was waiting. >> when i got here, kelly baker was sitting on the steps over there. >> just right. >> i asked her what had happened, and she told me her husband randy baker was dead in the house. >> she'd been away overnight, and in the morning she opened the garage door, and there he was. >> so randy baker was laying right here. his torso was laying in the hallway, and his head was inside the door frame here right in front of that sink. >> a little pool of blood down there. >> a little pool of blood, he was laying on his right side and obviously dead. he had a bag of fast food with him and a drink cup from a local fast food restaurant. >> as if he'd just picked up his dinner. >> that's what it looked like to me. >> kelly, the victim's wife gave officer medhurst a little background. randy had a bad heart. his health was failing and he'd been falling asleep at the wheel. >> i continued to talk to kelly, and randy's sister carol baker had arrived. >> as the women huddled with officer medhurst trying to make sense of this awful thing, the coron coroner's investigator arrived. >> i to

joining us chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, kelly o'donnell and peter baker. previously a moscow bureau chief at the time. you can certainly sense the urgency from the nato call today, secretary blinken overnight from australia saying it could happen before the olympics, at any time. tell us what's happening at the white house? the mood seems to be shifting to the inevitably of an invasion? >> reporter: well, certainly the tempo of activity related to ukraine and russia has increased. we know that last evening there was a situation room briefing on these issues with the national security team. we know that right now the president is scheduled to be involved in that phone conference with a wide array of nato leaders from europe but also a wider group of partners including, not only the european partners most closely involved like romania and poland and the european union officials and yan from nato. so, this is an opportunity for the president to be talking about what they have learned, which we understand includes the additional satellite imagery that they've

. >> nbc's kelly cobiella, thank you very much, joining us live from the border. joining us chief correspondent for "the new york times" peter bakeror now of the institute for international studies at stanford and international affairs analyst michael mcfaul and professor at the john hopkins school for advanced studies elliott cohen. >> ambassador, let's start with you. we talked about it before in 2008 in georgia and in 2015 in syria, 2014 in ukraine, crimea. vladimir putin has always made very calculated moves, he's gained much and paid a very small price. the opposite is taking place here and at this point he's saber rattling talking about nuclear weapons. i'm curious, what's your read on the situation? now that the inverse is true where he's gaining very little at a great geeio political price, what's his next move? >> joe, before i get to that i want to say isn't it great we have the ambassador in poland right now? i've know mark. he knows what's right and wrong, good and evil. polish and ukrainian people are thankful he's on the ground route now. so thank you, u.s. senate, for finally getting your job done. >> i need to ask