chess pieces on the floor. >> i dont think we can apply the chess logic to putins action. its much more likely popular logic. its the game putin has been playing for years and years. he always won. not because he had a strong hand. very often he had a weak hand, but its about bluff. he could bluff and raise the stakes. the opposition always fold ed cards. now putin is facing the ...

Starts. thats an information warfare campaign. i think the biden administration has done a phenomenal job of declassifying information, calling putins bluff, saying any predicate he might concoct to invade is fabricated. in that way they maintained alliance unity, deterred putin, allowed us to close our embassy, move 5,000 troops to poland and send a clear signal if putin invades the west will be ready. i think the biden administration has handled this stage, stage zero, absolutely perfectly. >>...

Putin or his foreign minister wave the bloody flag of basically nuclear brinkmanship. when we are silent, when we back down, when we capitulate to that they suggest it makes it more likely that putin sees us as week and hes more likely to use nuclear weapons. their suggestion is to call his bluff and speak about the consequences of nuclear weapons and the consequences for the russian people and to not just, again, be seen to be capitulating. im curious what you think because, again, we are not d...

Targeting russian elites and their families, freezing trillions in assets. >> these are people who personally gained from the kremlins policies and they should share in the pain. >> reporter: biden says sanctioning putin himself is still an option, but declined to answer why the u.s. isnt taking that step following the russian leaders full-scale attack. >> its not a bluff, on the table. >> sanctioning president putin? >> yes. >> reporter: the president said he is sending in more u.s. troops to b...