supporting more assistance to ukraine. so you think there would be bipartisan support in the united states, in congress, for for helping ukraine? i do. i mean listen. there may be outliers on both parties that might oppose certain lethal assistance to ukraine. but i think it s absolutely critical that we continue to be a security partner. but remember, we re we re just helping ukraine so that they can decide for themselves their future. russia is invading because they want to force ukraine to orient to the east. the united states supports ukraine s right to decide for themselves whether they want to have an alliance with nato or eu or whether they want to have an alliance with russia. we are supporting ukraine s democratic future. whereas, russia is propose org threatening an invasion to force the ukrainian people into an alliance with russia they don t want. having been there, do you have a sense of what a conflict
ru ru russia now deployed more than 127,000 troops in the region. jen psaki told reporters an attack could come quote at any point. and tonight, multiple sources tell cnn the biden administration is weighing new options to either deter russian president vladimir putin or raise the price he wopay for us those forces. jim sciutto joins us now with the latest. what are these new options being considered? anderson, the idea here is to grow lethal military assistance to the ukrainian military both from the u.s. and its nato allies in a host of ways. to increase supplies of anti-tank, armor-piercing missiles known oas javelins. to increase supplies of anti-aircraft, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile systems those from nato allies. mortars, as well. you see pictures of those javelin missiles. but also, increasing presence of u.s. operations forces trainers for the ukrainian military. they already regularly rotate in
the united states congress just a few weeks ago passed legislation increasing the authorization for direct military assistance to ukraine and i think it s incredibly important right now that we make russia understand that while there may not be u.s. brigades on the ground fighting russian soldiers. there is going to be continued u.s. assistance. assistance to an army that is ready to fight and a population that is not just going to let russia march into the center of ukraine. putin seems to be getting absolutely horrible advice. people telling him he is going to be greeted as some kind of liberator in a country that has turned against russia over the last ten years and is going to fight for its sufblor surviechbl but i agree that was the purpose of the trip to have republicans and democrats there showing ukraine, showing russia more importantly that despite the sort of divisions you see in washington between republicans and democrats on other issues, we are going to be together
worst thing that happened to his nation and he sees his legacy attached to some version of the old ussr. i think he has also been given very bad information. there are reports suggesting that he has been told that ukraine is actually just waiting to be invited back into the soviet empire and he will be greeted as a liberator. um, so i think part of this stems from sort of his completion of a legacy project. but part of this is also due to, you know, his his bad advice. and the last piece of this is that he knows the time is running out. ukraine is getting more anti-russian, more interested in joining the west every single day. there is not going to be an election which results in a ukrainian leader ultimately deciding to do an alliance with russia. the only way they can force ukraine back in his orbit is through his own use of force. so he s gotten to this point at which the only thing he can do is to propose and move forward with an invasion like this. we have just got to make sure
cyberattacks. a threat overshadowed by russia s aggression toward ukraine. look ahead in three to six months, and say did the things we agreed to sit down and try to work out did it work? reporter: biden sought to reset the russian relationship. now, putin is testing biden and western allies. for all the challenges outside any president s control, one of the most devastating periods of biden s first year was a decision that he made and stands behind. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. reporter: the swift fall of the afghanistan government and the chaotic evacuation that followed, including 13 americans killed in a suicide bombing, raised critical questions about competence that biden and his team still struggle to shake six months later. i take responsibility for the decision. reporter: yet, taking responsibility marks a noted change between biden and his predecessor, who looms even larger one year out of office.