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Extended period gillian turner joins us live with more. >> good morning, the biden administration this morning is laser focused on responding to putin's nuclear readiness posture, so severe that leaders across the world are really quite alarmed. so far in the first phase of this war in ukraine, the president has repeatedly claimed they are not being taken by surprise by any of putin's moves. >> this has a pattern we have seen with president putin which is manufacturing threats that don't exist in order to justify further aggression. >> lawmakers on capitol hill have their own priorities, featu...

Still assessing what actual tangible effect president putin's order for his deterrence forces to be on high alert will have. but it is one that they are taking quite seriously. it comes as the u.s. and its allies have really shown the strong condemnation against russia in the wake of that aggression towards ukraine. implementing those sanctions, removing a significant portion of russian banking systems from that system called s.w.i.f.t., providing more defense arms to ukraine directly. but the white house also says this is all part of president putin's playbook to try to manufacture things to ...

Note when discussing that region is that this is part of ukraine. this is inside the sovereign territory and borders of ukraine. and this sort of movement for independence there did not happen spontaneously. it happened deliberately after eight years of russian intervention there and a whole host of ways, including claiming crimes against ethnic russians that don't exist, that there's no evidence of, issuing passports for the people there, sending weapons into there, arming separatists there. putting a missile system into eastern ukraine that shot down a passenger plane over europe and killed ...

Level. but a national security council official is directing me in light of that news to a statement that a russian signed onto just last month. part of it says we affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. jen psaki is now saying she thanks that follows a trend. >> this is really a pattern we've seen from president putin through the course of this conflict which is manufacturing threats that don't exist in order to justify further aggression. in the global community and the american people should look at through that prism. >> there is speculation at the highest level o...

Trying to de-escalate. instead of matching putin's rhetoric, he's saying this is part of putin's wider pattern of really unprovoked escalation as well as manufactured threats. the white house press secretary, jen psaki, she summed up the administration's position on sunday morning. take a listen. >> this is a pattern we have seen from president putin through the course of the conflict and that's manufacturing threats that don't exist, and the global and the american people should lack at it through that prism. >> psaki also said that, you know, the u.s. has the capability to defend itself, and...