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To both of you saying the u.s. had not previously provided advanced weapon systems with a credible military pressure and could have imposed earlier targeted sanctions on russian leadership. as promised, ambassador, i believe you want today bring up different points beyond s.w.i.f.t. your reaction to vindman and those other points you want to raise. >> vindman is absolutely right. last spring, the russians put that build-up on ukraine's border and we talked about providing ukraine weapons but we didn't when they withdrew. had we done that, they would be much better placed to deal with this aggr...

Politico's white house bureau chief, host of msnbc's "way too early," also an msnbc contributor. colonel vindman, i start with you. two-part question for you. your reaction to the president's speech and your sense of what is actually happening on the ground. >> well, i was very glad to hear the president give public remarks on this topic. i think they were a long time coming. i think the american public deserves to understand that we're on the brink of a very, very serious scenario from unfolding with significant consequences to the u.s. public. within these remarks, i picked out a couple of m...

Now and they have the will to fight back. >> colonel, what do you think? >> hi, brianna, first of all, it is amazing to watch the ukrainian people withstand this state of siege for the past eight year, unflinching in the face of constant belligerence, constant hostility. they should be applauded. that explains why they have been so stoic in the face of this massive buildup on their border. i think we're still in a very, very acute phase where the russians can respond with a major military offensive at any moment. right now it seems that they're just probing for weaknesses, probing for ways to ...

Because international sanctions will have more bite, but at any rate, i think we have to be very careful. and i understand the point that colonel vindman makes. by the way, congratulations to him on his heroism under enormous pressure in the last administration. so, you know, a huge fan. just saying that i think all of this is being debated, but at least as of yesterday, the administration's position was they did not want to ratchet up the sanctions ahead some of very clear and definitive action by russia. >> alex, do we -- i'll let you respond there to the congresswoman as well, but do we get...

It has there has to be consequences. there's also more that we could be doing in regards with -- ukrainians to defend themselves because there will be, this is just the opening play there is going to be an enormous amount of violence. scenarios that the biden administration played out are more than likely to come in to pass. i give it 90%, not one third probability 90% probability that we're heading in that direction. we don't have this kind of four structures put on ukraine's borders just for putin to declare these locations independent and then throw back troops. his problems with the. ukrai...