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Building support for a tougher response. and that is where we begin this hour with some of the favorite friends. greg miry with npr joins us. also joining us former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul. and msnbc national security expert evelyn farkis. greg, let me start with you and this whirlwind over the weekend and up until coming on the air today. what is your understanding of where things stand at this hour? >> right. things have been moving in a pretty straight direction here where the white house and administration is talking about moves that point towards a possible russian invasi...

This new war that's still raging in the dombast region, another part of ukraine. so we were distracted by that. and each time the russians did something outrageous, we would respond to it, and then we would kind of all decide that it had been taken care of. now, that was partly also because, of course, we had a lot of other things to worry about in the u.s. administration, so afghanistan, we had iraq still, we had isis fighting in the middle east and then we were trying to pivot to asia. so, we should have, at that point, started a global campaign, but i don't think all is lost. i think this i...

They keep building. it's like a slow-moving train. they haven't pumped the brakes. every day, there's more information, and then you see others responding. so you see us moving -- so you can see on the map. moving from kyiv to lviv. i spent an hour and a half on a zoom call with 55 ukrainians this morning, all alums from our program here at stanford and publicly, they're all strong and stoic and we're going to fight, and privately, they're moving their kids out of cities. privately, they're making plans for war. >> oh, that is so haunting. greg miry, former ambassador michael mcfaul and evelyn...

Countries, and the risk of war increases. i know it's really hard to explain that, because it's very, i don't know, seems out there and very nontangible, but that's what he needs to do when it comes to describing it to the american people. >> and greg, as someone who covers this and covers the policy and the politics, what are you looking to? i mean, what is sort of in your reporter notebook to be following up on and looking for? what signs from the region do you watch most closely? >> well, the second and third order effects because it won't just be if russia invades, and if they take over uk...