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Answer to meeting those needs in the conflict. sovereign nations can decide for themselves what they want to do. this idea of transferring the jets to our custody and transferring to ukraine is something we will not explore right now. >> were going to continue to look at a broad swath of capabilities that the ukrainians could use effectively. sochl them they already are and maybe they need replacements but im not going to get into individual systems. >> whats the difference in providing jav elin...

Rest of western europe? i think we need to be calling for certain change. so i would say theres five different categories of things that both americans and europeans can be providing. first and foremost, while it is true that were implementing some sanctions which are very effective, we need to be doing more of that . we need to be considering having the entire russian financial system divorced from the global financial system which we have not yet done. number two, we need to make sure that we ...

Whats happening inside of russia because the kremlin themselves absolutely do not care how many soldiers are lost or how many ukranian civilians they kill. >> it feels like cheap punditry how much the russians have underperformed and cleary will underestimating the pushback that they would see from the ukranian forces. as someone who sat in europe looking to the east at the russian military for a number of years, are you surprised at all that the russian military has kind of stumbled in this con...

Russians are aware of whats happening there. so i at this point do not see -- i agree with the intelligence community assessments -- i dont see how putin can achieve his objectives politically, and i am more -- i think theres a greater chance than i have ever judged that putins hold on power is less than it has been in the past. >> well, its hard to envision how this ends with him in power. thank you both very much. still to come, we have the nations leading national security officials testify...

Joining me now is retired brigadier general. general, i want to pick up on what katie bo was talking about there. the notion of bringing syrian fighters in. if they did that, if they did, we dont know how many would be coming in, they could be effective in urban combat around kyiv. explain. >> first of all, let me explain, the 5rarmy coming in from russi is conscripts. those that fought in grozny are gone from years and years ago. these syrian fighters have been fighting since 2015 in places suc...

Saying 100% of russian combat forces theyve dedicated to ukraine are flow in the country. wheres the greatest fighting going on? whats your assessment of the russian capabilities? >> you know that before the war it was more than 100,000 russian troops around the border of ukraine. you can see how all these days how our army, how our people defend our countries. and of course i think that it was big surprise for russia that what answer they received in the ukrainian lands. you know, its difficult...

That he is causing against a nation that provoked nobody, against a nation that presented no threat to russia. all of this is by his choice, and all that blood is on his hands, and he could stop it right now if he wanted to. >> john, there is a discussion that some nato allies might send to ukraine. is the u.s. involved in these discussions and will the u.s. give a green light if some allies move forward with that? >> i have talked before that sovereign nations are making decisions for themselve...

Months, or however long it takes. however much we can push through it. so i think this is all good. can i say one other thing? you know, listening to all these reports, when this is all done, itll be really interesting to do an intelligence assessment of how we all got so wrong the capabilities of the russian military. all the assumptions were that they would come in and theyd come in like a knife through butter. they obviously are not. and i just -- itd be interesting to know, what did we have ...

Ukraine. and the secretary has never been one to take off the table options to relocate assets as he believes is best suited to defense of nato territory. this is one of those decisions. it wasnt precipitated bay single moment or issue or act by the russians but rather by a constant and routine consultation with nato allies. in this case poland. about the needs and the capabilities that would best suit our obligations to article v. as for the orders given, clearly general walters gave the order....

Suck -- they have to deal with a north korea that appears more concerned with testing weapons than talking. neither candidate has foreign policy experience. lee supports the sort of engagement current president moon jae-in has sought with minimal success. >> translator: we need dialogue as well as sanctions. we need incentives as well as disincentives. the most important thing is to secure trust. >> reporter: yoon believes sanctions should be eased only after denuclearization is complete. >> nor...