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To go on high alert. putin made that nuclear threat of the ukrainian military have in fact slowed down russian forces on the ground in ukraine. and, russian forces are also facing shortages of fuel and supply that could further impact their ability to make even more progress. joining me now is retired lieutenant general, 33 commander of the first army. general, we welcome you and we're so happy to have you. thank you for staying up with us. i guess we first want to get your reaction to this high alert raised by russian president when it comes to new color floors and to the sanctions leveled by...

Would be we energy independent but we could supply the needs of europe to reduce the leverage russia has over them. >> martha: if he opened keystone, saying we will alter our policies. this moment merits to be independent. i think he would improve numbers with voters he lost. a military question. the president announced that 7,000 troops will go to germany. we bumped our presence in the nato countries. what do you think happens next? what kind of impact can we have by doing that? >> well, the temporary measure to help reassure our nato partners like poland and hungary, these are not inappropri...

On targeted sanctions may enough. on targeted sanctions may play into putin's plan to pivot russia ever closer to china. so with the prime minister agree, nato must not be benched? it was created to uphold european security and we must know is consider how we utilise our formidable hard power deterrence in responding to ukraine's call for further help, not excluding the formation of potential is no fly zones. l formation of potential is no fly zones. . ~' , . zones. i thank the gent very much and he is correct _ zones. i thank the gent very much and he is correct to _ zones. i thank the gent v...

Russia. according to the senior u.s. defense official, we assess that about 1/3 of russia's combat troops amassed for the invasion have been committed so far to ukraine. the situation could change rapidly. we're told. this is the snapshot as of now. the u.s. is now watching whether russia is going to weaponize those refugees going into poland citing belarus as past experience. >> harris: what you just said and i know you cite one official. 1/3 of russia's combat troops to be deployed to ukraine. that's a huge number. and i guess we've always known it was between 150,000 and 200,000, because th...

Headquarters with secretary mattis and there was a feeling president trump was going to pull out of nato. that did incredible damage to nato unity. what we are seeing now is a much more unified nato because they see how dangerous putin is. >> with all due respect the u.s. sent naval assets to the black sea. they returned the combat troops from iraq and supported the georgian forces. the united states stood strongly behind georgia and as a result, the russians stopped. and there was aid and assistance. bill: when we come back we'll take to you texas and look at an issue facing the first primary...