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Around the city, how war has pulled life from kyiv. people have taken over pulled life from kyiv. people have ta ken over two pulled life from kyiv. people have taken over two underground shelters like this or have fled or they are picking up a gun to fight. i spoke to bradley bowman who was senior director of this and on and political power in the foundation for defence and democracies. i asked whether he degree cranes defensive capabilities have improved. there were some legitimate, has improv...

Assumptions and mistakes that russia is making stems in large part from the political system russia has put in place and that is a political system where power is totally concentrated in the hands of one man, vladimir putin. it is that personalization of power that has led to these faulty assumptions and mistakes on the kremlin side. its highly likely that the kremlin was fed from their intelligence community over the optimistic assessment of russias military capabilities, they underestimated th...

Exhausted. he talked about a reset. it was notable to me. he didnt make the same mistake he made july 4th of last year where he declared independence from the virus. he tried to walk that fine line. >> lessons learned. >> lessons learned. i think the white house is very wary of pivoting fully away from covid. the president rejecting the idea of living with covid. but people are tired. people are exhausted. however, laying out very clearly they believe they have the capabilities in terms of treat...

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Move into luhansk and donetsk? have you seen them move into that donbas region and have you seen them move further beyond ukraine? >> okay. a lot there. on donetsk and luhansk as youve heard administration officials say before, we do believe that that marks the beginning of an invasion. we certainly believe that additional russian military forces are moving into that region, not beyond that region that weve seen. but we cant confirm with great specificity or the numbers. as to your question, abo...

Essence decapitate the ukrainian government and make sure they can control this major metropolitan area. as you know, it is the largest city in ukraine, and it has symbolic and cultural importance from a russian and ukrainian point of view. so this is why kyiv is so important from the russian perspective and thats why it is a military objective for them as well. >> we have heard cruise missile blasts overnight in kyiv. what are you saying in terms of what military capabilities russia is exercisi...

Capabilities? because -- >> we are providing, again, lethal and nonlethal assistance to ukraine. they have expressed their gratitude for that assistance. i would remind you that while a couple of things, 650 million just this year alone and were still in discussions with them about what kind of support they might need going forward. and were in constant consultation with them about their needs and what we can provide. it is not just us. thats my second point. other nations are as well stepping u...

Lindsey graham said earlier. i dont think a single american soldier or sailor or airman should go into ukraine. but we have lots of sophisticated equipment we could get them tonight. we have a lot of capabilities in terms of intelligence assets. we can start giving them tonight. there are a lot of things we could do to help them win tonight. not -- none of this nonsense of six months from now or a year from now or five years from now. my point is the russians deliberately sustained tactical nucl...

General marks, thank you so much. appreciate you. in the last, you know, hour, president biden held a phone call with his national security team and cnns arlette saenz is in wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the weekend. i imagine that call is over by now. what was discussed? >> well, fred, president biden spent part of the morning on the phone with his national security team as they are evaluating and updating him on the latest military advances by russia in ukraine. the p...

Intervene at some level like the united states. how too we respond? >> well, once an attack occurs we are playing defensive measures. you are trying to shore up your defenses at that point let led by the intelligence community. identify certain things that are going to occur in the future and get word of that then, obviously we can launch certain cyber offensive capabilities but we have got to know about that in advance. you have got to have pretty good intelligence and know what to target. spec...