i see you nodding to courtney saying. yeah, exactly. so i think the, the, the main to switch here, what spotify has been that it hasn't had, or this is my opinion, but it hasn't had a constant moderation policy because it has been perceived globally as this. busy music provider, right, like a streaming of music. but we saw that last year when it started creating new policies for its content, monetization of podcasts. we saw that podcasts are, for instance, an example of a, of a product that spotify wants to export and it wants to really monetize and, and really get a lot of followers around. so this is where we're speaking about news and we're speaking about opinions and content. moderation makes so much sense because the common moderation isn't just, you know, should we allow music that has the vulgar lyrics. but it actually become, becomes a matter that can really permeate the fabric of society. monetization that you speak of. i mean there come new challenges don't there? absolutely, absolutely. and we see this with all platforms. and

's courtney, a journalist and fellow.barcelona, jeffrey lazarus is the head of the research group at barcelona institute for global health. in the associate professor of law and technology. welcome to the program, thank you for your time with us. jeffrey, over to you first. i know that you said we need to focus on providing explanation and guidance to combat false information. spotify has since said it's working to add warnings to any podcast that discusses covid-19. for you, is that a satisfactory response by spotify? >> i think it's a start to provide verify information, evidence-based information. but i think we need to distinguish between what spotify calls as controversial compares to what is simply wrong and false. there are different kinds of information, there's misinformation and disinformation, and when spotify allows information that is directly dangerous, like arguing that vaccines for covid-19 are not safe, or to take unproven treatments, then i think that that passes a certain line. >> courtney, spotify has

let's get to courtney reagan and the half. >> welcome to "the halftime report." i am courtney reagan in for scott wapner hot inflation comes in hotter than expected hitting a 40-year high will it cause the fed to get more aggressive on rate hikes and we'll debate that and discuss the best inflation protection strategies for your portfolio. our investment committee today includes shannon saccocia, brad talkington, sechin the s&p 500 down a third and the nasdaq composite also down 0.3%. russell 2000, holding on to some gains by about .75% and as always, keeping a close eye on the bond market with the ten-year yield hitting 2% for the first time since 2019 and we are sitting at 2.01 at this very moment and we're seeing weakness in utilities and some of these very rate sensitive sectors that make sense that we're seeing outto utilities by 1.3% and the techtrade down 1% or so. let's get started here kick us off and what do you make of the market action today and whether the fed needs to get more aggressive now that we have this hotter than expected inflation data we k

>> courtney, these are tight markets. are in a situation where we have this global reopening. we have lockdown restrictions easing and the supply picture is tight. opec has not been hitting 400,000 barrel a day monthly increase there are concerns of the overall tight market the situation with russia and ukraine is exacerbating the situation. the market is already fairly tight o tight. oil will pull back we are not talking about an oversupply of the market >> is russia happy the price of oil is remaining at this level >> this is good for russian finances with oil at this level. the broader concern for russia is what type of sanctions would be imposed in the event of invasion the u.s. and russian allies are imposing the punitive sanctions. they would be facing very severe sanctions on the financial institutions and real impact on the ruble. they are concerned about the west >> you are in saudi arabia right now. u.s. officials are there what conversations are being had with saudi arabia and their oil production in light of a

we've got senator bob menendez, i'm hallie jackson, mike memoli, courtney kube.r simmons in moscow, and andrea mitchell and hager shamali, a former spokes spokesperson for the treasury department. we just heard from the president. we're about to hear from the secretary of state. and mike, the president, he was done with vladimir putin, it seems like. he left that door of diplomacy open a crack, but he was tough. >> listen, hallie, this is what we've been talking about for three months, how the white house was cal lating what they describe as swift and skweer sanctions should russia invade ukraine. there are questions in the last day why it took the white house to officially call it an invasion. you had the president very clearly calling it the beginning of an invasion. as far as the sanctions that the president just announce third among the very severe that have been talked about for months. significantly, though, the president saying just the beginning. this the first tranche of sanctions, you referred to what he said at the beginning of his speech, hoping there

