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Biden. that also includes additional combat aircraft both for air policing and for deterrence. with deployment of forces here the u.s. says it wants to send a clear message to both its allies and adversaries that the united states remains fully committed to collective defense on natos eastern flank. u.s. troops will be training with allied nato forces to make sure the alliance can operate as a single, coherent force in case of aggression from russia. >> if the time were ever to come they know ...

Right number with the right capability. so that tells you what they are looking at is that, indeed, putin can make a decision and order the move at any time. now, in the latest, there are a number of russian exercises that were learning about. the russians have blocked off a large portion of the black sea to the south for maritime exercises. not clear how that may impact commercial shipping traffic coming into the region. to the north, they are now starting the exercises with belarus just to the...

Pause. but again, well know and i will tell you this, i know the u.s. assessment continues to be were taking this very seriously and thats why we saw the step of closing the embassy here. >> to the idea that perhaps its a pause, jim, one of the things people are saying skeptically rightfully so is, look, the russians still have all these forces at the front. but if the russians were to try to open the window, they wouldnt pull 130,000 troops to the end of russia one day. they might be dipping a ...

Military exercises in the west but there are plenty more troops still on exercise and the kremlin says russian president vladimir putin is still open to negotiations. the german chancellor olaf scholz is in russia to meet with the chancellor. more now from cnns matthew chance in kyiv. >> reporter: the first strike on ukraine could start with a barrage of ground and air troops. they could move across the ukrainian front here. as tensions mount, the latest images released by the russian defense ...

Think having this wokeness entering into the military will somehow enable themselves to be more dough might get more votes. this is appeasement to the radical left. this is not about americas safety and security or increase of capability for prediction of the national security. this is certainly not about strengthening america on the world stage to make sure we can answer the call if anyone threatens us at any time. >> todd: what i dont understand presumably at the highest levels of the military...

As you well know, because ukraine is not part of the 30-member alliance. but it most certainly wants to be, which is exactly what putin feels so threatened by. see, russia, they see natos growth across europe and expansion eastward, and they view it -- at least putin does -- as a giant threat. but the question is, even if it is a threat, would he wage an all-out war to try to push the west and democracy and fair and free elections back as well? i want to get the view from the ground in ukraine. ...

He speaks out right here. and president biden ordering a military strike that kills the leader of isis. >> thanks to the bravery of our troops, this horrible terrorist leader is no more. this operation is testament to americas reach and capability to take out terrorist threats no matter where they try to hide, anywhere in the world. im determined to protect the american people from terrorist threats and ill take decisive action to protect this country. last nights operation took a major terroris...

Yesterday you had sergey lavrov and vladimir peutin in a televised meeting saying the window for diplomacy was still open and the kremlin spokesperson call my colleague fred pleitgen last night and say, yes, putin is still willing to talk. those three signals against what u.s. intelligence has been assessing for recent days as getting worse, not better. that is more forces moving closer to the border, into combat positions as well as hardware, like the helicopters that brianna was just talking a...

It appear as though ukraine is doing something aggressive, which requires russia to respond so they can claim that any offense, any assault, attack, invasion they take into ukraine is a reactive effort, not an offensive one right now. the president, the white house has said that the potential for the attack remains imminent, but theyve changed their language saying imminent makes it sound like vladimir putin has made a decision. they dont know if he has. but he has the capability to do so in the...

And thats been a frustration among some lawmakers, saying its not just that he wouldnt say directly he would call off the pipeline. he hasnt really outlined the sanctions would be. i think you saw president biden and the chancellor making an effort today to say, yes, we are on the same page. so of course this raises big questions about how theyre on the same page, given the discrepancy here. >> the administration walked back some of its language about an invasion of ukraine being imminent in the...