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Eastern flank. and that kind of gets out your second question, which is we are still in consultation with the allies about what they might need. and so i do not have any decisions in terms of specific locations. but we have made it clear to the eastern flank allies that we are prepared to bolster their capabilities if they need it. again, i want to go back to a core foundation year. the bulk of the trips i am talking about today are intended for the nato response force. the vast majority of them...

The 18th airborne corps, as a set in my opening statement that is going to germany, they are going to form a joint task force headquarters and that is depending on the needed task at hand, several hundred people. the majority that i mentioned that comprise the 82nd airborne brigade combat team, that leading element will be going to poland. >> bill: read thousand u.s. troops. this is in addition to the 8500. theyve not been given deployment orders, that they been put on notice. >> dana: other thi...

As well inside europe to bolster nato allies on the eastern flank, and that kind of gets at your second question, which is we are still in consultation with the allies about what they might need, and so i dont have any decisions to read out in terms of specific locations, but we certainly have made it clear to the eastern flank allies that they are prepared to bolster capabilities if needed. again, i want to go back to a core foundation here, the bulk of the troops im talking about today are int...

Brigade in the deployment orders or are they completely separate because theyre an already scheduled deployment? and then one other -- are there more -- are these troops that are going, are they under nato or are these all unilateral u.s. moves? thank you. >> let me see if i can remember all those. the troops that im talking about today will be going under u.s. command, but as i said, in the case of romania, we know the french are going to be preparing to deploy troops there. we will find ways t...

Size and scale, would exact consequences on russia. not just from the united states, but from the international community. nobody wants to see any incursion of any size. >> okay. so you mentioned the troops. how close are the 82nd the 101st and others to actually deploying. >> right now, they have been put on a shorter tether. they have been put on the heightened alert, prepare it to deploy orders as we call it. in some cases, for instance, some of the units have gone from -- theyre were in a he...

These nato regions. >> look, the senator is right. the use of weapons of mass destruction would certainly have the potential to broaden this war. the president has been very clear. we are not going to put u.s. troops in ukraine to fight. we are not going to put u.s. pilots in the air over ukraine. we can all understand no-fly zone is essentially combat. talking about combat between the united states and russia. that dramatically escalates the war here. now you got two nuclear powers facing off t...

US Department of Defence Press Secretary John Kirby said on Tuesday there are no new announcements to make about any deployment orders or troop movements in Eas

US Department of Defence Press Secretary John Kirby said on Tuesday there are no new announcements to make about any deployment orders or troop movements in Eas

Positive for covid and is exhibits minor symptoms. we want to get right to barbara starr live at the pentagon with the latest. barbara, what do you know? >> reporter: well, good morning, john. we are told the secretary is still experiencing these mild symptoms, mainly upper respiratory symptoms. he started experiencing symptoms over the weekend. he had an initial antigen test yesterday followed by the more in-depth pcr test. it came back positive last night. and the pentagon very quickly put out...

For whenever i signed those deployment orders, a question i would ask myself. i hand wrote the question out and scotch taped it to my desk, where twice a week or more often i would be signing them. the question i asked myself each time, will this commitment contribute sufficiently to the well-being of the american people to justify putting our troops in a position to die? not in harms way, not to be injured, to die. and i hope that every time i answered that question, yes, and sent the troops ov...