mike, keir, courtney, anderson, thank you all. in the meantime, a former military commander who led troops in europe the last time russia invaded ukraine joins me next. you're watching "meet the press daily." "meet the press daily. and baja chipotle sauce. it's three great things together. wait! who else is known for nailing threes? hmm. can't think of anyone! subway keeps refreshing and re- allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from hmm. can't think of anyone! overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. i've got diabetes and hypertension, which means i'm on a lot of medications. medicare helps to cover the cost, but not as much as you'd think. fortunately, my pharmacist told me about singlecare, a free service that gets you discounts at your local pharmacy. now i always check singlecare to see if it beats insurance, and then i just choose the option that gives me the best price. the way i see it, when you're on a fixed income, there's no reason to spend any more than

courtney, i'll ask you to stay with us, too.if you have to go get on the phone, go do it. i know you're all doing that very actively at the moment. i want to update you on the latest numbers that are coming in to us on casualties from the ukrainian government. the minister of health there says 57 people have been killed in the country because of this invasion by russia. nearly 170 others have been hurt. these are the latest numbers that we have. we also understand that hospital and medical workers have come under fire and that there were some casualties among those medical workers, as well. this is according to the ukrainian government. so, the crisis continues to escalate, andrea. i know you have been working your sources a that state department. bring us up to speed. >> well, one thing i think you may have just mentioned the fact that the u.s. expelled the number two or expelling the number two diplomat. they say it's unrelated and been in control of the timing. this is a long-standing dispute. russia acted against our diploma

hi, silvana. >> hi, courtney.and her agency telling cnbc how it came to classify reserve trust as a bank in 2017 and its role in reserve eventually acquiring a master account with a fed, a misrepresentation. senate rubs are trying to use raskin's apparent efforts to have convinced the kansas fed into giving the reserve to block her nomination >>> viacomcbs is renaming itself it will now go by paramount global effective today the stock falling after trading fourth quarter results that fell short of analysts' expectations but aerecorded it. bob bakish will be on at 8:30 eastern. >>> disney will drop mask mandates for vitters at u.s. theme parks. face masks will still be needed for visitors ages 2 and older on enclosed transportation such as the buses, other transportation, and the sky gondola. >> it's amazing how the theme parks have been resilient through all of this. >>> president biden is warning that an invasion is distinctly possible the president is saying he still wants to give diplomacy a chance but he also

it's a pretty dire picture, courtney. >> yeah, it is.should start this by saying it's not clear what vladimir putin has decided to do here. but if he does decide to do a large-scale invasion of ukraine, two of the options that the u.s. military and u.s. intelligence are looking at are double envelopment. they're coming in from multiple sides. we have a map that lays out the locations where they believe russian military would potentially move across the border. so, this would all start most likely from the air. air strikes. missile strikes. artillery strikes from across the border. the russian military could move in from several different sides potentially from the north moving down potentially from belarus and roug russia and dowo the capital kyiv. there are six different routes they can take from the east and the southeast that would bring them potentially all the way over to the river. that would essentially take over about 50% of ukraine's military, if they were to take that territory. now the officials that we spoke with said most li

. >> courtney kube, walk me through what nato troops we already have there.ese are being added to nato bases, are they not? >> to u.s. bases. >> yes. >> so in the entire region in all of european command the u.s. has something between 70,000, 85,000 troops. that's a large number in the region already. most of those are in western europe. what we're seeing 1,000 u.s. soldiered from the 2nd cav are going move in, and that we've been hearing about that is likely. it's important to point out tod wolters, the commander for nato, has the authority to do that already, inherent in his job but this came at the request of romania who specifically wanted additional forces to shore up and show unity among nato members. one thing that this entire announcement today really underscores is what we've been hearing more and more, especially in the last week or ten days here at the pentagon and among u.s. officials and that is there is an increasing belief that while they hope diplomacy works and that vladimir putin may not have made a decision yet there's certainly an increasi

courtney, this is something that you have been reporting on. that the administration has been warning, as late as this evening. with lester holt, where the secretary of state said that he thinks before the night is over, russia will have conducted its operation and it began. now, what is the response going to be from the pentagon? >> that's right. there's a couple of things that we should be looking at. what is not just a response here at the pentagon, but what is the nato response. we've heard in recent weeks as this nato response force could be activated in the event of a large scale invasion of ukraine. we heard that the united states announced that they had about 8000, 8500 troops that were on this heightened state of alert, ready as part of this response force. the big question is, does nato, and specifically the north atlantic council, activate that force and send not only these thousands of u.s. troops, but other thousands of nato allied troops into the baltic region. into that area around ukraine, as a show of presents, a show of force

