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Things to your listeners, but hes within that southern military district are areas like chechnyan, dagestan, bugagrad and crimea. he knows the area in which hes serving. the way he has conducted combat operations in the past has caused him to be -- hes received a lot of medals from putin himself, but he has also been the kind of executioner that weve seen prosecute these campaigns where theres an awful lot of civilian attacks, civilian destruction, chaos on populations both in syria and in grozn...

Because the president was pushed on afghanistan and the withdrawal. his answer basically restated his case for the withdrawal but did not answer how that withdrawal was carried out and the chaos weve seen ensue. has the president answered sufficiently on that? >> no. i dont think he made the case either for the fact of withdrawal or how we did it. he said, for example, if we stayed, there would have been -- it would have required tens of thousands of more troops, there would have been a lot of c...

Cetera, this is larger in scale and scope of amassing forces. i think youd have to go back to the cold war to see forces of this magnitude. well continue to monitor very, very closely but, yes, it does feel different. >> well come back to the room and go out to david. >> reporter: since the president has ruled out sending u.s. troops into ukraine, does that mean that the u.s. military would not be used if an evacuation of kyiv became necessary? >> as youve indicated, david, the presidents been r...

Scope and the amassing of forces than anything weve seen in recent memory and i think youd have to go back quite awhile into the cold war days to see something of this magnitude. they do annual exercises. we watch those closely, but this is different. so well continue to monitor very, very closely. but, yes, it does feel different. >> well come back to the room and go out to david. >> since the president has ruled out sending u.s. troops into ukraine, does that mean that the u.s. military would ...

Go after a target like this, and so unwilling to take any sort of concrete action when it came to stopping syrias civil war. >> no doubt, a huge risk undertaken by this administration. natasha, just 24 hours ago that we were covering a pentagon briefing following the announcement that several thousand u.s. troops would be sent to eastern europe. at the time, was there any indication that this separate operation was also in the works? >> there wasnt, bianna. it is interesting, obviously, because ...

Airborne division which you served and help americans who flee ukraine in the event of a russian attack. you know this unit, give us a sense of what we can expect from these extraordinary men and women? >> yeah, so i serve in the secondary born division, kind of our premier airborne response forces and capable of the point anywhere in the world within 18 hours. 2,000 troopers that can go anywhere in the world. thats the unit i serve on rotation in that unit several times. they have been doing al...

Scope and the massing of forces than anything we have seen in recent memory, and i think you would have to go back quite a while into the cold war days to see something of this magnitude. they do annual exercises and we watch those closely but this is different. so well continue to monitor very, very closely. but yes, it does feel different. >> well come back to the room and go out to david. >> since the president has ruled out sending u.s. troops into ukraine, does that mean the u.s. military w...

"out front" tonight, putin breaks his silence, speaking for the first time publicly since december. putin taking questions during a meeting with ironically a nato country, claiming the united states has broken its word and is forcing his hand in ukraine. >> there are mk-41 launchers on which tomahawks can be installed. that is, these are not anti-missile but strike systems that will cover our territory for thousands of kilometers. isnt that a threat to us? let us imagine ukraine is a nato member...

Force. pete: especially because the gap of our fighter jets and china are narrowed. we dont have the automatic advantage. we need to train against the capabilities they have? >> youre absolutely right. weve been involved in combat operations last 20 years or so, during that time, while weve been involved in the middle east china has been innovating and investing heavily in the defense industrial base. youre quite right the gap has narrowed significantly. if were not concerned about that, were ab...

Shutting the power down was something we expected days ago and using cyber warfare to do that, which would be cleaner than conducting combat operations in and around power plants. insanity. >> carley: antony blinken is meeting with a six-nation trip abroad to show support for european security. >> todd: here is more. rich. >> good morning, todd and carley. meetings all day with nato and european officials for antony blinken. nato has been bolstering forces throughout the eastern part of the nato...