country s history and traditions and pushing back and making sure europe and the western world stood together. shannon: so secretary blinken said just moments ago if one more russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, that would trigger a significant u.s. response. what does that telegraph to you? what kind of response? that s a much stronger statement than the one that you just played for me from the president. i hope they re serious about this. i hope they are prepared not only to speak about this and that they have a plan, that they have an execution matrix so that they are prepared to actually do this in realtime and it doesn t take days of meetings and discussions with allies and friends, that there is a plan to execute a response. that is commensurate with the activity that the russians take. these are the kinds of things that reduce risk, shannon. it s how we prevent there to be a significant outbreak of conflict and war in europe. america can lead. we can t lead fr
country s history and traditions and pushing back and making sure europe and the western world stood together. shannon: so secretary blinken said just moments ago if one more russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, that would trigger a significant u.s. response. what does that telegraph to you? what kind of response? that s a much stronger statement than the one that you just played for me from the president. i hope they re serious about this. i hope they are prepared not only to speak about this and that they have a plan, that they have an execution matrix so that they are prepared to actually do this in realtime and it doesn t take days of meetings and discussions with allies and friends, that there is a plan to execute a response. that is commensurate with the activity that the russians take. these are the kinds of things that reduce risk, shannon. it s how we prevent there to be a significant outbreak of conflict and war in europe. america can lead. we can t lead fr