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Lots of those countries, as we show on the map, a lot of them is victim nato countries in the year since the late 70s. what's vladimir putin's fear that this one is going to be the one that matters? >> he is not really concerned about a nato invasion. i spent four years as the commander, i've looked at every war plan. classified, and unclassified. we don't have a war plan to go invade russia. news flash. glad may putin wants the prestige of rebuilding the old ussr. the union of soviet republics. so, he's going around former republic to former republic, to include azerbaijan, armenia, in this c...

Late 70s. what is vladimir putin's fear that this one will be the one that matters? >> he is not really concerned about a nato invasion. i spent four years -- i looked at every war plan classified, unclassified, that nato has. we don't have a war plan to go invade russia. news flash. but vladimir putin wants the prestige of kind of rebuilding the old ussr. the soviet republics -- so, he's going around, former republic to former republic, to include eyes or by john, armenia, in this case ukraine, cause extend -- and trying to put them back into russian sphere of influence. i don't think he will...

Going to pay an enormous price. and i can assure you congress is prepared to provide the president with the necessary authorization for extraordinary sanctions. >> and what is that enormous price? because it doesn't appear by the behavior of putin and the buildup of troops that he's at all worried about any potential consequences? >> well, he's playing a very strong hand. there's no doubt about it. when you have 130,000 troops and all of those armaments and missiles and all of the other parts and pieces of the war plan, he has a strong hand. but then there is tomorrow. should there been an inv...

Brigadier general and the deputy director for mission integration. beth, i want to start with you. you have the united states again releasing what it says is putin's war plan. we have seen this over the past several weeks. declassified information, then released by the white house and other intelligence agencies to reporters talking about what putin is up to. at this point saying that he has a plan. it would start with missile attacks. take out airfields and other key systems. is there value in that? are they trying to essentially say, mr. putin, we're watching your every move, tracking your e...

That would allow them to gain control of maldova and reconstitute swaths of the soviet union including belarus, ukraine and maldova. this is a scenario that the u.s. believes if russia most likely path forward would be his most likely course of action. there was some thought before that he might try to do a political coup of kiev. apparently did not find enough ukrainians to go along with that plan, this is the latest expectation. on the cyber attacks that steve was mentioning, we're told the u.s. is evaluating whether russia is behind it. they suspect that they may be. that was the initial wa...