warning about this invasion since at least that summer of last year, and the biden administration has made the decision to declassify intelligence and tell the public what they know, essentially, in realtime. they've been both confronting russia with their work plans, and telling both our allies and the public, what russia is planning on doing. which has proven to be much more anger than russia's denials. now that the invasion is officially underway, what role does the u.s. government play and helping ukraine? again, president biden has been insistent and stalwart on the fact that there will not be any u.s. troops on ukrainian soil in this conflict at all. but there is a lot else that the u.s. government is contributing, and can continue to. joining us now is michigan democratic congressman melissa, before she became a member of congress, she did three tours of at iraq with the cia.