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It's significant that he is targeting his inner circle, but as the president indicated, there are other levers still in the wings if putin further escalates. >> mike, thank you for that. jim, let me bring you in here. i know you think the more significant announcement is actually the new details we're learning about troop movements. obviously not going into ukraine, but helping to bolster nato allies on the border essentially. tell me more about that. >> that's quite significant. not just in terms of numbers, but in terms of what those pieces of equipment are. the ah 64, the attack helicopter,...

Establishing that mechanism? >> again, we're not at that point so it is difficult to answer that question. i'm not dodging it. we aren't at that point right now. i would rather not speculate about it. there's no indication that we've gotten that there still isn't the ability at the strategic level for leaders to talk. >> you talked about, to build on the question, you talked about the f-35s and 32 apaches. it's not just an aircraft and a pilot. how many people are associated with those? >> all told, if you add it up, the infantry, the battalion, about 800, then another 200 crew, pilots, mainte...

>> the scope of the potential humanitarian crisis boggles the mind. courtney, i want to talk about president biden making it clear the u.s. is not participating in military action in ukraine, but we also know thousands of u.s. troops were sent to eastern europe in recent weeks anticipating this attack. what are you hearing from the pentagon about next steps? >> reporter: that's right. thousands have been sent in. that's more of the unilateral mission of the military, making an agreement with host countries to send things forward like paratroopers. now we have some advanced aircraft, f-35s. the...

Troops have come from the united states, and 5,000 or so are already in europe, and strikers and vehicles and those kinds of things, and now just yesterday the u.s. announced they would send f-35s, about eight, and 32 apache attackers, and that's why significant, f-35s are the best of the attack fighter aircraft they could send, and that sends a real message to russia that the u.s. is putting those forward in the baltic region. and the apaches, they are tank killers. if any tanks, troops, equipment or anything starts to roll across the border into ukraine, poland, lithuania, there will be

Ground forces before going in. the russians clearly don't have that capability, and now they're suffering losses. they're prepared to take losses. they've lost aircraft. they've lost armored personnel carriers. now they're moving into cities and will sustain even heavier casualties. but the geopolitical ramifications of this are the ones most interesting and the ones that will haunt vladimir putin to the end of his life. sweden and finland will join the nato -- the nato council and they'll participate in that discussion and potentially start to seriously consider participation in nato. germany...