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Relevant committees dealing with ukraine but this is really a sign of the escalating tensions there and yet another sign of the fact that as lawmakers have been dealing with the domestic agenda in congress, they are going to have to turn their focus to foreign affairs in the next several weeks. when lawmakers return next week, we expect that there could be all member briefings. both majority leader chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi have asked for those briefings. we still don't have a timing update on when they would be held but we expect they will be held when lawmakers return from...

Retired lieutenant general, mark kurtling. the fact that he says we don't know what these pro russian forces are doing, or if they are really backed by russia? >> when i heard that interview, poppy, i about fell out of the chair. there are reams of intelligence data showing this fight is going on for over a year, and russia is supporting it not only with troops on the ground and across the border, and there have been radar tracks of russian artillery firing across the russian border into ukraine, and there are vehicles moving back and forth across the border and there are photographs of that, ...

General mark kurtling. thank you so much for being with us. i'm interested in your perspective. the 300 noncombat advisers that are being sent into iraq, the times i've worked with green berets and rangers, i'm always impressed by the complexity of the task they are assigned to do. the kind of work okay multiple fronts. what do you see as their key objective this time around here? >> well, i'll open the aperture a little bit, anderson, and say that these guys are going to provide a lot more than a lot of people are talking about right now. they're certainly going to provide not only support fo...