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Is all about, whether taiwan or hong kong or the ukraine, it is about two guys, with a lot of resources that are joining up together to try to freeze out western democracies, and putin is going to do it on the ground and there will be visuals and they will be brutal of people being killed because all they want to do is have democracy and freedom. >> no one is going anywhere. there is much more to talk to with all of our guests in just a moment on this unfolding crisis in ukraine and the politica...

Hi there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. the crisis in ukraine and the looming possibility of the largest ground war in europe since world war ii has quickly become an historic test of the united states and the western alliance with a steady drip of developments that suggest vladimir putin is intent on redrawing the map of europe by force. a senior defense official tells nbc news that russian forces are poised for a full scale invasion, that russia is, quote, as ready as they can be. earlier ...

The soviet empire and i think ultimately, the only way were going to prevail as a country as the west as a community of nations is if we put partisanship aside and stop trying to game this out in terms of you know, republicans trying to attack the president for this decision or that decision. i think its time frankly to close ranks. i think anybody who doesnt back the american position is just helping putin because part of putins game is information warfare. weve seen him try to engage in this h...

Good in american values. but instead, putin is banking on the fact that hes got tucker carlson cheering him on and a former president cheering him on, and other people who want to be president cheering him on, appealing to the lowest common denominator and that is it is all about america, who cares about the ukraine people. so it is -- and i want to say too how much i respect colonel vindman and how much i want to agree with his optimistic view that this terror that is going to unfold will do wh...

Undoubtedly the focus is on the u.s. force posture. how we can ensure our forces are postured in the european theatre to maximize the deterrence against putin so he doesnt take one step into nato territory. as general mccaffrey referenced, there have been a number of troop movements the joint staff is orchestrating along with the supreme allied commander of europe who commands all forces for the united states in the european theatre and is the nato commander. thats the dominant issue at the pent...

To succeed were he to be elected president. he did ascend and succeed. why do you think putin didnt engage in this operation while trump was president? >> well, it is a good question. he said yesterday this wouldnt have happened when i was president, or somehow he was too tough. i think a number of things, one, he didnt need help, putin didnt need help trying to drive a wedge in nato because president trump was doing that. president trump as we talked about in this program repeatedly badgered an...

Ukraine. >> it is with a heavy heart that we all need to admit the grim reality of a new aggressive rule rising over europe. the beginning of a large scale war in ukraine will be the end of the world order as we know it. russia will not stop at ukraine. >> peter baker, you know more about russia and about vladimir putin than i do. you have the experience of covering the last ill say three, put probably four american presidents, right. have you seen a shift this abrupt in terms of how the united ...

Think its going to be followed by an absolute travesty. >> jeremy, let me read you this reporting on sanctions, the limits of sanctions in dealing with putin. times is reporting putins decision to press ahead suggest that he has concluded the cost of new sanctions are tolerable despite u.s. talk of con kwenss. the biden administration might find it has to impose the harshest sanctions, ones that would inflict suffering on many citizens or look for a noneconomic option such as giving military aid...

Hear folks like donald trump praise putin and tucker carlson, i see it as the beginning of the end for them. they are -- they are stepping into a trap. it is okay for them to cheer lead outside of conflict and say putin is such a great guy, biden is not doing what he should be doing. but when you have tens of thousands of casualties, the republicans are going to own it. tucker carlson is going to own this. hes basically digging his own grave, so to speak, political grave and so is donald trump a...

Arms, training, and equipment and clandestine forces. diplomatic support is going to be in the cards. in terms of sanctions, i think weve taken significant steps. theres more to go. we could sanction spur bank and vtb bank. other banks that are very critical to russian elites. to the russian governing state. once we engage in these export restrictions, probably about six months time, well degrade the russian industrial manufacturing capability, their high-tech capability. thats going to be a sig...