>> courtney kube, thank you. and president biden responding to putin's latest escalation with an executive order targeting those two separatist regions in ukraine. peter alexander is at the house. and, peter, the white house is already responding with sanctions tonight. >> reporter: yeah, lester that's right the white house says president biden will slap limited economic sanctions on those two separatist regions for now with additional steps targeting russia coming tomorrow. so far the u.s., the u.n., and others are blasting russia's move as a violation of international law. and today we saw the president's to national security advisors arriving here where the president spoke by phone with ukraine's president and european allies. all of this comes just hours after the white house had said that president biden would be willing to meet with putin in principle if russia has not invaded. but tonight an official says an invasion still appears imminent, lester. >> peter, president biden has said he believes putin will

here's courtney sisk. >> reporter: they are planning a comeback. >> it's hard. it's exciting. the ukha christmas parade attack three months ago. >> it was unbelievably awful. >> reporter: with one foot in front of the other and poms in hand, the grannies begin to rebuild. is this the most number of members who have ever wanted to join? >> definitely. we have never experienced this number of people. the ones we do have are very enthusiastic. >> reporter: there are nearly 20 grannies in training. >> we feel very welcome. >> reporter: and in just a few weeks the dancing grannies will step back onto the streets to perform at the milwaukee st. patrick's day parade. >> we're going to be smiling and upbeat. we're going to be proud. there is no sadness. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but there is sentiment. jenny sorensen, one of the fallen members, choreographed two irish routines for the 2020 st. patrick's day parade. covid canceled those celebrations ever since. the routines went unseen until now. >> it is like a brand new start. >> reporter: in milwaukee, courtney sisk, wysn 12 news. >> what a

first up on this close, courtney gibson is still with us. chris from meryl and bank of america private bank joins the conversation what do you tell your clients when we have days like today, which have happened more frequently and we continue to see the growth trade, the nasdaq, and now some cyclical parts of the market unwind here. >> well, i think first, you know, multiples presenters have been talking about this, but everyone is trying to figure out what's the one risk that is responsible for what mike said before, which is no bids and it's not any one risk. there's quite a few. retail and institutional investors are all trying to price in three or four big risk at once. that vortex is about no bids, repositioning happening all at once, sxand everyone trying to find an excuse our message is stay disciplined, exhale, relax, rebalance during times like this, because you only get three or four invitations per year when the profit cycle frankly is heading forward, even though it doesn't feel good right now. stay disciplined stick to your inve

courtney bembridge has more. story started on the second of november with post onto the chinese social media site we both which was quickly deleted. in it peng shuai accused the former vice president of the communist party of sexual assault. she then disappeared from the public eye and by the middle of november several high—profile and misplaced including naomi osaka and serena williams were tweeting about the situation using the hashtag #whereispengshuai. then a social media message from peng shuai. it did little to quail concerns and if the un and the white house called for and the white house called for an investigation and verifiable proof of her whereabouts. two days later, the international olympic committee president said he held a video call from peng shuai and she said she was safe and well but there were chinese officials on the cold. in december, the women's tennis association announce it was suspending all tournaments in china including hong kong until there was a full investigation without censorship

courtney is at the pentagon, and kristen welker is at the white house. there have been a lot of new details since early this morning when we heard about this strike, when we heard about this raid. so let's talk about the timeline here because we have new pieces of that. at first, we know it was about a two-hour mission, months in the making according to spokesperson for the pentagon, john kirby, and once u.s. special operations forces arrived, they secured and isolated the compound. they got on their bull horns and they were asking people inside to get out. not too long after that, the isis leader sit off a bomb on the third floor, and then a bun fight started between the isis fighters that were left. the u.s. did secure the site after that, and then near the end of the operation, officials say more hostile fighters approached. special forces engaged and two of the terrorists were killed. at some point, we also know a helicopter involved had a drive train malfunction, and it was assessed it was no long every operational and it was detonated. let me come

