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What are we hearing from the nato leaders? >> well, day two of meetings. what we've been hearing so far is very much that as far as nato assessments are concerned, there has been no withdrawal of any significance from russia's positions around ukraine. clearly defense ministers gathered here keeping a close eye on that. we expect to hear both from the american defense secretary later this morning and also from the nato secretary general as well with their latest assessment. the last couple of days of meeting are showing nato is unified. the message is regardless of what happens in and around u...

Smaller battle groups which they believe could indicate that an invasion of ukraine is drawing closer. of course we have heard from the u.s. government. they say they believe a decision has been made by vladimir putin to invade ukraine. and again the russians are saying that simply is not true. they say all of this is hysteria. of course, we have also seen more of an up tick in violence. especially in the don bass region. the one hand the separatist accusing ukrainians of shelling them. we saw the video earlier of the ukrainians saying they have evidence of the separatists essentially shelling...

Ago. we got new information from nato's secretary general saying it has 100 jets on hoy alert. he also called this the most dangerous moment in security in a generation. what are you watching for next here? >> he is right on both counts, and so we were focussed a moment ago, joe, on these ground troops. there is a naval component and an aviation comb known. there are warships going on alert. there are aircraft going on alert alongside these battle groups that i just mentioned, so he is correct, and he's also correct it is a very dangerous moment and i'll underline one aspect of it. these are y...

Miscalculated on the fighting spirit of ukrainians, particularly woman. she says if women would fight, it would tip the scales in favor of the ukrainians. the spirit of the ukrainians is high. 82% of ukrainians believe they'll prevail in this spite, despite everything we've seen so far. their spirits are very high. they're digging in for a longer, more drawn-out struggle, but absolutely, any guns people can get, they're getting their hands on them. politicians, battle groups, the military groups, are desperately asking for weaponry. if they can't get a no-fly zone, they're saying give us every...

Already three battle groups, one in each of the countries, that's a small force but a very significant force. much more than symbolic because if they set foot across those borders and attack on one is an attack on all. that's the article v, that's the co cornerstone. >> you've served under both republican and democratic presidents. a remarkable dynamic here that as russia invades a sovereign country without provocation, we have americans cheering putin, praising him, including a former president in trump, former secretary of state praising putin's savviness, mike pompeo who served as cia direc...