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Decides. >> and general marks, let me enter two things, one thing people may not have heard. the secretary-general of nato said they will not deploy nato combat troops to ukraine. thats something that president biden has said more than once about u.s. combat troops going to ukraine. >> there is not going to be any american forces moving into ukraine. >> they never were on the table. >> that is not on the table. >> so, general, what does this say if the u.s. has said they are not doing it and nat...

False argument. im so glad you corrected yourself at the top of the hour. you said these werent combat troops. these are combat troops but youre correct, you said it correctly the sec time. we dont intend to put those boots on the ground in ukraine. >> well, president biden has made it clear he doesnt want them to engage in combat, and he has taken that off the table. >> thats correct. but they are combat capable troops. some of our very best. >> yes. general, i appreciate your time. and thank y...

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...

Is it sanctions? what is that? >> we dont want to put ourselves in a position nor do the russians to go to war with russia. no one would win. the world would lose should that be the case the minute you start talking about face to face with the russians that can go up the escalation ladder very quickly. so we take a move and put combat troops in. he puts his combat troops facing and firing at us and all of a sudden it becomes sub conventional to conventional to possibly nuclear. we have to be car...

Im todd piro. hi, carley. >> carley: this is true, we have beef over christmas movie, thats about it. im carley shimkus, more on the presidents outburst. first breaking news overseas. weapons will arrive in ukraine in a moment and troops are ready for possible deploy toment eastern europe. >> todd: live in kiev with the latest, steve. >> steve: todd 8500 u.s. troops on heightened alert. they can be sent to eastern europe if there is invasion of ukraine. no plan for u.s. combat troops on the grou...

Less, it takes time to do that. so taking the right steps. sending a message also to mr. putin that we are very serious about our nato obligations and this will not simply be a bloodless, straightforward program in which everybody looks the other way, similar to crimea. >> so, you know, you used the word "bloodless" and i just want to ask you about this. obviously as weve pointed out, these troops if they go, theyre going to eastern europe, not technically to ukraine. and president biden has mad...

So theres a lot of offensive stuff going on. what we have to do as a country in the united states, what we have to do is stand by ukraine, and why its important is we have this attack on democracy everywhere in the world. we have it at home now and abroad, and we no longer have the luxury of choosing when and where were going to defend democracy and freedom. we have to do it everywhere because its tied together everywhere. so we have to stand with the people of ukraine. were not going to send co...

Troops be deployed from and would they be combat troops? >> well be able to provide more detail in the next day or so, were notifying these units so were being careful about saying who they are and where theyre coming from, but theyll come from bases around the united states and if theyre deployed, theyll be part of the nato response force. this is something that nato would decide where they would go. the secretary made it clear that if he were to do something like this, it would be on the easte...

Continues with this current course, he will likely get exactly what he didnt want. if you read the papers, he didnt want increased foreign presence and increased foreign capability —— and thats what were doing now. as well as other nato nations, by the way. but general, doesnt nations, by the way. but general, doesnt doing _ nations, by the way. but general, doesnt doing exactly _ nations, by the way. but general, doesnt doing exactly what - nations, by the way. but general, i doesnt doing e...

Why? why are these people on ventilators saying, can i take the vaccine now? why are they yelling at icu nurses and doctors as they try to sedate them and make them comfortable before intubating them? why? how does it happen? this piece of reporting does as good a job of anything ive seen at explaining how we got here. >> well, at the end of the day, its a very interesting piece of reporting. i think that offers a great deal of insight to this moment in time, but this rupture in the country is n...