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Publicly. just last week we sanctioned four agents of russia, ukrainians in ukraine, seeking to destabilize the government. this is part of the russian tool kit. it runs the gammit from a large conventional incursion in an attempt to topple the government. its important that people be on notice about that possibility. >> does this intelligence make it more likely in your view that putin is going to invade? >> i dont think it speaks to whether its more or less likely. i think it speaks to the fac...

Ukraine, but in the surrounding countries, the surrounding nato members and one thing that hes reminding vladimir putin is these troops once deployed dont often go home and every time putin takes an aggressive move like this, it strengthens the resolve of other nate o memberso welcome more u.s. troops and countries that wan to join nato to do whatever they can to get on board. >> one presidents deterrent is another presidents provocation. how do you think this even discussion of deploying u.s. f...

It all has to be coordinated together and and that is what it appears the administration is doing. >> do you think the administration should be doing anything more? >> ive been clear and pushing the administration to send more defensive weapons and equipment to ukraine. both different times but also greater quantity and much faster. i think were up against a small window of opportunity here. a condensing time line. we dont have much time left so we have to get those weapons to ukraine, those pie...

Indication from what were seeing on the ground that thats imminent. certainly, when you speak to civilians, as we have done here today, they are not expecting any major escalation now. one woman said to me, "look, its quieter than it was last month", she described whats going on as an information war. a local man was similarly dismissive, he said "i dont see the russians coming across the border, if they do, they would pay in blood". but he also identified a key danger. he said, "look, the way t...

Lavrov was speaking to the duma. not only did he say that if the united states isnt constructive and continues in its aggressive lines, that there would be an appropriate response. he didnt say that they would go to war. but thats the sort of language they used before a military response. there was a big round of applause in the duma. this all comes on the same day when the russian ministry of foreign affairs, his office has been tweeting out that those weapons systems the united states supplies...

Preparing to conduct these false flags, the provocation. we also know that the russians have been in touch with kind of russian-oriented ukrainian politicians. so the russians have this playbook. they have information warfare, they have cyber warfare. she knows, we know, that the russians have these kind of capabilities and we need to be prepared. we need to be prepared in order to defend and then -- defend ukraine and then deter president putin from making this decision and implementing some of...

The russian state has been building up the russian state has been building up in case of such sanctions. they could disappear quickly. we are trying to, you know the russian oligarchs are facing a backlash from the us and the uk we heard liz truss announcing the uk will target russian oligarchs who have great influence in the uk that they could face sanctions that new legislation will be drawn up to tackle deep influence here in london. vladimir putin will have to reckon with the _ vladimir puti...

Undermine zelensky. a chance they could try to topple him and install someone that would be favorable and invite russia in. >> reporter: he did specifically talk about that threat. so, he sees -- zelensky sees that more of a realistic possibility. that because russia has so much force positioned around its border, that there could either be an accidental start of a war or that there could be a provocation, a deliberate provocation launched by pro-russian separatists, sab tours. an attempt to top...

Mainstream media and the west in particular would actually pick up and carry this video knowing that it is propaganda, that it is unlikely to be trustworthy. the other option is that its just uploaded to social media and wreaks havoc there and takes on a life of its own. the administration officials did tell us that there is no evidence this video has actually been made yet. they have intelligence russia was planning and taking all the steps that would be necessary to actually make the video. th...

Deploying even more troops to eastern europe. do you think that is the right move? or could the kremlin weaponize this as a provocation? >> i think it is the right move. vladimir putin will find or make the provocation. he and he alone knows what he will do here. nobody else knows what will happen. i think the risk of an invasion is very high. i think it is likely. at the end of the day, only vladimir putin knows what will happen. he has a history of provoking things and creating, fabricating pr...