questions over whether there is concern that putin may push farther than ukraine. we are making it clear that we re going to be prepared to defend our nato allies if it comes to that hopefully it won t come to that. at the pentagon questions about whether the u.s. knows more about putin s plans than officials are acknowledging publicly. do you have any evidence that putin plans to move beyond ukraine s borders? why are you bolstering these eastern flank allies if you do not have evidence of that? because it s important that we send a strong signal to mr. putin and frankly to the world that nato matters. 93-7 this is president biden ordering the military to more than double its presence in nato wednesday. sending 1,000 troops from germany with armored vehicles plus 2,000 from the u.s. to europe. 1700 from the 82nd airborne now heading to poland. 300 also from fort bragg will set up a joint task force exeable headquarters in germany. 8500 more remain at home on he
little to stop covid deaths, and instead wreaked havoc on every aspect of our lives. johns hopkins with a bombshell study that shows restrictions only reduce deaths by .2%. at the same time, the lockdowns devastated our economy, education system, and damaged our mental health. all the while fueling major political unrest. many of us were never given an option. remember president biden and top health officials told us lockdowns were our only choice. president biden: statewide, lockdowns that so many americans lived under for months were intended to buy us time to get our act together. when you have an acute situation, and extra ordinary number of cases the answer is to close things down, go back to our basics, to shut things down, the flatten the curve. the fact that we shut down when we did, and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of millions of infections, and millions of lives. now, s before now, while their policies have been proven wrong once again,
jesse: thank you everybody here at fox. thanks for the great production staff of the five. dana: especially meghan bret, scott,. jesse: you are going to leave someone out. dana: montana, and scott sanders and sean. jesse: and johnny. judge jeanine: that s it for us. beings special report up next with john roberts. john: good evening, welcome to washington. i m john roberts in for bret baier. breaking tonight, president biden is sending 2,000 troops from the united states and about 1,000 based in germany to eastern europe. but the administration insists those troops will not be going into ukraine. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich joins us tonight with the very latest. jacqui? good evening to you, john. president biden said his decision to deploy troops is consistent with what he has told russian president putin from the beginning, as long as russia is acting aggressively, the u.s. will reassure nato allies of our support. but the troop movement prompted