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0 ukraine. at least 130,000 troops and that number has gone up and they continue to conduct live fire exercises. according to the white house, president biden reaffirmed his support. zelensky said there's no need to panic and he knows the situation better than president biden. according to the kremlin, putin told his french counterpart that the u.s. and nato had not addressed his fundamental concerns about security in the region. joining me from kyiv is my partner matt bradley, courtney kube is in the briefing room and will ask questions on our behalf. matt, let me start with you on what we're...

Here. he will lay on the table, he doesn't want to see ukraine become a part of nato. he wants to stop the lethal aid going in there from the united states and other nato and european countries. he doesn't want ukraine military moving east and conducting a major offensive operation in the east. that's where he is coming from. the other thing the elephant in the room, he wants to undermine nato. he would take action to destroy it and break up the trans-atlantic alliance. that's the background where he is. i think the meeting is very important. he will take a measure of president biden here whom...

Cyber command, they have the authority for offensive actions. it can be a case by case basis. these recent attacks that have gotten attention here in the u.s., the ransomware attacks, those have been handled by law enforcement, the fbi. one reason that the government is looking at a different way of handling it is there's rarely anything that happens after the ransomware attack. the fbi doesn't have jurisdiction of a criminal network in russia. russia will not let them in to arrest these individuals. now they are considering making this a national security issue and potentially using some kind...

Little about it. >> yeah. we didn't find much about it until the final stages of the planning phase and clearly while iran has supported operations that the iraqi military and mostly shia militia have done in the past, north and south of baghdad and also helping to defend baghdad, this is a major offensive operation that has taken place. the facts are these. iranians have much to do with the planning. they're on the ground with the shia militia forces doing the fighting. they're providing rockets and artillery and top quds force commander, the general suluma. [i is on the scene. this is no dou...

>> no. i think the long shadow of iraq will cast itself well into 2015. i think the greatest foreign policy and military disaster, the united states has suffered a decade happened when isis suddenly sprung out of nowhere. the maliki government collapsed and 11 years of work by the u.s. military went down the drain. and kimberly, it's also a moral issue. because soldiers setting at home watching television who have had three or four tours in iraq, 1920 of their soldiers killed. suddenly seeing very familiar places and very familiar weapons falling into the hands of an enemy that no one had even...