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That he has ordered additional forces to europe. is that part of what you just described, and second question is, so nato has activated a portion of the rapid -- or the response force. and you cant say how many troops the u.s. will contribute to that because they havent asked for any troops? >> so the -- in the presidents statement, i think he was referring to his announcement yesterday. this was a read out of his call with president zelenskyy and he was reiterating that -- in that conversation,...

What will that look like? >> activating a response force? i think all that means is they are reinforcing it nato positions throughout nato. it does not mean that they are doing anything with ukraine. i do think that that nato response forces there there in case putin does decide at some of suggested, to go after the present her to think of the other reason there there is to evacuate the hundreds of thousands of ukrainians were now fleeing the border into nato countries. >> martha: dad, your reac...

To turn out, although there are certain signals the u.s. is watching. youll fill us in on this and this first ever deployment announced from nato secretary-general. >> thats right, hallie. nato is going to be deploying its response force for the first time in natos history. now the response force is comprised of about 40,000 troops. they rotate. they come in from all of the nato members, including u.s. troops. and not all 40,000 will be deployed, but main of them will. they are ready to move wit...

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Invasion. >> this is going to impose severe cost on the russian economy, both immediately and over time. we have purposely designed these sanctions to maximize a long-term impact on russia. >> reporter: he made it clear that u.s. troops would not be sent to fight in ukraine, but the pentagon announced that some 7,000 u.s. troops on stand-by would be sent to europe to bolster the response force. >> ive spoken with general milley about preparations for additional moves should they become necessary...

Ukrainians the fate of their country is being decided in these next few hours. that message was echoed by the mayor of kyiv where tonight air raid sirens can be heard echoing through the night sky in a city that is under assault. >> people trying to board trains to get out. kyiv seems about to fall. the dire situation causing nato for the first time in to activate its response force. the unit of roughly 40,000 troops who are ready to go to protect a nato ally. and tonight, putin plows ahead. rus...

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7,000 troops coming from fort carson in colorado were already ready to go. they were on sort of a high state of readiness to deploy forward. they will go to germany if the nato response force is activated. plus others. somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,500. this is 7,000 total. its not really clear. at this point the response force has not been activated and hearing for some weeks now once theres a large scale invasion that theres a decent chance that nato will activate it. >> theres so much to...

But parts of that nato response force and the pentagon has said that the united states has between 10 and 12,000 troops who are now on prepare to deploy orders who might be called into that nato mission. now, these are not troops who will be fighting in ukraine or against russia at this point in time. this is about protecting the nato members and ensuring that if putins aggression moves past ukraine and begins to threaten some of these nato allies on the eastern flank that nato is prepared on sh...

Theres no excuse whatsoever for russia to invade a peaceful, democratic country as ukraine. >> on that note, for the first time in history, you are activating natos response force and providing additional military forces to its eastern flank near this region. do these moves indicate that you think russia poses a real and potentially imminent threat to nato members? >> we dont see an imminent threat, but we see a much more aggressive russia which is contesting core values for our secu security, u...