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And in terms of the provocation with respect to russia, that would depend on the size, scale, scope and type of forces deployed whether its provocative to russia. this is entirely engineered by russia and president putin as an overt active coercion against ukraine. >> well go to the phone now. john, i think helene is up, so well go to helene next. >> hi, thank you secretary austin and general milley for doing this. i have questions for both of you. for secretary austin, you said in your opening ...

Imagine that there was from considerable discussion about this request. why do you think that this is justified and what do you say to people that view this as a provocation or escalation? >> well, we lay out the case in the letter. and, what chairman thompson indicates in the letter is that we know, just like you indicated, based on public reporting, that the minority leader had conversations with the former president as well as members of the former presidents team leading up to january six. h...

Los angeles police are investigating the murders of two women in separate instances last thursday. the suspects in both incidents are believed to be homeless men. >> one of the victims was a nurse. she was attacked as she stood at a bus stop. the other was a grad student who was killed at a furniture store where she was working. cnns stephanie elam joins us now with the latest on the investigations. stephanie, start by just talking us through the timeline of these incidents. >> reporter: right. ...

U.s. will respond. but its not only sanctions. there are military options on the table here. not to send troops to ukraine but to send troops to eastern european allies and other countries to show russia and putin the u.s. is still very serious about eastern russia and is watching all of this very carefully sending, for example, reconnaissance flights through ukraine over the last couple of days to monitor russian activity. all of this will be done in close coordination with nato allies. there i...

So the u.k.s foreign office issued a statement saying russia has plans to install a pro kremlin leader in ukraine. they have evidence russian intelligence officers have been in touch with a number of politicians as plans for an invasion, going so far as to name one ukrainian lawmaker. now, the world is watching nervously, i should emphasize, to see vladimir putins next moves. u.s. officials accusing them of sending an act of provocation to provide pretext for a possible invasion. all of those th...

Claiming this is part of the informational hysteria over recent days but also saying this move raises the tensions, and i think you put this in the context of what the kremlin has been saying over the past few weeks which is, it sees this sort of gathering of nato troops and military hardware closer to their borders, russias borders, as a sort of provocation, a cover for provocation. their line has been that the sort of more this build-up continues, the more it raises tensions, and the kremlin i...

>> it would definitely be a signal. what biden didnt make clear is whether that would be part of the nato quick reaction force that nato hasnt fwe v decided whether to use yet or an independent u.s. movement. but you have to remember, there are already more than 70,000 u.s. troops deployed across europe as part of the nato mission and a few other independent missions, such as being deployed in places like britain. weve got a rotating force of almost 5,000 troops that goes in and out of poland. a...

Their decision making. id just make two points. you raised this earlier. we havent actually moved any troops. we put troops on higher alert. and the second point that i would make, is that even if and when we do move troops, the purpose of those troops deploying would be to reassure allies or directly in support of nato or both. so i think that, again, before we make any decisions on readiness or movement of troops, we always take those things into mind, what other leaders -- the impact on other...

Partners and allies. >> sir, weve got time for just one more. one more, sir. >> can i follow up on -- >> time for one more. >> so lets go to louis from abc. >> hi, sir. thank you to both of you for doing this briefing today. i would like to go back to something that lita asked at the top and the way you framed the response about provocations and how they are perceived by russia. typically you do not disclose prepare to deploy orders, particularly when you are talking about large numbers of force...

Behind her and shoved her on to some tracks at times square without any provocation. witnesses saying that she never even saw her attacker. that man has also been arrested. jose? >> what a horrible story. gadi, lets kind of change, because theres some bragging rights for two kids, as their mother becomes one of the fastest in america, right? >> yeah, 37-year-old supermom kira deanoto just set the womens marathon record finishing around 2 hours and 19 minutes at the chevron houston marathon out i...