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Decides. >> and general marks, let me enter two things, one thing people may not have heard. the secretary-general of nato said they will not deploy nato combat troops to ukraine. that's something that president biden has said more than once about u.s. combat troops going to ukraine. >> there is not going to be any american forces moving into ukraine. >> they never were on the table. >> that is not on the table. >> so, general, what does this say if the u.s. has said they are not doing it and nato is not doing it, but nobody is doing it but ukraine, at least from what people are saying. what d...

False argument. i'm so glad you corrected yourself at the top of the hour. you said these weren't combat troops. these are combat troops but you're correct, you said it correctly the sec time. we don't intend to put those boots on the ground in ukraine. >> well, president biden has made it clear he doesn't want them to engage in combat, and he has taken that off the table. >> that's correct. but they are combat capable troops. some of our very best. >> yes. general, i appreciate your time. and thank you very much. when we talk about the military options here, obviously the thing when you tak...

Cetera, this is larger in scale and scope of amassing forces. i think you'd have to go back to the cold war to see forces of this magnitude. we'll continue to monitor very, very closely but, yes, it does feel different. >> we'll come back to the room and go out to david. >> reporter: since the president has ruled out sending u.s. troops into ukraine, does that mean that the u.s. military would not be used if an evacuation of kyiv became necessary? >> as you've indicated, david, the president's been real clear that he does not intend to put combat troops into ukraine for the purpose of conducti...

Is it sanctions? what is that? >> we don't want to put ourselves in a position nor do the russians to go to war with russia. no one would win. the world would lose should that be the case the minute you start talking about face to face with the russians that can go up the escalation ladder very quickly. so we take a move and put combat troops in. he puts his combat troops facing and firing at us and all of a sudden it becomes sub conventional to conventional to possibly nuclear. we have to be careful as to how we are calibrating our response and what he is doing. we have to give diplomacy a ch...

I'm todd piro. hi, carley. >> carley: this is true, we have beef over christmas movie, that's about it. i'm carley shimkus, more on the president's outburst. first breaking news overseas. weapons will arrive in ukraine in a moment and troops are ready for possible deploy toment eastern europe. >> todd: live in kiev with the latest, steve. >> steve: todd 8500 u.s. troops on heightened alert. they can be sent to eastern europe if there is invasion of ukraine. no plan for u.s. combat troops on the ground in ukraine. four countries have pulled out families of diplomats due to worsening security si...