courtney kube is nbc news's pentagon correspondent. i have to say, courtney, this has started to unfold the way you narrative it for me a 9 pm this evening. the things you said we're going to happen, including, surprisingly, to me, not to you. what's seems to be attacks on what might be an airfield or an airport near kyiv. you said they may intend tupac the runways so that those few aircraft that you crown in have can't work. >> that's right, so, the ultimate goal of this initial part of the invasion, of the kinetic phase of this invasion, is to stop the ukrainian air force and ukrainian military from mounting any kind of a response or defense, really. and especially any kind of a coordinated defense. the way to do that is to stop the air force from responding. literally damaging and blowing up parts of the runway can cripple an air force, depending on what kind of assets they are. they will also try to take out some of those air assets, most likely. and also take out some of the air defenses, so when russian aircraft are flying over,

what can you tell us, courtney?: it's the first time that we've heard of, anyway. >> fair enough. >> reporter: yeah. what's so remarkable is we very rarely hear any details about any kind of offense cyber operations, even though the united states would consider them. what's so remarkable is that our reporting from ken and myself is that there is a menu of options, of offensive cyber options presented to president biden to respond to the russian invasion, the large-scale invasion in ukraine. and they are -- they include things like potentially targeting infrastructure in russia. so we're talking about potentially going after sort of the train system. now, we are talking about things that would be temporary. they would not have a long-term or permanent impact on any of these russian capabilities or russian infrastructure. but the fact that the u.s. administration is even considering these options, it was really noteworthy here. the officials we spoke with also made it clear they would want to do something that russia

. >>> we start with courtney kube at the pond and matt bradley is on the ground in kyiv and i want to bring in ellen farkas as well, former us assistant deputy of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. you're learning they have 70% of the forces they need for an invasion. what do we know about really where we are, when could russia mass the remaining troops, what would an invasion look like? >> the 70% figure that's where they are for a full-scale invasion of ukraine. at this point what they have surrounded around the country on the border right now is enough for some sort of an invasion or an incursion just on a slightly smaller scale. that's an important distinction. what we have heard according to a source familiar with this new intelligence and military assessment is that they have about 83 battalion tactical groups around the border right now and they have another 14 heading in in the near future. that puts them in the neighborhood of about 100 btgs. if they are looking for a full-scale invasion, that is very close to the number that the assessment says they would need, somewhe

of the day and the week recouping their losses from the week >> what a week it's been, morgan i'm courtney reagan. let's look at what's driving the action today developments out of eastern europe remain front and center futures came off their lows this morning on a report saying vladimir putin will would be willing to send a delegation to negotiate with ukraine commodities are reversing some of their earlier moves oil and gold are pulling back, why crypto makes up ground, and we're seeing huge moves on the back of earnings etsy and block are higher while foot locker and zscaler tanks. 50 minutes to go in the session. the dow on pace for its best day of the year. morgan >> go figure coming up on today's show, market expert ed yardeni says stocks are flashing a buy signal, but is it still wise to jump in after the strong two-day rally. >> plus, fed watching jim grant weighs in on the central bank's next move on how the crisis in europe and today's inflation data factor in >> let's get straight to the latest on ukraine and the market impact eamon javers has a look what we know this hour, and

and acourting to courtney kube's speaking with the pentagon, our sclaeg courtney, she heard that some of the fiercest fighting has been going on outside of kharkiv. because right over the border is this town of belgorod in russia. and that's where we've seen some of the most dramatic troop movements in just the days before the fighting started. so so now moving over west, a lot of the most fierce fighting is also happening just north of kyiv, the capital. and we've also seen a lot of action right around chernohiv between there and the belarusian border. that is where we're seeing another major prong of attack heading south toward the capital. both of those players, both in kharkiv to the east and in kyiv in the center of the country, center north of the country have seen a lot of resistance from the ukrainians. from intelligence assessments from the brits and the americans we're hearing that the russians have been very, very frustrated in their lack of progress on those two main axes coming down into the center of the country. they had hoped to get those cities pretty early on in the

