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Estonia last week. denmark, the netherlands, and bulgaria are all sending fighter jets to the region. while spain and denmark are sending warships. it seems like a pretty clear message, joe. >> its far different than 2014, when president obama and the obama administration wouldnt even send defensive weapons at the beginning of the crisis. lets go from eastern ukraine and talk to nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. matt, you know, its so fascinating. again, the west is responding far mor...

Screwed us, but also saying i hope that well eventually find a solution, although we realize its not going to be easy. maybe hes looking for an off ramp here as opposed to confrontation. >> lets hope that we can get to that point. nobody wants to see this, and why it matters. this is a sovereign country, they tasted freedom, they have had their freedom over 30 years now. they believe in their borders, we obviously have been saying that its important for us to believe in our borders, and so we mu...

Direct warning to russian president vladimir putin, as more than 100,000 russian troops tighten their child cold on ukraine. the two heads of states vote on the phone yesterday for just over an hour. according to a white house readout of the conversation, biden warned putin that in an invasion of ukraine would result, unquote, swift and severe consequences to moscow. white house officials described the call is professional and substantive, but added that there was no fundamental change in the dy...

We want to de-escalate and prevent this from happening. but thats up to president putin. >> reporter: and we have not heard about talk of an invasion being imminent. the president said if he had to guess, he would believe that russia would go into ukraine. but today, in an interview with npr, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations said she wouldnt use the word imminent. theyre still trying to give russia this diplomatic off-ramp. and there was some hope from u.s. officials based on comments f...

Of stuff. im not saying that democrats should be popping any corks on champagne bottles, but its a problem politically for them. you can see by the way that they are reacting to these new revelations. >> yeah. that makes a lot of sense. i want to thank both josh and maya for kicking us off on a big story. we have a lot in the program. coming up, theres this tipping point for a covid off-ramp. im going to explain why theres good news and a breakthrough in a democratic stat state, also, our specia...

Certainly to our nato allies in eastern europe, poland, romania, the baltics, what can we do to continue to shore up their defenses, make sure were doing at that. and, second, how do we get weapons into ukraine? how do we help support their ability to defend themselves? and i think the other thing we were talking about is whats the off ramp here? if were going to prevent a war, putin has to get something out of this. he has to be able to have some sort of diplomatic face-saving mechanism to back...

The western response increasingly alarmed and alarming. this is perilous geopolitical terrain, and ukraine is trying to chart a course through it. there may yet be what they call an "off ramp", a way of diffusing the crisis. but theres a danger — that talk of all—out war becomes a self—fulfilling prophecy. gabriel gatehouse, bbc news, western ukraine. a couple have beenjailed over the death of their eight—week old baby, in south london. amina—fayejohnson had more than 60 broken bones w...

We are seeing every single move you are making. you are not hiding. and, its causing some pause with russia. you know, traditionally, weve seen, you know, russia in 2008 with georgia, and 2014 in the invasion of ukraine, and taken crimea. but, they move very quickly. they move very quickly on this one. every step of the way -- especially, the u.s. has been reporting on that. that may be causing some pause. there may be some room for diplomacy. president putin, at this point, needs an off ramp. h...

Now for the entire u.s. there are many parts of the country that are still being overwhelmed with patients, that hospitals are still really full. so, we certainly should not be lifting restrictions there. but there are other places that are clearly trending in the right direction, and we need to give people hope. we need to have an off ramp with these same restrictions were putting in. there are definitely people who arent happy with this point of view. theyre saying, look, we may have new varia...

But he still says he wants to talk to macron of france. he has a call scheduled with biden. so he is playing a game where he is still trying to press for some guarantees, security concessions and such. and so the question is is there some space there for a diplomatic off-ramp? i dont think its too late. i think putins first objective is to get the kwon sessions without war. and if there is no other way he created a circumstance where he can manage a very quick effective military victory. but my ...