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Very much, from moscow, let's go to nbc's josh lederman from brussels. nato has activated its response force for the first time in history. what is the justification for this historic move? >> reporter: well, nato secretary general stoltenberg says it's a response, alex, to the greatest threat to european security in decades. so what this means is that some of the 40,000 troops that make up nato's response force will be deployed to eastern europe to shore up nato allies, including battle ready troops who are trained to fight on land, at sea, by airplane, as well as special operations forces. t...

House. >> it's a saturday very typically there between lafayette park and the white house. very timely, that protest by the ukrainians. probably looking for what they want, which is even more help by the united states. though the united states is definitely in this. thank you so much, carol, for that. joining me is coloradowoman jackie spear. i'm curious your reaction to what we're seeing in ukraine, and can you give us anymore insight from the briefings you've had? >> alex, thank you for the opportunity. i feel very strongly that more has to be done. i think we can't spend much time rejoicing...

That the russians appear to be running lower on things like fuel faster than they had initially anticipated. as for some numbers, i can give you the official said that russia has launched more than 250 missiles since this invasion began and that more than half of the forces that russia had mobilized around ukraine before the invasion have actually moved into the country. so that's around 75,000 to 100,000 troops. and it also means, alex, that there are still tens of thousands of russian troops surrounding ukraine that have yet to go into the country. now, this all comes as the president, as yo...

Busy news cycle this morning. hi, alex. >> busy, you did a great show, and perfectly buttoned that up with jason johnson's final commentary there. he was spot on. i'm glad you gave him the chance to say what he had to say, and you for two hours. see you next saturday. thank you, my friend. >> thanks, alex. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters. welcome to "alex witt reports," it is noon in washington, 7:00 p.m. in kyiv, and 8:00 p.m. in moscow, and we begin with breaking news on russia's invasion of ukraine. as darkness falls on eastern europe, people in the capital cit...

Communism as a teenager, i'm going to continue to fight communism. >> reporter: what we ended seeing here is what every american saw on the television screen, russia actively invading ukraine here, and you heard from marco rubio, josh hawley come in with a much more strong emphatic anti-russia message, anti-vladimir putin message, that's where the big question, what do we hear later tonight when former president donald trump, who is quite, you could say, sympathetic or more open to cordial relations with putin ahead of his administration and during his four years in the white house, what does ...