troops in estonia.gunfire] scott: what you're seeing and hearing isn't any ordinary military exercise, nor is the setting -- a remote section of woods in tapa, estonia, some 75 miles from the russian border, where 170 u.s. soldiers, as the saying goes, are hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst by training with live rounds, putting high-tech stryker vehicles though the paces, and shattering the -- with the deafening sounds of detonating ied's. captain joe vanderlip is the iron troop commander. captain vanderlip: i think there are conditions out there that have prompted our response and there are decision makers in washington and the pentagon that have deemed it appropriate, that, hey, there's enough going on in the world right now, that we need to forward move units to assure the nato alliance. scott: what, you ask, could matter so much in the far-off baltics, that u.s. forces are suddenly bulking up? it's fear over vladmir putin's supposed aspirations to re-take what the soviets lost after th

when the ussr fell, estonia regained its freedom, and in 2004, it joined the european union.nn has modernized at an astounding rate since the fall of the soviet union. its business district shines with the same glass and steel gleam you'll find in any modern city. yet nearby are the rugged and fully intact medieval walls, and the town within these ramparts has a beautifully preserved old-world ambiance. among medieval cities in the north of europe, none are as well preserved as tallinn. the town hall square was a marketplace through the centuries. its fine old buildings are a reminder that tallinn was once an important medieval trading center. today it's a touristy scene, full of people just having fun. through the season, each midday, cruise-ship groups congest the center as they blitz the town in the care of local guides. like many tourist zones, tallinn's is a commercial gauntlet. here there's a hokey torture museum, strolling russian dolls, medieval theme restaurants complete with touts, and enthusiastic hawkers of ye olde taste treats. woman: [ laughs ] steves: but just

if you were in estonia or other countries in the region, would you be worried? >> this is exactly -- because of the unpredictability. >> let's leave and call putin. then during the putin aggression in georgia, i said, okay, let's give it this way and make him happy. this is not working, because now he started an aggression against ukraine, in crimea east, and then he launch an operation in syria absolutely unpredictable. >> that interview was done on friday. his warning putin is on the move. and the problem is not that putin is unpredictable. it's that obama is predictable. and you can predict and advance that whatever putin does, will receive no serious response from the united states. you know, we are now increasing our patrols in eastern europe. that's ridiculous, or the eastern europeans are begging for a permanent presence a triple error, that would assure them, obama will not do it, can anybody explain to me why in ukraine we to this day refused to provide defensive weaponry. they are not asking for offenses. simply defense, there's is obsolete and inadequ

of states like estonia and bulgaria. this is the style of soviet styled monuments everywhere. cemeteries honoring red army soldiers offer a glimpse of into moscow. in fact, russia has ties to nearly every part of eastern europe. thanks to energy economics and a die as bra pra of russian pradiaspora of russian speakers, vladimir putin could use pro-russia groups to destabilize the region. it is in enclaves like these where putin wields an un be even influence. >> translator: without any intention of what happened in crimea. >> adrian vasalev is like many in bul gair bulgaria who oppose sanctions on russia. >> translator: in my opinion the west won the cold war. and has since been trying to put russia in the corner. >> russia in the 1990s was a very weak and in many respects humiliated country that was not able to project force. was not able to defend its interests as it saw them at the time. so when large numbers of former soviet satellites joined nato or joined the eu, the russians viewed this as a slight. >> today, sentiment here over russia is deeply divided even at the top

if you were in estonia or other countries in the region, would you be worried? is exactly -- because of the unpredictability. >> let's leave and call putin. then during the putin aggression in georgia, i said, okay, let's give it this way and make him happy. this is not working, because now he started an aggression against ukraine, in crimea east, and then he launch an operation in syria absolutely unpredictable. >> that interview was done on friday. his warning putin is on the move. and the problem is not that putin is unpredictable. it's that obama is predictable. and you can predict and advance that whatever putin does, will receive no serious response from the united states. you know, we are now increasing our patrols in eastern europe. that's ridiculous, or the eastern europeans are begging for a permanent presence a triple error, that would assure them, obama will not do it, can anybody explain to me why in ukraine we to this day refused to provide defensive weaponry. they are not asking for offenses. simply defense, there's is obsolete and inadequate like

