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Have the capability to and that we would worry about that and our infrastructure while they are just dismantling this country of 42 million people. >> i could talk to you guys all night, thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge. we appreciate you being with us. coming up, simone sanders antimatter on how the ukraine crisis threatens to overshadow the presidents state of the union message, when the 11th hour continues.

>> were starting to see evidence that those russian special forces that we had heard had been inserted into ukraine have so-called come to life. theyre now being seen at bases where they have taken over from the ukrainian military even in the capital region of kyiv. what we have seen in these initial hours suggests the beginning, not the end, of what putin has the capability to unleash on ukraine. the nato secretary general has called the north atlantic council to meet. it could mobilize 40,000 ...

Week, in the coming days. matthew chance is in kyiv for us right now. powerful words from the president. im sure it will startle all the folk who are where you are. >> reporter: yeah. absolutely. ive not heard, none of us have heard the u.s. president talk about it in such stark terms as that. he was even pressed by one of the reporters. how do you know hes made that decision? he said because we have considerable intelligence capability, revealing there that they, or saying at least, that they h...

It is part of russias military doctrine that the use of tactical weapons, being relatively small. still with enormous capability on a hiroshima scale to destroy cities and things. but tactical nuclear weapons are part of their military doctrine as first use in response to a conventional threat. its different from the way the u.s. and other countries look at nuclear weapons. so when you add those injects, yes, the prevailing view may be, yes, this is a manufactured threat. but because its nuclear...

Arms, training, and equipment and clandestine forces. diplomatic support is going to be in the cards. in terms of sanctions, i think weve taken significant steps. theres more to go. we could sanction spur bank and vtb bank. other banks that are very critical to russian elites. to the russian governing state. once we engage in these export restrictions, probably about six months time, well degrade the russian industrial manufacturing capability, their high-tech capability. thats going to be a sig...

Constitution, we saw it on 2019, on sunday the ukrainian ambassador to the u.k. said maybe we can withdraw our bid to nato, and then doubled down and said no, its not up for question, maybe there are other things to negotiate or concessions with russia. your thoughts on all that. >> i think where putins head is, he is still opting to see if he can get major concessions here and thats the likelihood of the pressure and hear what the president has to say after the conversations. but there appears ...

Past, what they have done is used hybrid warfare to try to, basically, put that you are opposition off balance. i would not be surprised, lets put it that way, if this cyber attack is something the russians were trying in order to disrupt the ukrainians. i hope that we are doing the same to the russians. i think its important, if cyber will be a game here, then i think putin and the russians need to know that both sides can play that same game, so they understand that we have the capability to u...

Right now were dealing with a defense budget thats not even going to cover for inflation, and its below 3%. during the cold war, jon, our budgets were at 7%. thats what weve got to get back to to deal with china which is our pacing item as the secretary of defense refers to it. and on this obvious threat that we have with russia and certainly nato has gone to got to upgun themselves. they seem to have come together in terms of the focus now. they seem to have come together to put aside their dif...

Come in if they wanted to take kyiv reqand decapitate the leadership? >> if they want to do it, i think they will be able to do it. i dont think ukraine has the capability to stop them for hong. they may have stalled the operation a little bit now with the level of resistance they have been putting up which apparently has been quite intensive. from my vantage point here on the roof top, i havent been able to witness the level of that -- of that resistance. um, but, no, and if this operation has ...

Choice but to respond and we are therefore looking into adjusting our posture, our military presence in eastern part of the alliance, to make sure it is no room for misunderstanding about natos commitment and will and capability to protect and defend all allies and by doing that, we are preventing any attack on nato allies. >> to that point, are you saying if russia successfully invades here that nato does not successfully deter, that russia would then threaten other nato allies, particularly in...