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In response to russia emphasis invasion of ukraine. can you please speak to the significance of this? its never happened before. >> well, its never had to happen before. this is the first time this response force is being called out. again, its more optical, more optics involved so to speak, that we are reinforcing, we are prepared to reinforce all of the areas that are butting ukraine. dont come across and try to extend this across ukraine because youll be facing a much bigger force than you ar...

Vladimir putin ordering russias deterrence forces, which include nuclear arms, to be placed on high alert. a senior u.s. defense official calling the decision unnecessary and escalatory. now nato is responding. nbcs josh lederman is in brussels for us. give us a sense of how allied forces are interpreting putins comments. >> reporter: well, weve heard from the united states, for example, via jen psaki, without spokesperson, saying that its entirely predictable that vladimir putin would, in her w...

Ring tone. so could you tell us what -- the ring tone the u.s. selected it. >> it was a poor attempt at being -- it was a poor attempt at humor. i dont mean that we have an exact ring tone here. just that we know, they know how to use the system. >> thank you. >> john, you mentioned the secretary to nato. what kind of things is he going to be discussing with the nato partners and we have been talking about the nato response force being activated and potentially some u.s. forces would be dedicate...

Looks like. soldiers with guns and armoured vehicles, ready to take on the might of russian tanks and warplanes. but these american fighter jets wont be coming to their aid. they arrived in romania as part of nato poz my decision to beef up its presence in member states close to russia. so to these british forces arriving in the baltic state of estonia. they are there to deter potential russian aggression against nato countries. at the headquarters of the military alliance in brussels, all 30 na...

Ships that are at sea. a big question right now is whether and when nato will deploy its response force. this is a combat ready, extremely well-trained force into eastern europe including a very high ready response force intended to move faster to be at the tip of the spear? responding and getting a lot of tension here at nato today. finland and sweden, theyre taking part here today. nato country is hoping thats going to send a signal to putin that he may thinks this is about bringing countries ...

Im hopeful they will and i know the president and secretary of state are doing everything that they can to stand up for principle. the president has done a very good job on getting the nato unified and our allies in a unified response. >> congressman, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. still to come, for the first time ever, nato says it will deploy its response force. well take you live to nato headquarters in brussels straight ahead. head nurse. heart on her sleeve. so, when lea...

Same air space, do not unintentionally end up in some type of conflict that could move this from a military confrontation between russia and ukraine into something between russia and the united states, possibly bringing nato into it. some of that could be much larger. that risk, lindsey, is only going to increase in the coming days, as nato activates its response force, for the first time in the history of the alliance, in order to conduct deterrents, and defense of the countries that are in nat...

Twice a day. >> ok. and you said that they know your ring tone. can you tell us -- >> it was a -- it was a poor attempt at being -- it was a poor attempt at humor. i did not mean we have an exact ring tone here, just that we know they know how to use the system, yeah. >> john, you mentioned the secretarys trip t nato. what kind of things is he going to be discussing with the nato partners and we have been talking about the nato response force being activated and some u.s. forces would be dedicat...

Have responded to this crisis quickly, activating our defence plans, raising our alertness and deploying a response force for the first time the collective defence. there are now hundreds of thousands of forces on heightened alert across the alliance. 100,000 us troops in europe. and around 40,000 troops under direct nato command, mostly in the eastern part of the alliance. backed by major air and naval power, as well as air defences. the us is currently deploying to poland, germany and the neth...

Okay. you said they know your ring tone and can you tell us what was selected -- >> that was a poor attempt -- it was a poor attempt at humor. i do not think they have a ring tone for us, its just that we know and they know how to use the system. >> reporter: what kind of things are you going to be discussing with the nato partners? we have been talking about the nato response force being activated and potentially some u.s. forces would be dedicated to it. what is the current count of how many u...