but as courtney said, he will not stop there if he achieves that. he wants ukraine, and he doesn't want to invade, i bet. i bet he wants this big deployment to intimidate president zelensky and try to intimidate president biden. so far he has not been able to succeed. peter baker is right, i bet putin is surprised about how united the alliance is and how strong president zelensky has been in standing up to putin, so i think that's probably something putin did not expect. >> on friday the national security adviser, jake sullivan, was talking about what could happen and the terms he used were, frankly, quite scary, that the russians could bomb and they could invade and he was imploring all american citizens to get out and now we hear the embassy is being relocated. what do we have to learn in the next few days about what might happen here? >> one thing that seems very clear is the u.s. government does not want to send u.s. military into ukraine for any evacuation of american citizens, and that's why we are seeing so much urging, president biden, blink

courtney kube is joins us. i want to talk to you.e heard from jake sullivan on "meet the press" a russian invasion of ukraine could happen at any time. i know you've been working your sources throughout the weekend. what is the latest u.s. assessment of the russian military assessment around ukraine now? >> they have a very significant military force surrounding ukraine on three sides right now. that includes, according to these officials, 83 battalion tactical groups. that's not exactly like a u.s. military term but to give you a sense, the btgs that they have and all of the additional capabilities, logistics and support is more than 100,000 russian forces, a raid around there. now that, if in fact russia were to go forward with a full-scale invasion of ukraine, i'm talking about a military effort to take over -- ultimately take over the entire country, the officials believe it would take somewhere in the neighborhood of about 120 of these battalion tactical groups. there are still about 14 more headed in so they're well on their wa

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yes, they're a pawn in this. >> i think what we're all wondering, courtney, is what's next? we know how we're going to respond to russian invasions, we know all that. what's next for the american response after that? >> from a military perspective, there really is no response. i mean, right now the biden administration has made a very concerted decision that there will not be any kind of u.s. military response. people keep coming to me and saying, well, what if americans are killed? what if americans need help getting out of the country? i think people are going to be pretty surprised. there is a lot of comparison to afghanistan, but -- >> secretary blinken said, look, we're not getting you. >> there has been a real effort on the part of the biden administration to tell americans, if you are there, get out. the idea that the u.s. military will be in ukraine fighting russia is just not happening. unless vladimir putin decides to branch this out and go into poland or anything, but there is no intelligence to suggest he's made that decision. >> following up on that, i think afg

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courtney kube it is here and joins me now. courtney, there has clearly very -- intelligence apparatus and the u.s. government, the biden administration takes [inaudible] state and pentagon to do this kind of, almost sort of in realtime calling of what they are seeing happening. i've never seen quite anything like it. and i would like you to talk about the thinking behind this approach and strategy. >> there's really two audiences for this, chris. the first one is the world. the international community, the hope is that, if they expose these potential what they are calling false flag operations, that it will deter russia from actually carrying them out and having this pretext to invade. so we've heard very specific things. there is no dispute already that the shelling that we saw in -- that's believed to be one of these. officials are talking about the potential for protests, for riots. they're talking about the potential for assassinations. we heard about potential strikes or manufacturing strikes from drones. ukrainian drones

courtney kube, thank you so much. and joining me now from the outskirts of kyiv is "wall street journal" chief foreign affairs correspondent. thank you so much. it's good to see you. last time we were talking to you, you were on the streets of kyiv. right as the invasion started. it was before anything had gotten to kyiv. people were making a run on supermarkets to get supplies. there was also a crazy back-up to get out of the city. now that we are a few days in, now that there are missiles striking apartment buildings in kyiv, tell me what it is like there. >> well, i'm actually in the very heart of kyiv right now and we do hear gunfire outside and we hear explosions. the city's under curfew now so people aren't allowed to leave until monday morning because the ukrainian military says they have to basically mop up the city after russian sort of strike groups in syrian clothing, many of them, have penetrated the city's defenses and have engaged in these fire fights. so what we have seen is literally thousands of civil

