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Ruhle. as we enter day 29 of the unprovoked war on ukraine, president biden is just hours from a pivotal summit with nato allies in brussels. the foreign leader in washington, biden was asked about the possibility of escalation. -- >> how concerned are you about the threat of chemical warfare right now? that russia will use chemical weapons? how high is that threat? >> i think it's a real threat. >> tonight, the new york times reports a white house group known as the tiger team has been assembling scenarios for a u.s. and allied response, should putin use chemical, biological or nuclear weapon...

Been looking at scenarios, it could possibly draw american forces in under certain scenarios. >> eric, what's different about the tiger team compared to what is already in effect with respect to countries that are in a conflict that have non conventional weapons or weapons that would perhaps be unduly adverse to civilian populations and non-combatants? >> the tiger team is basically a team of specialists, and this goes many different national security crisis, when you pull together a group of specialists across the government who can look at a range of options from the president, so not having...

Long-term reset of our presence, our military posture in the part of the lines. president putin in ukraine has changed our security environment for the long-term. it's a new reality. it's a new normal, and nato is responding for a long term. >> reporter: so this just underscores, wolf, the extent to which the nato summit today was really about protecting nato. i mean, obviously, sending additional equipment and weaponry to ukraine was top of the agenda but the real reason for today's meetings was about what can nato do to protect themselves given this brand-new, very, very challenging, they sa...

The president's schedule this morning, he ended up going in an unscheduled stop, previously unannounced from the white house, to the meeting between the secretary of state, anthony blinken, secretary of defense, lloyd austin, and their ukrainian counterparts. that meeting has been going on for over an hour now. we don't have confirmation of whether it has wrapped or not, the pool got pushed out of that it meeting. the president later on will meet with polish president duda, he's also going to be meeting with ukrainian refugees. national security adviser jake sullivan confirmed reports the whit...

Preparing for for several weeks now because four days after the invasion, jake sullivan who is president biden's national security adviser, authorized this tiger team as it's known internally to basically map out how they'd respond if russia were to take an extreme step like this one. yes, they considered other options like maybe a nuclear tactical weapon being deployed in ukraine. they still think that's less likely based on our reporting and what we've heard. they think a chemical weapons attack is a lot more likely and it's been a massive concern for them. so the question is how does the un...