that's kind of the model for the cyberleague in estonia. and they use that to augment their government and private-sector capabilities. on the u.s. side for us in the d.o.d. that cyberleague i would argue is a cross for us in our structures between the digital service arena that d.o.d. is creating, as well as the kind of guard construct. although the difference is, when the estonians doing do it you're doing it purely on your own time, purely not as a uniformed member of the guard and reserve so to speak. so it is not exactly the same. but the thought process that the idea of trying to tap that is similar. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. chairman, i want to thank you admiral rodgers for your service to the country. i wanted to just ask you a basic question. you have substantial responsibility in your position. what keeps you up at night? what are the things, what is your most worried about that we need to understand? >> well leetlet me be a bit of a smart ass, say based on the workload, i have no problems sleeping. but

troops in estonia, on russia's border, to see first-hand the buildup of equipment and troops.onald trump has said we should get rid of the obsolete force. it is an escalation of force is not seen since the cold war to counter what some might describe as a red storm russian president putin that story, on the next "full measure." finally, we want to recognize a generation of veterans who fought in another war. earlier this week was the unofficial recognition of vietnam veterans day. it marks the final withdrawal of combat troops from south vietnam in 1973. a proposal to officially designate march 29 to commemorate our vietnam vets, was introduced in 2011 and has yet to get through congress. many feel official recognition is long overdue for the troops who returned without welcome or recognition. for years, "welcome home" has been an expression used by vietnam veterans to one another. welcome home to all our veterans. >> announcer: starting right now on "this week with george stephanopoulos," trump's terrible week. the billionaire front-runner down big in wisconsin after seeing h

. >> one of the things that i was really interested in in estonia is hearing about the defense league. >> defense league. >> and you were talking about earlier in your testimony about the effort to take advantage of the expertise in the private sector to help us as we're looking at cyber issues and i was very interested in one of the things i heard was that the reality is we can't prevent a cyber attack. we got to be prepared to respond to that attack in the way that is most effective and most fastest and they were talking about their defense league as one way that they are able to do that. is that something that recognizing that we're probably not talking about, but is that what you're looking at what you're talking about the teams that are being set up to help respond? >> it's a little different in the sense that the idea behind the cyber league for estonia is you have private citizens. >> right. >> who on a volunteering basis will apply themselves at specific problem sets as they emerge. kind of after hours, after work on their own time. >> that's kind of model for the cyber league

that's kind of the model for the cyberleague in estonia. they use that to augment their government and private sector capabilities. on the u.s. side, for us and the d.o.d., that cyberleague, i would argue, is a cross for us and our structures between the digital service arena that d.o.d. is creating, as well as the kind of guard construct. although the difference is, when the estonians do it, you're doing it purely on your own time, purely as a citizen, not as a uniformed member of the guard or reserve so to speak. so it's not exactly the same. but the thought process -- the idea of trying to tap that is similar. ms. shaheen: thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, chairman. i want to thank you, admiral rogers, for your service to the country. i wanted to just ask you abouta basic question. you have a substantial responsibility in your position. what keeps you up at night? what is your most worry -- what is it you're most worried about that we need to understand? mr. rogers: based on the work load, i have no problem sleeping. but

we have seen it in estonia and lithuania. this is very positive.rancine: are you concerned, or will you have to pass on negative rates to retail clients? birgitte: we are not doing it at the moment. we have decided to leave this out of the equation with our core customers, the many households and businesses. however, on the institutional applying are negative rates to some of these contracts. francine: one of your board members said the bank return target of 15% is too high given the current market conditions. do you refute that? when you achieve that 15% target? birgitte: you know what? i can't comment. that is a board issue. that i thinky is for a bank like ours with high profitability, low risk, and also cost efficiency, i think being a huge retail bank is what we should strive for. we should have high ambitions. francine: talk to me about the dividend payout ratio target. it is the highest in the nordic reason, 75% of project. we stick to that? birgitte: that is also a board decision. at the moment, this is where it is. francine: for the moment

