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Around the world? >> its a demonstration of u.s. military capabilities and intelligence capabilities. so you get, in effect, not only on the terrorist america and supporters, it just puts them deeper underground, more concerned about their own security, less willing to take risks, less willing to, by recruiting and moving, other things. so they know then how powerful the united states is, but you also get an effect on countries like russia and china. they cant do this. they dont have this reach....

Assessment, russia has already assembled 70% of the forces it will need to launch a full-scale invasion with estimates that as many as 50,000 civilians could be killed or wounded in a matter of weeks if putin decides to launch a full-scale invasion. national security adviser jake sullivan offered this grim assessment on yesterdays" meet the press" with chuck. >> if there were a window where something happened, a military escalation, an invasion of ukraine could happen at any time. we believe the...

Russia? theres been this debate about the word imminent. weve heard from ukrainian officials speaking off the record, pushing back on the idea of imminent. >> well, i think its probably a good thing that the white house is backing away a little bit from the word imminent. because that implies obviously as you know that its absolutely going to happen. i think that in the zelensky government, they believe this pressure will continue in hopes that the government cracks somehow. and it finally gives...

All he has to do is remove the forces around the boarder with ukraine. make it clear hes not going to provide any capabilities inside ukraine and be serious about sitting down diplomatically and working through a process here thats peaceful. >> let me ask you in the context of when putin spoke today, he spoke with a nato ally. the second to visit with him. today the fs the french president emmanuel macron. before the meeting, he told a french weekly magazine, and i quote, russias geo political o...

Assault with the red arrows like weve been seeing coming in from every direction simultaneously. i dont know that the russians have the assets. >> general hodges believes any likely russian invasion will keep from the sea. this is at odds with the pentagon. >> martha: thanks, lucas. reporting live from kiev. john kirby joins us now. good to have you here, sir. thanks very much. lets start with lucass reporting ended. you heard general hodges says he believes an attack is most likely from the sea...

That are around ukraine right now. so it would be a combination of all those things. and that would then serve to move forward the russians interests and potentially allow them to take kyiv very quickly. >> were looking at the intelligence that u.s. officials say they have on russia. they say 70% of their military capabilities are in place for a full-scale invasion. what does that tell you just in terms of the amount of resources that russia has put in place there? >> well, john, i think you hav...

Hes read out his calls on it with world leaders and meetings, et cetera, but he will continue to speak directly to the american people as we watch the situation unfold. >> no plans for any kind after dress from the oval office or speech about this issue with prepared remarks? >> i dont have anything to announce in terms of a speech or prepared remarks at this point. >> so you and other officials have been transparent in describing the strategy for ukraine. do you believe that strategy is helping...

Have the overmatch is going to be in terms of naval capabilities, air forces. so there is a mismatch in certain aspects. but on the ground, i think that were not going to see this big, giant red arrow going across ukraine towards kyiv. because the russians dont have the capability, at least not yet, to do this. there would be a lot of casualties. >> and there was talk of the ukrainian population, and their willingness perhaps for a more protracted conflict of a different variety. is that realist...

>> he could immediately on his order seize every single one of these machines around the country, on his order. he could also order -- he could order the -- within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states. >> that guy used to be a respected general. hes talking about the military going into swing states, seizing voting machines and rerunning an election under the auspices...

Offensive or coercive operations beyond ukraine to nato allies. russias audience here is ukrainians, ive got you under my thumb, youre always going to be under my thumb, but the message is also to nato, to show nato as inept and weak and send the messages to romania and bulgaria and the black sea region, if you think nato has your back, they dont have your back. these deployments are important. it is important also to deploy significant capabilities in the black sea region generally to say, hey,...