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From china. he says this was europe's equivalent of defunds the police talking about europe's lack of spending on defense issues. would you agree in the future europe will take spending on defense more seriously span maybe our country should as well. >> putin assumed this was going to go at worst like chechnya. without much of a reaction from the west. here it changed. it up-ended 30 years of relationships with the west in a week and a half. is upended the riggs economy and politics. but this is going to be -- history will write this this way. the battle was won in the ukraine by the ukrainian...

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About larger defense issues, but those two countries and the potential threats that the u.s. is facing for them are really where the discussion has been. so secretary austin now just speaking about the threat from russia. as you know, lindsey, the reason this has gotten so much more attention, even in the last few days, is because the russia military build-up along the border with ukraine has really accelerated and it's not just combat troops. defense officials are now saying that in fact they have logistical capability along the border, and that's one of the things that's really been a game c...

And he realizes that we're in a vulnerable situation, and he goes in. he calls together the generals and colonels who run the pentagon war room and he reinforces, let's understand, process and procedure. he says, you're going to follow the process. you're going to follow the procedure. and i'm part of that procedure. some people, as you've been reporting, have been criticizing that perhaps he overstepped his authority. i think it's important, two things. read the book. understand the context of what was going on. the second thing is, let's not forget that even though the chairman of the joint ...

Precedent for a president's character and conduct, that this isn't the impeachable behavior. and the democrats considered a whole host of facts throughout his term in office for things he could have been impeachable for. the mueller report issues, whether it was the obstruction that was part of that, whether it is his constant and incessant lying to the american people. and none of that is impeachable of what was impeachable was his abusing the office and involving national security in foreign power in defense issues. that's why the democrats -- and one hind to act today. >> the tie-in, we tal...