reporters spoke on condition of anonymity and did not provide any underlying evidence for the alleged troop buildup but it is jet another data point in what is an incredibly complicated situation that we are all desperate to make sense of. joining us now on this day to make sense of what is happening, ben rhodes, former deputy security adviser to president bpa, in that post when president obama, in that post when russia invaded in 2014. contrary to what the russians are saying, we are seeing a buildup of the troops on the border with ukraine. do we tend to believe the russian government, more than the russian government, what do you think is happening here? is it international gas lighting? here s what i think is happening, alex. we re looking at russia, what they try to do when they have military aggression is create a pretext they re acting in
support? do you think that there is broad republican support for president biden s sanctions against russia and the way he has rallied allies since the invasion? i the way he has rallied allies since the invasion?- since the invasion? i think there is since the invasion? i think there is an since the invasion? i think there is an opportunity i since the invasion? i think there is an opportunity for bipartisanship and opportunity for republicans and democrats to come for republicans and democrats to come together but what the present to come together but what the present has outlined thus far fails present has outlined thus far falls very, very short. talk about falls very, very short. talk about oligarchs, people close to the about oligarchs, people close to the president but we are not talking to the president but we are not talking about all your gas and we had talking about all your gas and we had the deputy security adviser we had the deputy security adviser say we
some of the american politicians sometimes are calling for asking ukraine please become neutral. maybe putin would not attack anymore. but military support as well is very important. 75% captured in crimea in 2014 and now we have a lot from kyiv in maritime so restoring and helping with our defense systems and for helping with controlling the black sea because we see the last few weeks the russian federation increased their actions, aggressive actions, in the black sea and that s where our nato partners can come and with allowing the ships to come to ukrainian force because ukrainian not only security but economy will also depend on it. hanna, stick around. i want to bring in our correspondents from the white house and the national deputy
revenue. it will keep some footprint for baby formula, milk, pbaby food. it will continue to operate those products. pepsi has been operating some 60 years, way back in time when they would have to trade for vodka and warships. because the soviet russia didn t have any money, no cash for the imports. indeed, it looks like with all of this exodus from the companies, russia is indeed, the economy is going back in time. mcdonald s for 30 years. pepsi for 60 years. today, no the there. thank you very much. joining me is deputy security adviser at the white house. thank you so much for being with us this morning. you heard dimitri peskov say the u.s. has declared economic war on russia. your response? reporter: brutal and needless war of aggression, john.
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