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Information that it has. how do we assess it? and i think that there is certainly more that could be done. policymakers definitely made decisions on the basis of the idea that russia was going to launch this lightning strike, that it had the capability to carry out, and obviously that didnt prove to be the case. im sure that the u.s. would have approached it differently had it had different assessments. >> yeah, and by the way, you make the point, in terms of russian intent and the size of russi...

This story. what more have you learned here? >> yeah, erica, so the intelligence community is conducting its own internal review of how it assesses how well a foreign military will perform when it is actually thrust into the heat of battle. more than just beyond just counting tanks, but its will to fight, right, like not just the military capabilities, but howan it is facing enemy fire. this comes as there is pressure from the senate intelligence committee who have sent in the last couple of day...

Should note on the nato discussion, turkey said they oppose the expansion to include finland and sweden. turkey also a nato member. so weigh in on that if you like. but also want to talk about earlier this week, we heard from u.s. officials in high ranking ones including at the pentagon who expressed the fear that if putin was successful in the donbas and to capture much of that territory, woe use it as a launching pad to have renewed attack across ukraine and maybe even kyiv. are you seeing tha...

>> well, probably. >> first of all, the joint command, four star general and the collection of 30 some odd nations are supporting in a magnificent way not only ukrainian defense need but also humanitarian ones. were going to have to provide food and they are just devastated by this russian attack. but at the same time, you know, it looks to me as if were going to have to amp it up. ukraine needs long-range fires. mlrs, a missile so they could strike deep, 200 miles deep against the russians. the...

Evacuate. >> translator: i believe hes in there in azovstal. he said he was a paramedic. the guys there need me. i say, youre wounded. you cannot. and he answered, people without arms and legs are wounded. and i have arms and legs, so im fine. i know he wont leave his boys in a difficult moment. he wont leave them. he will be with them to the end. and he cannot be taken prisoner. he took an oath, always faithful. >> this morning new cnn reporting that the intelligence community has now launched ...

Questions being asked about u.s. intelligence prior to the russian invasion. u.s. intelligence got the russian intentions very right, said all along russia was going to invade, what they got wrong was the ukrainian capabilities, the fact that ukraine would do frankly such a good job fighting the russians. if the united states had known the ukrainians would be, frankly, so good, what might have been different? >> i dont know. i can tell you that i think it was past experience that dictated what t...

Resist, these are very human factors. this is not a capacity, a very specific kind of delineation of capabilities. this is an understanding, which means you are walking the street, you are smoking their cigarettes, you are marrying their well, you are eating their food, you are immersing yourself in their language. i mean this is what foreign area studies are all about, and, very sadly, i will lay it out, there the military does a magnificent job of training officers and noncommissioned officers...

Other nato nations, and a variety of other military capabilities and supplies. they are on the camera offensive to the east of kharkiv, and it appears they could drive russian forces all the way across the russian border in the east. the question is, does that give president zelenskyy and his forces the sense they can go on the counter offenses elsewhere, and they can threaten the lines of the communication between the russian logistical hub and the russian forces that had been trying to push in...

This video showing their forces destroying a russian helicopter on snake island. how effective can ukrainians be in the black sea considering what weve seen of the russian maritime resources there, not so many of the ukrainian. >> well, they have been very successful down there. they knocked out 13 ships now. not just the moskva, but they have knocked out four transport ships. the amphibious capabilities of the russians have been severely degraded. the helicopter knocked out here on snake island...