News chief white house correspondent, peter alexander. Nbc news foreign correspondent, matt bradley in eastern ukraine, jonathan la mir, Politico White House bureau chief as well as host of Way Too Early here on msnbc. And he lane cooper, the New York Times pentagon correspondent. Both jonathan and helane are msnbc contributors. Peter, what more can you tell us about the president s decision to u. S. Moves troops already on standby to europe . Reporter thats exactly right. We have now learned that its a total of 3,000 u. S. Troops who will be moving, about a thousand of them already in europe will be going to romania, a native member nation. Another 2,000 presently here in the u. S. Will be going to germany and to poland, as well. This comes, according to a Senior Administration official at the president s direction, and following the recommendation of the defense secretary, Secretary Austin. I think youre going to hear this officially from john kirby, the Press Secretary at the pentag
Are you in the path of the storm . More on when and where were going to see the snow and ice coming up. Also this morning, the Washington Football Team just revealed its new name. Its commanding attention. Im going to talk with the group spearheading that movement. We have our team covering the crisis in Eastern Europe. Courtney kube, Richard Engel and michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia. Courtney, let me start with you as you were in the room for the pentagon briefing. We know french troops are also being sent to the region. Talk you through what more we learned today during that briefing. Theres even some other allies that are considering sending some troops, the british, theyve sent assistance, the dutch, among others. We heard from press secretary john kirby a very key words. The military and pentagon are making it very clear that they look at this as a temporary deployment, not a permanent deployment and the ultimate goal is to deter russia from making an incursion into uk
Senator chris coons joins us what it means for the party and ahead. And new fbi warnings from director chris wray, as he tells my colleague Pete Williams he was, quote, blown away by the state of espionage inside the United States. Well have more of petes exclusive interview coming up. Exclusive interview coming up. Welcome to meet the press daily. Im chuck todd, the u. S. Has put itself on firmer war footing as ukraine and our nato allies brace for this possible russian invasion of ukraine. The pentagon announced its deploying thousands of troop to Eastern Europe, Repositioning Thousands of troops already in the region as well. Heres where the new deployments are going, romania, poland, germany. Include a mounted cavalry and brigade teams. In total, it adds up to 3,000 soldiers. This is in addition to the 8500 troops placed on alert to deploy. This is in addition to nato troop already there. This morning, pentagon secretarygeneral john kirby addressed it. I want to be clear about some
, who were you during the war , a defender, a defender, we return to the air, im reading very Interesting Data here. The occupying capital of moscow is told that 45,000 muscovites are already at the front actively participating in hostilities, this is to understand the scale of the socalled hidden mobilization, how much the enemy is throwing. Do you remember when they said that moscow is inviolable, so that no muscovites will be taken to the front, such information is interesting , and information from the commander of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine of Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk 1 russian k52 is a helicopter this morning in the direction of bakhmut. In the last few days, this is already the second k52 in the direction of bakhmut, which could mean that , first of all, the russians are using these helicopters more actively now, because there was a certain pause in our shootings, and it could also mean that the line of contact and the surrounding areas may have been
Occupied, colleagues, thank you very much, i have one question for you you said that real military forces are involved in the operation on the russian side, these are not only the fsb, not only border guards, this is your impression that this is an ongoing operation, that this is the opening of a new theater of military operations , that they will try to advance. On this russian territory, or still, you think, uh, that this is something primarily at the level of provocation, although very large, for political and not for military purposes. I understand that it is impossible to submit this in advance, but i would really like to know your impression. Well, according to my personal feelings, with with the end of the Election Campaign in russia, this action of the ukrainian troops will not end, but it seems to me that it will take some time. Perhaps for a long time, unfortunately, this is very similar to an attempt to tear apart our reserves, an attempt to force us to transfer some Additio