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President responded by saying that nato is also a nuclear power. as of 3:00 p.m. eastern, russia had fired more than 160 ballistic missiles into ukraine. striking air defense and military command and control targets according to a senior u.s. defense official. president biden also agreed to send 7,000 additional u.s. troops from fort bragg and fort stewart, georgia members of the first combat team third infantry division. >> im authorizing additional u.s. force capabilities to deploy to germany ...

Trying to unify nato, unifying the west no better example today the german who said theyre going to deploy these lethal weapons to ukraine the keep calm defensive weapons but clearly any kind of missiles going to destroy soviet tanks and kill russian soldiers can be very offensive. >> thank you very much. lucas tomlinson reporting from lviv in the western part of ukraine padrone now jonathan hoffman former chief a pentagon spokesperson former assistant to the secretary of defense. welcome back g...

Influence russia to abandon the path of war and choose a different path while theres still time. now, im mindful that some have called into question our information recalling previous instances where intelligence did not bear out but let me be clear. i am here today not to start a war, but to prevent one. the information i presented here is validated by what weve seen unfolding in plain sight before our eyes for months and remember that while russia has repeatedly regarded our warnings as melodr...

Details around this doping scandal. we have learned -- i spoke to the ceo of u.s. anti doping agency. valiyeva reportedly testing positive for three dressing that all had performance enhancing capabilities, reducing fatigue, improving performance. she declared the use of two substances which are not banned but have these abilities to perform. thypoxel and l-karnitine. take a listen to what tiger told cnn earlier. >> having these three -- two declared and one testing positive that wasnt declared,...

Out its tanks, pulling away from this brink. but this crisis still teeters dangerously on the edge. lyse doucet, bbc news, munich. as we heard, russia and belarus say they are continuing to carry out joint military exercises. william cohen, who served as the us secretary of defence under president bill clinton, gave the bbc his reaction to the news. well, i think the exercises have reaffirmed the need for nato. nato was created in order to prevent the soviet union from invading europe, western e...

Theyre testing nuclear capabilities, thats not the only major warning sign. you went through the long list of all the things that have changed in the past 24 to 48 hours. theres been a lot of stuff happening here on the border thats made this so incredibly incendiary. we saw last night there was an increase in the exchange of fire. thats been happening on a daily basis. weve seen the number of incidents -- this is not between russia and ukraine but between ukrainian regular soldiers and russian ...

Right now? >> well, troop buildup continues. there is no -- what were not seeing is a retreat. what we have indicated is that there will be sanctions, et cetera. but we havent seen in a response to that and in fact those troops remain in place and theyre maneuvering, theyre moving around, which would put them into more advantageous positions that would allow them to be within effective range of their capabilities. they could begin operations, excuse me, from where they are right now without cros...

Downtown or at least on the outskirts within hours. >> yes, the ukraine military will fight, but they are overmatched in numbers and sheer capabilities. john, they have no defense, really a guest russians airpower and the shoulder missiles, they dont have enough of those, they have no defense against russias missiles, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and they have an adequate defense against a long-range artillery and their rocket artillery which is absolutely devastating. of the last time t...

And it is a vacuum bomb. our cnn crews sploted flame throwers over the weekend. everyone knows, these are the kind of bombs -- im sorry -- that can shoot the actual weapon. and so, people understand what they do, a thermal baric weapon can basically keep structures intact but sucks oxygen out. there is a powerful-pressure wave. and it sucks it out of a human being. basically, sucks the air out of your lungs, organs, and it is horrible and i am describing it this way because it is a horrible way ...

See him form his capabilities in such a way that leads us to believe that we are potentially close to some sort of action, again what that action will be and a timeline, we cant be sure. what we see is that russian forces continue to assemble closer to the border. put themselves in advance stage of readiness to act, to conduct military action in ukraine. again, virtually any time now. we believe that they are -- they are ready. ill put it -- leave it at that. theyre ready. jen? >> theres reports...