states kind of starting to give up on this whole idea of we cant provoke russia. because they think at this point that that hasn't worked so far. we just mentioned 100,000 russian troops now at the border and they are pivoting to a more muscular strategy, and that probably means providing more military id to ukraine and you're seeing that now talking about seconding troops not to cain kraip, but to eastern europe. >> what are you watching for? i should just say nbc news is reporting that president biden is weighing public remarks on the strategy doing some of the kind of story telling, i guess, that i have asked you to do on this program. this is a report. president biden is considering outlining his strategy, explaining how u.s. response to any russian invasion could affect this country. talk about john kirby wassen this program. the administration is certainly