water which has become the frontline between the nato states of the baltics, latvia, lithuania and estonia and russia. since 2014 with the conflict over ukraine and the russian annexation over crimea, there is a lot of cold war style. this is one of the areas where the two forces come into contact. it's not the first time this has happened to the "uss donald cook." it was buzzed at close range before. this thing happens quite a lot. >> matthew chance, take something chances there. safety has to be a concern for sailors and the pilot as well. thank you, matthew. >>> let's get an early start on your money. alison kosik joins us. alison. >> good morning. seeing red arrows and green arrows. markets are mixed. asian markets ending higher. red arrows for european markets. it was another great day for wall street yesterday. dow, nasdaq and s&p closing at the highest levels of the year. the dow closed up 187 points. now close to 18,000. the financial sector led the rally. jpmorgan chase earning report was good enough. it wasn't great. it was good enough for wall street for the gains. today we will

things like syria, not intervening, that affected people like the baltics and estonia, like that.imultaneously] john micklethwait: europe has dug its own grave. jane harman: but the eu has structural problems. it does not have an adequate financing mechanism across the nation when they don't meet their obligations. it doesn't have good mechanisms to deal with migration and refugees as we are seeing. the poor thing is falling apart. it is also leadership crisis. angela merkel has been spectacular until there was this huge pushback against her moral position on refugees. she seems to have retreated. her voice is very much missed. ian bremmer: you said in the middle east, obama is absent leadership, should have done more, give examples. in europe, merkel clearly looking for leadership from the united states. obama said it is not our problem. is that a failure, not to step out and do more with american values? >> the bush administration failed when it did not do anything about the baltics. that was a problem solved by people like president putin and richard holbrooke. we should have s

the message is to lithuania, latvia, estonia, maybe poland, america will not stand with you, therefore nato will not stand with you. you're all alone and we the big bad russian bear with putin we're going to come in and take what we want. that's that. on the iranian thing we had a bad development this week, one of the key iranian leaders said you know something? we may not follow through on this nuclear deal now. we don't really like what we're hearing out of america. well, guess what? they've already got $150 billion, the sanctions are lifted. >> they can paint it all they want. >> and one very simple analogy i would make to close. we have political discord at home. we have weakness overseas. we are perceived as lacking a mission, core values and a strategy. >> all right, so engrained in our memories is the picture of our marines in the hands of iranian soier soldiers on their, captured. that's a weird and wrong message of capitulation around the world. >> they seized them and there was no penalty for it. >> it is monday, april 18th. the final push in the empire state. republican and

in estonia, new parents get four months.aria, parents get over a year, and in italy, you don't have to go back to work until your baby can shave on its own. [ laughter ] which in italy, is about 18 months. [ light laughter ] the united states is the only major developed nation that doesn't guarantee paid family leave for all of its citizens. now some american parents get paid time off for a baby. in 1993 congress passed the family and medical leave act that requires employers to give employees 12 weeks of leave to care for a child but that leave is unpaid. and you don't get those weeks off if you haven't worked at your job for at least a year. your company has less than 50 people, you work part-time or you're an elected official. the family medical leave act has more exceptions than a groupon. [ light laughter ] so many in fact that only 60% of the workforce qualifies for it, that lack of income forces many parents to go back to work just weeks after a baby is born and that's bad for everyone. bad for babies because i don't

