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That, the occupation of iraq was not as smooth as people would have liked and this is one of those areas where i think the lessons of iraq can be applied to what russia may be planning to do here. >> lets take a look at russias military might compared to ukraines. russia has more than ten times the military budget of ukraine. it has nearly four times the active personnel of ukraine. and russia has more than seven times the combat aircraft. so this really seems like a david versus goliath mismatc...

Strength of the russian military, in terms of everything, people, airplanes, ships, the whole thing. how is it that you can encourage people, that people like you can go out and say, we can hold kyiv. we can hold ukraine against the russian military? >> well, this is a david versus goliath situation, right? we are there right now, being david. we are in terms, of being [inaudible] resistance and second, kyiv did not quite plan anything. right now, he will have to regroup. every day that we are b...

Since the peace negotiations when there was the most vicious and most aggressive attack on kyiv in terms of the firearms and in terms of the air strikes that we experienced in five days. but you know what we learned in eight years? that putin is lying all the time. when he says peace, it means war. when he says okay, im withdrawing my troops, it means im grouping my troops. he said my army is not there, its here to kill you. we dont trust him. thats why we fight so hard. we know exactly what is ...

Emerging themes has been volodymyr zelenskyy. his courage, his ability to rally not only himself, his people, his nation but the world in support of him, david versus goliath or whatever analogy you want to use, the ukrainians have a good leader, interior lines of communication and warfare and he can operate in his own terrain. he knows the train better than the russians do when they are being quite effective. i know the ukrainian fighting spirit, he went to fight for the ukrainian army, that is...

Renaud was killed here sunday, passing through a checkpoint in irpin. he was killed and another american journalist with him was injured, in mariupol 400,000 are still stranded by russian forces, they are tightening their grip on the besieged port city, officials say 2200 people have been killed there. water, food, electricity all cut off, supposedly there is a convoy of aid coming in tomorrow, well see. and occupied city of a protest, an amazing one against russian troops, hundreds coming out, ...

Desperation and david versus goliath situation here. trey: yes, greg. for a country worried about escalating, thins have escalated already, thank you, you be safe. reporter: thank you, trey. trey: joining us now, congressman brian fitzpatrick. he serves on house committee foreign affairs, and previously worked for the fbi in ukraine, what can you tell us about the country? >> thank you. it was my last international assignment as an fbi agent, those are my friends over there right now, this speci...

Of money, so they literally dont have the money to import the medicines are the food or the fuel, and as a result, people, as your report said, are standing in long queues throughout the country for basically anything of any value. and power cuts are going as long as 12 hours, 13 hours per day. so its really quite a disaster for everybody. i was speaking to alan keenan from the international crisis group. workers in new york have voted to form amazon s first union ? in what s being called a majo...

Trading from their bedrooms, the tech supremos, who watched on in astonishment, and the hedge fund giants who are now nursing their losses. theres this narrative that this was a david and goliath story. its all of these hedge funds, like yours, against the people — and the people won. ill put it this way. if a 5—year—old walked into this room right now, i could probably kick his ass. if 1,000 five—year—olds walked in here, they could probably take me down. just being honest about it. i...

In some cases, hes not even looking out for whats best for the party. he is looking out for what is best for himself. >> as per usual. it is a david versus goliath situation, a reminder that the thing that kevin mccarthy would kind of like to ignore, at least rhetorically. >> kevin mccarthy recognizes that winning all those seats, it could be a very close battle for control of the house. history would suggest they could take it over with more than enough seats. however, this is a unique situatio...

Organic movement that succeeded and shows a path to this success again and again. >> it wasnt david beat goliath in this case. lots of big investors have made loads of money here. >> i call it david versus and goliath and goliaths cousin and goliaths uncle. there were hedge funds that rode on top of the reddit crowd. senvest made $700 million buying gamestop and sold when elon musk tweeted game stopped. >> do you think more regulation is coming? >> i think there has to be a way to protect regula...