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Fires. now, the degree to which we can prove that these are incidental versus intentional, i dont any we got that without any great fidelity. it would be speculation to know that a given target was intentional or not. i understand the context of the question. the bottom line is more civilians are being killed and wounded, more infrastructure is being damaged or destroyed. mr. putin still has a choice here. not to escalate, not to be more aggressive in the use of these long range fires and his ca...

Are willing to use force against civilians. we talk about the capabilities and capacity of the russian military -- general, its good to have you on. strictly from a sort of military standpoint here, from all that i have seen in the reporting that ive read, the people that ive interviewed, there does seem to be consensus that this initial phase of russian assault has gone poorly, it has not met the short term tactical and strategic aims of the russian military. do you think that is true? >> yeah....

Economic consequences. sanctions the likes of which have not been perpetrated on russia or their economy. those remain available to us. its not just the united states, john. other nations are thinking about doing the same thing. then in terms of nato, we just got back from europe this weekend. were continuing to look at ways we can bolster our nato allies to ado their defensive capabilities. i would not be surprised -- certainly we have the capability if we want to add more forces to these nato ...

Sophisticated combined arms capabilities, theyre not being necessarily fully integrated. so they have made some missteps. and theyre working their way through that. i want to -- i want to be clear as we have been before that we have to be -- as we look at this, we have to be progmatic. 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 fig...

And putin has been trying to convey the impression he really will invade ukraine and and putin has been trying to start a war. even if his actual intent was just to get concessions on things like european security. what has the biden team been doing endlessly? briefing the press are they really think he is serious and the war starts on wednesday actually in the sunday actually it is monday. [laughter] they have been confirming the message that putin wants to stand and now it seems they are getti...

Warning to the private sector that theyve got to sure up their defenses against these attacks and lower their threshold for reporting it to the government because so much of our critical infrastructure is privately owned and as we saw with the colonial pipeline hack, i mean, this could really cause some problems here. griff: no surprise that we should expect to be attacked. i do want to go back. i think your question was so appropriate and pointed with jen psaki and yet now to hear essentially t...

What the white house now is indicating is only a matter of when, not if an invasion will happen. >> shannon pettypiece and andrea mitchell, thank you. matt bradley in live in ukraine. a lot of fast-moving developments this saturday morning. what more do we know about russian military troops as well as additional u.s. troops in the region? >> reporter: lindsey, i can tell you the situation here is extremely tense. we are hearing there are going to be, now beginning the military drills across the ...

Militarily to significantly raise the difficulty and cost of any russian invasion or occupation. he can, as he has already begun to do, strengthen natos capabilities selectively in places like poland, which are strategically quite significant. we have already had a conversation about economic sanctions. i think the german move here on the pipeline is in some ways unexpected and is a strong signal. i also think again we have to challenge putin with the -- continue to challenge him mika with the i...

Achievements and capabilities. >> capabilities widely noticed through his recent example of leadership. zelenskyys videos from the streets of kyiv are being watched everywhere. calm, determined, insistent the world must do more. he has provided perhaps the most memorable line of the war so far, responding to a u.s. offer to get him out of kyiv with "the fight is here. i need ammunition, not a ride." >> and you can be sure that that courage is appreciated, has strengthened his own people in their...

Starting out you will see it at the gas pump. >> and they have a lot of capabilities, russia does. errin, you know this, in 2016, rusia was laser focused on black voter, sowing discord. and russia did attack the dnc and rnc. so this will be an interesting -- as it develops, well see how it plays out. i want to ask you quickly about zelensky. this is a comedian turned president. i dont want to be pot kettle here. we survived four years of donald trump. but i wonder about his competency on the wor...