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Eastern europe. About 2,000 troops are going to poland and another 700 are going to rumania as well as other countries in the southEastern Flank of nato. The reason for this is because of the anxiety these allies are feeling in the midst of this massive russian troop buildup in ukraine. The president did hint at this last week. He said he would be moving those troops to Eastern Europe in the near term, but he did not say when that would be happening. We are told these deployments could be coming in the coming days. What were told is this is coming at a time when these allies are feeling very, very anxious about this russian aggression there, and this is a show of support for those allies. This is not a precursor to any kind of u. S. Troops on the ground in ukraine. This is just those troops going to Eastern Europe to shor ....
Pentagon says this is a temporary deployment and that no u. S. Troops will be on the ground in ukraine. Vladimir putin has amassed more than 1,000 troops along the border in the ukraine and that includes 5,000 troops in belarus which would give a direct route to the ukrainian capital. U. S. Officials also say russia is moving keep medical supplies to the border, further suggesting a plan to invade. But given how hard it is to determine russias true intentions, the United States isnt taking any chances. Do you have any evidence that potent plans to move beyond it ukraines borders . Why are you bolstering these Eastern Flank allies if you do not have evidence of that . Because its important that we send a strong signal to what mr. Pruden end up frankly to the world at that nato matters to the United States. What we see, jenna ....
News chief white house correspondent, peter alexander. Nbc news foreign correspondent, matt bradley in eastern ukraine, jonathan la mir, Politico White House bureau chief as well as host of Way Too Early here on msnbc. And he lane cooper, the New York Times pentagon correspondent. Both jonathan and helane are msnbc contributors. Peter, what more can you tell us about the president s decision to u. S. Moves troops already on standby to europe . Reporter thats exactly right. We have now learned that its a total of 3,000 u. S. Troops who will be moving, about a thousand of them already in europe will be going to romania, a native member nation. Another 2,000 presently here in the u. S. Will be going to germany and to poland, as well. This comes, according to a ....
Senator chris coons joins us what it means for the party and ahead. And new fbi warnings from director chris wray, as he tells my colleague Pete Williams he was, quote, blown away by the state of espionage inside the United States. Well have more of petes exclusive interview coming up. Exclusive interview coming up. Welcome to meet the press daily. Im chuck todd, the u. S. Has put itself on firmer war footing as ukraine and our nato allies brace for this possible russian invasion of ukraine. The pentagon announced its deploying thousands of troop to Eastern Europe, Repositioning Thousands of troops already in the region as well. Heres where the new deployments are going, romania, poland, germany. Include a mounted cavalry and brigade teams. In total, it adds ....