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The short term and the medium term are also fairly significant. i don't think this stops with ukraine. i think there's certainly an opportunity to also secure belarus, although frankly, in a lot of ways it's largely secured and russia's sphere of influence is not going anywhere, they're beholden to russia but something to say there, and then the issue of article 5, does that hold, mean anything, and it's all determined based on the western response. so there's an enormous amount at stake here. >> so until the two of you launch a podcast, lex and mike, i thank you with your titles, colonel vind...

I wanted to see your reaction to that. >> no. we are not there. we are not remotely there. world war ii as we all know consumed the world. that's why they call it the world war. what we have here is a potential invasion of a single country, ukraine. i think it's highly unlikely this will escalate into anything reap seppbling the second world war. what you will say, and perhaps this is what colonel vindman was trying to convey. you'll see in a very small setting in ukraine many of the tools that were used in world war ii. so aircraft, tanks, missiles and so forth, but i think the chances of thi...

Russia. >> now, that comment, raised all kind of concerns. immediately about the response about minor incursions, from ukrainians. the white house then releases statement, after a press conference, saying, if any russian military forces move across ukrainian border, that's a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe and you know the response from the united states and our allies. -- army lieutenant colonel, who's director of european affairs. he was removed from that position by donald trump, after don trump's first impeachment, after he testified about the infamous phone call,...

Some of my colleagues here in the united states right now. that's a silly debate. what's going on right now is something i teach that's called coercive diplomacy. you have to have pressure but you have to be willing to negotiate, and coercive diplomacy right now, i think, is working. >> colonel vindman, ambassador mcfaul, thank you so much for spending time with us. we'll continue to call on both of you. when we come back, the news that many parents of young kids have been waiting for, for a long, long time. covid vaccines for little kids may be just around the corner. t.

Pressure cooker going on here. and as i said, we'll have more on russia's aggression coming up with colonel alexander vinman who was on the phone with the ukraine call. the perfect call, so he claims. he'll join me ahead. later new troubles were trump over a different phone call. we'll talk to a legal expert about the charges the former president could face as the investigation into his effort to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia heats up with some potential serious consequences. you're watching "meet the press daily". s s daily" i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have fri...