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He met with president obama to discuss the challenges posed by russia and isis. the secretary general is here in "the situation room" with us right now. welcome to washington. >> thank you. >> how worried are you about what russia is doing right snow if the war games going on, it feels like the battle days of the cold war. >> were not back in the cold war but we are concerned because we see new challenges and threats coming from the more assertive russia the actions theyre responsible for in ukr...

President obama expresses concern. a nato official telling cnn that the alliance is concerned by the size scale and frequency of russias snap exercises. but is nato ready? >> nato is ill prepared to think about russia as a threat because it hasnt done the defense plans against russia. these major exercises were meant to begin to demonstrate the possibility of conflict in europe. thats not something that was even imaginable among natos military leaders. >> a nato official responded to that saying...

Exercises which russia is conducting. because that gives us no notification it reduces transparency redistrictpredictability and that increases the ability of accidents spirals out of control. >> because the snap exercises, normally theyre supposed to give the nato allies a little advanced warning, know were going to do the exercises. they just do it without sharing with the nato allies? >> when we do exercises in nato we announce them theyre predictable and transparent. and invite russia to obs...