but to your point, another leader will emerge. >> courtney, that's what i want to focus on here. now what in northwest syria? on one hand, here's someone who's been operating out of there for quite some time. does this at all create space in northwest syria in a positive way? >> reporter: one thing we need to keep in mind is ever since he came into this leadership position, isis has not had its own territory. they have not had their caliphate. they've been trying to rebuild in that time and haven't been that successful. there are pockets of times they've shown they're rebuilding and growing. they have not been a successful terror organization under his leadership. the question is, is there someone who comes up behind him who's able to actually rebuild this terror network in syria and potentially across the border in iraq? no matter the answer, this is a significant blow to that organization. it's not only a big symbolic strike to them, but it also does have an operational piece. we heard from john kirby that he was involved still in the operations of isis. he was specifically ask

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. >>> courtney, great stuff. hi, everybody. what's coming up this hour, inflation came in way higher than expected this morning economists scrambling to catch up starting to see markets pricing upwards of six rate hikes maybe a half-point hike next month fresh news on that get to it all. latest data what it means for markets, where you should invest one area watching closely. war prices soar unimaginably over the past year, if you can even get your hands on one is that starting to turn talk to one ceo on latest trends on dealerless. plus, more earnings. today get you ready for expedia, affirm and szillow, first to dom chu, latest numbers. >> bullard comments, takenalities of steam oust market federal reserve of st. louis president james fuller being quoted now, headlines making hawkish comments what's happening. watch that move there. sending markets a little to the down side. s&p 500 down about 38 points 4548 last trade. nasdaq 11 points down side middle of the range. lowing of session down 1.5% roughly. highs 1.1% gains n nas

courtney kube is at the pentagon, matt bradley is on the ground about 25 miles from the russian border, and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey is with me, a former mmm of the security council and now an msnbc analyst ken, the governor just confirmed a cyber attack. >> reporter: the official said a wave of so-called denial of services attacks struck around 4 p.m. ukraine time. among the reported victims are banks and government web sites. colleagues in ukraine have confirmed the web site of the minister of foreign affairs, parliament -- cabinet of foreign affairs and the parliament all are down. and attacks last month took down banks and government web sites and researchers said they contained so-called wiper malware, which can destroy data and systems. they feel this is part of a plan to paralyze systems. >> ken dilanian, thank you so much for that reporting. general mccaffrey, i want to talk to you about this hybrid war strategy here. what can the u.s. and our allies do to bolster defenses? this is a different battlefield. >> very little in the short run. we have been working w

pentagon correspondent courtney kube joins me now. map this out for us? >> reporter: for nearly 48 hours they have targeted them with missile and airstrikes directed at ukrainian military sites all over the country now russian troops are focusing on three main axes of attack from the north russian tanks went from belarus and western russia around chernobyl to encircle the capital city kyiv with the goal of isolating and completely taking it over. from the east, russian paratroopers and artillery focused on kharkiv which is seeing heavy fighting and crimea focused on kherson as the rug military tries to take over the eastern half of the country, the ukrainian military is fighting back, making russia's fight more difficult than some experts anticipated. lester >> courtney kube this evening, stories of desperation from some of the tens of thousands of people who have already fled the fighting in ukraine, a number that could reach into the millions. kelly cobiella met some of them across the border in poland. >> a car packed with a lifetime of memories. a mot

nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube is here. news senior international correspondent keir simmons is in moscow. the site of so much of the important -- the triggering event today, vladimir putin's speech, we talked in the earlier hour with some analysts about that, including mike mcfaul, i'm curious on the ground there how that long, dark, aggrieved and potentially influential and -- speef with great implications played out on the ground in moscow. >> reporter: well, one, i think, important insight, john, while president putin was speaking, we were actually out on the streets of moscow talking to ordinary russians. we spoke to a handful but every one of them said they wanted peace. none of them said, we support a war in ukraine, we think president putin should go to war in ukraine so i think there's a difference between what the russian people believe and want and what president putin said tonight. that being said, of course, president putin still does have huge support here in russia. i think another reflection that's important

