heightened alert to deploy to europe. the pentagon says it s part of an increased effort to prevent russia from invading. hello, sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you. john: john roberts in washington. defense officials suppress u.s. troops would support a nato response force and not sent to ukraine. the who us says the national security team is finalizing plans for all military scenarios. this as the biden administration faces growing calls to sanction russia now before putin makes his next move. sandra: more than 127,000 russian troops continue to operate along the massive border there with ukraine, but ukraine s president is trying to reassure the public and world there is no reason to panic. john: is there reason to panic or not? former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley in moments. sandra: and greg, what is the latest you are hearing about the russian threat there? as the u.s. leads efforts to try to head off the invasion, we are
additional nato troops sent to romania in the baltics to send a signal to russian president vladimir putin not to try to move into any neighboring countries. putin has not made it a direct threat to nato country and ukraine is not a nato member. all of this comes a briefing from uk intelligence over the weekend that putin is planning to install a progression president and ukraine and orders from her state department the families to evacuate ukraine. joining us with the latest national security correspondent jennifer griffin. this was surprising to me this briefing but it seems to add up that maybe this is the strategy we had these briefings this is a briefing were over the last few days the briefing from u.s. intelligence about putin planning false flag operations for a pretext for invasion and then the ukraine russian president and now open briefing about troop deployment, is that the plan to deter putin with this media war in a sense? i don t know i would assess it that w
a message to vladimir putin not to move into any neighboring country. putin has not made a threat to neighboring nato countries and ukraine is not a member of nato. orders from our state department for u.s. embassy employees are evacuate ukraine. joining us, jennifer griffin. this was surprising to me, this briefing. it seems to add up to this is the strategy. is this the briefing war? we had the briefing from u.s. intelligence about putin planning false flag operations for a pretext for an invasion. be and knew really open briefings about troop deployments. is that the plan, to deter putin with a media war? i don t know that i would assess it that way. i think what you are seeing is these are right now reporters are getting indications from officials about how very serious the situation is right now in ukraine and the intelligence whether intelligence shared with britain or the five eyes. russiaam has 127,000 troops with more on its way to all sides of the border with ukra
additional nato troops sent to romania in the baltics to send a signal to russian president vladimir putin not to try to move into any neighboring countries. putin has not made it a direct threat to nato country and ukraine is not a nato member. all of this comes a briefing from uk intelligence over the weekend that putin is planning to install a progression president and ukraine and orders from her state department the families to evacuate ukraine. joining us with the latest national security correspondent jennifer griffin. this was surprising to me this briefing but it seems to add up that maybe this is the strategy we had these briefings this is a briefing were over the last few days the briefing from u.s. intelligence about putin planning false flag operations for a pretext for invasion and then the ukraine russian president and now open briefing about troop deployment, is that the plan to deter putin with this media war in a sense? i don t know i would assess it that w
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