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Has just emerged from that meeting with nato members of states, and he has been very clear about natos assessment about those russian claims of some beginning a withdrawal, saying nato has seen no sign of that, and what remains in place is a massive force ready to attack with high-end capabilities specifically from belarus and crimea. we heard him go into that meeting with a similar assessment earlier today. have a listen. >> we have heard the signs from moscow about willingness to continue dipl...

Continues to advance his readiness should he choose to go down a military path here, should i choose to invade again, he is doing all the things you would expect him to do to make sure hes ready for that option or options. >> no indication, for example, that what they have called exercises have ended in any way or are changing in any way their presence? >> i want to be careful to characterize another nations exercises. we have seen them conduct these exercises in recent days, exercises are desig...

In those forces. they are what we call combined arms, armor, artillery. he keeps adding to his options to the plays he can run out of his play book if he wants to conduct military activity in ukraine. >> what im trying to understand here is you said all he has to do to deescalate is remove some of them. to indicate where hes going. right now even though he says theres a diplomatic path, as you point out in the past 48 hours, all hes doing is putting in more and more and more. it seems like the o...

Down a military path here. and should he choose to invade again, he is doing all of the things that you would expect him to do to make sure that hes ready for that option, or options. >> there is no indication for example that what theyve called exercises have ended in any way, or are changing in any way, theyre presence? >> i want to be careful to characterize another nations exercises. weve seen them conduct exercises in recent days. exercises are designed to make you ready. and that gets to m...

Putin in what way he can. military, odds not good, but short of putin putting his military across the border, zelensky wants to stand there, look him in the eye and get the best he can out of all pressure bearing down on him right now. >> nic robertson, a guessing game at this point. that report from nic robertson. joining me, former defense secretary leon panetta and serve under president clinton white house chief of staff. great see you. as always. this idea russia already has 70% of military ...

>> administrations call. >> dana: why does this all matter so much right now? >> its at a critical time when americas national security is being tested. china, putin and now iran. the worlds state sponsor of terrorism. they kill more american soldiers through their forces than any other entity on the planet earth. from a national security perspective impossible to allow it to occur. from a defense strategy iran wants to take out america. why would we enrich their capabilities to take out america...

An attack is imminent. >> the continued russian capabilities along the border of ukraine and belarus, he continues to add force capability, well over 100,000 now, over the last few days even more. and number two, a mosaic of the intelligence were seeing. not speaking to it specifically, but we have good sources of intelligence and theyre telling us that, you know, things are sort of building now to some sort of crescendo opportunity for mr. putin. >> we will have a live report from the white hou...

>> 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 have to start with what is the risk of that invasion from the standpoint of using military force to achieve putins objectives? that will be the trigger point and what he decides to do if he deploys all those...

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Acceleration of the buildup and the movement of russian forces of all varieties in a position where they could launch a military action very, very rapidly. >> to rob lee and the department of war studies at the university of london, russias current military buildup near ukraine is unprecedented, this is not like the buildup in the spring of 2021. the amount of russian aerial, ground and military naval power in ukraine is quantifiably far greater, and thats of western governments, too. capabiliti...