In tone on what could come as the Washington Post reports that the white house is very, very, very worried that this war is going to get out of hand. National security adviser Jake Sullivan warning that this could spiral in to a regional conflict. Theyre now preparing for an Evacuation Plan if needed that would move hundreds of thousands of americans out of the region. Obviously that would be a herculean task. We remember how difficult it was to get 124,000 out of afghanistan in that very difficult exit back in august of 2021. Heres john kirby just moments ago. Watch. It would be imprudent and irresponsible if we didnt have people thinking about different scenarios. Were not at a point of execution of evacuations right now. Martha this is one of the women released from hamas custody yesterday. They still have her husband. We dont know when this first photo was taken. This is her before and this is her after she was held for 17 days. She spoke of being beaten with sticks, held in a spid
Moments ago Secretary Blinken speaking about the horrifying photos he was shown by the Prime Minister in netanyahus office today of babies who were murdered and burned. Its hard to find the right words. Its beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less actually see and god forbid experience. A baby, an infant riddled with bullets. Soldiers beheaded, young people burned alive in their cars or in their hideaway rooms. I could go on, but its simply depravity in the worst imaginable way. And the secretary confirming that in addition to traveling to jordan and meeting with palestinians there, the president of the Palestinian Authority and king of jordan, he will also travel to Qatar A Country that in the past has been able to influence hamas to the uae, to egypt and to saudi arabia. Its our determination and that of israel as well that there not be a second front or a third front, and we are working as hard as we can, working with other partners in the region to try to ensure tha
has given that to his military commanders and over the last several months and weeks, they have been shaping the battlefield. we ve used that term multiple times on here. now it s time for the military commanders to come back to the president and say, hey, look, boss, we have looked at the battlefield. here s where the russians are weak. here s where we need to be strong. let s start moving forces from their logger areas in the rear of ukraine into their attack positions so i think what we ll see in the next couple of days and weeks is a lot of movement of ukrainian forces, they are going to try and hide that movement the best they can and at the same time they re going to try to deceive russia for where they are going and what activities they ll use so a lot is like a chessboard. both sides are playing chess, trying to beat the other one to get to the right position so they can conduct the kind of offensive and defensive operations they need. all right, always great to talk to you,
another incursion into ukraine, that the united states would respond swiftly with severe economic consequences. i won t speak for the alliance. a decision to activate the nato response force, the north atlantic council has to make, not something the united states would unilaterally call into being. i would only add this, and this is why a couple weeks ago we talked about making our contribution to the response force more ready so we have done that and one of the messages that the secretary will carry with him to nato is that our contribution to the nato response force should it be called, activated, they ll be ready to go. just to be clear, your answer to bob, you do not see evidence his forces have moved into attack positions. i m not going to talk about what we are specifically seeing