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About their daily lives, and when you talk to them they all say that they are making preparations, they have stored up a little extra food, they do have possible plans to drive to the west of the country. but the government, as i say, is still not doing anything national to alert the population of what could be, and i underlined the word could be about to happen. ive been speaking to the armed forces minister, james heappey, and asked him if conflict is imminent. i think there is a grave possibi...

Throughout ukraine with a high dense oit the east end section and line of contact in the donbas region. ukraine has other units and they maintain artillery, air defense, airfields, bases, depots and they have a highly regarded territorial force and peoples militia. their combat capabilities have improved since 2014 when russia annexed illegally crimea. but they need additional help to defend themselves. especially from an invasion force the size that russia is currently amassing. if russia choos...

Estimate russia has 70% of the forces needed to take ukraine which they said would bring catastrophic optic with this. meanwhile the first deployment of u.s. troops has arrived in poland, president biden repeatedly said they will not directly engage to russians but a recent briefing austin did not rule out using u.s. troops if the evacuations are needed, for our team coverage we have alexandria hoff at the white house with the latest from the biden administration but we start with steve harrigan...

Interpreting is it doesnt actually mean anything. if you want to talk about patriot missiles, specific weapon systems, then i can give you a specific answer. but the generic idea of how quickly can we get them more air defenses, that isnt actually anything specific. i will tell you, if youre talking about patriot missiles, that type of anti-missile weapon, were talking at least weeks if not months. smaller arms, javelins, things like that. that can be a matter of days and weeks. >> president bid...

Congress has authorized will not have a chance to become law. and the pentagon has frozen cannot move accounts around, cannot make spending for new weapon systems. its a real, real problem. let me ask you about the republicans and the supreme court nomination, democrats went totally against donald trumps last two nominees. what is your advice to republicans on how they should handle joe biden? >> i would say first of all wait until we have the nominee and look at the nominees record it. make con...

Suffer serious consequences, really crippling sanctions. and i think the point is to make it clear to him that its not worth this exploration. >> what do you think the ukrainians expectations are in terms of the u.s. military involvement if theres an invasion? >> well, i mean, the ukrainians are seeking help not only from the united states but from many of their european allies both in terms of weapon systems and ammunitions and all the things you need to fight. but what really struck me is the ...

Ukrainians expectations are in terms of the u.s. military involvement if theres an invasion? >> well, i mean, the ukrainians are seeking help not only from the united states but from many of their european allies both in terms of weapon systems and ammunitions and all the things you need to fight. but what really struck me is the ukrainian people incredibly proud and they are prepared to fight for their own country. and they made it very clear from -- everyone we met said, we are going to fight ...

But we wondered. cannot really be true? is all of this really about democracy for jim risch? so we checked that. it turns out this very same jim risch, the archenemy of nondemocracies everywhere, has heaped praise on the corrupt theocratic petro monarchies of bahrain, qatar, and saudi arabia. senator risch calls them partners and says we ought to send them more weapon systems even though those countries do not allow voting. but wait a second, jim risch of idaho, you pompous neocon buffoon. those...

Tactic and thats the right and responsible thing to do. but, it must take place in the context of de—escalation. so far, we have only seen escalation from moscow. ive been speaking to the armed forces minister, james heappey, and asked him if conflict is imminent. i think there is a grave possibility, and the reason we have seen such a shift in messaging from western governments to their citizens in ukraine in the last 2a hours is that the russian troop build—up has now reached such a point ...

Re—iterated their desire to maintain dialogue, and in the last hour, president biden has finished a call with his russian counterpart vladimir putin about the crisis. james heappey spoke to my colleague joanna gosling, and she asked him if conflict is imminent. i think there is a grave possibility, and the reason we have seen such a shift in messaging from western governments to their citizens in ukraine in the last 2a hours is that the russian troop build—up has now reached such a point tha...