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The president and his 29 colleagues will start addressing what we will do in case such escalation is forthcoming. >> i wanted to ask you about that. on the question of nuclear weapons, the kremlin spokesperson was on cnn yesterday, refused to take the option of using nuclear weapons off the table, and i just spoke with slovenias prime minister earlier this hour about this, and his take is that he said i dont think russia will use nuclear weapons because using nuclear weapons means passing the th...

Based on the information that they have available to them. and it is their assessment, one in which the secretary concurs that the transfer of combat aircraft right now could be mistaken by mr. putin and the russians as an escalatory step. as i said, we need to be careful every decision we make, that we arent making the potential for escalation worse. because thats not only not good for nato and it is not only not good for the united states and our national security, should this conflict escalat...

Be seen as an escalatory step so putin will not do it. do you think they are right? >> i do. its because of the threat analysis of whats going on in ukraine right now. those aircraft are not as beneficial as ukrainian air defense capability, ground air defense because russia has some pretty good air defense systems and they have what military guys call bubbles over different parts of ukraine. the ukrainian air force is flying. they are doing a relatively good job but the transfer of migs, not a ...

Mitt romney who supports the plan said. take a listen. >> send these migs. and the question is, why arent they being sent? weve had four days that this is something that is being discussed. enough talk, people are dying. send in the planes that they need. they say they need migs, people say, well, maybe thats not the ideal weapon for them. thats what they say they want. they are there. theyre the ayes to determine what they want. they want migs, get them the migs. >> my understanding the concern...

Escalatory step. now we heard from biden in what a senior official is now saying was an ad-libbed moment at the end of the speech. for gods sake this man cannot be allowed to stay in power. a white house official telling reporters what president biden meant was that president putin cannot be allowed to exert this type of coercive influence over other countries in the region. but that they were not calling for regime change or suggesting anything about who should lead russia. but that having been...

(Bloomberg) -- Officials from Kyiv will meet Russian counterparts at the Belarus border, hours after President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear forces on higher alert and even as fighting continues inside Ukraine.

As soon as Monday to help its ally Moscow, the Washington Post reported, citing an unnamed US official. 

They are going to continue to reach more which is another escalatory step. theyve already warned the europeans, in this case, not to take any actions that are going to increase their uranium enrichment levels. >> fred, thank you for that update. irans enrichment comes at a dangerous inenvironment. now brittain wants seize the oil tankers released. >> reporter: what the iranian authorities believe is brittain and gibraltar are essentially asking for proxies. why do they believe that? well, the ...