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Ukraine is not a nato member and therefore not bound to the treaty that says an attack on one is an attack on all three members. the pentagon is sending thousands of u.s. troops to the region to bolster the natal block. they are heading first to germany, their next destination is unknown. nato says its trying to avoid a larger war. >> we are increasing our presence in the eastern part of the alliance but what we do his defensive, is measured, and we dont seek confrontation. we want to prevent th...

We dont know whether it was done with malice or was done deliberately or if it was just sort of casual conversation. either way, these are matters that someone much smarter than me, someone with a sense of the law and record retention law probably does need to sort through to figure out if theres some sort of illegality they need to investigate. >> yeah. let me ask you about what the dccc is putting out in terms of democrats and what they need to do to help them in the mid terms, which is basica...

About. theyre absolutely right. and so we are going through that door to save lives, they opened that door, and ill tell you what, we talked about a public health crisis with covid, how about the public health crisis coming with the u.s. supreme court? the public health crisis as it relates to abortion, and the fact we can overturn roe v. wade, the public health crisis with gun laws that are in front of this court. lets wake up to this serious public health crisis that is looming because of this...

The nato countries are going on the defensive, and he is using it for propaganda. >> we are completely defenseless, thats what the countries are saying. >> its an amazing thing that an american president says "we are purely defensive." i dont understand why we have laid on these sanctions. i understand that it would be a deterrent, but he has already escalated so much. there should have been sanctions earlier. >> that is but the ukrainian foreign minister said. we are going to monitor this break...

Capabilities but as the fighting continues and spills on to kyiv streets, ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy says ukraine deserves the right to be a member of the european union and is calling on germany and hungary to support the rest of europe in cutting off russia from the global s.w.i.f.t. payment system. meanwhile, displaced ukraine residents turned refugees are crossing friendly borders into romania, hungary, poland and slovakia where u.s. troops have joined nato allies to welcome them....

This way, president zelensky is asking for airspace to be shut over ukraine and he is saying, if not that, then give me some planes. he wants a lot more than this, doesnt he? . wants a lot more than this, doesnt he? , , , ., ., he? yes, there is the question of how restricting _ he? yes, there is the question of how restricting people _ he? yes, there is the question of how restricting people cosmic- he? yes, there is the question of. how restricting people cosmic access to things like super yac...

Country including with whom that country may associate. thats exactly why we are all standing up and standing firmly. coming together not only in support of ukraine but also to bolster nato and to make clear that there will be massive consequences for russia if it continues down this course. >> look, president zelensky also brought up the fact that, you know, this isnt vague promises that the west made to ukraine, that ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons and one of the reasons it -- one of the p...

Russias intent to, be including the pretext that putin would used to invade. and the idea is that it makes it that much harder for russia to come up with that legitimate excuse, for them to tell the story about why they have to send 100,000 troops into a neighboring country that they will overpower. does it say, nothing of the fact that, unlike, you, know whats trusting what colin powell said back then, with todays level of open source global surveillance, a gps satellites, its pretty darn diffi...

Interfere, you say he is threatening actual man-on-man, woman-on-woman, person-on-person combat, correct? >> that is absolutely correct, that is what my book is about, putins playback, russias plan to defeat america. putin developed sophisticated strategy that russians call new generation war fare and if russians intelligence interprets or misinterprets u.s. and nato action as offensive instead of defensive, then putin can authorize preemative doctrine, including kinnet and i can nonkinetic opti...

Forward again with the facts that hes moved 7,000 troops in to the area, attack helicopters, more combat aircraft, medical units and blood units as well. certainly the tank bridge that jennifer mentioned, all of those leads to one conclusion, that hes planning to conduct an invasion in the next several days. thats kind of where we are. and i got to give the administration some real credit here. this exposure of classified information from the beginning has put putin at times on a defensive. it g...