Price [State Department]: This type of brutality, these wanton human rights abuses, the massacring of civilians, the ability of a state to pretend that international borders don't exist, and the ability of leaders to declare, as President Putin seemingly has, that another country doesn't have a right to exist. These are fundamental questions.

Reporter: Do you consider this designation [Russia as state-sponsor of terrorism] as available to you, given the way it's written in statute; the requirements of it?

Price; I'm not in a position to offer an assessment of it's applicability in this particular case.

[Price knows there is no legitimate/legal basis to designate Russia as a state-sponsor of terrorism]

Kirby [Pentagon]: It is true that we believe we will be able to begin a process of training Ukrainian armed forces on the Howitzers that will shortly be heading over. That training will occur outside of Ukraine.