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Very high. they have not -- they have not moved any of their troops out. they have moved more troops in. number one. in untwo, we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation, they have an excuse to go in. every indication we have is theyre prepared to go in, attack ukraine. number one. number two, ive been waiting for a response from putin from my letter, my response to him, it has come to -- i had not read it yet. i cannot comment on it. >> your sense this is going to...

Could target the city of odessa, but buying time with the diplomatic push that putin is bolstering, building his forces while we are all talking? >> sure, well i know that my colleague, john kirby has spoken from the pentagon, i point you to his comments. but i would say that we are not -- we are always going to leave the door to diplomacy open because we think as long as we dont know what president putin is going to do, and we dont, and has not invaded ukraine at this point, its important to ke...

That a russian attack on ukraine this week is more likely than not. now, president zelensky has, as you know, urged calm there. how concerned are they behind the scenes? >> reporter: so, theres this continued juxtaposition that you both know where there is sort of a calm life going on and fatigue and some stress and exhaustion underneath the surface, so its like you see these two paths in individual people. today, i went to a shooting range with a group of men in their 30s and 40s, these are peo...

And put them for some other reason beyond invading? >> well, look, one of the challenges is that theres a tendency to see this in a sort of black and white war, no war, either he sends in tanks and it is a world war three hell scape, or everything will be fine and theyll go home. and many people think it is still quite possible theres something in between. which is to say a different time of military incursions, stepped up cyber attacks, way to destabilize the ukrainian government of the i think...

All were saying is tell us how much time does it take to complete this distance, measure it in years, and you see this is measured not just in hours, and you can see where the tragedies in lives. this is measured in the human lives of ukrainians. tell us, on this distance, is it fair to us with the guarantees while we are still walking the paths, some diplomatic guarantees. isnt it just simply fair? no one is pushing everyone against the wall with a question for us to be there in the nato, thats...

-- amidst all of this. for now, matt bradley, thank you. we appreciate you. we want to continue this conversation with david, roe -- msnbc contributor. david, thanks for joining us on this. lets start on whats seems to be an apparent change in tactics. we knew there were intelligence reports, kind of ahead of this invasion, that russian -- 48 hours or so, they decided to invade. that, obviously, at this, point has not happened. it seems as if russian forces, vladimir putin, by his order have foc...

What every cold war president once did routinely and ronald reagan once did so well, trying to go around the man at the top and here trying to appeal for whatever it may be worth to putins superpower pretensions while reminding him of the responsibilities that come with it. >> two paths are still open. for the sake of historic responsibility, russia and the united states share for global stability, for the sake of our common future to choose diplomacy. but let there be no doubt, if russia commit...

Some bets that those gas prices could be up 10%. >> yeah, this is horrible. horrible for the ukrainian people first and foremost. horrible that civilians are getting bombarded with no rationale, no fault of their own. its a crisis. its horrible clearly for the global economy and the impact. this is the downside of everything that people have been expressing concern about and we are seeing it. my hope is and will have to hope that we can find a way to get this to be pulled back. contingencies hav...

They do say that there is still room for diplomacy. that is why the secretary of state appeared before the u.n. said he was there to stop a war not start one. so, they very much want to give the diplomatic channels a chance, even as they realistically believe the window for some of the diplomacy is closing, andrea. >> and just to set the stage also, richard engel, military that is amassed is on three sides. theyre at sea in the black sea. its effectively enabled blockades, making it much more di...

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