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>> when we were in brussels and the secretary had a chance to meet with the defense ministers of all our allies, he said publicly nato is more united and resolute than he has seen in his military career. bill: would you concede it took germany a while to come around to that? >> every country has to look at this through their own prism. we have been sharing information with our allies in realtime. every country has to decide for themselves how they are going to respond and react. i was a nato off...

Important institution, reflects the diversity of the america that we are. that we are becoming. so i think when people like me look back, and right about president biden and right about this phenomenal era. that really has been unfolding since the end of the obama administration until this hour when there is a crisis of democracy and faith at home and the hot crisis of democracy and of faith abroad. and we are gonna be looking at this week. >> part of what is so fascinating to me, john, is the e...

Themming insight into the extensive preparations and planning that went into this russian invasion, so they could see all of that. they tried to release as much as possible and i give them credit and the biden administration credit for releasing that. from the ukrainian peoples perspective, i think they always looked at vladimir putin as the kwichlt of a cold, calculating russian chess player who would make his moves based on his assessment of the strengths and weaknesses and limitations of his ...

Trying to de-escalate. instead of matching putins rhetoric, hes saying this is part of putins wider pattern of really unprovoked escalation as well as manufactured threats. the white house press secretary, jen psaki, she summed up the administrations position on sunday morning. take a listen. >> this is a pattern we have seen from president putin through the course of the conflict and thats manufacturing threats that dont exist, and the global and the american people should lack at it through th...

Threats. white house press secretary jen psaki summed up the administrations position pretty well here in an interview sunday morning. take a listen. >> this is really a pattern that weve seen from president putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that dont exist in order to justify further aggression. and the global community and the american people should look at it through that prism. >> now psaki added in that quote that the u.s. has the ability to defend it...

And said, look, this is part of a wider pattern from president putin with manufactured threats and unprovoked escalations. and now white house press secretary jen psaki i think summed up the administrations position very well here in an interview. take a listen. >> this is really a pattern that weve seen from president putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that dont exist in order to justify further aggression. and the global community and the american people ...

Weve seen from president putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that dont exist in order to justify further aggression. and the global community and the american people should look at it through that prism. >> reporter: a senior u.s. defense official calling putins move an unnecessary and escalatory step, warning hes putting at play forces that could make things much, much more dangerous. that may seem hard to imagine for ukrainians facing another night of bomb...

Very stiff economic and other types of sanctions and lend support, intangible support in terms of weapons and other things flowing into ukraine to resist this unjust russian invasion. and so therefore, i give the u.s. intelligence community a lot of credit carely with president biden said over a week ago, which was he was confident that russia was going to invade and so therefore, i think it reflects that putin has had a distorted prism of ukraine as well as of the world as a result of his incre...

Insensitive against the asian community. and im just as a former mayor, who was elected, disproportionately, because of this bore asian community, that was the end of their time tenure on that school board. i think we can over read this from a national prism. it is a very familiar san franciscos story, west side, east side, very familiar tenants that i think one should be very cautious in terms of or wed. >> okay, im glad you brought that up. because there are people who are looking at what happ...

Once again because i think countries in europe decided they ought to move on swift. but im glad the united states is moving ahead and i think thats one of the biggest sanctions that could be put to bring russia to heel. >> the latest financial punishment comes as putin starts talking about nuclear weapons elevating russias nuclear readiness, an elevation in rhetoric that officials say they are prepared for. >> this is really a pattern that weve seen from president putin through the course of thi...