back with me now is matt bodner and courtney kube at the pentagon. >> this is not a surprise. for days we have been hearing russia built-up more than 150,000 troops around the border, and it's not just the troops that are the concern but it's the capabilities that many are bringing. there's a massive navel presence in the south of ukraine as well. at least ten russian landing ships, and not only do they have marines and troops onboard, but they have missiles onboard, so they can launch and take out large parts of the ukrainian military with virtually no notice and quickly. in addition to that, russia has a massive amount of air power around ukraine, so if they conduct air strikes, again, they could take out military targets and ammunition depots, and take out ukrainian infrastructure quickly and with little notice, and that's what has changed in the past few days. here at the pentagon, we had this sense for sometime, for weeks now, where we would know there would be an idea that russia was preparing something and we would see tell tell signs, and artillery being fired up, and

. >> courtney, we have 50,000 troops in europe. >> 80,000 u.s. troops. if we sent more to europe, where would they be coming from? where would that be and do you sense that there's some sort of contingency planning that has happened? >> there's one little piece that we saw play out yesterday and it was the announcement of 7,000 more troops from fort stewart, georgia to germany. they will likely be assigned to this nato response force depending on how big a contribution the u.s. ultimately gives. but there was an acknowledgement that the pentagon that that response force had not yet been activated and they made the decision to send them forward. even if they don't activate it, at least we'll have them in the region, they can exercise, they can be used as more of a unilateral, b bilateral deployment. the reality is they will not be used according to every official i speak with, there is no appetite to putting them into ukraine to fight russia. >> admiral, what is the line in your head of how many troops you'd like to see in these four nato allies, the thre

so, what are you hearing about what this actual mission is going to look like, courtney?> the 3,000 we're hearing about today, these are going to go forward and basically just sit in these countries and train and do exercises with the u.s. counterparts in that area. so, the polish troops, the german troops, the roam in ian troops. they'll exercise and work with them. that's the oilgs word. the reality is neither pentagon press secretary nor secretary of defense are ruling out the possibility that some troops could be used if there is the need for a noncombattant evacuation for ukraine. and of course, that's going to immediately draw parallels to august when some of the same troops, including the 82nd airborne were brought in to help evacuate people out of kabul airport. this is a very different situation. ukraine verses afghanistan. yes, troops being used in many different ways to help get americans out of ukraine in advance of an invasion. that is very possible for these troops. but we are also hearing are a couple of key words. one is toemperary. that this is not a perm

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. >> and one thing, courtney, we were told that russia would do some electronic warfare such as taking the lights out, and you noticed that when we talked to richard he had a handheld light on, anded what do you know about that? >> yes, a large warfare in advance of the kinetic phase, but the electronic warfare or them jaing did not materialize, and senior official said it is not outside of the realm of that happening, but what is interesting is that we saw it happen, and what they did not use the jamming in a widespread mannerb and we saw it materialize and respond against the initial salvo. the initial military assessment, u.s. military assessment is if they used this jamming in the cyber, it would decentralize the ukrainian response, so because they didn't do that, they were able to mount a robust response to that. and the question is if they will continue that in the coming days. and now a senior official is saying that the president's direction, secretary austin has authorized 7,000 more u.s. troops to move forward to germany in the coming days. these will most likely be used for

courtney bembridge, bbc news. now to a story that has gripped the world's attention. assault. she deleted the media post that created the controversy. concern has continued over her health after she made the claim. peng shuei was accompanied by the chief of staff of the chinese olympic committee when she made the statement. senegal have won the african cup of nations for the first time. they've beaten egypt on penalities after the game finished goaless. in a match billed as being a battle between two liverpool stars, mo salah from egypt and sadio mane from senegal. it was mane who provided the games most pivotal moments, as piers edwards reports from cameroon. this is the yaounde's olembe stadium, where the teranga lions have, as you said, one that first—ever africa cup of nations titles. their first major title of any note. this was built as a match between mane and his liverpool teammate, salah, and, as you say, in the early stages, it was not exactly going the way that mane had hoped it would, when he missed that penalty. gabaski, the egyptian keeper, blocking a fi

