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The west to understand russian nervousness and to try to reassure about what our intent is, and on the part of russia for them to show not just with their words but actions that they genuinely are not meaning to threaten ukraine's territorial sovereignty. d0 to threaten ukraine's territorial sovereignty-— to threaten ukraine's territorial sovereignty. do you believe the minsk agreement _ sovereignty. do you believe the minsk agreement is _ sovereignty. do you believe the minsk agreement is the - sovereignty. do you believe the i minsk agreement is the diplomatic way through this? i minsk agr...

Placement of certain range systems of missiles. it includes transparency around military exercises. it includes greater capacity to have confidence building and to avoid incidents that could lead to escalation or miscalculation. we've laid all of that out in a paper that we sent to the russians after coordinating it carefully with our allies. that paper is now out in the public view and the world can judge for itself just how serious we are. but what we're not prepared to negotiate are the fundamental principles of security that include the open door for nato for countries that can meet the re...

Joined the alliance after 1997. but it has said there is a range of arms control, risk reduction and confidence building measures that could make a genuine contribution to security. if russia does invade ukraine there will be sanctions and further shipments of weapons into ukraine to help ukrainians better defend themselves. >> what is your reaction to the u.s. embassy being closed in kyiv? what does that tell you about the state department's thinking? >> i wish it did not come to this, but i take it as another indicate their the u.s. government's assessment is there are a very real possibilit...

Powerful. i was able to string together enough moments of confidence building through the discomfort, through the pain, they realized i've survived 100% of my worst days, and i'm still here. so try me. i'm going to just keep taking one step forward because i've been through worse. >> o'donnell: i think that's why you're so popular. you help people work through that inner critic that's in their head. >> absolutely. i want to be a fire starter. i think that is one of the most amazing things that happens when somebody turns "can't" in intoica"." >> o'donnell: your new children's book "strong mama...

What does this actually mean? is that more just for show of giving some confidence to those countries? >> it is confidence building. it's also a deterrent. but these countries are looking at what russia is doing. they know russia has an appetite to go further than ukraine, and so they're asking for reinforcement, for a show of support. will the united states really take the risk. they're looking at what nato is doing in ukraine. okay, everybody said they weren't a nato member, we don't have to help them. we don't have to defend them. we're going to help them but we're not going to defend them....