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There unlike crimea. if that were the plan, is there anything we could do about it? ultimately there was nothing that we could do about crimea. >> were not putting american troops on the ground. the president is clear about that its unclear what mr. putin will do. certainly with the forces that he has arrayed on that border and theres a lot of them, well north of 100,000 and they keep adding to it every day and increasing their capabilities, they have a lot of options available to them. they cou...

Said, conflict is not inevitable. theres no reason for there to be armed conflict, in ukraine or anywhere else on the european continent. and mr. putin can go a long way to serving that end by taking seriously the proposes that we have put forward, diplomatically, and by de-escalating by moving some of those troops away. >> but is there any evidence that he plans to -- that anything youre seeing, that suggests those troops that are outside ukraine might carry on to poland, romania? >> what we se...

Without a specific agenda. in this case it was important to convey really what went on in the meeting with the president aenlg european leader, and he was sent to convey to the world what the u.s. position is to speak to russia, as well. anthony blinken spoke earlier in the day trying to set the table diplomatically and preparing the country for what could be a serious situation and the resources and capabilities that russia has in position are so great that they believe that russia could overta...

Concrete efforts to even r illustrate to vladimir putin there will be real consequences and what these consequences mean to russia. >> we have seen joint military training between russia and china. i know iran has been brought into the fold. talk to us about this partnership of china/russia/iran heard what is it mean to america after we know president obama cut defense spending through that frustration years ago but also tells about the readiness of the military right now particular in the navy ...

Given the west time to get organized, time to prepare sanctions, time to close embassies, arm the ukrainians and time to move troops to the eastern flank, this is been a master stroke by the biden administration and winning this decisive phase zero. >> you served as moscow bureau chief for the washington post, peter. after covering big putin for years, let me ask you, have you seen -- him building capabilities, we know the level of concern is extraordinarily high. does that mean hes made his dec...

Lithuania. >> you dont see evidence that his forces have moved in to attack position? >> im not going to talk about what were seeing on the ground. what i will tell you is, we continue to see him advance his reainess and improve his capabilities and provide himself more options should he decide to take military action in ukraine. >> do you have evidence that china game its tacit support to russia during that meeting february 4 for an invasion of ukraine? >> the statement itself reads as tacit su...

Continue. >> no doubt the economy has taken a massive hit over the past few months, kylie atwood, thank you. of course there was the closing here in kyiv of the u.s. embassy in the last 24 hours. joining us to discuss all the developments, david gergen, former presidential adviser to nixon, ford, reagan and clinton and retired major general james sp spider marks. good to have you both on. general marks, i wonder if i could begin with you, youve been a russia watcher for some time, we have seen...

The border, they will face consequences, katy. >> i want to ask about the intelligence we got over the weekend about russias capabilities? >> yeah, thats right. the update is they now have about 70% of the total number of forces and capabilities, a raid around the border of ukraine for a full-scale invasion. what we are talking about the invasion of the entire country, trying to take over all of ukraine, and that could be done once they get all the forces in there, that could be done in a matter...

Breedlove, these new warnings from the white house, theyre stark. do you believe that putin is going to order an invasion in ukraine in the next few days? >> well, like others, im not going to speculate. heres what is for sure. mr. putin has assembled all the capabilities he needs to execute several options. the option being talked about in the north in the kyiv, one through the dumbas and one in the south crimea, so the bottom line is, people need to look at what mr. putin has available and tak...

What led to the decision to carry it out last night? can you say? >> this was several months of planning going back into the fall, well into the fall here, anderson, and it was really built up over a while looking at the intelligence from a different variety of sources to help us make sure we had the right person, we had the right compound, and to your question, the right time. timing is always a factor with respect to things you cant necessarily control, like the weather. and the moonlight and ...