personnel care yers, tanks and missile systems and intelligence embedded in the tactical groups which make up that russian force to give them the full range of options if putin gives the order to go ahead. >> nick, you're there in moscow, how will this message be received by the kremlin, namely seeing the united states and germany standing together as a united front? it is a very powerful message. >> reporter: it is and putin will be looking for ways that he could exploit that further down the road. he'll be looking at the language and seeing where he feel it doesn't line up. he had a very tough press conference with emmanuel macron after the more than five-hour long meeting today. putin criticizing the ukrainians, and macron not really pushing back on that. putin criticizing nato and saying nato was the aggressor because they're moving towards russia and not russia towards