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Now know. thanks, peter. sorry our time is so short. hope you come back soon. thanks for being here. were going to swing to be pentagon where john kirby is answering questions about the war in ukraine. lets listen in. >> we didnt get them tabulated until last fall. ate while before we have seen the 21 numbers. the secretary has seen enough of the 20 data and the reporting coming in throughout the court of 21, hes seen enough to know that we have to do something different. we have to try to take ...

Confirmed kbj. all highlighting the gravity of judge jacksons potential confirmation. something all of those supporters were eager to watch. despite the seriousness of this moment in history and the importance of the opportunity to get to know who justice jackson might be, some republican senators spent their time asking questions that have little to nothing to do with her judicial record. she has been asked about the definition of a woman, of critical race theory, whether bases are racist, the ...

Numbers based on the bases because the ukrainians, they want to keep that information private. but what we do know is they are calling for more jets. they want fighter jets delivered to this country. weve seen the political back and forth. but they do have something extremely important that the russians say they dont have, and weve seen it in action, and thats air defense systems. they have a number of batteries around this city. we saw them firing off tonight as theyre trying to shoot those rus...

Established, find communities in the united states? theyretabl prepared.pr >> in fact, theyve learnedhe lessons from the afghan experience. todd, we still have afghan refugees living in hotels in maryland. weve documented that and now were goingno to do the sameba thing again in military bases with all of that and all, that entails with all these european nations willing to take them and much wns closer to their homeland, which we hope theyll be able to return to. yeah, its just its utterly unne...

Here, i assume no response yet from any of the attorneys for the folks who are named in this suit? >> no. none yet. they will of course have to formally respond to the lawsuit. theyll undoubtedly seek to have it dismissed. but were several weeks away from that yet. >> pete williams, thank you so much for that. mark murray, while i have you let me shift topics to something else related to former president trump that we havent covered yet on this program which is this decision to stop endorsing hi...

Against nato bases. >> john: and a number of mig 31 armed with the dagger hypersonic weapon. and two were used, one here and one about here. a range of 1200 miles. so if you put that arc out there, basically goes all the way along like that. so if you wanted to hit any one of these nato nations with one of the dagger missiles its easy and you could put a nuclear weapon on the top of that as well. thats potentially a real danger. >> it is potentially a real danger. remember the kinsel is also pot...

Potential targets, weapon systems moving across and being stored for now. >> you think that this is an attempt to intimidate from sending more weapon systems into bases like that one. >> an attempt to intimidate as well as to start to interdict those weapon systems coming in. stingers, javelins, and three hundreds, ammunition likely to come through. i dont think the end result is intimidation. i think well see a lot of more of those systems coming in. >> lets take a look at some of the other hot...

Many the administration buying into that. i dont buy it at all. russia would have as much to lose as anybody else, the united states and europe and the world in the use of nuclear weapons. lets get serious about this. find some spine to be able to deal with this issue. make certain the russians know exactly the price that they will pay for using wmd. >> martha: well, russia has said that the presence of our bases and our weapons in all of those nato countries is a threat to them and their existe...

Extremely messy, its extremely complicated, and it makes it very difficult to even start formal conversations that could lead to some sort of peace settlement. joey: trey, this is joey. weve heard all the talk about providing fighter jets, migs from, perhaps, poland, our own governments gone back and forth on this, and the ukrainian president keeps saying they need help to, as they say, close the sky. but what type of -- do you see any ukrainian air force in the air in kyiv protecting the city n...

Point that they have won the war. he should say he has won the war, president putin >> trying to create that narrative. >> right. and this is all in quotes. when you talk about the danger on civilians, its still there. it hasnt changed. indeed. i think the bombing will continue. most is being done in russia, bases in russia and belarus. and what we heard tonight is all parts of the ukraine were bombed. this is terrible. >> do you see this as a refocusing on the east or a regrouping around kyiv...