good evening, bret. troops and their families are being told now to get ready the secretary of defense pulled these units to prepare to deploy in matter of days. part of a nato response force to deter putin that could include up to 40,000 nato allies. the pentagon says those troops could not be going to ukraine. the number of forces that the secretary has placed on heightened alert comes up to about 8500 personnel. no decisions have been made to deploy any forces from the united states at this time. president biden was presented options for troop deployments during a meeting with national security advisers at camp dhafd weekend. one option includes the u.s. sending thousands of additional u.s. troops to nato s eastern flank if requested. how does this protect ukraine? how does it stop putin from going into ukraine? it s designed to reassure our nato allies. how does it protect ukraine? jen it sends a clear signal
in ukraine. i think it s much more than, you know, middle finger if you will to nato. i think it is doing that to the united states. look at numbers. this is one thing that putin seems to do i is punk u. hung up on obsession about dates. what happened? december 2021. of the pushing them out of the ability to be part of europe. what is he trying to do? doing the same thing to the united states. democrat or republican who who the president is. i think he has been planning this based on dates alone and we heard the foreshadowing of that starting back in 2008. bret: russian exercise with belarus on the other side of the border comes to an end. just as the olympics begins. trey? i think, unfortunately, bret, can you make an argument that
come to kyiv and ukrainians are saying no let s not go anywhere near that. that s a massive overreaction. the eu if not taken that type of step with their diplomats and families shut far. i think that s an interesting thing to watch. i keep thinking back bret to the press conference last week and everyone talked, of course, about the minor incursion quote from the president. but something else that jumped out at me and others was president biden basically spelling out that there was disunity among nato allies. reporting that germany has been reluctant to take a hard line. i think that s part of putin s calculation and brit made a good point earlier in the show about this notion of potential preemptive action to change that calculation when it documents tough sanctions and is that sort of thing. change how putin is thinking about this but putin also knows that our president believes that whole idea is stupid. he used the word that he employed with jacqui heinrich in that completely legi
it s very clear russians from no intention of descalating. the secretary has placed on heightened alert. comes up to about 8500 personnel. how does this protect ukraine. jen, it sends a message we take our seriously. conflicting signals we are hearing reports that we are preparing our embassy for evacuation. the same team that bungled the evacuation in afghanistan may get another shot to do the same in ukraine. bret: well, it is tense on the border between russia and ukraine with russian troops there. a mass there forces from nato heading to reposition in the region. we don t know if u.s. forces will be helded that way. they are on high alert. mean time the state department is pulling family members of
to mr. putin that we take our responsibilities to nato seriously. u.s. javelin anti-tank missiles will be arriving soon in ukraine. they will include some air defense systems there is a lot more woman. nato announced this morning denmark will sandy frigate to the baltic sea and fighter diswrots lithuania. spain will send ships to join naval forces and considering sending naval ships to bulgaria. netanyahu they res 2-f 35 in april which may be too late. germany says it plans to send $6 million field hospital but denies obstructing weapons shipments. the head of the german navy was forced to resign this weekend after making pro-putin remarks. today the uss harry truman aircraft carrier strike group went ahead with a long planned nato military exercise in the