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>> because he doesnt want his people to panic. >> to mobilize this in the middle of winter, four weeks ago or before christmas when women there could be 170,000 soldiers. you cant put a nation like that on war footing like that. >> so everything depends on what putin decides to do. he spoke today for the first time in a month. he said the west is ignoring rushlgs security concerns and goading russia. he said being surrounded by so many nato allies as encroachment, being surrounded by the west. w...

>> are you saying that putin will use this latest announcement as a provocation whether its protected or not. is there anything that can change the course of this? >> its been over the past fi weeks where putin has opinion quite concerned about the build up of western military muscle, western advisers, that sort of thing. hes looking at options of,000 push the west back. ive seep the rebels myself and ive seen russians in military uniforms as well. theyre already there and it would be easy for t...

Troops and equipment to the border. as i say, there is no provocation, but its possible they will engineer one. but they seem to be playing two games at once. they seem to be both, you know, allowing for the possibility that they will step back, and creating the basis for an invasion at the same time. >> all right, ann apple balm, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. the new mayor of new york city has just spoken out about gun violence in his city. an n.y.p.d. officer is dead, and another i...

Capabilities are and one way they do that is by showing force and moving a lot of aircraft in that direction. other thing that one could say, this particular development over the weekend is one in which the chinese are possibly responding to u.s. deployments in the south china sea. there are two carrier battle groups that the u.s. has that are active right now in the south china sea. the chinese of course see that as a provocation to them. and that is probably why theyre also demonstrating their...

And not to escalate war. and we can disagree about this arguments. but a conversation with senior ukrainian officials, including president zelensky, when i hosted here several months ago, they want more military assistance. because they know that we are not gonna fight for them. needles not gonna fight for them. everybody is crystal clear about. that so they want to have the ability for themselves to try and deter a russian escalation of the military intervention. lets remember, 14,000 ukrainian...

We are -- especially dangerous to accident, incident, or as you discussed at the top of the show, a provocation that gives the russians justification for an intervention instead of whats looking like naked aggression against ukraine. >> do you think thats what theyre waiting for at this point because there have been 100,000 troops and then that has been building since early december. do you think that is exactly what russia is waiting for to give them the justification for going in? >> its a gre...

Up to our commitment to nato should the nato response force be activated by nato. this, putting our forces on a shorter string enables us to get there in a shorter period of time, and again, i think that provides reassurance to nato that we are ready to live up to our commitments. in terms of what putin thinks and the way he feels about things, again, its hard to predict. we take those things into consideration, but again, if you look at the forces that he has moved into the region, and that he ...

Sanctions now for the provocation with post-invasion sanctions that will destroy the russian economy as we know it. >> i want to bring in now the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee who was, of course, in that briefing. senator bob menendez. its good to see you. thanks for being back on the show. >> good to be with you, hallie. >> it sounds like the senators are close to a finalized package. do you agree with that assessment? is that accurate? >> we have been working diligently ar...

Event of invasion. russian president putin in a phone call with the french president macron said that u.s. has ignored russias demands nato back away from the region in a written response that washington delivered to moscow. they say they wont attack, they say there is no room for compromise. to the press conference now, revealing, president zelensky spent most of the time with us trying to tamp down fears of invasion, saying they are not seeing any immediate indication of an incursion. still, m...

The best likely solution, the best realistic case is probably that of more tension. even increase provocation as we see in the black sea today with the russians halting movement and large areas of the black sea. more intimidation. and no invasion. thats the best case. the west has to prepare itself for both the dark scenario of a full—scale war and the nasty scenario that isnt quite as awful as continuing pressure and intimidation designed to achieve his aim to crush ukrainian independence and...