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They are all here, they are standing here in the middle of the city, and we are going to fight for ukrainian sovereignty, and that is the steps the cranium government has taken throughout this crisis. >> tom, you layer on top civilian effort, the u.s. sending more troops to nato, it is activated, its response force for the first time ever, how likely is putin to try to move past ukraine? >> well, if this operation succeeds, below hanging fruit i think is moldova, which already has a separatist m...

Force you need. theres a huge advantage to being on home turf, fighting for your freedom, because will matters. the odds are stacked against the ukrainians but odds dont fight and win wars, people do. and there are numerous examples in history of an outmanned, outgunned, smaller force that can beat a larger one because they have the will to fight, the will to survive, they have higher morale and theyre on their home ground. thats the situation ukrainians are in right now. but they cant do it wit...

Wouldve called on russia to halt its invasion and withdraw from ukraine. china is in a difficult spot. its a natural reaction to blame the west for all of it. even as russia assaults a sovereign nation. chinese president xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin spoke today. the chinese embassy released a call summary say that they talked about the olympics and then blame the west for instability in a region where russia just launched a war. in europe for the first time in the history of n...

Response force. rich edson joins us live at the pentagon with more. rich? >> also part of an effort to reach the latter part of last year where state department officials say they were trying to press other countries including china to pressure russia against launching this attack. its an effort that ultimately failed. down to the united nations security council yesterday. they are there were some draft resolutions up for a vote on the security council calling on russia to halt its invasion and ...

Depending on how big a contribution the u.s. ultimately gives. but there was an acknowledgement that the pentagon that that response force had not yet been activated and they made the decision to send them forward. even if they dont activate it, at least well have them in the region, they can exercise, they can be used as more of a unilateral, b bilateral deployment. the reality is they will not be used according to every official i speak with, there is no appetite to putting them into ukraine t...

Operation and it began. now, what is the response going to be from the pentagon? >> thats right. theres a couple of things that we should be looking at. what is not just a response here at the pentagon, but what is the nato response. weve heard in recent weeks as this nato response force could be activated in the event of a large scale invasion of ukraine. we heard that the united states announced that they had about 8000, 8500 troops that were on this heightened state of alert, ready as part of...

Of natos unprecedented activation of its response force. what can that have on this conflict? >> two things. first of all, youre right, it is unprecedented but it also shows 30 nations committed to this. the nrf would not be getting activated and deployed if you didnt have all 30 nations. thats critical, and of course thats the last thing that putin wanted was to see all 30 of us sticking together, and i would attribute much of that to the diplomatic effort by the united states over the past sev...

Natos response force, activated for the first time in its history to defend nato territory. >> attention! >> reporter: the u.s. deployed about 800 troops to the baltic nations of latvia, estonia and lithuania as russia moved into ukraine, plus apache attack helicopters made in the u.s. this morning u.s. troops are playing the attackers. italian troops on the other side playing the defenders. they switch sides regularly to ensure theyre ready for everything. >> we are training together in case an...

And joseph berrel, the foreign minister of ukraine and secretary general stoltenberg took part in the meeting with the e.u. never before have nato and the european union worked so closely together. this is a new kind of cooperation. and well bring this to bear not just this this crisis but in the years to come. and our european allies and partners are stepping up to lead in unprecedented ways. for the first time nato has activated and deployed parts of its response force. several nato allies inc...

Nato took steps to bolster its presence in the east of the alliance. but this is very modest presence. but in the depth of the alliance it created this 40,000-troop strong air, sea and land response force. and this is a response force now that nato is swinging into action. not in an offensive way. but in -- as a defensive measure. and as a further measure of deterrence to remind president putin that nato stands to defend every inch of nato territory. >> cnn is also reporting that the biden admin...