is imminent? i think both the us and the uk are taking these is imminent? i think both the us and the uk are taking these warning - the uk are taking these warning signs very seriously, and so asking their. the families of embassy employees, diplomats to leave, so thatis employees, diplomats to leave, so that is important. it is also important that this is not an emergency evacuation. they are asking people to leave. abbey is the us diplomats are being asked to send theirfamilies out the us diplomats are being asked to send their families out on commercialflights. all send their families out on commercial flights. all the airports are open, this is not an emergency situation. we hope it remains that way. we hope that negotiations can soon begin to bring the temperature down. d0 soon begin to bring the temperature down. , ., soon begin to bring the temperature down. ,, . soon begin to bring the temperature down. i. ., ., soon begin to bring the temperature down. ., ., ., ., down. do y
to evacuate. they re also, the state department, encouraging americans in ukraine to leave ukraine. this is upsetting the ukrainian government, as you heard from the earlier report. do you think it is the right move or the wrong move? i can t help but think it is probably influenced by what happened in afghanistan when people said there weren t sufficient warnings for people to get out before the worst happened. yeah. i think it does demonstrate how serious the situation is. i ve been briefed on the russian plan in the classified space. it is very serious. the timetable is very short and that s important right now. i think it is a safe measure to protect embassy employees. but it also shows you how serious a threat it is coming from russia right now that we re anticipating that they very likely could happen. to put in it perspective, this would be the largest invasion in europe since world war ii. and to your analyst s comments, this is not about ukraine in a
welcome back. as we mentioned at the top of the show, the u.s. and our nato allies are now proceeding as if it s not a question of if the u.s. invades ukraine but a question of when. defense secretary lloyd austin briefed the president over the weekend on the potential deployment of military personnel to eastern europe. nato already announced today it was sending ships and fighter jets to the region. the state department has also ordered the families of all embassy employees and some embassy employees themselves to leave the country. intelligence released by british officials suggests that putin is plotting to overthrow the
americans who get trap there had? this is why for days we have been encouraging americans to get out when it s permissible to get out. we can t fly american troops into a conflict zone to get out americans to encourage the lead and we re still encouraging americans to get out now. we don t know what the situation will be like on the ground. we re assisting any americans through our embassy employees who are still working to support americans and we will do everything possible to support american citizens but they need to also be responsible and make the right decisions. to move ait s permissible. it s good of you to take the time. thank you for your updates today. thank you, andrea. and we have only days to go.
left and across the street from us were both canadian embassy employees. all four households were diagnosed. joining me now is jeanne shaheen who has lead the effort to make sure they get compensated and proper medical care. part of what you re doing is the defense authorization bill, correct? that is correct, what we want is a coordinator not just in the various agencies where they had personnel attacked, but someone that can coordinate the entire bill. we want to know exactly what is going on so that we can respond if is very troubling that this happened years ago and we don t