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Look, i think i said in my statement, were -- we made these revelations public. we announced some of the additional nsr and enhanced readiness because we believe it is important to -- to call out the behavior that weve been seeing. particularly in the last few weeks. and that we believe it is important for the entire international community to speak with one voice about the concerns that we know they have over dpr continued ballistic missile program. im not going to get into any more details in ...

Question at smerconish.com. should president biden aid the transfer of aircraft and air defense systems to ukraine? joining me is retired navy admiral james stavridis, hes written a work of fiction called 2034, a novel of the next world war. admiral, good morning, you have a ph.d. in international law. you were the dean of a graduate school of international law diplomacy. youre the perfect person for me to ask, what exactly is provocation in this context? >> lets start with ground troops with pu...

Own actions. >> what does that look like? we heard the president say what the u.s. is not going to do in terms of not wanting to trigger war with a nuclear power. do we believe that putin is a rationale kind of person who, you know, would pay attention to something like that. he didnt need provocation to invade ukraine. why would we think he would create a pretext that is established for them like that? in we do. what is important here -- im going to move on to get to more people. for any presid...

Landed outside of ukraine. raising understandable concerns that russias war in ukraine could spill over into other nato countries, perhaps create the danger of direct conflict between russia and nato. >> cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr joining us now with more on this. barbara, last week a drone crashed some 350 miles beyond ukraines border in croatia. what more do we know about that? >> well, there has been one incident in croatia, one incident in romania. all the indications are both ...

A serious escalation by pong yang. what is going on? >> well, the intelligence community is saying, there are two tests in february and march where they assess it is part of a new north korean intercontinental ballistic missile. that means it could potentially reach the united states. the penn took the extraordinary step of putting out a statement saying it was going to increase collecting intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance against north korea. the most sensitive intelligence there is...

Escalation. i saw u.s. senator sasse talking about the framework of what colonel vindman is saying if every proposal is pushed through the prism of a provocation then you tie your hands behind your back. if it is not you may start world war iii. is the ukrainian public, the civilian population, now so literally shell shocked, so literally traumatized that that debate falls on deaf ears? tell me if we have stopped tracking with what they call for and willing to do. >> so i think the debate that t...

Nuclear deal with iran at a time when russia is waging a brutal war of aggression on ukraine and when iran is shooting ballistic missiles into a rock and destroying our consulate. spoon let me read from your piece. and every step, joe biden has allowed dictation from moscow out of a fanciful fear of provocation. bidens weakness is russian tanks rolling through eastern europe. if we fail to support ukraine, the stakes in flames of war will rise. lets see what happens on that. however, we will see...

Hes also expected to attend a european council summit. natasha joins me from nato headquarters. what more do we know about this trip? >> yeah, anderson, so hastily arranged trip by the president to brussels scheduled for next week. he will be meeting with nato leaders on thursday, it seems, and then he will also be meeting with eu leaders that same day. all, you know, to have consultations about what is going on in ukraine, obviously, and the big question that has lingered in the minds of everyo...

Is, of course, the consequences of something like that. how would the nato alliance actually respond if russia were to create some kind of provocation against a nato member? because of course, an attack on one member of the alliance is essentially an attack on every member of the alliance, and they would all have to, then, come to that members defense, so obviously weighing very, very heavily on the consultations here, and of course, the questions of weaponry, of how were going to get weapons, h...

The ukrainians and it came to a dispute who would do the delivering, and what you see here is a latest of a long series of shipments of weapons from the biden administration to ukraine and youre hearing russia and putin talk about it is provocation on the part of the west and the weapon shipments would be a fair target for russian troops so obviously theres a risk for americans and europeans as they seek to arm ukrainians to defend themselves and being drawn in to this conflict. >> are white hou...