joining us now casey mcfarland and general jack keen. welcome both.general keen, i want to start with you. the amassing forces near the border, does it send a message? >> he lied about annexing georgia and lied about crimea and moved troops in on those borders before he actually occupied the countries. i think we have to take it at face value. he has almost two divisions. he is interested in eastern ukraine. despite the fact he is telling us he doesn't have intentions on doing that and lying time and time again, we have to look at the capabilities and measure the capabilities and take it seriously there is a threat there. >> you have the great insight not only into russia but also vladimir putin. what do you make of this? do you think the additional rounds of sanctions will slow him down, stop him in any way? >> no. here is what happened. this week putin gave a speech in moscow at the kremlin. it was an emotional speech, long speech. there were hundreds of russian leaders there and talked about how america had lied to them and humiliated them when the