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Their -- >> reporter: absolutely. >> i was just going to ask about belarus in particular. they've moved into belarus to the north has to be particularly alarming. >> your making an important point and one we share. which is whatever the russians are saying in television and print and the press, we're making assessments based on what they're actually doing. what they're doing on the ground is a continued build up. yes, we have significant concerns about their force posture in belarus. they'll say it's related to exercises that have been long planned. and we know part of the russian playbook has...

Responses to russia's concern. >> we hope and expect that russia will have the same view and will take our proposal seriously. >> delivery of a document had been agreed when secretary blinken met russian foreign minister lavrov last week and laid out where the u.s. hopes agreement can be reached. limits on military exercises. force posture in ukraine. arms control and missile deployment. off the table however is any discussions on nato expansion. >> i can't be more clear. nato's door is open. remains open. and that is our commitment. >> the kremlin has yet to respond. but within hours, it was ...

And ship movements all pointing in one direction, and on the diplomatic front, that there's no diplomatic talks right now... the us and europe have engaged with russia to try and open up diplomatic talks and they've been rejected by the russians, so i think there's a difference of perspective. i think zelensky has to try to keep calm, wants investors to stay in. he's hoping that russia's deterred and this is all a bluff. and so i think both leaders are just coming at this from a different perspective, but for the united states, it has to take certain steps, whether to close its embassy or remo...

That? >> not to outline from here. >> the president changed 130,000 we believe amassed on the border to closer to 150,000. how long does the united states believe russia can maintain that kind of a force posture? >> he also said including in belarus and en circling ukraine to be clear. in terms of their ability to maintain that, i'm not going to get into intelligence. >> no judgment -- >> nothing to outline from here. >> c.i.a. station closer to the border of po land, outside of kyiv, is the u.s. concerned they cannot track the movement from ukraine? >> a lot of intelligence questions. nothing...

Alert posture i announced last week. those 8500 are not currently deployed but ready to move if called for the nato response force or as needed for other contingencies as directed by the secretary or president biden. we continue to review our force posture in the situation in europe, and we will make adjustments as the situation warrants. i also want to take this opportunity to correct some misconceptions around last week's announcement. nato as an organization does not have veto power over troop deployments and media on the contrary is misrepresentative of that. we are making force movements,...