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Levers it can right now. the pentagon says we have roughly 8,500 troops on heightened alert. president biden and our european allies have been communicating about countermeasures to any russian aggression. we re going to have more from the white house, more from the pentagon and ukraine in just a few moments. also, in just the last few hours, pfizer announced that it is testing a vaccine tailored specifically to protect against the omicron variant, and we re watching the markets very closely again this morning. right now, as you can see, the dow down once again, down almost 420 point, things once again quite volatile there on wall street raising a lot of questions. so stephanie ruhle is going to join to us try to help answer some of them. also this hour, our country s crisis of conscious. after january 6th laid bare this ....
Morning. you know capitol police officer eugene goodman right there, you ve seen the video. the man facing down the mob there on january 6th and you ve never heard him describe what the moments were like until just now. he just gave his first interview and we ll talk about the moment he locked eyes with members of that mob and what someone shouted at him during the attack and all that have coming up just ahead, but we re going to start with new development in eastern europe this hour. nbc s matt bradley once again on the ground in the capital it a of kiev and courtney is at the pentagon and kelly o donnell at the white house and i want to bring in richard stengel, a former undersecretary of state during the obama state, an msnbc political analyst and was a member of the biden transition team. mr. bradley, we ll start with you once again there in ukraine. we ve been showing that plane, again, right now on the tarmac, just landed a short time ago. ....
Matt, thank you tonight. we turn now to the high stakes talks between the u.s. and russia today. tonight, the u.s. now calling the immediating grabbing and forthright, blut the russians saying there was no progress. here s our senior foreign correspondent ian pannell tonight. reporter: tonight, the first round of crisis talks between russia and america over ukraine and nato expansion ended with little progress. the u.s. side saying the meeting was frank and forthright but that real negotiations haven t even begun. the russian side more belligerent, saying no progress was made and demanding guarantees that ukraine will never join nato, something america calls a non-starter. we need ironclad, waterproof, bulletproof, legally binding guarantees never, ever becoming member of nato. reporter: russia massing 100,000 troops on ukraine s borders and backing rebels in the east. as we saw first-hand, the ....
A nebulous idea of what s actually in this, but a lot of this aid could be going to ukranian soldiers fighting against the potential invasion. whether or not it would actually help is another thing entirely because, let be clear here, the main the main weapon that the russians are going to be using if they choose to invade at least initially. in the opening hours and days of this conflict, will probably be air power. they will very much overwhelm ukranian forces when it comes to air power, and the weapons that the u.s. has been giving to ukraine are probably not going to help in fighting a substantial battle against russian military jets, so that s something that we ve been hearing, not necessarily from the ukranian government but from some analysts and others saying, that you know, this this assistance is kind of too little too late, and it won t necessarily help with a major air powered offensive against ukraine by the russians. craig? matt bradley, stand by, again, as we watch ....
It s not going to be a surprise. that s why i do think some of what we re seeing with the plussing up of weapons as kelly talked about is this kind of shadow boxing that both sides are doing. yes, america wants to show that we re on the side of our allies and on the side of nato, and, in fact, ukraine is not in nato, but a lot of this is i hope a prelude to a stand down to off ramps. there s lots of stuff that the u.s. and russia can negotiate about, including weapons and including intermediate range nuclear weapons, including the number of nato forces stationed in the easternmost countries, so, again, i m trying to be optimistic here that this plan that they can negotiate and that both sides are trying to stake out their positions before that negotiation. defense secretary austin has placed roughly 8,500 troops on, ....