in fact, the first year we ran it, we got 29 nations. 29 nations including nations like estonia, singapore, japan, not all bellicose nations. remember what i said earlier a , coalition has two elements, political and military. everyone of those navies, as a matter of fact, i was even looking for antarctica, i got all the continents aligned here, you know. basically, all those navies worked together under the command and coordination of the only navy in the world that could have drawn all those nations together. and they all work together practicing clearing mines from the persian gulf. the end result was that after a couple of years, about a year later, they realized, i think in tehran, they were creating an international coalition against them. how much have you heard in the last year, ma'am, about mining in the waters out of tehran? now no no, i haven't either. had gone up 39 nations, in the anti-mine exercise. to answer your question, use that example and then you can apply it where ever, so long as what we're doing is trying to stabilize the situation. >> time for one more question. ye

cotton: given that countries like poland, latvia, estonia and others have chosen freely to join nato, do you think there's any truth to his claims that these are lands traditionally oriented toward the east? mr. scaparrotti: he certainly claims that but as you know, we believe, and many of these countries desire, to be a sovereign nation and make their own choice as to the type of government they have. that's what we've supported as part of our values. mr. cotton: and a final point he makes about nato expansion is this is aggressive toward russian and could threaten their territory integrity. has nato been investing in large scale armaments that would launch a massive invasion of russia? mr. scaparrotti: no, sir. as you know, nato, for nearly 20 years, reached out to russia. with the idea that they could become part of the security that nato provides to all of europe as a partner. and they refused that at this point. mr. cotton: and to look at it from the other direction, has russia been building tank ditches on its board we are nato or mouffing in other kinds of massive defensive wea

so from estonia in the north through the baltic countries, down through slovakia into hungary, romania bulgaria, and all the way into turkey that's our nato frontier and it's being challenged economically and geostrategically by mr. putin. so countries like poland day-to-day have a military challenge, they have a geostrategic challenge, infiltration, the contest of ideas, active propaganda war going on in their domestic politics we don't actually see here but they're doing it there as what their alignments are, whether they have western values or not. i could go on that. nato is an integral part of that. that struggle is about keeping us in america safe providing for us allies, people who share our values and will work with us around the world. that is what nato is. as far as president eisenhower, one of my heroes, i think he was a tremendous president. he was a great military leader in world war ii. he was working at the diplomatic level. he knew how to bring people together. he knew how to have strategic vision. he wasn't hyde bound idealogically, he worked across the aisle and he wa

some as small as estonia. some as large as our most significant partners. what you find when you operate that, and our diplomats do this every day, is that you've got to create common sense of purpose amorning each of those nations. and they all have to feel like they contribute to that. so as we circle back to can a grand strategy be effective for the united states, i think if you can look at those core elements of national power, and you look at where nations can contribute and the u.s. leads that effort, i think you're successful there. one final point that i think is, you know, maybe a good anecdote about why we've got to really pay attention to this, in another job in the pacific, i lived 2 1/2 years there, and part of my role was to be one of the key planners in how do we defend taiwan. if china chooses to, you know, return taiwan to the fold. and as part of that, we studied chinese military strategy. what was striking to me is that our strategy literally deals with the next five-year defense plan maybe. their strategy deals in the next 50 years. when

and the vice president of the european commission, prime minister of estonia is in favor of digitizing almost the entire country. people no that there are backdoors have the people vote and trust the results of the election. two very quick steps plan than a few suggestions about how to approach a challenge you face. i think you have heard us say we have to avoid introducing new vulnerabilities into the already quite vulnerable infrastructure. i think we understand that is simply not possible. you have heard reference, calls to address the difficult question by simply extending. but if you look closely it shows just how hard it will be to solve the problem. targeted to atargeted to a small group of telecommunications companies that provided the same product of regulated in a stable way. the internet and mobile apps and devices the street is incredibly diverse and there is no single regulatory agency that governs the services and products. that is very much by design. 's trying to impose a top-down regulatory solution simply won't work. but we need to do going forward, and the efforts of

in fact, the first year we ran it, we got 29 nations. 29 nations including nations like estonia, singapore, japan, not all bella coast nations. remember what i said earlier, a coalition has two elements, political and military. everyone of those navies, as a matter of fact, i was even looking for antarctica, i got all the continents aligned here, you know. basically, all those navies worked together under the command and coordination of the only navy in the world that could have drawn all those nations together. and they all work together practicing clearing mines from the persian gulf. the end result was that after a couple of years, about a year later, they realized, i think in tehran, they were creating an international coalition against them. how much have you heard in the last year, ma'am, about mining in the waters out of tehran? now no, i haven't either. had gone up 39 nations, in the anti-mine exercise. to answer your question, use that example and then you can apply it where ever, so long as what we're doing is trying to stabilize the situation. >> time for one more question. yes,

