unfortunately after a year of joe biden, most of our adversaries see uncle sam with a kick me sign on his back. harris: you and i have been talking for months about bringing americans home and you promised when you can talk on the record and tell us what some of the journeys have been like. meanwhile, it was definitely eye opening on this program yesterday to hear from the pentagon spokesperson admiral kirby openly saying how much more work they have to do to get americans home. those who are still trapped inside afghanistan five most after biden s disastrous withdrawal. now nearly two dozen citizens and legal residents are finally home safely but not thanks to the federal government which is what kirby said they could do. but thanks to a private nonprofit group project dynamo. a tampa-based rescue organization has helped thousands of americans and green card holders get out of taliban-controlled afghanistan since the united states left.
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move along these lines within the near future. he said it wouldn t be a lot of troops. this is now 3,000 troops, notably today from the pentagon spokesperson, we heard there are 8,500 additional troops that have been on a heightened state of alert and the number could grow and they could go to that region. the white house is working with a desire to find a diplomatic off ramp, solution this to situation, those putin s actions have made it difficult to believe he s amenable to that. yesterday they did hear from putin alongside the hungarian leader, they said white house is trying to goad them into ukraine and he also said to continue talks and the white house is hoping there may be a solution
in fact, that was going to be my next question, if putin would see that as a threat, doesn t that undermine what the pentagon spokesperson john kirby said, you know, that he s rather confident that there is still in place a diplomatic path? reporter: absolutely. what you see going on here is a lot of high-level diplomatic theater from the two top u.s. defense officials coming out on friday and saying mostly things we already knew about what russia was doing. and the u.s. is also calling for a u.n. security council meeting this coming week to discuss the issue. now, if it came to a vote, russia could block a vote at the security council, but that s not what the u.s. is trying to do right now. it s in this naming and shaming mode where it s just trying to remind russia over and over again, if you break with international norms, here are all the punishments that we re serious you could face, whereas just briefly what moscow is trying to show the rest of the world is, you know, those
back in moscow. steve rosenberg, bbc news, vladimir. we can now speak to bradley bowman, who s senior director of the center on military and political power at the foundation for defence of democracies. he previously served as a national security advisor to members of the us senate armed services and foreign relations committees. so perfectly placed to speak to us. you are very welcome. we were hearing a little earlier from the pentagon spokesperson john kirby, very clear to say that troops, the us troops, will not be deployed in ukraine. how much of a threat to do you think troops being deployed to places like germany, romania, poland will be for russell? be for russell? thank you for the opportunity be for russell? thank you for the opportunity to be for russell? thank you for the opportunity to join - be for russell? thank you for the opportunity to join you i the opportunity to join you and the question. i think they zero threat to russia. nato is a