courtney bembridge, bbc news.ency has been declared in the capital ottawa in response to the ongoing truckers' protests against covid restrictions. the mayor, jim watson, said the city was outnumbered and losing the battle against the freedom convoy. the truckers have paralysed the centre of ottawa with vehicles and tents blocking roads. i've been speaking tojustin ling, who's an investigative journalist based in montreal, he's been following the story. patience is definitely running out for the folks who actually live in the downtown core who have been absolutely fed up with the behaviour of the protesters, the constant noise — and just this evening there was a raucous dance party with djs taking place just in the shadow of parliament hill. the honking has been nearly incessant. it got so bad in fact that a class—action lawsuit was filed today, demanding that the court put an injunction in and threaten to fine these protesters up to $10 million canadian because they have basically destroyed any sort of normal lif

courtney bembridge, bbc news.ations in senegal as they beat egypt to win the africa cup of nations football title for the first time. there's mr mandela, nelson mandela. a free man taking his first steps into a new south africa. iran's spiritual leader, ayatollah khomeini, has said he's passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. the people of haiti have flocked to church - to give thanks for the ousting of their former president, - 'ba by doc' duvalier. because of his considerable value as a stallion, shergar was kept in a special secure box in the stud farm's central block. shergar was driven away in a horse box the thieves had brought with them. there stepped down from the plane a figure in mourning. elizabeth ii, queen of this realm and of all her other realms and territories, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. this is bbc world news. the main headline: french president macron to meet with president putin later for the latest effo

and we will work to courtney with the administration. -- work to coordinate with the administration. >> [indiscernible] rep. schiff: i do not know, but i think that congress wants to make sure our allies have the resources they need, and we will meet that obligation. >> what is your message to republicans? >> [indiscernible] are you in favor of cutting off swift? rep. schiff: yes, i am. >> ok. >> presidents website -- c-span's new american presidents website is your guide to america's commanders in chief. all in one easy to browse c-span website. visit c-span.org/presidents to begin exploring this rich catalog of c-span resources today. >> c-span's "washington journal ." every day would take your calls live on air on the news of the day and discussed policy is seuss -- policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, we will look at the threat of retaliatory cyber attacks from russia with the ceo of cyber threat alliance, and brad bowman talks about russia's invasion of ukraine and the potential u.s. and nato response. watch "washington journal" at 7:00 eastern this morning on

and we will work to courtney with the administration. -- work to coordinate with the administration. >> [indiscernible] rep. schiff: i do not know, but i think that congress wants to make sure our allies have the resources they need, and we will meet that obligation. >> what is your message to republicans? >> [indiscernible] are you in favor of cutting off swift? rep. schiff: yes, i am. >> ok. ♪ >> c-spanshop.org is the online store. browse through c-span products, apparel, books, home decor, there is something for every c-span fan. every porches help support our nonprofits. shop now or anytime at c-spanshop.org. ♪ >> british prime minister boris johnson condemned the russian invasion of ukraine in the meeting at the house of commons. in

also why we see as ashley and courtney said, afghanistan looming so large.see president biden's poll numbers tank. he defends and continues to defend. what i hear when i talk to white house officials is the real feeling president biden is sharing as much intelligence as possible. they're warning people internationally about what russia is doing. the thing you hear president biden saying is americans need to be prepared for if this comes to our shores and it comes to our shores in the effect of higher gas prices and we are already seeing an eight-year high and inflation at 40-year highs. if we have to get involved here, the cost of freedom may be in your wallets at the gas tank. >> peggy, i think this is the president's challenge. i think -- i'm impressed by the lack of partisanship in how he's handling this. >> yes. i think that's true. >> so you can see that there is agreement that he is doing everything he should be doing now. the question is his strategy doesn't work. >> well, we'll find out. maybe find out pretty soon, in the next few days or a week or s