clearly is providing himself many options, lots more capabilities for exactly what purpose? we don t know right now. because we don t know exactly what his purpose is, we want to make sure we re ready on the nato front to defend our allies. martha: john kirby talking about vladimir putin in that sound bite. the pentagon giving orders to 3,000 troops to deploy to eastern europe as satellites show the build-up with tanks, missiles and 125,000 russian forces on the border. john ratcliffe joins us. but first, to jennifer griffin at the pentagon. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. today s announcement is separate from the pentagon s announcement last week that 8,500 u.s. troops had been given prepare to deploy orders in the event that nato calls up the 40,000 strong nato
we re starting to see evidence that those russian special forces that we had heard had been inserted into ukraine have so-called come to life. they re now being seen at bases where they have taken over from the ukrainian military even in the capital region of kyiv. what we have seen in these initial hours suggests the beginning, not the end, of what putin has the capability to unleash on ukraine. the nato secretary general has called the north atlantic council to meet. it could mobilize 40,000 strong nato force to reinforce the baltics, poland and romania to deter putin from going further in any article 5 nations. the president is meeting with the national security council right now. putin has forces in belarus 125 miles from the polish border and what has been notable in his recent speeches is how he makes reference to not just
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responsibility, i believe in restrained discipline, foreign policy, i believe in reagan s foreign policy, i believe in a strong nato, i believe in promoting democratic values across the globe, i believe checking russian aggression and i believe i can go on forever. all the ways that republicans in 2018 in the age of trump are the antithesis of conservatism. but you talked a great deal about it in your twitter feed. what are your thoughts? well, one thing you could add to that is you also believe in facts, which has kind of fallen out of vogue among self-described conservatives now. i wrote that because i was really tired of people hijacking the word conservative and declaring people like me and you and max boot and others as no
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