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military now to provide f-16s. >> the president discussing the possibility of us being involved there for a year to three years out at this point. so john kirby will join us from the national security council. lots of questions on covid, china and ukraine in just a few moments. winter weather await reaction from the white house as the department of energy joins the fbi in its thinking that covid-19 may actually have leaked from the lab in china, the wuhan lab. virology lab. its the lat...

of investigation, david roush as well as assistant director josh melton. im also joined by other members of my staff including earnest brooks, ray lapone and also most relevant for today the trial team and the tyree nichols case, including paul hagerman and tanisha johnson. were today because of a tragedy that wounds one family deeply and also hurts us all. the death of tyree nichols. we understand and acknowledge the grief of the friends and family of tyree are experiencing right now ...

Of that. did they get it all back? of course not. what they do going forward is for them to decide. we want all of ukrainians internationally recognized borders to be restored. as i said at the beginning of this interview, that could happen tomorrow if mr. putin did the right thing and got out of dodge and left ukraine -- >> martha: what are the chances of that happen something. >> unfortunately theyre not very high. mr. putin wants to continue the war. thats why were so focused and were last we...

Nato. vladimir putin is fighting a give me my stuff back war. its not a right war. he thinks those parts of ukraine are his. its not a threat to nato and therefore not a threat to us. so undermining our own readiness and our own capabilities. im talking to guys right now in training battalions that have had munitions that they could have been using shipped to ukraine. that doesnt make us safer, this prolongs the conflict. >> martha: indeed. youve been all over the story about the miseducation th...

Continuing to take military action. >> do you think president obama should -- there have been some who suggested president obama should suggest nato forces go to the polish/ukrainian border to draw a line or send a message. is that too provocative? >> its not. we did prepositioned equipment, and rotational training battalions just as putin is doing exercises along the ukrainian border, we can do exercises as well. this is a new ball game. youre there on the ground involves the lives of people al...

Right after, we flew 2000 troops back from iraq, its very tricky because this is a very, very dangerous crisis, you dont want to provoke the other side, you dont want to encourage the ukrainians unduly. to say we take military action when putin takes military action, is a recipe for him continuing to take military action. >> do you think president obama should -- there have been some who suggested president obama should suggest nato forces go to the polish/ukrainian border to draw a line or send...

>> do you think president obama should -- there have been some who suggested president obama should suggest nato forces go to the polish/ukrainian border to draw a line or send a message. is that too provocative? >> thats not too provocative. we did prepositioned equipment, and rotational training battalions just as putin is doing exercises along the ukrainian border, we can do exercises as well. this is a new ball game. youre there on the ground involves the lives of people all around the ukrai...