backtracks. good morning, welcome to way too early. will we ll begin with a stark new warning from the president of the united states when it comes to the threat of nuclear war. last night in new york city, president biden said the risk of nuclear armageddon is the highest it has been in roughly 60 years. since president kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. it all stems from russia s flail invasion of ukraine. biden said his russian counterpart putin is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming. russia has faced huge setbacks on the battlefield as ukrainian forces continue to take back land illegally occupied by
russia inside russia. and whether or not it s the ukrainians responsible for doing it which new york times report order a cyber attack which could very well cripple, take out, black out all of moscow. i don t think the united states is going to sit back and take this mildly. and then you heard the president of the united states, i mean, i would say he s being a little bit too alarmist. as you mentioned, u.s. intelligence still sees no untoward activity with this respect. but, yeah, we are getting to a point where we need to start taking these threats seriously. yeah. we certainly are. jake sullivan recent days that the u.s. would unleash a catastrophic response if putin were to go that way and also would assume sever ties, any ties moscow has left for countries and the rest of the world, china, india included. give us an update now setting that aside. where do things stand on the ground there in ukraine? you mentioned the completely successful on going successful counter invasion.
are saying they have not seen any increase in readiness for putin s atomic arsenal. but where do we think things stand right now or are things so desperate that putin might end up there. he might. putin realizes and members of the general staff realize that because this war has gone so catastrophically bad for them, this is absolutely humiliating for the russians what is taking place. you mentioned the shear statistic of them recovering battle tanks, taking hundreds of square kilometers where the main counter offensive is meant to go this summer. it is now fully in the hands of the ukrainian government. he really has to resort to one thing, jonathan. trying to terrify and terrorize the west with a threat of nuclear weapons. he s been doing this, by the way, for a long time. not just with respect to ukraine.
bombs proves to be true, it will represent an escalation in the types of deadly weapons that russia is willing to use and it s brutal invasion of ukraine. and the new york times is now reporting that the biden administration is preparing contingency plans for what to do if russia decides to draw upon some of the most deadly weapons in its arsenal. a special group of experts known as the tiger team have reportedly been assembled in the white house, mapping out how the united states and its allies should respond to a chemical, biological, or nuclear attack by russia inside of ukraine. a senior administration official confirmed the existence of the tiger team to nbc news and says that the team is preparing contingencies of various scenarios. including russia s use of chemical weapons. all of that is increasing concern, as many fear vladimir putin may take more reckless and drastic actions as this invasion drags on more slowly than he expected.
the white house, mapping out how the united states and its allies should respond to a chemical biological or nuclear attack by russia inside of ukraine. a senior administration official confirmed the existence of the tiger team to nbc news and says that the team is prepare for contingencies of various scenarios. including russia s use of chemical weapons. all of that is increasing concern, as vladimir putin may take more reckless and drastic actions as this invasion drags on more slowly than he expected. as the new york times knows, quote, just a month ago, such scenario seemed more theoretical. but today, from the white house to nato s headquarters in brussels, a recognition has it in a russia has turned may turn the most powerful weapons in his arsenal to bail itself out of a military stalemate. today, president biden was asked, directly, about what a u.s. response to a russian chemical weapons attack would