this administration assess the situation on the ground overnight in ukraine and it they now view this as an invasion. will he use that actual term? that remains to be seen. i m told that they are still working on the copy, but the bottom line here is that this is a significant shift in tone because last night when we pressed top officials here on whether this was an invasion, they were very hesitant to use that language so what does that mean? this means that now there will be more robust sanctions. we know that today. the administration has said that they will impose new sanctions and in coordination with their allies, and that stopped short of stopping the biggest most punishing sanctions package that washington has been preparing, joe. they are still holding on to that as one final step that they may be able to take to try to deter, putin, i am told, but we have republicans and democrats, some of. sclosest allies calling
the russian financial institutions that do business with europe, with the united states, with the rest world. i also think you ll see export controls that will prevent russian industrial capacity from manufacturing high technology capabilities, so i think you ll see these economic sanctions. i think you ll see our troops in our nato ally countries go on high alert. i think you ll continue to see us arm, train and equip the ukranian forces so that they can impose costs on russia if russia further advances across the ukranian territory, but i think this is interesting because, of course, we predicted the united states intelligence community predicted exactly this would happen, that russia would try to stage a pretext in the eastern provinces to try to provoke a conflict and therefore quite a cause, a manufactured cause for a russian military invasion. kudos to the u.s. intelligence community and also i think the biden administration did a great job of calling this out, making this info
and donetsk they will say, yeah, right they have been there for the past eight years, a war that 14,000 ukeians have died in since 2014 so for this this doesn t represent the hair on fire emergency that it would seem to from probably further away in the west and that s why life continues on here as usual. i was speaking to somebody just the other day and she said look. i m from eastern ukraine. unless i see a tank in front of my house, i m not going to get worried. joe? jaire mix you worked at the highest levels of the pentagon and cia. now that russia s actions are being called an invasion and europe s troops are positioned near the border, how quickly do you expect things will move here? how quickly do you think the next steps sflb. we ll hear from the president s sanctions package that the president and the administration will be rolling out. they will go after russian financial institutions, to have full blocking sanctions against
82nd airborne, arguably the most elite unit in the u.s. army on standby to deploy. it s a very symbolic striking effect. number two, if this thing goes sideways and there are millions of refugees and mass casualties working outside the borders, these troops are trained to assist as well as to in particular help americans who might be caught up in a flow like that. number three, if the administration takes a decision after a massive invasion, if putin really goes full blitzkreig, that would entail additional training for the ukranians, not in the country but conduct the outside the country, so these are multi-purpose troops, highly capable. it is a wonderful testament to the u.s. army s ability to forward deploy them. last thought on this, joe,
we re back with breaking news. moments ago we learned president biden will deliver remarks in what the white house is calling a russian invasion in eastern ukraine. he s set to speak at 1:00 p.m. eastern. nbc s matt bradley is in ukraine s second largest city, 25 miles west of the russian border and kristen welker is at the white house, jeremy bass served as secretary of defense during the observe paraadministration and nola haines, a 2021 national security foreign affairs leader at the center of strategic and international studies. she s now director for women of color advancing peace and securities west coast chapter. good to have all of you with us. let s start with us. the president is speaking soon. we know there s been a shift from the white house this morning. they are now calling russia s deployment of troops in the two separatist regions of ukraine an invasion. what can we expect to hear from the president in less than two hours from now? well, i think you will hear him talk