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Setbacks that you are seeing, for example, among russian troops? >> well again, we dont have perfect visibility into mr. putins planning but our assessment is that the russians have been flummoxed. they have been frustrated. they have been set back. they have been slowed by a stiff and determined ukrainian resistance. we also believe they have stumbled themselves. that they have conducted missteps. they are having sustainment problems running out of fuel, running out of food for some of their so...

Heads? how many should be severed so you understand? i will go and i will count them and we will wait until we have a sufficient number. >> what do you say to that plea? >> first of all, we applaud mr. zelenskyys courage and his leadership under fire quite literally. i mean, he has been a brave and effective leader. he still has command and control over his forces. i would say, look, the thing act a no-fly zone is it has to be enforced. key word being force. and there is no way to do that withou...

Capital city and bombard it. >> ukrainian president, as you know, made an impassioned plea for a no-fly zone today. something that the pentagon spokesman john kirby told me would only make things, in his words, more bloody and more dangerous. is a no-fly zone officially off the table in your view? >> you know, i -- i really think so, wolf, because it would put us potentially -- it would put nato aircraft in direct conflict with russian aircraft. you can imagine the outcome of that. one of the pl...

That ukraines needs are not yet achieved, president zelenskyy appealed for direct talks with putin. >> i think i have to talk with putin. the world has to talk with putin because there are no other ways to stop this war. thats why i have to. >> reporter: zelenskyy continued with this message for putin. i dont bite. sit down with me and talk. what are you afraid of? putin, however, says his invasion will go on. >> special military operation in ukraine is going according to plan. in strict accorda...

Russia. what we are doing -- so thats what we are not doing and i get that. what we are doing, wolf, is continuing to look for ways to improve the security assistance and expedite the security assistance the ukrainians are getting so that they can better defend themselves in their country. >> what about an iron dome system, anti-missile system like the israelis have? >> look again, we arent going to be fight inning ukraine. we believe that escalating this conflict only makes it more dangerous fo...

Wuhan lab has been inconsistence, the white houses top coronavirus advisor. >> hes been parsing words. he never fully explain why it is not gain of function but his explanation is this. it was inadvertent, we didnt know they would gain function. that is what a gain of function experiment is. you dont know when you combine two viruses what will be more deadly but it might be if you combine two viruses it is likely more deadly. this could unleash something that could destroy civilization. that is ...