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Way to go here. >> quick follow up. can you -- do you have a view? can you -- either of you. can you keep u.s. forces from having to deal with russian forces directly if you are reinforcing eastern europe, for example? will u.s. forces potentially be in missions against russian forces? can you keep them away from russian forces? >> again, our presence there helps to reassure our partners on the -- in the front line countries there. and you know, barb, that we have an article 5 commitment to our nato partners. and so if an -- if putin were to attack one of those countries, then, of course, that...

Go here. >> very quickly follow-up, can you -- do you have a view, can you, either of you, can you keep u.s. forces from having to deal with russian forces directly, if you are reinforcing eastern europe, for example. will u.n. forces be in missions against russian forces, can you keep them away from russian forces? >> again, our presence here helps to reassure our partners in the front line countries there, and you know, barb, that we have an article 5 commitment to our nato partners, and so if putin were to attack one of those countries, then of course that commitment -- that's an iron clad ...

>> reporter: president biden asked moments ago when he would be moving more u.s. troops to europe. there are some 8500 on stand-by to go and support nato operations in eastern european nato countries saying that the troops would be moving to europe in the near term. >> i'll be moving u.s. troops in the nato countries in the near term. >> reporter: the thousands of u.s. troops heading to europe. we saw a rare joint appearance by two of the most senior load esches at the defense department. it highlighted how serious this crisis is. >> i don't think this is about trusting putin. this is about al...

Decision. they are a nonalliant country, but also say we are going to help ukraine defend themselves, so let's give them everything that is reasonable to help them defend themselves, and that's the issue i have, and what's behind the reticent? the same behavior in the obama administration, many of the foreign policy people served in that administration, and i always felt that president obama got paralyzed by the fear of adverse consequence, why he did not response to the chemical attack in syria, would not provide lethal aid in ukraine because putin was threatening escalation. i believe the re...

A lot of the ukrainian assets just like that. just as we have done. he's watched us. he has got about the same technology now. maybe he wants to do that. the demands he put forward are demands that he knew nato would never agree with. so maybe all along he's been looking for pretext to fight. but it's important that we keep open the opportunity and the effort to reach a diplomatic solution. we do not want conflict in europe. >> we heard secretary milley, general milley that is, talk about, it feels different this time when it comes to what he's seeing in terms of troop movement, the number of ...