ukraine border. this is really building off your reporting last week with our other cnn colleagues that the pentagon expected to announce the troop deployment this morning. we will bring that to you live as it happens. joining us now is lieutenant general mark hartling. general, great to have you on. just your reaction to this news, specifically regarding its timing, the day after we heard from russian president vladimir putin after a month long silence from him. yeah, i think it is a very good call. this is something that occurs frequently within europe. it is something when i was the commander in europe and 2011 and 2012 we set this type of rotational scheduling up. and it has been going on for the last eight or nine years where units flow back to europe to reinforce for exercises, for engagements with other countries, and, you know, from what i tell what i can tell in the news reports already, these forces are going to the eastern european countries of poland and rom
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 we re 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 shore up that flank and reassure them that the u.s. is there in the event that russia does invade ukraine and tries to move even further west, jim. ambassador,
presidential actions on january 6th, and is disqualifiedro holding office under section iii of theh amendment. importantly eedd was the ticking countdown clock, giving any party, not just donald trump, until january 4th to appeal to the supreme court and saying if anyone asks the supreme court to review this case, then donald trump s name stays on the ballot until the supreme court weighs in. well, no surprise, the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted ex-president made a lot of noise after the ruling came out whining and bloviating and promising to, quote, swiftly file an appeal to the supreme court. but then a funny thing happened. while trump and his lawye were working on that swift appeal look who beat him to t proverbial punch, the colorado republican party, who filed their owneal urging the justices to take up the case and d while mr. trump is expected toil his own petition in the coming days, the move by the colorado republican party has a, quote, practical i
normally would have people fearful the federal reserve will be inclined to start hiking rates again in the face of this. again, that was not a worry for the markets. maybe with a strong jobs report, there s a lot less worry about a decision and a lot more hope that we could dodge one altogether. welcome. i m neil cavuto. because you ve got that juxtaposed against republican candidates criss-crossing battle ground states talking about how awful things are. we re following the principals and how the economy is going and the debt ceiling package and relief that we have a package and avoided default fed into this rally today. let s go to rich edson in pella, iowa. how that is going down there. rich? good afternoon, neil. got a couple of republican candidates in iowa today. many more coming tomorrow for senator joni ernst s roast and ride in des moines about an hour drive from pella. governor ron desantis will be at that roast and ride event. he s finishing up a full day of camp
on ron desantis kicking a off his world tour. we begin with jacqui. hi, jacqui. hi, sandra. there s questions about whether this announcement will be for lack of a better word kind of a rush job. we have not seen any recent blitz across the states to tout his achievements like we were told would happen with the president. there s reports that campaign staffing decisions haven t been made yet. and there s not any major announcement. no event for that announcement anyway that we know of. instead, we re told to expect an announcement over social media according to reports. that is the president s preferred method of communication lately. the white house is continuing to side step traditional media, keeping him at a distance and setting up influencers to get their messaging out. biden didn t give any hints this afternoon. ready to run again, mr. president? might be an uphill battle regardless of the roll-out. and nbc news poll shows 70% of americans don t want president biden