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As aggressively as we do other types of crimes, and its long past time for that to change. >> i know part of your insight is informed by being a federal prosecutor like myself, and the idea -- you think theres a need for a preprioritization of things, opposed to focusing so much maybe on drug trafficking rings, you think the priority should be on drug trafficking. is that right? >> we certainly need some kind of shift. heroine and fentanyl have killed a lot of people in my community too, and we ...

Commuting and pet cloud computing. data and artificial intelligence, where the assessments in the private capital world halfway outpaced investments in the defense community. these are accessible to anyone with resources and academic capabilities. so our adversaries, or potential adversaries are able to have access to the technology that only inside their own communities but because of the benefit of our free and open society, which is a great thing, they also have access to a lot of our capabil...

Focus and deliver capabilities and overcome obstacles without significant immediate threat. that happened over decades through the cold war. we as a nation in the defense community, despite best efforts by administrations on both sides of the political aisle, its very easy to lowell into complacency without a very clear and present concern or threat. we certainly see that playing out in the dangers of complacency with russias unprovoked invasion of ukraine. we certainly dont want to be put in an...

Still, they are still talking about the donetsk peoples republic, that they would like to have the whole territories of that region they have been controlling for the last eight years. that is why caressing the attacks mostly concentrated there. we saw —— they are connected with monthly supply to ukraine. because these cities are hard and the russians are searching where at the ukrainian air defence is now and were the weapons that ukraine still has to limit you creating capabilities.— has...

Efforts to develop anti-satellite weapons systems. these weapons are intended to deny the united states our ability to use our space capabilities by disrupting, destroying our satellites. satellites which are critical to our national security. >> so, really trying to establish new norms and responsible practices in space. this comes at a time when space has never been more important, were more reliant on space than ever before. spacex, one web, and amazon soon to create these mega constellations...

China dont want to see this conflict go nuclear. programs it will be reaching out to china and saying, you know, put some pressure on your client state. i expect these authorized disclosures if we see this kind of movement. but, look, burns makes this warning and it is one of the most respected figures in the national security establishment. we should really listen to him. in terms of the speech itself, it was remarkable. he laid out the kind of short-term challenge of russia. he talked about pu...

Lets give them credit. the s-300 system that they have from slovakia will help, but im not an expert but i talk to ukrainian government officials every single day, and their attitude is thank you and now give us more. thank you, now do more. those are great sanctions, now do more. and they dont feel like they have the capabilities to do a no-fly zone now yet, but they want to get to that. with respect to the attrition war, thats a great question. i dont have a great answer. tragically, they coul...

Losing even after the ukrainians win. talk about that part of burns speech and the importance of it. >> yes, last week burns made his public speech, and he gave a warning about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons. when bill burns talks we have to listen. he went on to say we havent seen signs of any movement, so i think the u.s. intelligence community will be laser focused on taking a look at the russian capabilities, land, sea and air, how they would employ these tactical nuclear weap...

They cannot change the government in kyiv. still, they are still talking about the donetsk peoples republic, that they would like to have the whole territories of that region they have been controlling for the last eight years. that is why the attacks are mostly concentrated there. because these cities are hard and the russians are searching for where the ukrainian air defence is now and where the weapons that ukraine still has to limit them creating capabilities. that seems to be the complicati...

Against it. thats something were trying to find out more if theyre getting some of those defensive capabilities in the coming days, chuck. >> courtney kube at the pentagon for us. courtney, thank you. let me bring in mike mcfaul, our former u.s. ambassador to russia. we heard from sergey lavrov today and he said the new goal is liberating, air quotes, because thats what the russians want to do, the two republics in the east, donetsk and luhansk. do you expect now on may 9th putin to declare that...