. >> not only did i think of my friends in estonia but my friends in the national army or the navy war colleges right now trying to discern what the next potential president might ask them to do. and truthfully, brooke, i put down my pen after his list of five because it was just hard to keep up. >> nic, critics will say, as we have been hearing, still no details. one thing he did say to certainly get attention of supporters and several times, i want to play the soundbyte. radical islam. roll it. >> we need a long-term plan to halt the spread and reach of radical islam. containing the spread of radical islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the united states. and indeed the world. events may require the use of military force. but it's also a philosophical struggle. in this we're going to be working very closely with our allies in the muslim world. all of which are at risk from radical islamic violence, attacks and everything else. >> nic, radical islam, what did you think? >> we keep hearing from world leaders that tackling radical islam is going to be a generational issue. and w

. >> i had the opportunity over the last few weeks to visit estonia which is, as you know one of the most wired countries in the world and probably the first victim of a cyber attack by a nationstate by russia. i had the opportunity to visit the cyber center that has been accredited by nato and to hear them talk about how they think about cyber issues. can you talk a little bit about how cyber calm works with our nato allies? >> so i've been to the center. i was just in brussels in december and addressed the north atlantic council as one of the member nations i was asked to talk to the leadership of the alliance about implications of cyber and how might the alliance worked its way forward as were trying to deal with the cyber arena. i tried to partner both with the alliance as a whole as well as specific member nations on specific issues on the alliance. what i suggested to nato is they think the real key is you have to get the defense of house, number one. secondly,. >> explain a little more what you mean when you say that. >> much like we've seen on the u.s. side, i've said i see t

. >> given that countries like poland and latvia and lithuania and estonia have chosen freely to join nato. do you think there's any truth to his claims these are lands that are traditionally oriented towards the east? >> well, he certainly claims that. but as you know, we believe and many of these countries desire to be a sovereign nation and make their own choices the type of government they have. that's what we've supported as a part of our values and we're support of today. >> he makes the claim this is an aggressive action towards russia and could threaten their sovereignty. has nato been investing in large scale rearmaments of the kind that would launch a massive land invasion of russia? >> no, sir. and as you know, nato for nearly 20 years reached out to russia. with the idea they could become a part of the security that nato proceeds to all of europe as a partner. and they've refused that hand at this point. >> to look at the claim from the other direction has russia been investing in massive defensive build ups building ditches on its border with nato to forestall the nato in

some as small as estonia. some as large as our most significant partners. find when you operate that, and our diplomats do this every day, is that you've got to create common sense of purpose among each of those nations. and they all have to feel like they contribute to that. so as we circle back to can a grand strategy be effective for the united states, i think if you can look at those core elements of national power, and you look at where nations can contribute and the u.s. leads that effort, i think you're successful there. one final point that i think is, you know, maybe a good anecdote about why we've got to really pay attention to this, in another job in the pacific, i lived 2 1/2 years there, and part of my role was to be one of the key planners in how do we defend taiwan. if china chooses to, you know, return taiwan to the fold. and as part of that, we studied chinese military strategy. what was striking to me is that our strategy literally deals with the next five-year defense plan maybe. their strategy deals in the next 50 years. when you look at

