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Just doing exercises? and theres more than that? i just cant -- its hard to read his mind. >> mr. biden, mr. president, mr. president, to be clear, to be clear -- >> mr. president, to be clear -- to be clear, you are convinced that -- you are convinced that president putin is going to invade ukraine, is that what you just said a few moments ago? >> yes, i did. yes. >> so, is diplomacy off the table then? >> no. until he does, diplomacys always a possibility. >> what reason do you have to believe...

We have _ military technical consequences, so we have to — military technical consequences, so we have to take this seriously, and thats— we have to take this seriously, and thats exactly why we are now deploying the nato response for us for the _ deploying the nato response for us for the first time in the collective defence — for the first time in the collective defence context. and we speak about thousands _ defence context. and we speak about thousands of troops. we speak about air and...

And where they are needed to protect our nato allies on the eastern boundaries of europe. now i am authorizing additional capabilities to deploy to germany as part of natos response, including some of the u.s.-based forces that the department of defense placed on standby weeks ago. ive also spoken with defense secretary austen and general milley about preparations for additional moves to become necessary to protect our nato allies and support the greatest military alliance in the history of the ...

Statement from secretary blinken, they are in the process of relocating embassy operations to ukraine to the western city of kyiv that we just heard from erin about, and its due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of russian forces. thats what really has the u.s. on edge here, not just that russia continues to flow in forces but the capabilities and numbers of russian forces that moved around ukraine in the recent days has really, really accelerated. theres a real concern they could move...

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Attacks without sending, without firing a single shot, without sending troops overseas, without having to support a military invasion. its cheap, its easy, its done from within russia. its done by their own intelligence services or criminal groups, contractors that they hire that out to, and they can literally shut down sectors of economies if they wish to do that. they have been probing our systems and invading our networks in this country for years, and many of those places done just for this,...

People who are being sacrificed because of folks on the international stage are taken over a country with little if any pushback from the rest the world. one of the things i want to add to what jesse was saying i have heard that the russians are at a distinct advantage in terms of their ability to wage war at night. more so than the ukrainians but the russians and is much as you want them stand there and fight, these people dont have the capabilities of the hundred and 90 militaries to fight bac...

We were having conversations, the u.s. with china, come to find out at least one of those conversations they took the information to russia. they didnt get on board with us. they were back channeling and saying we are not going to help out the u.s. we are essentially with you. >> yeah. its clear that this administration still doesnt fully know what they are dealing with. i guarantee you we are going to be looking to get to the bottom of what the heck they were thinking. sharing our intelligence....

>> not optimistic at all. i want to be clear on that. if putin wanted to enhance european security, he says this on tv there is a way to do thats good. i outlined in very concrete detail what that looks like. having said that i see no indication whatsoever that hes changed his mind. he is building up the capabilities as you were just talking about and the five-alarm fire fight -- i cant remember that phrase. friday. let me try again. five-alarm fire -- a colleague at stanford say that is all the...

History, we have to assume that russia might have access to our critical systems. and we know that they have the capabilities to disrupt and destroy their systems because weve seen the series of attacks they pulled out on ukraine over the previous few years. the attack that keeps me up at night was an attack by russian hackers that dismantled the safety locks at a petrochemical plant in saudi arabia. its clear that they have the capabilities, in some cases, they might have the access, what we ha...