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Those colder temperatures, we could be looking at least a few slick spots tomorrow morning. unfortunately, for the morning commute, from new york farther up to the north, especially, though, across interior new england, boris and kchristi. >> no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. im taking tho the bank. allison chinchar for us. with that, good morning and welcome to sunday. were glad dwto have you. im christi paul. >> im boris sanchez. u.s. officials are warning that russia has 70% ...

Clear that it sees exactly what russia is doing, so that there are no questions among the international community if russia does invade. with a new u.s. intelligence assessment showing that russia now has about 110,000 troops on its side of the border near ukraine, about another 30,000 troops in neighboring belarus, and something like 83 battalion tactical groups surrounding ukraine from three sides. take a listen to what jake sullivan said on "meet the press" about the current situation. >> we ...

The strong partner shap then thats stronger. they will apply use use troops. >> president biden has been clear the united states will respond to the growing threat to europes security and stability. >> reporter: but the u.s. and its allies say they hope diplomacy will prevail as one of americas strongest deterrent forces remains on guard. certainly some pretty strong capabilities on display while we were at sea. the secretary general of nato also commended the united states for sending those add...

Forces there to begin with. so they have added naval capability in the black sea, capability that is designed specifically to put troops ashore. so, okay, theyre exercise, but theyre also exercising capabilities that could be threatening to ukraines sovereignty. same with the tank exercises in belarus. they wouldnt be able to do those exercises if they hadnt added all that military capability along that border. so it is concerning to us. >> some 5,000 u.s. troops are headed to nato countries. my...

This is something thats not just digitally important to us anymore. >> sure, thanks for having me joy. this is the tea anniversary of my removal from the white house. >> [laughs] >> but i think this will be very consequential, its seismic. the consequences of a russian attack and a lack of response from the u.s. and nato would show that it is really not a functional alliance. i think if we look at this from a kind of historical standpoint, if we look back to the cold war, russia couldve conducte...

Like romania and poland and the european union officials and yan from nato. so, this is an opportunity for the president to be talking about what they have learned, which we understand includes the additional satellite imagery that theyve been able to see to look at the ongoing build up as pentagon officials have been saying theyve been watching the progress of russia adding capabilities militarily. and looking at some of the strategic clues that come from that when they see where vladimir putin...

That would suggest putin could invade ukraine any day now. >> i think jake talked about this is a combination of factors one we are seeing in plain sight continued accumulation of russian military capabilities along the border with ukraine and belarus he continues to add force capability well over 100,000 right now and over the last few days even more. number two i think a mosaic of the intelligence we are seeing. not speaking to it specifically we have good sources of intelligence they are tell...

Will soon move additional forces to rumania, poland and germany. i want to be very clear about something. these are not permanent moves. they are moves designed to respond to the current security environment. moreover, these forces are not going to fight in ukraine. they are going to ensure the robust defense of our nato allies. now, let me lay this out for you in a series of three steps. first, 1,000 soldiers that are currently based in germany will reposition to romania in the coming days. thi...

Offsetting capabilities. even over the last 24 hours, he continues to add in western russia, in belarus, the mediterranean and the north atl atlantic. he has shown no signs to be able to deescalate the tensions. its not just the united states that knows this, nato knows this. we have shared our perspectives of what were seeing with them, they have shared their perspectives with us. now with respect to these bilateral perspectives, we are prepared to make these moves. i say again these are tempor...

Action could happen any day. and you heard from the national security adviser making it clear that it certainly could happen before the end of the olympics. maybe even this week. we have shared with our allies and partners and that includes ukraine, our assessment of the information that weve been receiving. and certainly have reflected in those conversations, our deep concern about the conditioning capabilities that mr. putin has at his beck and call. so, i wont get into a specifically date. i ...