in fact, the first year we ran it, we got 29 nations. 29 nations included nations like estonia, canada, singapore, japan, gentleman beauty. not all bellicose nations. two limits, political and military. every one of those navies, as a matter of fact, i was looking for antarctica for a penguin to there and say i have the continents aligned here. basically all the navies worked together under the command and the coordination of the only navy in the world that could have drawn all those nations together. and they all worked together practicing clearing points from the persian gulf. arab gulf. end result was that after a couple of years, about a year later, they realized i think in teheran they were creating an international coalition against them. how much have you heard in the last year, ma'am, about mining the waters out of teheran? no. i haven't either. and by the way, it's gone up as high as 39 nations now involved in the annual international anti-mine exercise. i think there's a way that -- to answer your question, just use that example and then you can apply it wherever so long as w

vice president of european commission, who was the former prime minister of estonia and famous for digitizing almost the entire country and the government, said if people know there are back doors, how could people, for example, who vote online trust the results of the election if they know their government has a key to break into the system. two very quick steps that i think we should avoid going forward, and then a few suggestion about how to approach this challenge that you face. number one, i think you've heard us all say we have to avoid introducing new vulnerabilities into an already quite vulnerable information infrastructure. it would nice if we could choose only the bad guys got weaken kripgs and the rest of us got strong encryption but i think we understand that's not possible. you've also heard remps to cfer callia, a piece of legislation in this commission, extending calea to apply to internet companies. if you look closely at calea, it shows just how hard it will be to solve the problem in one size all solution. calea, a few telecommunication companies that had the same product,

our response in the european lack of response to ukraine that putin will challenge somewhere and estonia see how far you can press the nato alliance itself. it is a real problem. stuart: this is not going away. >> you will get worse before january 2017 in the next president will inherit obama's legacy. stuart: john bolton, thanks for joining us. pure street politics. al sharpton's network meeting in new york city. adam shapiro as they are. hillary is about to speak. i got out. the news is about bernie sanders this hour. an endorsement. what's he got? >> let's talk about the endorsement right now. the local 100 represent 34,000 men and women in new york city. listed that people might remember the strike that made so many people in new york so angry. they've endorsed bernie democra. they did that about 30 minutes ago. here's what mr. sanders had to say about that. >> as soon as we leave you, we are going over to a picket line with the cwa. against the greed of verizon wants to take away ealth care benefits, wants to outsource jobs after making billions of profit. that's the kind of corpora

united states, greece, poland, united kingdom and estonia. all the other members of nato falling short of that goal. is nato still a good u.s. investment? melissa is in california. republican. caller: good morning. say i am foro trump and i'm a conservative. is good, but we cannot keep paying for everyone else's way. there's homeless people everywhere i go. california is not the same as it used to be. the economy is in shambles. people are really hurting. everybody's a scornful of the people who cry out for help. i hope we start to listen to each other and care about each other. before it gets worse. but we cannot keep paying everybody else's way. we have to take care of our fellow americans that are hurting. this nato issue, of course it is important. you have to be wise with your money. you have to take care of your -- people or you will spend care about the homeless. the nato issue, had some of the people pay for part of it. it's only fair. host: let's head up to montana where carmen is waiting. an independent. caller: i just want to say s

from estonia to the baltic intories down to slovakia hungary, romania, bulgaria, and all the way into turkey, that is the nato frontier. it is being challenged economically and geo- strategically by mr. putin. challenges,s those the contest of ideas, and active propaganda war in their domestic politics that we do not see here . what theiro alignments are, what their western values are. nato is an integral part of that. that struggle is about keeping us in america safe by providing for us allies and people who share our values and will work with us around the world. as far as president eisenhower -- one of my heroes -- she was a charm and. a great military leader in world was a tremendous president. leader in world war ii. he worked across the aisle. and he was worried about getting the balance right in our economy. the generals did not always like him. really forbearers were opposed to some of general eisenhower's policies when he was president. the army chief of staff actually protested and wrote a book, criticizing the eisenhower administration's defense policies. but what he did no

