intervention at the highest level if this nuclear posturing goes on. >> the white house has issued a response to this immediately saying, in every step of this conflict, putin as manufactured threats to justify more aggressive actions. he was never under threat from ukraine, or from nato, which is a defensive alliance that will not fight in ukraine. the only reason his forces face a threat today is because they invaded a sovereign country, and one without nuclear weapons. this is yet another escalatory and totally unnecessary step. this is true. there was no threat to russia from ukraine. there was never any threat. russia invented, and various times, you and i have talked about this for weeks, a threat that nato has been a coaching upon them, a threat that there are nazis running ukraine. the idea that there is a genocide of russian-speaking people in donetsk and luhansk. none of this is true.