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President biden today promising u.s. forces will get involved if russia pushes beyond ukraine and goes deeper into nato allied european countries. as kaitlin collins reports, the president would not answer why he is not preemptively sanctioning the russian president now. >> reporter: hours after russia invaded ukraine, president biden denouncing the unprovoked attack and imposing new sanctions to punish the kremlin. >> putin is the aggressor. putin chose this war. >> reporter: the president sayi...

Russian convoy that has been stuck for days north of the capital, ukrainian forces blew up this bridge at the front of the convoy. the u.s. and 14 allies have provided security assistance to ukraines military for months. a u.s. defense official overseeing the ongoing delivery of weapons says a $60 million package was transferred to ukraine by november of last year as concerns about russia grew. in late december the white house authorized $200 million worth of military aid. that was delivered by ...

They needed sniper rifles. they need ammunition, camouflage capabilities. they are slowing it down for fear of escalating the situation potentially. i cannot stress how dangerous it is a ring is in this situation when ukrainians are fighting for their lives, their families, their country. they need these immediately, and within the next couple of days. thats how desperate they are? >> thank you both for joining us. returning to some news. we will get back to ukraine in a minute. the supreme cour...

Sort of the russian version of the munich security conference. its called the valdi club. he was introduced to me, and he started to rail against the bush administration for pulling out of the abm treaty. and he said, you know, the fact that russia can make the united states vulnerable with its nuclear forces is what makes us a superpower. and you are trying to deny that capability to us. so he thinks in nuclear terms. hes obsessive, if you will, about russian nuclear capabilities, and when you ...

Capabilities, that they are not being necessarily fully integrated. and so they -- they have made some missteps. and they are working their way through that. i want to -- i want to be clear as weve been before, that we have to be as we look at this, we have to be pragmatic. the ukrainians are fighting bravely and creatively. the russians have a significant amount of combat power applied in ukraine, and they still have some significant combat power that they have not engaged in the fight. and we ...

And theyre now employing their highly destructive capabilities. precision weapons, thermal barrack weapons, indiscriminate bombing, cluster bombs, cluster munitions, those things. so now theyre going to embark on a campaign of immense destruction of first off the infrastructure that supports government control of the people, you get the word out, command and control, and all elements of society. they have attacked museums and burned them. they have blown up government buildings. theyre going aft...

Here is a look at all of the countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. this is not nuclear power generation, this is nuclear weapons. russia, china, france, the united states, the u.k., pakistan, india, israel, and north korea. now, nine of those countries, only the ones in blue are part of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty which was made to top the threat of nuclear weapons. not in the treaty are india, israel and pakistan. they never signed onto it. north korea withdrew from the trea...

In very serious trouble. every step of the way has been extremely, extremely tense. >> we are doing a true public service right now, so here you are going into day seven. what does that look like for you, ukrainians? better, worse? >> i have to tell you, we have been surprised. i have been surprised by the resistance of the ukrainians. i was one of the people who have been here for nearly six weeks, and i was saying before this invasion started, i thought the ukrainians were going to lose. in th...

>> well, thats the other silver lining. these european nations got a kick in the pants. putin scared the snot out of them and its a wake up call. look at the reversal from germany on nord stream-2 and providing lethal aid after had a blocked it a few weeks ago. can it get through poland since we cant fly it in and get into the hands of the ukrainian resistance fighters? i think if the russians get bogged down in urban areas, tanks are most vulnerable from the top, and from the rear, and then to ...

Union, the chairand invasion. nato and the european union, the chair and office this year. poland is doing vital work to respond to this crisis. it is hosted and increased nato presence. and it has done a great deal to facilitate assistance to ukraine. as nato allies, defensive cooperation between poland and the united states, closer than it has ever been. since january 30 of the united states has more than doubled the number of military personnel in poland to no more than 10,000. we have increa...