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Has found when the boxes came back from north korea. A very meaningful, important moment for that Mcdaniel Family and for all americans its an honor to show it to you. Thanks for joining us, everyone. Im dana perino. Up next, shep smith. Shepard its noon on the west coast. 3 00 here in New York City where republican congressman is facing a judge on charges of Insider Trading. The lawmaker denies he did anything wrong. Were live at the courthouse. President trumps lawyers making what they are cal...

Obama administration would provide no lethal aid. trump started with small arms ammunition and anti-tank weapons. but there was no additional provocation from putin. now we have had provocation and i think we should have significantly increased it. we have done some of that, but we have not given them all that they need and some of it they desperately need. we are talking about an air campaign here that putin has in his kick bag and could be very significant, not just supporting ground forces, b...

Press conference. >> they were talking to the american people but also looked like they were talking almost directly to putin himself. director clapper, we heard the secretary of defense saying putin can choose to de-escalate. he can order troops away. he can choose dialogue and diplomacy and whatever he chooses, the u.s. will be right there with its allies and partners. do you think this will convince putin to stand down? >> well, probably not, but i do think that this was very important sessio...

Have a listen to what he had to say. >> i dont think this is about trusting putin. this is about our allies trusting us. thats really what were focused on. mr. putin at some point in time will reveal what hes thinking. im not sure he made the final decisions on what he be do yet. >> the u.s. military still has more than 8,000 troops on alert. a heightened state of readiness to be ready to move into eastern europe whether they were to come from the u.s. or be repositioned from other places in eur...

Types of things we do with them routinely is train with them and enable them. and really increase their level of readiness and so thats been very helpful to them. and it has strengthened our bonds with our allies and partners in the region. these are temporary deployments, and so, again, we will continue to sort this out as we go forward but, again, we are focused on nato, were focused on reassuring our allies and thats what this is all about. in terms of trusting putin, i dont think this is abo...

Way to go here. >> quick follow up. can you -- do you have a view? can you -- either of you. can you keep u.s. forces from having to deal with russian forces directly if you are reinforcing eastern europe, for example? will u.s. forces potentially be in missions against russian forces? can you keep them away from russian forces? >> again, our presence there helps to reassure our partners on the -- in the front line countries there. and you know, barb, that we have an article 5 commitment to our ...

Go here. >> very quickly follow-up, can you -- do you have a view, can you, either of you, can you keep u.s. forces from having to deal with russian forces directly, if you are reinforcing eastern europe, for example. will u.n. forces be in missions against russian forces, can you keep them away from russian forces? >> again, our presence here helps to reassure our partners in the front line countries there, and you know, barb, that we have an article 5 commitment to our nato partners, and so if...

>> reporter: president biden asked moments ago when he would be moving more u.s. troops to europe. there are some 8500 on stand-by to go and support nato operations in eastern european nato countries saying that the troops would be moving to europe in the near term. >> ill be moving u.s. troops in the nato countries in the near term. >> reporter: the thousands of u.s. troops heading to europe. we saw a rare joint appearance by two of the most senior load esches at the defense department. it high...

Decision. they are a nonalliant country, but also say we are going to help ukraine defend themselves, so lets give them everything that is reasonable to help them defend themselves, and thats the issue i have, and whats behind the reticent? the same behavior in the obama administration, many of the foreign policy people served in that administration, and i always felt that president obama got paralyzed by the fear of adverse consequence, why he did not response to the chemical attack in syria, w...

A lot of the ukrainian assets just like that. just as we have done. hes watched us. he has got about the same technology now. maybe he wants to do that. the demands he put forward are demands that he knew nato would never agree with. so maybe all along hes been looking for pretext to fight. but its important that we keep open the opportunity and the effort to reach a diplomatic solution. we do not want conflict in europe. >> we heard secretary milley, general milley that is, talk about, it feels...