trying to keep track of everybody who is trying to protest and come out against this unprovoked attack by russia on ukraine. first let's go to mike memoli at the white house for us where administration officials are reacting to the dramatic escalation from vladimir putin. as we promised, keir, we'll be talking about this. mike, what is the white house saying about it? >> reporter: alex, as you can imagine, the white house is monitoring every comment coming from the russian president and every russian military move. we're hearing from a senior military official and from our colleague courtney kube that there is no reason to doubt that vladimir putin has put the nuclear forces on alert but they're calling it escalating and unnecessary. they point out that the russians maintain significant military capabilities they haven't deployed yet. roughly two-thirds of the