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America and we cant do this by ourselves and we have to do it with freedom-loving countries and stand up to this thug and hes a bully. if we dont, ukraine will not be the last country this happens to. the baltics have about 40% russians in the populations and the russians will go after them next. weve got to stand up to the thug. >> and the baltic states are nato states, right? >> yes. >> do you believe because they are actually worried about this. lithuania, latvia, poland, they are worried tha...

But the russian forces have the capability. and secretary austin is absolutely spot-on. the capability exists to do significant damage to kyiv. but as we have discussed before, if you want to take kyiv, youre probably going to end up rubbling a large percent aage o kyiv. what is more likely is something in this area with a potential expansion there because that allows putin to achieve an objective that the world might look at as we looked at crimea. okay, its a big deal until it wasnt, right? so...

We dont know what to expect. and when you dont know what to expect, what do investors do? they take their chips and go home. so the capability leads to volatility. so yes were in the green today, or higher, but well be right back in the red tomorrow. a time like this is going to be volatile. >> for regular people, dont trade on markets like this. stephanie its gonna be very enjoyable next week to watch you in the slot every night. im so grateful to be here every night but rest here were gonna ne...

You know, ali, i want to say honestly, i used to be for targeted sanctions. we should target those close to putin, the russian people dont deserve to suffer. but at this moment, there has to be much more pressure on all of russian society, and i hope thats one of the things they were discussing this phone calls. >> my executive producer, lauren p cough, who knows how to use twitter better than i, do just send me his tweet in english. he says, urged to start putin, -- building an anti putin coali...

From ukraine. we put another 1000 troops on standby in this country will continue to do what it has always done and receive those who are fleeing in fear of persecution, thats what we will do. i are fleeing in fear of persecution, thats what we will do.— thats what we will do. i strongly su ort thats what we will do. i strongly support the _ thats what we will do. i strongly support the robust _ thats what we will do. i strongly support the robust approach - thats what we will do. i strongly i...

Definitive characterization to date of russias intentions, what makes the president so sure in what sort of diplomat, efforts remain on going? >> reporter: i think what makes them so sure, john is the intelligence, and the president citing the capability they have earlier there when he was speaking with reporters just briefly on this but what were hearing from source as really what the president says today matches and lines up with what they have been seeing and reading in the intelligence theyv...

Military intelligence operations and their cyber offense capabilities as almost a peer. maybe they arent, but thats how we would to think of them in term of being defensive about it. so we know they have that capability. exactly what they could do in the united states is what weve seen them do elsewhere. turn off electric grids as they did in the ukraine, shutdown water supplies, affect financial transactions. so we know they have that capability. would they do that here in the united states? it...

Is moving more troops and weapons like f-35s and apache attack helicopters toward nato-allied countries in eastern europe and the baltics. biden is adamant that u.s. troops will not fight in the ukraine. so what does this added level of force do? >> well, provides -- obviously if its not -- deterrence gives you two things. one is the force that you are trying to put in place will deter your opponent because of its capabilities, its size, its strength and your willingness to use it. the second th...

Know, have been administered. the true answer is, we dont know, right? the fact of the mare matter is ranging from what he has done so favre u.s. believes we will swiftly enter that tore interest ri. the latest i will telly gent those they are moving for air transport for battalions. the force thats already arranged will be ordered to go in. they maintain that are capability to send it in. putin could keep the pressure on without acting and tension. >> i wanted to ask you this,

Fields that dont have lights. we have all this capability. cant get into the details but generally speaking we have conducted covert operations before for years. we have the people to do that. we have an intelligence agency that goes to title 50 to do something like that. the president has to issue a finding and there is risk associated with it. im not suggesting there is not. it has to be looked at carefully but it certainly should be on the menu of things that we should be looking at particula...