hundreds of thousands of russian passports to ukrainians who live in the southeast. it's all an elaborate scheme to give him justification as he sees it. all the more reason the administration is doing the right thing, shoring up the nato alliance, moving troops to do that physically as well as, above all, show putin the sanctions. >> yeah, admiral, we've been looking at the new satellite images that show russian air units deployed right near ukraine's borders and then last week, you know, there was reports of u.s. and russian aircraft flying dangerously close to one another. when you look at all these images and know those reports, what comes to mind for you? how concerned are you about this? what kind of reaction needs to take place to dial this back? >> well, i'd start by putting myself in the shoes of my previous job as supreme allied commander of nato. as i look at it, i'm thinking, as a military commander, what is here in front of me? and it is an absolute war