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
Out front tonight, putin breaks his silence, speaking for the first time publicly since december. Putin taking questions during a meeting with ironically a nato country, claiming the United States has broken its word and is forcing his hand in ukraine. There are mk41 launchers on which tomahawks can be installed. That is, these are not antimissile but strike systems that will cover our territory for thousands of kilometers. Isnt that a threat to us . Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and stuffed with weapons and there are State Of The Art Missile Systems like in poland and romania, who will stop nit crimea, let alone dumbas, a russian sovereign territory. Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and venture such as combat operations. Are we supposed to be at war with nato . His demands have not changed, trickling down, crimea was originally annexed by russia. No one has done much about it. Which remains the reason why putin believes he can control more of ukraine. Here is somethin
Out front tonight, putin breaks his silence, speaking for the first time publicly since december. Putin taking questions during a meeting with ironically a nato country, claiming the United States has broken its word and is forcing his hand in ukraine. There are mk41 launchers on which tomahawks can be installed. That is, these are not antimissile but strike systems that will cover our territory for thousands of kilometers. Isnt that a threat to us . Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and stuffed with weapons and there are State Of The Art Missile Systems like in poland and romania, who will stop nit crimea, let alone dumbas, a russian sovereign territory. Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and venture such as combat operations. Are we supposed to be at war with nato . His demands have not changed, trickling down, crimea was originally annexed by russia. No one has done much about it. Which remains the reason why putin believes he can control more of ukraine. Here is somethin
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
Out front tonight, putin breaks his silence, speaking for the first time publicly since december. Putin taking questions during a meeting with ironically a nato country, claiming the United States has broken its word and is forcing his hand in ukraine. There are mk41 launchers on which tomahawks can be installed. That is, these are not antimissile but strike systems that will cover our territory for thousands of kilometers. Isnt that a threat to us . Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and stuffed with weapons and there are State Of The Art Missile Systems like in poland and romania, who will stop nit crimea, let alone dumbas, a russian sovereign territory. Let us imagine ukraine is a nato member and venture such as combat operations. Are we supposed to be at war with nato . His demands have not changed, trickling down, crimea was originally annexed by russia. No one has done much about it. Which remains the reason why putin believes he can control more of ukraine. Here is somethin