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Weeks from now or russia could choose to take the diplomatic path instead. at the key thing is that the united states needs to be and is prepared for any of those contingencies in lockstep with our allies and partners. reporter: told fox news in a closed-door meeting last week general mark millie warned lawmakers that if there was a full-scale invasion that kyiv could fall within three days leaving as many as 50000 civilians dead or injured. they were told some question why the biden administration did not sooner in setting military equipment to ukraine and since december the us has set $200 million in military aid. sullivan added this morning the us has tried to put ukraine in the best possible position to defend itself while us troops opposition to defendant nato allies. russians have a lot of options available to them, but of course we have options available to us in terms of the swift and severe economic consequences that we can impose, the ways in which we can strengthen and for ....
People had jobs. what we have now? how can i live? reporter: you heard that woman talk about the nostalgia for soviet past and that s something you don t hear a lot of in the media pick the sentiment is strong especially amongst older people and that may affect how they react to any russian invasion. back to new to you. mike: steve, thank you very much. alexandria is at the white house with more on the joint chiefs of staff and mark millie s warning that kyiv could fall within three days of a full-scale invasion with an attack that would result in tens of thousands of casualties. alex, good afternoon. reporter: good afternoon. if war breaks out white house officials say the cost for ukraine would be human while the cost for russia would be a strategic. national security adviser jake sullivan waited on fox news sunday. we are in the window. any day now russia could take military action against ukraine or it could be a couple of ....
I hope they have something that is a significant, but i think it will be difficult to get european countries that are now more reliant on russia for energy to be able to cut the spigot off. mike: let s switch gears to the economy with the jobs report friday beating expectations about the prices at the grocery store, the gas station and more are hitting all americans in the wallet. what is your view of our economy right now? listen, our economy is still in an incredibly bad place with inflation. listen, jobs report is a tiny tiny glimmer in an otherwise very dark background. the number of people that have stopped looking for work is a significant. i want to see what s happening with all sectors of the economy, not just to certain sectors of the economy. what s happening in all sectors and ic still inherent weakness with problem with the supply chain that will not correct themselves overnight. we have a massive amount of national debts. we reached $30 trillion in debt. that has a signi ....
Predicts kyiv could fall in 72 hours after an invasion by russia, then what? it s not easy to send offensive weapons of russia controls the ukrainian capital; right at that point all the weapons of the reconnaissance in the world will not help a force that is defeated by the russians. at that particular point , you are limited to what economic sanctions you can put in place. i would argue early on that they should have a distinction the nord stream 2 pipeline to have an effect on russia. it would ve been better earlier on to show presence by nato and russian activities there as they began to build up forces along the border. doing those things now are going to dissuade putin. he has in mind what he s going to do and i think he will attack ukraine unfortunately and even with the aid we have given ukraine, as general millie said it s only a matter of time with the relentless number of troops that russia has in the ....
In 72 hours. if so, then what does the us do in response? i think that we need to do everything we can to make sure that ukraine has all the military equipment they need, all of the military guidance they need to be able to fort russia and if it needs to be long-term in the support needs to be long-term then we need to make sure that we can continue to supply them to make sure that russia realizes that it s not in their benefit to try to stay in the ukraine. they need to go to the ukraine of their own people. they want to be their own sovereign nation and that does not include a future with russia controlling the government there. mike: former secretary of state under president trump mike pompeo says this administration has lost the deterrence model that the trump administration had in place. how do you respond? now, i think the ....