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The advance has been slowed. unfortunately, there is so much information coming in, it is difficult to identify what is disinformation or... difficult to identify what is disinformation or. . .- difficult to identify what is disinformation or... ., , ., disinformation or... that is part of the problem- _ disinformation or... that is part of the problem. the _ disinformation or... that is part of the problem. the information i the problem. the information coming out from all sides at this moment ...

So, thats publicly available information. what nobody knows, and we have been clear about that the whole time, is that we know their capacity, we know the forces they have amassed, but of course we dont know with certainty their intentions. but if we combine what we know about the forces, what we know about their threatening rhetoric... they have stated clearly that if we dont meet their demands, there will be military—technical consequences. and we know the track record of russia. theyve used...

I think what it revolves around is what i call the elusive holy grail for intelligence, which is plans and intentions. and this really boils down to the plans and intentions of one man, putin. and thats always difficult, particularly in his case, since he plays pretty close to the vest and doesnt talk to too many people, best i can tell. that is a challenge for the intelligence community, always has been, particularly when denied countries like russia and china. what is actually on the mind of t...

For an invasion, however, it said that putin has not yet made the decision. what are the indicators here that this is going anywhere other than across that border? do you believe it is still a question of if and not just when? >> i do. to answer your question directly, what are the indicators that putin would pull back and they dont exist. all of the indicators, the indications in warning that matrix of intelligence that is collected, the amount of warning time you would need if something were t...

President vladimir putin has ordered into those two russian separatist regions in ukraine, that those could be arriving at any moment in the coming hours. the u.s. has also been watching russias military movements over the course of the past few weeks as well as most recently the past few days, and theyve seen other movements that have suggested the potential for a broader invasion. that includes the arrival of amphibious ships as well as equipment for airborne units. and as you heard the u.s. a...

Sanctions. it will have a military component as well. the president biden was careful to describe this as purely defensive action. >> i have authorized additional movements of u.s. forces and equipment, already stationed in europe, to strengthen our baltic allies, is tony, a latvia, and lithuania. let me be clear, these are totally defensive moves on our part. we have no intention of fighting russia. we want to send an unmistakable message though, that the united states, together with our allies...

We call phase zero before the shooting starts, which is really the most consequential phase sometimes in a war. this phase zero of information, and misinformation, and counter misinformation, i think the united states is exactly right. i think we have done two things with respect to intelligence. number one, we have been very quick to classify intelligence, and call out the regime intentions of the kremlin. and second, as we have seen, they are false information his social media, we have seen it...

West. remember, hes given up nothing. all hes done is dialled up the tension. or is he headed to war? right now thats the question im quite sure that president biden is asking the intelligence community to plan on. what are putins intentions, that is the number 1 requirement for any russia watcher. >> charles: earlier in the vehicle, it felled like russia was taking a victory lap. there were indications that they were going to pull back. this is where they started to move the troops. that someho...

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