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This week. richard engel joins us from ukraine with more. richard? >> reporter: alex, we are once again in the trenches in eastern ukraine. this is the front line, not very far from here, russia has about 100,000 troops and tanks and other offensive weapons. and ukrainian soldiers, men and women, tell us that they will use these positions to defend this country and that they will fight to the last man and woman. a lot is riding on negotiations that are taking place, starting with real intensity ...

Offensive weapons, systems in ukraine, as well as measures to increase confidence regarding military exercises and maneuvers in europe. >> were still waiting for the kremlins official response of that document but foreign minister said he sees no room for compromise on russias central demand that nato pull out of eastern europe. thats the non-starter by the administration. john sullivan reiterated russia will face massive consequences if it further invades ukraine. joining me to discuss, former ...

Merit. what jumped out at you as you looked at this in terms of class action? who else could be involved? >> one statistic that, if true, is very sobering. its that at least allegedly, when the rooney rule was instituted, the rule that requires an interview of at least one black candidate for any open head coaching job, there were, i believe, three black head coaches at that time. now today, there is one. so the complaint alleges weve gone backward. if thats true, then it seems that we have, at ...

Country lines, is absolutely unacceptable. >> the biden administration today also confirmed it approved the transfer of american weapons from allies in the region to ukraine. what more do you want the biden administration to do to discourage russia from attacking? >> again, i think this is an appropriate move by the biden administration. it is a little later than i would have hoped but at least he is doing that so i believe we need to be outfitting the ukrainian military with not only defensive ...

Further talks would be possible or whether or not those could lead to anything. but now at least the two top diplomats are talking to one another. if you look at the areas where things are really difficult, the russians, of course, put forward the list of demands that they have where they want written responses from the united states, secretary of state blinken said the written responses are not coming at this meeting. the main key places the russians demand there is no further enlargement of na...

For the first time responded to written diplomatic proposals from the u.s. and nato russias concerns were basically ignored, putin said he laid out his security demands, unchanged even after weeks of negotiations with the u.s non-expansion of nato, no offensive weapons by russias border, he said. putin never mentioned the 130,000 russian troops mobilized on ukraines borders, including tanks, warships, missiles and even fresh blood supplies instead, the russian president talked about crimea russi...

Lot more emboldened than he was eight years ago and we have a lot better intelligence. >> dana: do you agree with that? if so, what would you do differently now if you were in the biden administration or a chance to advise them? >> i do think that in 2014 we were pretty shocked at what putin was doing. the obama white house was receipt sent to have nuclear powers come to blows. it was soft pedalled and providing arms to ukraine, a debate whether to provide offensive weapons. it was all true. in ...

Infrastructure sectors could be painful. thats why we should be on offense and not on defense. impacting putins ability to operate in the field. in other words, if we used our offensive weapons against his communications, it would make him more difficult to executed an invasion against the ukraine. we dont see that happening. i dont know why. >> martha: it would be great if we could lend offensive capabilities to the ukraine to affect their systems. its not happened yesterday. thank you, john ra...

Terrorists. now you have a cold, calculating killer on their border, and threatening themselves, threatening their government, threatening their children, their relatives. they have no choice but to stand and fight. and not -- what we need to do, though, and where we can make a difference is we can begin our programs of continued defensive weapons, offensive weapons. we can provide a lend/lease program. look, were not talking right now about sending in our troops into ukraine because we dont hav...

Bilaterally with russians. when the nato russia council meeting was held, when the osce had its meeting, when proposals were put in front of putin to consider his security concerns. what we would not do was to decide for ukraine what its choices were. what we would not do is turn the clock back to 1997 and tell current nato states they had to leave. what we would not do would be to make unilateral decisions that we would have no offensive weapons, nato would have no offensive weapons in europe. ...