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It would not represent a significant escalation and its a kind of capability that theyve got to have in order to conduct diefensive operations t win this war. >> thats your view. the risk calculation from the white house would be, what would that signal to putin in terms of escalation? >> well, if its not risky enough for the president to go visit kyiv, i mean, come on. we had 120 contractors killed in iraq and afghanistan. and thats a terrible thing. but if were willing to shed blood there, thi...

Happening, i suppose, until something puts a stop to it. it is very strange. we were just talking about a chinese spy balloon a week ago and things have changed dramatically. whats going on? we dont even know what these objects are. isnt that puzzling? >> yes. it is. i want to pick up on what natasha was reporting. after the chinese incident balloon last week, our air surveillance has increased. that goes through norad. norad is a unique entity. its commander reports to both the united states pr...

Valuable, you know, bringing it down in a capacity where you can really evaluate, meaning, u.s. intelligence scientists can really evaluate the components. you know, what does this consist of, what are the sensors all about, or is there greater value in simply destroying it. i mean, they are weighing those things. how does that evaluation take place and who would be involved in that? >> so the evaluation is going to be based on our capacity. do we actually have the capacity to bring this thing d...

Rem were not going to do the second it hits the shoreline. the options are much greater than they were three days ago. all of this shoot it down over the u.s. homeland was so absurd from any perspective of a risk calculation. one is shoot it down. two is do we have the capacity to bring it down? its going to have a lot of intelligence in terms of what we could learn about chinas capacity, what happened with the balloon. balloon is a misnomer. this thing is huge. its cargo is about three school b...

Posted another video, a video the press did not have access to of mbs fist bumping the presidents entire national security team. it wasnt just the president. it was his top advisers. this appears to be the cost of trying to do business once again with saudi arabia. a risk calculation the administration knew going in and clear in the wake of it. is it clear how the saudis thought this day went? >> reporter: you know what, i think the biggest way to kind of view it right now is based on two diff...

Posted another video, a video the press did not have access to of mbs fist bumping the presidents entire national security team. it wasnt just the president. it was his top advisers. this appears to be the cost of trying to do business once again with saudi arabia. a risk calculation the administration knew going in and clear in the wake of it. >> it clear how the saudis thought this day went? >> reporter: you know what, i think the biggest way to kind of view it right now is based on two differ...

In other words, someone has to say this is an active shooter situation, everyone run in and essentially eliminate the threat. thats it. theres no risk calculation. theres no weighing of the evidence. theres no could we save more kids if we got these kids out and kept those kids -- none of that goes into play. weve learned from 20 years of school shootings certainly since columbine and mass shootings that the best way to save lives in that moment is to eliminate the threat. everything else can be...

Them, but they could have been saved. to be clear, im not a police officer. so i dont have that mind frame. i want to be clear. they do. thats what theyre trained for, and the mind frame is youre ignoring everyone else. everyone that knows help. all the phone calls, everything. and youre just going in on an active shooter case, rapid deployment, and you are eliminating the threat. because once you eliminate the threat, then you can get resources in like the parents who are trying to get in to he...

Hostage situation? >> yesterday -- i im not joking. i cant even explain to people well enough. its -- you are not weighing risk calculation when it comes to an active shooter situation. youre not thinking might he be okay? might we be able to talk to him? this is like not new. 20 years of rapid deployment active shooter training is youre not asking questions. thats the point of it. is that that person, the shooter, the gunman, has foregone any opportunity to explain himself, to live, to defend h...

Sent to the russian federation. it would increase the cost of other countries doing business with the russian federation. they could be implicated in secondary sanctions, for instance. >> is that the key here, the difference between the sanctions weve seen so far, it would penalize third parties, in effect, doing business with russia, so expand the net? >> it would. it would require united states to push back against loans of the u.s. bank and international monetary fund, but it would be a risk ...