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Tests and vaccines, and other things to help drug addicts, but they have said they are not giving crack pipes out, which has not assuaged blackburn, she is waiting on an answer from hhs, from the department of health and human services, to say that they are not giving out crack pipes but as you say in your lead-in, john, they can do, blackburn could slow this down. the senate needs basically universal cooperation to get this stopgap measure through the congress by the end of the week, by february 18th, to fund a deadline, but it is not only that, mike lee, republican from utah and a bunch of o...

Affairs analyst, former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul and andrea mitchell, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent. this is no one to be with you than you four when all this stuff is happening. ambassador, i want to start with you. talk to us about what vladimir putin said in this speech tonight in moscow, what it means and the implications and is it really as bad as i characterized it in the lead-in to the block? >> i think it's worse. i'd like what you said be it is worse. first he met with the security council. and talked about why they needed to go ahead with the recognition of...

Kicked in. that is the big question, are they trying to empty the city out for some larger-scale assault. one of the things you mentioned in the lead-in to all this, certainly seems to be interesting right now, that's that giant russian convoy that seems to be north of kyiv. that is something of huge concern to the ukrainians, the u.s. and its allies watching the situation unfold as well, michael. >> absolutely. fred pleitgen there on the russian border. pr appreciate it. let's bring in nick payton walsh from odesa. give us a sense of what's happening there. >> reporter: yeah, obviously places...

Of wide-scale invasion and an influx of refugees. the nato forces, specifically the 82nd airborne will try to set up camps and air leave ate some of the pressure and as i'm sure the admiral will talk about, the multi-national efforts. there are 80,000 troops in europe and they are used to dealing with these countries. this is about this partnership, and undoubtedly this overt effort is a message to vladimir putin that as you sort of played in the lead-in, this is only strengthening nato. that's certainly the message that poland, germany, the united states, all of these nato allies are trying t...

And all sorts of problems. the most significant thing we've done, actually, which mika referred to in her lead-in, is essentially blocking the $650 billion of foreign exchange. as we talked about on the show a couple of weeks ago, putin has spent the last several years trying to sanction-proof his economy, if you will. he has cut his debt ratio to gdp and has built up the third largest pile of foreign exchange in the world, $650 billion that he expected to be able to use to continue to buy things using foreign currency if there was a set of sanctions or foreign embargoes placed on him. now we'...