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Line fighters in ukraine, including several hundred javelin tank missiles, and nato supplying man power to europe. and five western embassies are pulling out part of their staff, warnings from the u.s. about an imminent attack in ukraine, and ukrainian officials giving a strange different message. the defense messenger saying don't panic, don't pack your bags, it could be weeks away. russia does not have enough forces on the border to attack. puzzling to people, different messages, one from the u.s. and the west, and the other from their own officials. >> admiral kirby, back in. steve stand by...

With 120,000 russian troops on the border don't pack your back. the foreign minister saying it could be weeks away, they don't have enough troops massed on the border. do they have the proper sense of urgency about an impending invasion? >> we are in constant touch with our ukrainian colleagues, steve and we are sharing our perspectives, context and what we are seeing both sides and sort of making sure that we all are looking at the same set of facts here. what i would tell you is from our perspective, mr. putin has a lot of combat credible capability there around the border with ukraine and i...

Here. >> admiral, thank you. steve back to you as the news breaks. back to the admiral and sandra. >> sandra: admiral, we have been showing the oil statistics on this program a lot because it's worth pointing out that we are buying more oil from russia today, significantly more than we were just four years ago in 2017 in the first year of donald trump's presidency, and the first year of president biden's presidency about 218,000 barrel, 18,000 i believe in the year 2017, we have the graph, we'll put it up there. buying a significant amount more oil from russia today than we were just several y...

Economy if you were to cripple russia? >> i think you can understand i would not get into negotiating here on live television and certainly not from the pentagon. i would refer to my state department colleagues to speak to that. i would point you to what the president himself has said, is that when it comes to economic consequences we are thinking about and considering more severe economic consequences than even those we considered in 2014, so there are much more severe consequences being considered. again, i'll let diplomats speak to that. our job at the pentagon is to be ready in case diplom...