what is he going to do about isis or if the russians move on latvia or estonia?omprehension of what's going on in the world. >> peter king, the man that walks on washington, d.c. and cruz 2016. pretty brazen here. >> even put my name in the same sentence as ted cruz. i'm getting heart burn. >> cyanide? >> that's the takeaway. >> this is what i don't understand why everybody in the establishment and stop trump movement are pushing cruz. he's so hated. >> he's not pushing cruz. >> cyanide. >> what would it take to support donald trump? >> if he stops being donald trump. that was the shorter peter king. if he stops campaigning like donald trump -- >> if he stops being some faceted of donald trump. while ted cruz is a one trick pony. shut down the government, everybody hates him. why? >> he was asking for, well, then that will undo trump's connection with the very voters he is winning. >> if he gives more foreign policy speeches via teleprompter like the aipac speech. but he has to move on positions. >> i don't know how a teleprompter speech improves -- >> quick pred

he went on to say in that statement about putin if he were in estonia or latvia or other countries hetulations on getting him. awesome, bret, proud of you. make sure you watch his show and then also tune in throughout the night on fox because look at this lineup. all three of the presidential candidates for the gop will be on fox tonight. you have john kasich on greta, followed by an all-new o'reilly factor -- >> he's in cuba. >> then senator ted cruz is going to sit down with megyn kelly and donald trump will be on hannity. if you haven't figured out how you're going to vote for you and you live in wisconsin, watch tonight. >> it's time for news with heather. >> news coming in from overseas. it's an important story. the u.s. navy busting an iranian ship that was loaded with an arsenal of deadly weapons. 1500 ak-47s. dozens of machine guns. and also rocket-propelled grenades all found hidden on board. take a look at that picture we now have. it is the third time in the last month that western forces have intercepted weapons shipments in the arabian sea. officials say the weapons were

they don't like the facts that lithuania, estonia and latvia have joined nato.an military base that's actually between lithuania and poland and poland and lithuania were both participating in this exercise where the ship was buzzed. all of these things are russia's attempt to not only intimidate u.s. forces, but also to try and influence eastern european countries, former soviet bloc countries that have joined nato. it's all part of a game, and it's not a very good way to conduct diplomatic engagements. >> the footprint, the presence expanded by all accounts. more involvement and more deadly involvement in ukraine, becking for a response. the question, what will it be? general, as always, thank you for helping us understand better. >> thank you, chris. >> all right. dealing with that, and now i'm giving it back to you at the desk, i believe, to brooke. >> you are, chris cuomo. thank you so much. we have to talk about parts of texas, oklahoma, kansas, nebraska this morning dealing with dangerous flash flooding and a threat of tornadoes. this part of the country h

vice president of european commission, who was the former prime minister of estonia and famous for digitizing almost the entire country and the government, said if people know there are back doors, how could people, for example, who vote online trust the results of the election if they know their government has a key to break into the system. two very quick steps that i think we should avoid going forward, and then a few suggestion about how to approach this challenge that you face. number one, i think you've heard us all say we have to avoid introducing new vulnerabilities into an already quite vulnerable information infrastructure. it would nice if we could choose only the bad guys got weaken encryption and the rest of us got strong encryption but i think we understand that's not possible. you've also heard reference to calea, a piece of legislation in this commission, extending calea to apply to internet companies. if you look closely at calea, it shows just how hard it will be to solve the problem in one size all solution. calea, a few telecommunication companies that had the same product

vice president of european commission, who was the former prime minister of estonia and famous for digitizing almost the entire country and the government, said if people know there are back doors, how could people, for example, who vote online trust the results of the election if they know their government has a key to break into the system. two very quick steps that i think we should avoid going forward, and then a few suggestion about how to approach this challenge that you face. number one, i think you've heard us all say we have to avoid introducing new vulnerabilities into an already quite vulnerable information infrastructure. it would nice if we could choose only the bad guys got weaken kripgs and the rest of us got strong encryption but i think we understand that's not possible. you've also heard remps to calference to callia, a piece of legislation in this commission, extending calea to apply to internet companies. if you look closely at calea, it shows just how hard it will be to solve the problem in one size all solution. calea, a few telecommunication companies that had the same