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what a week. with us, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post," eugene robinson with us. and columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius, will join us in a moment. joe, just a reminder of why the justice department might be a little concerned about nuclear secrets knocking around mar-a-lago. there was the time that trump spilled highly classified information to russias foreign minister. or when he tweeted a high...

Ukrainian forces have been moving to that area, moving away from the east, to prepare for this counteroffensive. we saw an early sign of just how devastating it can be when the ukrainians, on tuesday, attacked a russian air base in crimea, which is russians seized eight years ago when they first went into this area. caused significant damage. the estimates from the overhead commercial photographs are that they destroyed nine russian planes on the ground, as many as 60 apartment buildings in the ...

Theme, whether it was his handling of mike flynn, his national security adviser, whether it was his initial response to the briefing about russian interference through covert action in our events in 2016, whether it was his behavior at the summit with vladimir putin. you can go through a series of a dozen different instances in which the same pattern exists. donald trump does not take classified material as seriously as he should, and he also has contempt, which he often expresses, for the peopl...

Casualties and 80,000 in u.s. estimates. at least 15,000 russian dead. for comparison, this is far greater loss of life than the u.s. experienced in iraq or afghanistan. its just a terrible butchers bill that the russian army is paying. i am told by my sources that theres evidence of real frustration among russian generals. theyre not able to do much about it, but they feel this instrument of the russian military is being misused and highly damaged. the long-range missile systems which have incr...