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Campments or staging groups that contain staging forces are relatively empty. all this comes as cnn learns the u.s. has intelligence indicating orders have been sent to russian commanders to precede with an attack to ukraine according to multiploe u.s. officials. this hour, stock markets are reacting. tokyo has been trading for about 15 minutes. stocks are hammered while the world waits for putins next move. economic analyst ronna joins me. what economic fallout will we see if an invasion of ukr...

According that were supposed to bring legal resolution, thai dead. now he has legal, in his mind, some type of legal justification to do pretty much what he wants. >> major, let me come back to you. the u.s. says it has intelligence that putin has given his field commanders orders to invade. it could be disinformation. could be withdrawn at any time. you pair that with what we have seen today. do you believe considering past prolong, do we get to the end of this week and there are not russian tr...

>> steve: we have seen this movie before. president biden calling a rare sunday meeting with the national security security council in the operation room as russia is ready to invade ukraine right now it comes after the president stayed silent this weekend when reporters pressed him on the escalation crisis. is he not answering questions. here to assess the threat is former deputy commanding general in afghanistan and retired brigadier general anthony tata. gentlemen, good morning to you. >> goo...

Across the board and ukraine essentially becomes denied space to the united states, how do they collect intelligence on what hes up to? one of the first things that may go are some of those reconnaissance planes with pilots in the cockpit. they wont fly over ukraine if putin is launching missiles and theres full blown combat. so look for more reliance on drones, more reliance on satellites, more reliance on very high-flying u2 spy planes, for example. theyre going to have to shift around on how ...

Border with ukraine is basically unkoilg. that means more than half of those forces are moving into attack positions. thats a significant term in terms of military doctrine. they are gassing up those tanks. they left the barracks, they are living in the fields, and they are just a few miles from the ukraine border. they have not been given the order to cross the line of departure. but what is reported is the intelligence that led biden to say he believes have decide on an invasion. that that was...

Commands have been given to tactical commanders in the field to go forward with an invasion. that is one of many indicators that the u.s. is looking for. they havent seen all of them, but its an important one. theyre still waiting for other signs, for instance, large scale electronic warfare here, jamming large scale cyber attacks. they have not seen those indicators but the orders going into tactical command is significant and as you mentioned, right now, this is remarkable statistic, really, r...

Him back, lets talk about about this meeting at the belarus border from the ukrainians -- the ukrainian president has essentially said, we are going to do. it we are gonna spector needing to come up to it but they have to do everything i can to try to achieve a cease fire after this invasion. what is the reality coming out of moscow right now at the top when it comes to this meeting at the border? >> yes, so jasmyn, it has not been clear at any point that this offer talks from moscow is being ma...

Tonight at ten, were live in kyiv, as the russian advance across ukraine, brings more devastation, and civilian casulaties. as fighting intensifies in the countrys second largest city, of kharkiv, the president makes a direct appeal to russian soldiers, invading his country. translation: drop your weapons and get out of here. _ do not believe your commanders, do not believe your propagandists. just save your lives and go. half a million have left ukraine since the invasion began, with some citie...

Advancement of weapons to ukraine to ensure or help them protect themselves. diplomacy remains on the table. we have all the punishing sanctions in place if indeed he does invade. now, hasnt been perfect? note no lead up towards perfect but it is important as we look at where we are today. jennifers reporting is so critical because if indeed we have intercepted this kind of communiqué against the mid-level and upper level commanders and it seems some sort of invasion is imminent i think the pre...

Has been given. so the commanders are preparing for the last, final time needs to be decided, but three things in the timeline to consider. and they busted some of them. one, are the beijing olympics, theyre over. that was a concern that might have been holding back putin. and of course, number two, the allied resolve exercise in belarus with belarusians and the russians. 30,000 plus, all kinds of stuff, thats passed. offensive issues in ukraine. in mashrch, it will be a quagmi