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Invasion. in a moment you'll see president biden take what is known as the family photo. all of these world leaders coming together in this historic setting and then we will hear from president biden at the start of the long day where he's expected to make several statements. >> he has three critical meetings today. three separate sets of meetings. the g7 leaders are all going to be here as well. for the president, the pressure is enormous right now to do something to stop the slaughter that's going on in ukraine. >> absolutely. so that is going to be the critical thing here, what are the take...

>> social seit's fair to say yo overwhelmed by the lack of response from the u.s. >> at best i've been whelmed. >> okay. what do you want to hear from the president tomorrow? >> i think we'll hear one thing that is very important, which is the alliance, nato is united and we're increasing substantially our force posture in nato's east. that's wonderful. nato should be taking a more robust approach led by washington to provide weapon systems to ukraine. we need to make sure the s300s get to ukraine immediately.

If the russians were to invade and come into ukraine, they would have a very hard fight against not just the ukrainian military, but the ukrainian people. they fought against the russians on the eastern front who will take up arms again. this is a potent force that the russians are going to have to deal with if they are thinking about invading. that's part of the deterrence as well. and the white house is also indicated that if the russian tanks come in -- moving west, start moving west into ukraine that we willey reinforce our n allies on the western flank of nato. it is also military support...

Seas and in space and cyberspace. we're also pursuing a more distributed force posture in the indo-pacific, one that will help us bolster deterrence and counter-incursion and operate forward with our trust thed allies and partners -- trusted allies and partners. we're developing new concepts of authorizations that will bring the american way of war into the 21st century working closely with our unparalleled global network of partners and allies. ladies and gentlemen, we will always stand ready to prevail in conflict. but america's defense will always be rooted in our resolve to prevent conflic...

>> so the president followed the advice in executing the withdrawal. as we already established the seeds for our failure in afghanistan were planted many, many years ago. let me ask you one more question, secretary austin. knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference? >> again, it depends on what size you remain in at and what your objectives are. there are a range of possibilities but if you stayed there at a force posture of 2500, certainly you would have in a fight with the taliban. and you would have to reinforce y...