because this week the white house was asked repeatedly if there is a chemicals attack, will you -- will you send troops into ukraine and they said our position has not changed and also we're not drawing any red lines. they want to be careful about escalating this with russia. >> and yet, again, the security infrastructure of europe is being rewritten, redrawn, before our eyes and we are having conversations that no one's had to have in this town for 20 plus years. in the sense that, listening to vice president harris today, if you think about the afghanistan war, deployments to germany or deployments on training journeys, lithuania, poland, those were viewed as places you go to do very important work but you're in a safe place and beautiful european cities. now listen to the president of the united states talking to troops, saying your mission may have changed. >> in this moment of russian aggression, and putin's war, we take seriously our commitment to