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Military troops across the border, that is an invasion. if they go in, that is an invasion. there will be severe economic consequences. >> dana: white house press secretary jen psaki talking about russia and ukraine reacting in a statement tweeted out by the ukraine president. you were quite gracious, we know you haven't seen this yet and you can imagine the president of ukraine was very frustrated. russia, china, north korea were watching yesterday and parsing every word. >> bill: the initials reaction from diplomats in kiev were shocked when they heard the president describe the minor incurs...

Diplomacy and dialog may be fruitful and areas where we are sincerely and steadfastly interested in engaging in that diplomacy and areas where it's a nonstarter. >> one of your colleagues at the white house on a background call said that if if it gets down to the point you're going to impose sanctions, quote, we'll start at the top of the escalation ladder and stay there. i'm just wondering, is that a wise thing to do to start at the very top so that only thing -- only thing more you could do would be to -- would be some kind of military action? >> let me take a step back and answer that quest...

Earlier this morning who said it is past time to leave ukraine for those americans that are in ukraine. you are seeing pictures of embassy in kiav right now. a lot of diplomatic staff have left the embassy to move to the western ukrainian city of leviv, does not mean that the embassy is closed or evacuated per the state department official but it does mean they are certainly taking a different posture. griff, right now the white house is holding a background call on the meeting with president putin. i'm going to jump on the call and we will provide any other details that are substantial after ...

Georgia. under barack obama's administration he annexed crimea, still in possession of crimea. this would be a repeat of what putin has done before what joe biden has tried to do is rally allies, rally the ukrainian leader, assure him that the united states has his back and is going to, if in fact russia invades, they're going to provide more military equipment to the ukrainians. president biden has spoken directly to president zelensky of ukraine. yesterday, secretary of state blinken had another conversation with president zelensky. so this is a poker game right now. and the white house i th...

He'll take it against. a defense official did say a couple days ago in a background call this will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. meaning it could be the soldiers who decide not to get vaccinated who will face consequence for this and not their commanders who refuse to enforce the vaccine mandate. right now it is a wait and see game of who will take a step. defense secretary lloyd austin didn't address this when he held a presser earlier this week, so we'll see what statement he says. pentagon press secretary john kirby says it's clear that the pentagon has the right to enforce this va...