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Full invasion on the entirety of ukraine. there are large numbers of russian military vehicles. the nato secretary general just told reporters that more and more have moved out of their camps and in combat formations and ready to strike. well go live to russia and ukraine in just moments. first, kaitlan collins starts us off from the white house. >> reporter: president biden announcing new sanctions as he says is the tstart of an invasin in ukraine. >> this is the beginning of the russian invasi...

Operations, apparent kind of refugee crisis being manufactured with civilians being urged to evacuate these areas because of an imminent ukrainian offensive. of course the ukrainian military says there is no offensive, but russian media is full of pictures, wolf, of people, of tearful women and children being bussed into russia to prevent this imminent so-called attack. take a look. the not so distant thud of shelling echoes through the city, its origin unknown. hours later a jeep ablaze after a...

We see the ongoing military build-up. they promised to step back but they have continued to step up. we see that more and more. the forces are moving out of the camps and are in combat formations and ready to strike. >> so were also hearing this from officials in the biden administration. how does the intelligence committee make this assessment? is it solely based on satellite? >> no. one of the thing im looking at is not just that the troops are in combat formation which is really important, be...

Speaking at a press conference in brussels, the nato secretary general said that every indication is that russia continues to plan for a full—scale attack of ukraine. for full-scale attack of ukraine. for months, russia _ full—scale attack of ukraine. fr?" months, russia has been building up a massive military force in and around ukraine, including in belarus. with well over 150,000 troops and fighter jets belarus. with well over 150,000 troops and fighterjets and attack helicopters. many un...

From kyiv from belarus and kharkiv from russia, they are a hodge podge of units. they do not fight normally or exercising normally as regiments and divisions. that was one of the reasons why the institute for the study of war wasnt convinced that there was going to be an attack on kyiv from belarus because most of those units came from the east, they had never really worked together and yet they would be the main effort, which kyiv is. it doesnt make a lot of sense but thats what we have. what w...

Harder it gets. there is a question about how long they can sustain the size of occupation. where as if ukraine can stay in the fight, logistics, convoys, bypassing some of the major combat formations, the longer they stay in the fight, the more weapons to get from the west, the more reserves get trained up and civilians, and the more the sanctions bite on the russian war machine. there is a space and time dimension going on as with all conflicts. ., ., , ., ~ conflicts. how well do you think th...

Theres really no other word for it, in combat, risky missions. carol? >> the president said earlier when he spoke in paris that the problem was a lack of intelligence on the ground and thats why the united states isnt conducting more air strikes over syria. >> i think thats right. what they are looking for is that fine, granular intelligence, on a given day if you have aircraft flying over raqqah, syria, where are the civilians? where is the isis leadership? where are the isis weapons? if youre ...

Debates. while the strategy is the right strategy, it just needs to be set up. >> i think it does need to be sped up and intensified. i think while isis is a long-term problem for us, we have near-term issues associated with it. all you have to do is look at the downing of the russian airliner and the attacks in paris and the attacks in beirut and so on. so we have a near term problem that needs to be addressed or a near-term challenge from isis that needs to be addressed but when i hear people ...

They are trying to accomplish. what their goals are. as i said. most of these countries have another agenda. the saudis are worried about iran, the turks more about the kurds and so on. but theyre both united in the fact that assad has to go before you can make progress against isis. i think we need to listen to them if we want them to be active and aggressive members of the coalition. but the reality the you hear people talk about sending combat formations from arab nations into iraq to fight i...

Lindsay just mentioned libya. theyre metastasizing all over the middle east. and we do not have a regional strategy. we think some number of troops, along with this coalition, would be the way to take out isis. and to also make sure that bashar al assad leaves power as well since he is the butcher that has killed 250,000 of his own people. >> senator graham, ive read that you are proposing a 100,000 strong force, provided by egypt, turkey and saudi arabia. this weekend, former secretary of defen...