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Right now i want to start our coverage with our senior white house correspondent, phil mattingly. phil, the president certainly covered a lot of ground in his news conference at the white house, on the challenges hes faced during his first year in office and the progress he says hes made. >> reporter: it had been 78 days since the presidents last formal press conference. he appeared intent to make up for any lost time, addressing a sweeping array of issues for nearly two hours between a statemen...

Olympics are going on. furthermore, when the ukrainian president says hes imminent, when he beats the war drums hell be under a lot more pressure from nato to back down and form some kind of an agreement with the russians. he doesnt want that pressure. he also worries that his economy will implode, his banks will have major runs and capital wont lead. privately, president zelensky is talking to all of the nato allies and begging them for more equipment as fast as humanly possible. he sounds like...

Blinking. as david described it, i think he has baked in the various outcomes of the sanctions and of the increase of natos military presence on the borders, on the shoulders of this potential incursion. bear in mind, you know, the politics of a nation are based on its geography and russia has always been abused by its neighbors. so what putin sees clearly as an incursion of nato, expansion of nato over the course of the last 20 years and hes going, guys, you told me you werent going to expand n...

With a potential incursion by russia. >> top general also in belarus on the ground for these military exercises over the next ten days. does that tell you anything about these exercises or whats happening in this moment? >> yeah, whats interesting is that top general is a guy named garasima, famously known by some with the doctrine that uses asymmetric warfare, the gray zone. systematic attempts to use things other than military force to bring down a foreign adversary. this is a guy who is very ...

Very important not just in the next several days but weeks and months when this potential incursion continues. >> i want to talk to you about that, greg. like we said in the open, the international atomic agency said there are people working at gunpoint. they havent had a shift change in over a week and i think about people who work in high stress jobs like doctors and pilots, you know, there is a limit to how long they work and working these extended times at gunpoint nonetheless, what danger d...

That i would buy the russian troops have indeed crossed the border. youre a member with crimea, they were called the little green men, where soldiers started popping up before a more sizeable official military presence was imposed by russia. so, with all of the apparatus in place, any potential incursion would be drawn out, and it would be bloody, frankly, that would be catastrophic. that is why the west is so desperate to avoid this. yes, they are lining up sanctions. the other concern for ukra...

Up green men, soldiers started popping up before a more sizeable official military presence was imposed by russia. with all of that apparatus in place, any potential incursion would be drawn out and it would be bloody, frankly, and catastrophic. this is why the west is so desperate to avoid this. yes, they are lining up to avoid this. yes, they are lining up sanctions. at the other concern for ukrainians is nato members have made it clear that it is extremely unlikely that any nato troops will f...