the white house posting this photo of the president in the meeting saying they're looking at severe economic costs for russia if russia doesn't back off. plus on capitol hill, house speaker pelosi and senate majority leader schumer want briefings on this for all members of congress. i want to bring in white house correspondent kara lee, matt bradley inside ukraine, peter baker, "new york times" chief white house correspondent, and ben rhodes, former deputy national security adviser during the obama administration. kara, are our allies on the same page? and how serious, how close are we to actually sending troops to eastern europe? >> reporter: good morning, steph. the administration says that they've put these 8,500 troops on heightened alert. that means that they could be ready to deploy to nato countries within a matter of days. at the same time, they're saying no decision have been made on whether or not to deploy those troops at this time, but pentagon press secretary john