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To train the ukrainian troops on their use, then really we're just leaving them for the russians to pick up when they invade. >> how do you solve it? the president has said there will be no u.s. troops there in any combat troops in ukraine. do you deny the request because they've not been trained or do you go in with >> no, the president is right. the administration is working so hard to get all our nato allies un unified. i think nato is quite unified here. what i was calling for back in december was a pre-set package of sanctions that's all ready to go so putin knows the second he invades, t...

Guidelines permit. but this -- at this time i am not aware of any plans in which the united states military would enter ukraine. >> so, you know, the one thing that's happened here is everyone said the diplomatic path involves, you know -- the one thing the united states can do since we said combat troops aren't on the table is sanctions but no sanctions happened yet. the whole thing has been well putin can put his entire military on the door step of ukraine but until he steps over the line we're not doing anything about it. this has been a big debate in congress. do you do sanction attention ...

Line combat troops, they're fire support, logistics, intelligence, all the assets and enablers you need to sustain a war. but this country is not small. it's not the desert of kuwait, the roads of iraq. this country is the size of germany, switzerland, and austria, it takes 17 hours to drive at high speed from east to west in the mud with tanks trying to avoid ambushes, not get ahead of your infantry with helicopter fire support. it will still be a slaughter, the russians can do it, but they're going to have to take very heavy casualties. the weather here is extremely warm right now. it's 44 d...

Great resilience. >> colonel jacobs, former national security adviser, general mcmaster says russia is facing, quote, an impossible military problem. take a listen. >> in the next 72 hours, it will be very important. -- the military problem gets harder and harder for them as they extend their lines of communication and supply lines. if you look at the numbers of forces, it looks like a lot, 160,000. okay. about one third of that is combat troops. divided across four different axes? it's pretty easy for that for us to become dissipated and become absorbed in the vast territory of ukraine. 40 mi...

Enough full strength for a complete invasion, okay i understand that. you know, when we went into iraq in 2003 we didn't have enough forces for full occupation of iraq. all of us in the military knew we need 300, 400, 500,000 people to occupy the country. we went in with less than 1,000 combat troops and we did a whole lot of damage and we got to baghdad in three weeks. so they've got a lot more than that sitting on the border and right behind the border facing ukraine. and they've got a much easier topography and much closer. so they've got plenty of combat power to do a lot of damage especia...