NATO Weighs Options In Ukraine

This week, leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are reviewing proposals from NATO's military chief to respond to the crisis in Ukraine.

Today, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the organization plans to beef up defense plans and multinational training exercises. It also will use "appropriate deployment" of NATO air, land and naval forces if necessary to reassure member states nearest Russia, which has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine.

Rasmussen would not comment on whether NATO would create military bases in eastern Europe. NATO wants to show that it backs allies in the region, but it doesn't want to provoke Russia into further escalation.

Retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, who is former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, joins Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss the situation in Ukraine and NATO's next moves.